Men\'s Health Australia - 11.2018

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November 2018 91

MUSCLE

Posthumously released,

Lee’s final completed film

made a greater impact than

his legendary one-inch

punch. Still the highest-

grossing straight martial arts

movie of all time after

adjusting for inflation, Enter

the Dragon snap-kicked open

the doors of Hollywood

studios that had hitherto

portrayed Asian men as more

Charlie Chan than Jackie

(whose neck Lee snaps in

Han’s underground lair).

You can draw a direct line

from the proliferation of

dojos across the US that

followed the film to the

popularity of MMA today.

“Father of bodybuilding” Joe

Weider called Lee’s physique

the most defined he had ever

seen. Years before Pumping

Iron, the aspirationally

six-packed star lifted

functionally, ran meditatively

and skipped religiously.

He also invented an abs

exercise: the “dragon flag”.

Bruce

Lee

ENTER THE DRAGON 1973