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The first time I was introduced to Bruce Lee was seeing Enter the Dragon on VHS at my brother's 11th birthday party. The crescent kick Bruce gave Han in the finale we laughed and rewound it so many times. The next rental was Game of Death it showed was his last movie with basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Although entertaining, I couldn't help but notice the obvious edits. Later, Fox's -Bruce the Legend- Documentary would explain the history of this man's emphatic life. The end credits containing outtake footage from Game of Death left me with more questions as mysterious as the actual myth and Legend of the man himself.

So, through the 1990s, I watched as much as I could. He starred in only 4 movies. There was also a release nearly every month in Black Belt magazine and similar publications that would have a story with new pics of Bruce Lee on the cover and his philosophies on the inside. At the back of each magazine there was a page or two of catalogues with tons of martial arts everything! So, we would order some papers and videos. The latter which was supposedly available by a man named G. Tan but was always hard to actually obtain. Others like JR who acquired so much Green Hornet memorabilia. We didn't have the ability to travel to conventions or tournaments, which was another outlet for trading and collecting. The remainder of the decade saw the birth of DVD and the internet.

By the turn of the century -2000- we had emails and websites. They allowed us fans for the first time to share with each other all we had collected and learned about Bruce since his passing in 1973. A small website was authored titled 'Rare Bruce Lee Footage Online'. At the same time, fans would trade, collect and send tapes of what they had - some in horrible quality most in decent quality enough to collect and edit together as fan projects. The sources and knowledge on Rare Footage came from all over USA Japan, Europe even African countries. It turned out Bruce Lee's films and collectibles were different depending on where you lived in the world. But the impact Bruce had on us all was the same.

By this time, Warner Brothers decided to release Anniversary Editions of Enter the Dragon, while Fox (USA), Europe and Asia struggled with proper releases of Bruce Lee's 4 films. As a result, dozens of different versions of his films were released to DVD. Also, Historian John Little had obtained access to Bruce Lee's unpublished works by the Bruce Lee Estate and began putting together outstanding volumes of unpublished photos and personal writings. In addition to books, 3 cumulative film projects were produced by Little: 'The Lost Interview with Pierre Burton', 'Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do' and 'Bruce Lee - A Warriors Journey'. Simultaneously, the Bruce Lee Rare Footage DVDs were authored in kind - from 2002-2005 - 3 Volumes. From these DVDs, some fans in the next decade would post and share what they had online mainly on forums such as Rare Footage Online, Temple of the Unknown and The Divine Wind. These resources conceived the published works of S. Kerridge and D. Tadman. Till this day, the fandom continues to share clips from the Rare Bruce Lee Footage Website DVD collection right here on YouTube. The footage quality that is recycled is low resolution for the most part and only in parts and snippets because they are not taken from the original sources.

In tribute to all the years accumulating to 'The Warrior' project, we are releasing from the Masters in 1080p Resolution, the collected and shared footage of Bruce Lee in the public domain since those noted years so long ago. The YouTube channel Martial Madness will post this SUPERCUT before Cinemax's Warrior to coincide with its release.

The purpose of this SUPERCUT edit is to close a chapter on what and how WE as fans have learned and shared about Bruce Lee over the years. It's chronological starting with his younger years, to his days in San Francisco as a Gung Fu Instructor, to his days as a Super Actor in Hong Kong and Hollywood with Enter the Dragon. Now generations to follow will know it's history and can share knowledge together of what is to come...

Walk On!