APOLOGIES OF THE PAUSING

Sorry for the gaps from time to time. I have had a battle with both my health and the NHS for over twelve years now. My health driving me nuts and the NHS constantly refusing to admit that I have one and telling me repeatedly that there is no such condition that matches my symptoms.

Now due to the fact that Doctors and Hospitals all like to deal with one thing at a time, oddly the same as the government and the DWP so your getting knowingly screwed, this has caused me considerable grief, pain, problems financially as well as he fact that dozens of realtionships broke down over the years.

Indeed it may be surprised to know that everything I state that I have achieved both on this blog and my others, the one on corruption will hurt your eyes that is for sure, I achoieved while suffering from this condition, including my degree!

I wrongly self diagnosed myself with something called Charcot Marie Tooth Syndrome and not only was this entertained by thge NHS, as they sent me for tests that were nagative and basically said 'oh well there is nothing else out there it can be' I then ran across the correct condition. AT the same time I was prescribed two drugs consecutively that in over 15 years were the first drugs to ever work on any of my pains. They were not non-steroidal ab=nti-inflammatories either and were Gabapentin and Amitriptyline. After a failed effor to say I was mad I was then kicked off my last GP surgery for insinating violent conduct. Bullshit basically and am now on my fourth GP with the same catchment area.

For the first time ever since I have liobved in this area my NEW and FOURTH GP offered an aover forties halth test to which I agreed. Just as well becuase I not only failed everything miserbale but they discovered an infection and a possible peoblem with my kidneys. I have had to have further blood tests amd now have to have an ultrasound on my kidneys in a few weeks, wonder if they will lie about this ultrasound like they did the last one?!

There is also an official complaint and as I had the excuse and have a blog about corruption in the UK government and public offices I approached the GMC expecting them to nothing, which is what I had hoped as it goes along with everything else I say about the UK. They did better than this and helped the GP kick off the register by showing him a letter saying that he was so rude, arrogant and lying to my face I wanted to break his jaw and likely will so if I was put through that again. Bein responsible I was not planning to return to such an imcompatent and arrogant twat who was really merely just a nobody dickhead, lol.

Ss as well as all this I have had to find a new GP, and then I was frefused my repeat prescriptions, which have all been wrong and screwing up my kidneys for years it seems now, to which it was hinted at bh NHS England that I would get my pills if I dropped my official complaint.

I said NO of course and unlucky for them I had already charged into the surgery and obtained the prescription, lol. I did wonder why they seem to have difficulty finding it and were holding back to giving it to me? I think they held the NHS to ransom because whatever my problem is they do not deem it their fault.

But it was and it is, though the NHS headquerters are much more to blame too. But to understand how that all works and how I provied it you would have to read my asaintcalledallnights.blogspot.com blog. It is all there too just so no one can get into any doubts or post any comments on there, despite one air-head doing that, lol. Hours of recorded audio of Doctors lying, most I prove by other means and one Doctor at Chase Farm Hospital being pulled to acount by me and admitting it on a recording. So arrogant and confident that he did not send the amended letter to my GP and sent the first one with lies?!

There are a great many Doctors and specialists with heads of departments that I have on tape and documents for and it is bo no means all, not even half of it, not even close. I have Police and Detectives doing the exact same thing along with Local Government and almost all Ombudsman.

Due to all this and the very recent fiascoes with people with public offices I have been a little rushed around. I also have held back from admitting for years that I am forgetful as many Doctors just roll their eyes at you and you just end up wanting to punch their over arrogant faces that suffer with deluisions of grandeur. This is because when you tryo to explain their errors and that tiy are just as intellgigent than they are they just shut you off mid sentence, which is of course RUDE. So they have brought much of this on themselves both what I have done and what I will do throught 2014.

As for this condition that causes me in the region of 110 symptoms, give or take 10, that I have Doctors repeatedly stating on tape does not exist?!

Oh well that would ne FIBROMYALGIA and for those that know me or used to know me it causes all my problems in all four limbs, feet, knees, shoulder and back/neck and is also behiond my skin conditions, night blindness and also even my heartburn. Which means I have only ever had ONE corrupt diagnosis off the NHS in 26 years and have been given the wrong pills all this time which is why the new GP looks concerned!

Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too! Oh yes and it causes short term memory problems too?! Sorry...I just could not resist that one. But it does though so every GP I wanted to punch for roling theor eyes was in the wrong and I habe now proved myself correct as I stated all along for over 13 years.

Hemce all this has had a negative effect on anything I tried to start, c reate for myself or startung any careers. Just so that you know that when I disappear for a bit there is normally some good reason behind it.  I apologise fore my absences nevertheless.

Rest assured though that this condition that they have repeatedly told me does not exist does do and I have now found it. I also found that there is a large department for it at one of the most famous hospitals in the country, being Guy's Hospital, fancy that?

You may now be wondering the same things I have been asking myself since I found out...how the hell can so many GPs, Orthopaedics, Podiatrists, Rheumatologists, Physiotherapists, Head of Departments, Nurses, Back Specialists and Pain Consultants all not know about Fibromyalgia and what is catered for at Guy's Hospital?! HOW?!?!

Well they all do have one thing in common...

...they are ALL NHS and as I long stated on my corruption blog, the NHS is corrupt and has been lying to patients for bloody years.

By the way do not try to defend them if you was diagnosed with a condition that they cannot possibly state does not exist. Becuase that simply is not fair in all honesty. I cannot say that my living room is painted black because people will see when they come around that it is painted white.

But rest assured if you feel that you are being messed about then you are and I am living proof, as is all my proof, as to how and why they are doing it.

I am on the verge now of being referred to Guy's Hospital...so bloody well hopefully this blog and all my other blogs can resume to normal speed and if the NHS, the DWP and Enfield COuncil do as they are fecking saupposed to do the amount of work I will put into these blogs will grow expomnnentially, of that I assure you.

INTERMISSION & iTEAM PUTTING 'i' BACK IN TEAM - PHASE 4

Well I will be a son of a gun!

I has been quite an unpredictable spring and summer so far! Started off cold and raining and then went straight from that cold, windy and wet weather into too bloody hot!

Everyone was like 'oh at last' and then into 'ooh its too hot, my children cannot sleep, we have cold showers every night!' and before long I was doing the same!

Then all of a sudden after weeks of what seemed like much more intense and brighter sunlight than usual a series of storms came making it extremely muggy and then it went cool. Only just like the Spring the cool weather has been accompanied by wind and rain?! Bar humbug!

There were some nice moments and only yesterday I was walking back from somewhere after getting a bite to eat and walking home in a westerly direction wearing sunglasses with the sun low in the sky and just the most perfect breeze! Hmm perfection!

Added to this a series of NHS run-ins and two extremely dodgy cameras, one I am still stuck with and I am waiting for the glue on the grip to dry before using it again. It had one day yesterday not being used and now I have added finishing touches....OF GLUE it has another 24 hours, sounds like a film, to dry.

I moved the laptop to the cabinet to my left thinking it would be more efficient having it there and great to work with but this was not to be. Only now and today am I typing this out while glancing into a direction that does not cause pain and dizziness after five or ten minutes. I have worked on my living room too and the Ottoman that now has a set of four Vivariums sitting on top of it as now been turned 90 degrees so if I look 90 degrees to my left I look straight at it.

The metal mesh lidding was loose on on partition and that is currently drying, if not already dry, too! I am looking forward to rigging up a set of light to my own design for these cages and indeed may end up with different wattages with each depending on what animals I keep in them.

At the moment those I would like to keep would be a Hyla (Tree-Frog), or Hyperolius (Small African Tree Frog), in another I always like those tiny Jewelled Geckos found in Egypt. Maybe even a pair Peruvian Beauty Spiders?! Now me keeping an invertebrate?! That would shock a great deal of people and would likely be the first time I have ever done it. Or at least in nearly 40 years that is for sure!

Of course there are the usual suspects that I would grab with both hands like alpestris apuanus and Bombina pachypus. The cages will take about two weeks before completion and around that time there are some reptile shows going on.

So for this year I have also NOT ordered any new Orchids, more is the pity, and no idea when I will start purchasing hardware to build the first of two PC Computers?!

Also I seem to have had a bit of a time out due to the falling apart of my Olympus Stylus SP-820UZ Camera that I wanted so badly and thought would be perfect. In some aspects it was better than the Camera it replaced, and I do not mean the faulty Nikon L310 I took back to Argos and ended up with this one, I mean the competent for what it was Nikon S8200 Coolpix. I am still trying to get over the fact that the best and most reliably performing camera is the one with the smallest objective lens?! Bloody unbelievable. Anyway the grip of the Olympus finally fell off entirely with the gentlest of tugs. I spent two days gluing it back on but did not work due to the cheap nasty sticky rice paper like substance they use to glue things to heir cameras?! Yuck. So I am now on the third day of having no camera and I have now used an epoxy resin to glue the grip on as previous attempts with rubber cement (plumbing glue more or less lol) and silicone sealant have been quite unsuccessful in all honesty. The funny thing is if the epoxy resin work it only takes 5 minutes to harden and I could grab the camera and go out. Only it is 9.22am now and has been raining for 30 minutes and according to the Met Office app, which is admittedly WRONG 80% of the time, will continue to rain until 7pm tonight and as I cycle everywhere and do not possess the necessary waterproof gear to protect both me and my equipment then it is a no, no. That is one reason I always look at the Pentax K-30 SLR, think that is what it's model name is, as it is waterproof and would be good for what I do. Only I also want to do detailed close up shots and so the Nikon D800E SLR is also wanted.

But out of the four main CAMERA companies Pentax and Canon are the only ones that have not screwed me thus far. I used to love Pentax when I was a youngster and wanted to get into photography, somehow ended up with a Minolta X-300 but I still loved it. But I am still a while away from getting the equipment I really need to move these blogs up a couple of notches so I am not sweating yet over the choices, lol. Besides by then there may well be another waterproof Pentax that does all that the D800E can. Or the D800E will be more affordable?! YEAH RIGHT!!

So what with the NHS, people who have the audacity to call themselves Doctors, the weather being too hot, too windy or too wet I have been somewhat...held up and am admittedly behind where I thought I would be at this juncture. Still it matters not as this has just turned out to be a damned good start for 2014. In fact by the time 2014 comes around I should be in the water and swimming like a fish?! Well unless there is the most glaringly obvious and hugest Internet rip off of authors that has somehow been missed by smart investigative journalists, TV News Networks and Ombudsman?! Ooh wait a moment?

As for what has been posted at different stage up until this point things are all honest and above board and EXACTLY how I wanted to play it. I wanted to wax philosophical when I was in that mood, type when angry when I was in that mood too and anything else I was feeling at the time along the way. This would no doubt have used some choice language but that was what I felt at the time and I type 'from the hip' and just the way I like to do things. I did not want it or me looking manufactured and still do not nor will I ever will. I suppose the time it has taken so far kind of works for me as it seems to play along long enough so that what I do or fail to do matches the economy, in the UK at any rate, and if there is ever an improvement or drop then I should feel it?! We all should those of us that exist online to one degree or another and collectively this should be able to be used in our favour.

Along the way I have tried very hard to show that when you do not work as a team effort then as a nation we will go backwards. I am having a guess that the majority of us, like those that said it after Concorde was grounded, that we have gone backwards and none feel that more than the British Public do?! We pay more than anyone else and then find out it is either refurbished and used crap or of extremely bad build quality in the first place?! NICE, talk about getting two fingers up in your face after handing over your hard cash?! Except what I find both amusing and worrying at the same time is that either I live in a nation of extremely naïve people or many media moguls are being bribed up to the teeth to pressure the journalists into submission?! There simply are no other reasons involved and I have been seeing this stuff for what now seems like an eternity. I just did not know just how widespread it really all was and that I found quite disgusting.

So we get hammered and told about team work and team player when what they actually have meant over the last two or three decades is following orders no questions asked! No idiots and morons that is NOT what the word team means you bloody dicks! The government along with the previous one that showed us nothing more than a struggle between Tony Blair, who now looks very dodgy indeed, and Gordon Brown, who I trusted even less, and continued with the new Siamese Twins of David Cameron and Prince George Osborne is a new initiative and idea that has been in place since the inception of that famous Apple invention called the iPod. Indeed and look so many other since they have secretly copied the name of this fashionable device and implemented it into their new code name for the initiative as well as the sub-title.

iTEAM – Putting the 'I' Back in TEAM!

LMAO.

The only thing that I hope and pray is that the British Public learns from this but also that the GOVERNMENT learn from this that you have been heading down this road now since 1979 and look where it has brought us?! We are not at a juncture where it seems like before very long now (January 2014) it would seem like it has been so bad for so very long that we will have forgotten or started to forget when it was good?! Well not me, lol. If this is them matched with the problem of not being able to foresee an end and after a third and most miserable of all previous Christmases going back 3 years or more then this will have a devastating effect on the human psyche in an increasingly and ever growing number of individuals?!

Of course if you behave like the intelligent human beings you believe yourselves to be than you will read, listen and then most importantly ACT!

This is better for me as and IF done correctly and things improve I will make my own income SOONER instead of LATER!!

Hmm I wonder if they, my enemies, have tried using the excuse that I have tried to CAPITALIZE on the recession both national and global to make money or a name for myself?! Well if so …. TSK-TSK!! TUT-TUT!! Still no forethought and just scribbling silly notes on napkins?! No I am sorry it does not work like that and I just kind of blew to bits any possibility of that have I not?! No I only want to change things for the better or die trying?! Well either that or a nice foreign country that does for its people the honest and decent thing would like to give me refuge?! LOL.

So until such a time I am still minus a few items that in themselves will allow me to spend around two months really and heavily putting content on my dozen blogs that will cause it to sky rocket. This is because I have, and always have had, an ability to instinctively know what people want and provide them with it. I can also hold people's attention with my telling of tales that could well pace me in some Guild of the Bards?! I can do this in both factual things as well as fictional too and you can chuck in a whole list of sciences to boot! I can also join up the dots that seems to have impressed seemingly impossible to impress people since I was 14?! Well you had better do a rummage around on here as there are nearly 1000 posts just on this blog alone you know?! LMAO!

Yes these items, sorry I digress. Yes there are a number of things that will allow me to absolutely mount a unbelievable charge at this point in time that I could not ever look back from without getting light headed! Despite the fact I still have no TV and therefore not really able to enjoy my Blu-Ray Discs in GLORIOUS 1080p magnificence the highest priority right now is...

1. NIKON D800E SLR CAMERA + Telephoto and Macro Lenses
2. CBoardman Mountain Bike in Halfords @ £850 which will lose 7lbs on current weight
3. Out of current reach building blocks to at least ONE PC Build
   a) One for work and intended to become a SERVER RIG
   b) Another enthusiast GAMING RIG as this is my HOBBY (YESSS OK ONE OF THEM LOL) and would rocket my Computing blog among others!

Now with those three things as a basis then everything takes off and within just two to three months I will quadruple the numbers I am currently getting. This is just not achieved by anyone and now I know I am building up a high level of trust in everything I say and do among the people that read. In fact one one blog that sits alone and without advertising on it or ever intended to be placed I am now seemingly acquiring followers ever day or two?! I also know that this will increase as more and more see my blog listed on others blogs and have their interests peaked! I also know that within a few weeks of this building up the temperature will be cooling down, well in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, so that much of the UK, EUROPE and the USA will gradually and increasingly depending on their latitude (i.e. outdoor temperature/weather) spend more time indoors on the Internet. So If I was to hazard a guess this will start around September and October in the North of Scotland and increase as these cold temperatures work their way south.

Hmm, you see?! Many things rattling around in my head all the time I have to keep track of and make sense of! Sometimes I see a documentary and it covers something I do and I know that it will peak my numbers for a while. This is getting harder to predict as I have posted about a certain thing a number of times and lose track of how many! LOL.

Added to acquiring those three I also have a set of four glass Vivariums I intend to create the perfect environment for particular species of animals I love. Frogs, Toads, Salamanders, Newts, Lizards or even SNAKES?! SSSSSSS!! LOL. I also have my one metre aquarium sitting empty but set up and only needs the addition of FISH!!! The three bas items I listed above will allow me to do much more work and get much more content for these too and a great deal quicker to boot?!

Of course there are other items I am without and that would help with boredom, Billy-No-Mates (died or ran away), painful chores I have a dreadful habit of not being able to do or avoiding because I know it will hurt...

1. Samsung Series 7 46” TV
2. HQ Blu-Ray Player
3. Dishwasher but will have to be tiny as I am CRAMPED here
4. One of those little automatic vacuums, lol. How cool and hoe helpful.
5. Litespeed Occoe with Mavic SLR Rims, Red Magura Marta SL Brakes, SRAM XX Gears, XTR or Carbon Chain-set, DT Swiss Carbon Forks 80-100mm travel, RaceFace Carbon FLAT BARS, Ritchey WCS Carbon Seat-post, Selle Italia Gel Saddle and Crank Brothers Egg-Beater 4TI pedals in ORANGE (preferably red if poss)
   (This is just to replace the one that was stolen by a council and bailiff they got £2,800 for but told me they got £400 for and was also featured with my name in What Mountain Bike Magazine)

What I think is the very sad and the extremely disgusting part about all this is the fact that it has taken me years of being lied to, tricked, physically attacked, defrauded, left in limbo and left for DEAD just to get to this juncture. In just a couple of weeks time in August my corruption blog would have been going one year, well one of the corruption blogs lol. Around ten others were started around September to October in 2012. So for the injustice section alone I have been at this now almost a year which is a tiny fraction to the period of time I have REALLY been on it. This became a large focus as of around 8 years ago and most of my time around 4 years back but technically goes back twenty years. But lets us just take the last year alone and the amount of time it has taken me to highlight all this to the point that segments and elements of my WORK, as that IS what it IS, is being used by one and all from the House of Commons to the tabloids and TV News broadcasters without so much as an acknowledgement. This is to which I believe is the sole reason that many religious leaders, IN THE UK before you all start lol, now see the UK and it's government as being run by evil people that must be Satan worshippers?!

That funny part about all this and to put it simply to those that used elements of my blogs, and proof positive yet again to my over the top accusations of blindness to the point of incompetent and just too easy to beat...

...you have used elements of my blogs and either released bits of info or then proceeded to investigate and got your own info but did it not occur to anyone that used my work and blogs that you are NOT the only ones that have access to these blogs?! STUPIDOLA!! LOL.

Now I have mentioned this several times going back a year now and I cannot stress enough that first off I am NOT in anyway religious, which should be obvious, but at the exact same time Satan Worshippers DO EXIST!! LMAO!

Just as I could not do when it was said to me by a rather and unusually nice Jehovah's Witness, I laughed and said that for once I can not argue with them!

So here we are at the midsummers night night NIGHTMARE scenario and one has to wonder with the run-up to the umpteenth miserable Christmas, when for the first time in twenty years I want mine to be joyous, what is going to happen?!

Although there were some protests and small scale rioting I was relieved about that and I did think it would be a great deal worse then it worse, though I was working to try and show this was just folly. Well just going out and destroying the very buildings that you will then be charged for and they will then use to defraud the public's cash yet again, lol.

This cannot be put off indefinitely but at least this blog now exists as a pure fact and proof that IF the public were pushed into such an act of protest and destruction the likes of which had never been seen then I am here to say that … IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!!

I know that an action such as this is only human nature. No amount of sentencing, fines, prison terms or anything else is going to stop human nature, 'NUFF SAID! To punish human nature while those that have deliberately stoked the fires for so very long know so that they can then make others look like they are to blame, destructive and criminal and therefore not worth of any compassion is wrong, immoral and something of a contradiction in itself.

If the tables were turned they would behave the EXACT SAME WAY and therefore they need to be show that having money and power DOES NOT make them a different species to everyone else, just because you have not been put in the position to feel and fear as we have done. Carrying on like that and throughout history, including very recently, it always ends up that those that do not understand end up completely understanding when it is too late. Well it was too late for Colonel Gaddafi who took a bullet to his head! Though I do not think the British will go quite that far but fear for ones life is definitely a possibility! It is called an UPRISING these days but it used to be known as a REVOLUTION and was kind of synonymous with Russia for a long time. In the UK it is only known as the long winded … CRIMINAL ACTS OF A MASS SCALE.

Hmm that is bizarre? Anyone else note how all Dictator's always refer to it as criminal and terrorists and never use the 'R' word?! No not 'RECESSION' but 'REVOLUTION'?! Hmm must be the 're' prefix to these words?! I wonder if the UK government also plan on erasing words with an 're' prefix from history and dictionaries along with the word DISABILITY?! LMAO!

WING CHUN FILMS: THE BIG BOSS

The classic that started it all?! Almost!!

Well what can you say? Despite the fact his on screen antic got better with each film, with the odd little exception, this is fantastic and that famous Ice Factory scene even featured in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.

If there is any downside to this film its is that almost everyone dies!!!

LMAO!

The sound on this version was amazing and I even heard Pink Floyd in their and what they managed to do with the picture over time is stunning too!

In fact I have often wanted to buy The Way of The Dragon to see if that is even better still?! Could not honestly answer that at this moment in time you might be surprised to hear.

I remeber seeing this much later and thinking...ooh there is Nora Miao and I wondered when she would enter into the story...only to have her being in such a small part in Bruce Lee's first major film.

I cannot help but wonder if they can keep up the improving of the picture as they have managed to do so far and the fact that both this and Fist of Fury have a better picture than my BLU-RAY Enter the Dragon is saying quite something.

Upsetting then that there have been as many releases as there has been for Enter the Dragon and yet this has a better picture quality?! Madness!!

Maybe one day...

WING CHUN FILM SERIES: GAME OF DEATH

Game of Death.

Oh my god, how many of is still cry today that he never finished this?! LOL! A real shame on so many levels and what I would not have donated to have a finished version of this and another few movies with the legend in on my shelf.

Film speeded up indeed! I think not.

There is one thing about this though...the Nunchaku he used were fakes and I always though they behaved a little funny?!

Stumbled across this quite accidentally when I froze the image, on this version oddly, while Bruce was spinning his famous yellow Nunchaku and one end was pressing all its weight on one arm before being flung back in the opposite direction. Only I suddenly did i double take when i noticed that this end of the Nunchaku was doing an extremely good representation of a BANANA?!

It was bending in other words!

Now oddly enough I jhad heard, in a British TV Program I love, that in Bruce Lee's movies they had SPED UP the film to make him look good and I wholeheartedly disagree on this. It is also a little open ended as it may be one or two sequences they did it, someone mentions it and suddenly all film parts of Bruce doing his thing are sped up?! You see there... ambiguous!

HOWEVER! I will say that using soft, foam or otherwise, Nunchaku you cannot get the speed up due to the lack of weight. When I first taught myself years ago I found foam ones to be useless and though about putting ball bearings inside the hollow handles?! Now if say as I prefer to think that Bruce was showing signs of illness filming Game of Death, after all I saw an outake of him nearly knocking himself out with a pair of Nunchaku for that scene, he may have switched to foam ones and then just sped up the film in places to make them look like full weighted Nunchaku?!

That is what I would have done.

Also this film is famous for Bruce planning to use George Lazenby, James Bond on On Her Majesty's Secret Service, on the set and had met up with him several times about it. They were friends but then they had similar difficulties when it came to films so I guess they must have related. Hmm I need to find firneds like this but with LIFE, LMAO!

Sad but Legendary and always will be.

WING CHUN FILM SERIES: THE LEGEND IS BORN

Or its full title of Ip Man: The Legend Is Born or some refer to it as Ip Man ZERO and I think I have seen it sold as this too?!

I like this film and the director, Herman Yau, has now done another where Ip Man is old called Ip Man The Final Fight (or the Final Battle) and I did not see this one coming. Starring a favourite actor of mine in Anthony Wong who also starred in House of Fury and The Return Of Chen Zhen with Donnie Yen. Ip Man is played by Dennis To in this film and I thought him very good and enjoyed it immensely...repeatedly.

Not sure about the story seems a bit iffy in places but do not care. It is Ip Man and Wing Chun and if you see the little old man on the right of the cover that is Ip Man's living son Ip Chun or the one who circles Donnie Yen while riding his tricycle in the first Ip Man movie.

I like the medicine store scene let down a little by the use of a stand in and an obvious WIG being used, lol. But STILL I do not care.

Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao also star, though the former is rather brief at the beginning. I had to get this from overseas on Blu-Ray as rather annoyingly the releases of these films in the UK is as abysmal as it eve has been. Only ever available on DVD and I do have to ask myself why the distributors even bother to get the licencing of they are going to be half hearted at their releases.

Still I have it and it has English Subtitles as the only word I know is Doh-je, or thank you in Cantonese?! LOL!

The Wing Chun is will represented as is a Long Pole that get used as Baat Chum Do, or Butterfly (8 Way Cutting) Knives.

More please!

WING CHUN IN FILMS SERIES: THE LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE

I took the plunge with this one in HMV and on Blu-Ray and I honestly thought that it would turn out to be a mistake?!

Yes it is low budget but, and I never thought I would say this, I thought it better than DRAGON THE BRUCE LEE STORY?!

HE came across more like Bruce Lee, he LOOKED more like Bruce Lee and even at the end, for those that see it and missed it, he fights Ray Park. The guy famous for being big headed, or so I am told, being the Phantom Menace's Darth Maul and TOAD in the first X-MEN!

I liked it and glad I bought it in all honesty but oddly the acting by the Caucasians is a bit hammy and iffy at times. It is really weird there must be some kind of law handed out secretly by the Chinese government that states that any Westerners used if films must seriously either HAM IT UP or do a first take and the wrap it so they are crap. Or the voice overs are crap, lol. The Ip Man films with Donnie Yen are the same.

This film was produced by Shannon Lee, Bruce's very attractive daughter who was selling fan merchandise the last I looked.

Oddly I have a signed book by James W Demile, Tao of Wing Chun Do 1984 (or 86?) and keep forgetting to try and work out which films he is featured in and who he is played by, haha.

Or maybe I am just so passionate about Wing Chun, Jeet Kune Do and Bruce Lee that even the bad stuff appears good to me?!

No wait, I used to own much of the Bruce Li stuff and liked it but saw one or two again recently and they were DREADFUL! Haha!

WING CHUN FILM SERIES: ENTER THE DRAGON

ENTER THE DRAGON

Lots of efforts gone into the picture and sound quality of his other 4 films with dazzling results EVEN ON DVD and yet his most famous film...NOTHING other than this release.

I had forgiven them the grainy scenes due to the age of the film and everyone said the same, but then after seeing the last releases of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Way of the Dragon and The Game of Death there IS NO EXCUSE any longer and I still wait for a re-release of this on BLU-RAY?!

Thses labels are quic to want to sue money for taking things without paying but also I believe they should introduce fines for them for taking money for SHODDY work?!

Just saying! lol.

Well how about that I finally get around to the one that started it all and no not KING BOXER, or as that film was known in the west, but Enter the Dragon!

I can hear the wails from the Jeet Kune Do fanatics of the one that refused the fight scene in Way of the Dragon (what a moron), or some of them at any rate, from here to White Crane Mountain but sorry it is baloney, lol.

Wing Chun was what he did when he lived here, well at least the Siu Nim Tao and Chum Kui forms. When back living in Hong Kong he got together with Wong Shun Leung, Leung in Ip Man 2, where he learned more and the Bil Jee and it was WSL who liked to evolve the style that led to Bruce Lee coming up with JKD.

How this took place within the timelines of creating the HK films I do not care. But at the end of the day the core of JKD has Wing Chun as its foundation, or its birth and it is as simple as that.

The Bong Sao, Wing-Arm, and Tan Sao, Deflecting Arm, are key. Then of course there is the Six and a Half Point Pole in this film and you will not how bloody long that pole is and that is because unlike Bo Staffs and the like, which normally max-out at 6 feet, the Six and a Half Point Pole (named on the moves being six and a half) this is normally 8 or 9, that is EIGHT OR NINE, feet long.

Yes the Nunchaku are not part of Wing Chun I give you that. But he just stripped away things he thought no good in a REAL fight and added things he thought were good.

Then you have the likelihood that he added things because they looked good on film, yes I know it may be sacrilege but you do have to wonder.

Then there is his philosophy and he sounds like Confucius reborn at times.

The man is and always WILL BE a legend and there is a great many reasons for that. Forty years on and I still have not got over finding out he had died?! LMAO!!!