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Originally Posted by onlycafe
anyone else here that saw the early seventies bruce lee movies in theaters on forty second street in ny? the response in theaters was amazing. an awful lot of talking back to the screen.
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early 1970s I was working out at a non-commercial gym on 7st & Ave A
I was only white in class. All others black.
Many times after daytime class we would go downtown to the Chinese theaters and watch any movie as all had some kind of fighting in them. Movies were in Chinese and just everybody there was Chinese, including grandmothers watching their family kids.. I was only white there as well.
Chuck Norris was a good points man in these so called "competitions". Some of the best fighters in the city were bouncers at the Electric Circus and couldn't score points in a meet.
We were somewhat confused when a good points man could bring home a trophy but didn't have the balls to fight anyone for real. This was a common occurrence at some commercial gyms in the city and on LI.
A guy named Frank Ruiz was the teacher all the city and LI heavy duty gyms followed. Another guy named Bobby Green was the instructor many other instructors followed on some of his techniques. Bobby was 5'10" and skinny. He worked as a bartender at a wild bar in Laurelton and would lay out troublemakers by raising his knee to just over bar height and would kick his foot foreword smacking the bully in the head. This usually happened only once per weekend. Bobby set the model for this kind of technique. Bobby called it "triggering" [aiming] the leg before letting out with the kick. Bobby's methods and modest presence kept gunfire to a minimum.
