One of the biggest misconceptions people have about Bruce Lee is that he was just another action star, like Jackie Chan or Jet Li. Another guy who had incredible athleticism, but was only tough in front of a camera.

Bruce was a martial artist who saw film as a way to spread his philosophies of fighting. Bruce Lee had a lot of fighting experience in tournements/challenge matches, on the street, and in sparring. And if he wasn't fighting, he was training. And if he wasn't training, he was think about fighting.

His ideas were really ground breaking. In a time where idiots where squabbling about which style was the best (karate, kung fu, boxing, judo, ect), he said "no, you're all stupid. It's about the individual. You should train EVERYTHING and be well rounded. Be adaptable like water, take the techniques that work and use them, if it doesn't work, forget it."

Which was genius, because 30 years after his death his theories were proven by the evolution of MMA, where to survive you had to be able to strike, wrestle, and grapple.

If you're a fight fan, you have to give it up to Bruce.