9. Left cross (high) 10. Right lead (high) 11. Left hook (high) 12. Right hook (high) 13. Left hook (high) 14. Right hook (medium) 15. Left hook (medium) 16. Right hook (high) 17. Left cross (high) 18. Right hook (high) 19. Left jab (high) 20. Right hook (high) 21. Left cross (medium) 22. Right hook (medium) 23. Left cross (high) 24. Right hook (high) 25. Bruce backs up, using his footwork to avoid the return of the bag. He allows it to swing to~ ward him and then back away from him fully. As it returns, he stops its swing with his right elbow in a low check, and then brings it up to feint a right jab, and then steps through with a left cross. (As a point of form, as his left hand makes contact with the bag, Bruce's right leg is forward and the thrust is coming up from the torque of his hips from right to left; his left leg is almost perfectly straight.) 26. Right hook (high) 27. Left hook (high) 28. Right hook (high) 29. Stops the bag from swinging, returns to the on~guard position, then fires a right lead. 30. As the bag returns to him, Bruce uses footwork to move back out of range. He assumes the on~guard position briefly, with great sensitivity to the undulations of the bag, then
fires a right lead (high). 31. Left cross (high) 32. Right lead (high) As you can see, Lee used the heavy bag to perfect (and monitor the effects of) different martial art techniques, as well as to gauge which leverage points and kinesiological principles were most likely to result in an increase in his power. According to his former business partner Raymond Chow, of Hong Kong's Golden Harvest Studios, Lee "studied the arts. He really worked at them to find out how a blow was made and how a blow could be made more powerful." Lee believed the heavy bag to be valuable not only for developing power, but for improving one's timing. Practicing with the bag could teach one to kick at precisely the right moment and at the right distance to deliver the most powerful kick or strike possible.
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