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Originally posted by freeadultcontent
Bruce trained kareem in oakland. Back when brothers could not get trained. Hell even whitey had it rough.
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Actually no non chinese (Gui Lo or outsider) was allowed to train in any form of Gung Fu or Kung exercises. On the contrary blacks had already set up many prominant schools in California including the BKF or Black Karate Federation schools.
(BTW even though the name black was in the title the school was open to all races of man to train in, it was just historically started by blacks who had returned from Japan where they had learned Shotokan and wanted to teach discipline and self defense to all people able to make it to the dojo including whites and mexicans who have prominant rolls as organizers and champions as well as titles within their ranks to this day.)
Jim Kelly which was the black guy in Enter the Dragon was a graduate and grand master who had grown up and trained in the Oakland school which was the very dojo that was shown in the movie.
Bruce admits Kareem would be a hard man for him to beat because of the effective striking distance Kareem had and all the attention and training Bruce had given him and height differance involved was astrounding. That was actually his foot print on Bruce's chest in the movie! Interestingly enough Bruce said he did not think he could beat Ali in a fight.