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Monday, September 15, 2008

JET LI BIOGRAPHY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Li Lian-Jie (Jet Li) was born in Beijing, China on April 26, 1963. He began to learn the fighting art of wu shu when he was eight. Because his father passed away when he was just two, Jet’s family consisted of his mother, two older sisters and two older brothers. He was the youngest. He was the smallest, so his mother never allowed him to go swimming or ride a bicycle. Any risky activity -- any kind of exercise that was even slightly dangerous -- was off-limits. While kids his age were out playing in the street, this docile little boy stayed inside. Even after Jet started going to school, he didn't know how to ride a bicycle. Everybody else was riding around, and he didn't learn until he was 14 or 15! Swimming, ice skating...these were all things that the other kids could do, but not Jet. His mother had said no, and he would never try it behind her back.
Jet Li started training in wushu during the summer of 1971. School had just adjourned for the one-month vacation and the authorities didn't want kids to run around on the streets because they had nothing to do. So they began to send the kids to what's now called the Beijing Sports and Exercise School. Students from all the primary schools in the area--there must have been 15 or so in that district alone--were sent there for a month of sports summer school. They divided the kids up randomly: 1st grade/class 1 was assigned to gymnastics; 1st grade/class 2 learned swimming, 1st grade/class 3 played soccer, 1st grade/class 4 started learning wushu, etc. Somehow Jet got assigned to the wushu class. He had no idea what wushu was--none of them did--but if the teacher told them to practice it, they had to practice it!......................

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http://www.fightingmaster.com/actors/jetli/index.htm/

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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/jet_li_biog.html/

Jackie Chan, a martial arts success story......

Jackie Chan was born in 1954, the son of a poor couple who had just come to Hong Kong from the Province of Shandong, China. When he was born, his parents could barely raise the money for the hospital bill, and were almost forced to adopt him out to the delivering doctor. His parents tried very hard to raise money to pay the hospital bill and took Jackie, their only child, home. They named him Chan Kong-sang, which means "born in Hong Kong", to celebrate their safe arrival in Hong Kong.
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From.................
http://www.fightingmaster.com/actors/jackie/index.htm/

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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/jackie_chan_biog.html
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http://www.hkfilm.net/chanbio.htm
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Bruce Lee's Life Story

According to the Chinese calendar, 1940 was the Year of the Dragon. A Cantonese film actor named Lee Hoi Chun was performing in San Francisco accompanied by his pregnant wife Grace. By November, Grace had gone into labour and was taken to hospital, but her husband continued on to New York to perform there. On the 27th of November, 1940, at the Jackson Street hospital, Grace gave birth to a baby boy. He was named Lee Jun Fan, which meant "To Return Again". The child would return to his place of birth someday. The doctor attending the arrival gave the child the English name Bruce... And the legend was born !!

At the age of 6, Bruce started to appear in numerous Chinese films. His first film was called "A beginning of a boy." As he made more films it was decided that he should star in a film with his father. The film was called "My Son Ah Cheun". Bruce had a bigger role than his father. In each film he played a problem child, always stealing and fighting. He made at least 20 of these Cantonese films including "Black Boy Jungle" and "Boys on the Street"..................

From.............
www.fightingmaster.com/masters/brucelee/brucelee.htm/

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www.bruceleecentral.com/bruceleebiography.php/
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