Game Of Death

Bruce Lee One-On-One With Kareem Abdul Jabbar

If you’re into any style of martial art that involves high kicks every now and then such as taekwondo, karate, kung fu, muay thai, savate, kick-boxing and others, you have probably encountered the challenge of executing the perfect high kick.

Let’s say you’re 5’10″ and you nail a kick at your opponent’s temple who happens to be 6’1″.

Who wouldn’t consider that to be quite a feat?!

Bruce Lee was able to take similar challenges to unchartered heights.

According to a number of reports, Bruce Lee was 5 feet 7 1/2 inches tall.

So, normally in our equation it would be pretty good to execute a high roundhouse kick or similar to the head of an opponent who was around 6 feet tall, right?

That wasn’t good enough for Bruce Lee. He picked an opponent for his movie “Game of Death”, who was 18 1/2 inches taller.

His opponent’s name was Kareem Abdul Jabbar who at the time was a NBA star still playing for the Milwaukee Bucks and measured 7 feet 2 inches in height.

As we know a picture can say more than a thousand words.

So let’s just enjoy 5 minutes of a martial arts movie classic with Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul Jabbar in “Game of Death”.