Jesse Glover
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| Jesse Glover | |
|---|---|
| Style | Non-Classical Gung-Fu |
| Teacher(s) | Bruce Lee |
Jesse Raymond Glover was Bruce Lee's first student[1] and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College[2] and was the one who first taught Lee judo.[3] Glover was a psychology major[citation needed]. Glover was a champion judoka.[4] The character based on Glover in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, starring Jason Scott Lee, was named Jerome Sprout.
Jesse started a Gungfu class of his own and Leroy Garcia and James DeMile came along and assisted him, which was the first ever independent Jun Fan arts related class. Jesse Glover was the first authorized martial arts instructor to be trained by Bruce Lee. He has developed his own method which he calls Non-Classical GungFu.
Bruce Lee had his reaction time measured at Glover's house. In the book "Bruce Lee - Between Wing Chun and JKD", Glover states: "A Friend of mine, Gary Bernhard, was at my house one day and we started talking about timing devices that could measure the speed of punches. Gary said that he had a timer at home that he would bring over if I wanted to measure the speed of reaction times. I told him that the timer would be fun to play with and he brought it over the next day. The first thing that i thought of was to measuring Bruce´s speed. I figured that Bruce would also be curious about his speed and gave him a call. He told me that he would be over the next day. The next afternoon Bruce Lee, James DeMile, Gary Bernhard and I set out to test the timer. The timer was hooked up to a light switch that activated it when the light was turned off. It was stopped by striking a pad with a cut off switch behind it. Bruce tested his reactions several times and they were all about five hundreths of a second (0.05 second). Bruce´s first punches were thrown from a distance of three feet. When he closed from five feet his reactions were slower but they were still around eight hundreths of a second (0.08 second). My own times from three feet were between 11 and 18 hundreths of a second (0.11 and 0.18 second). From a distance they were in the low twenties. [5]
Glover currently resides in Seattle, Washington, and works as an author and private martial arts instructor.
[edit] Written works
- Bruce Lee: Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do
- Bruce Lee's Non-Classical Gung Fu
- Non-Classical Gung Fu
[edit] References
- ^ Lee, Bruce; John Little (1997). The tao of gung fu: a study in the way of Chinese martial art. Tuttle Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 9780804831109.
- ^ Tackett, Tim (2004). "Observing The Differences Between Stages In The Evolution Of Bruce Lee's Martial Art". The Jeet Kune Do Wednesday Night Group. http://www.jkdwednite.com/observingdif.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-27.
- ^ Campbell, Sid; Greglon Lee (2005). The Dragon And The Tiger: Bruce Lee, The Oakland Years: The Untold Story of Jun Fan Gung-fu and James Yimm Lee. Frog Books. p. 69. ISBN 9781583941188.
- ^ Thomas, Bruce (2008). Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit. Pan Macmillan. p. 41. ISBN 9780283070662.
- ^ Glover, Jesse R. (1976). Bruce Lee Between Win Chun and Jeet Kune Do. (p53-54)
Paul Bax's The JKD BrotherhoodWeb page dedicated to Jesse Glover
