Is it true that Bruce Lee was studying Fudebakudo when he died?
Mystery surrounds Bruce Lee’s premature death, and of course many people have speculated that Fudebakudo was involved. These rumours probably originate from the press interest in Jock “Iron Grip” Brillig, standby dolly-grip on the set of Lee’s unfinished film “Game of Death” (1978). Brillig tried unsuccessfully to sell a story about Lee’s proposed next project, “Crosshatch the Dragon,” in which certain secret techniques of a Fudebakudo-ryu that were being taught in Hong Kong at the time would be revealed. Brillig failed to keep an appointment he had made with Vanity Fair journalists on a quay in the Hong Kong docks, and so the dossier allegedly containing the provisional screenplay was never seen. Brillig’s name does not appear in any movie credits after that time. How much of this, if any, Lee was directly involved in will probably never be known. However, independent witnesses remember seeing him on many different occasions in the weeks preceding his death reading documents written i
