The transcript below is from the video “Did Bruce Lee Really Smoke Weed? Top 5 REAL Facts About Bruce Lee” by Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

 “Hey everybody, it’s Beerdy here.  What’s going on guys?  Okay, so today we’re going to cover five facts about Bruce Lee because the Internet and YouTube is completely filled with utter nonsense, claiming facts about Bruce Lee that aren’t true.  So today we’re going to talk about five facts that are actually true, okay.

Okay, so number one.  Did Bruce Lee actually remove his sweat glands?  The answer is yes, he did.  He was complaining for years about sweating when he was filming movies, and you know his movies weren’t dramas.  They were action.  So he was moving around.  He was warming up.  He was doing martial arts.  He was doing Kung Fu.  He was doing Jeet Kune Do, etc, etc.  So he would sweat all the time and he needed to change his t-shirts like every 10 minutes because he performed some sort of Kung Fu on the set.

He was just sweating again and again and again and again.  So he said, “Okay, I have to do something about this.”  And so, he went to the doctor and the doctor said, “There’s something called ETS.  That’s a surgery to remove the sweat glands from your armpits and the chest.  The biggest problems are the armpits and the chest.  When you’re filming, you know it shows.”  So yeah, Bruce went to the doctor.

The doctor said, “Yeah, I can perform an ETS surgery and remove those sweat glands.  You know, it’s a small operation.  It doesn’t take long, maybe a couple of hours.  It’s basically an in-and-out operation.  A small incision to remove the sweat glands.”  And immediately, people jump over to the conclusion that Bruce Lee died from overheating or heat exhaustion because he didn’t have sweat glands.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

This is how stupid people are.  You guys need to read first, okay before we jump to those conclusions because the body has four million sweat glands and he removed three of them, okay.  So think again.  It had nothing to do about him dying, okay.  It was aesthetic.  It was basically just like coloring your hair.  It’s aesthetic.  He removed those sweat glands and that’s that.  There’s nothing special about it.

The surgery is performed even today.  It’s a common surgery.  If you’re sweating too much or you find it just annoying to have sweat under your arms, you can go and get the surgery.  It’s done within an hour.  You know it’s an in-and-out surgery.  It’s a small surgery.  No big deal at all.  So there you go guys!  Yeah, he did remove his sweat glands and it wasn’t an issue at all for his health.

So keep that mind before you jump to the conclusion that, “Oh, my God!  He died from over-exhaustion, from overheating.”  Okay, that’s not the case, okay.  He just removed them for aesthetic reasons.  So that’s that.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

Okay, so number two on the list.  Did Bruce Lee really smoke weed?  Well, again the answer is yes, he did and he ate marijuana cookies.  He used hashish from Nepal.  He used different sources of cannabis and it wasn’t for pain.  Here’s a big problem.  People say that because of his nerve pain in his back injury, he used cannabis for pain management.  And, that is wrong.  He used marijuana to calm himself down.

Bruce Lee had a crazy temper, guys.  He was aggressive and he had a crazy temper, a short fuse.  He needed to calm himself down all the time and he openly admitted this.  He said that he had real issues with his temper.  So he used cannabis to calm himself down when he was, let’s say out with friends or filming a movie.  It really didn’t affect him at all.  It’s just like you having a beer.  Instead of having a beer, he had a little piece of hashish or smoked a little marijuana.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

Okay, so number two on the list.  Did Bruce Lee really smoke weed?  Well, again the answer is yes, he did and he ate marijuana cookies.  He used hashish from Nepal.  He used different sources of cannabis and it wasn’t for pain.  Here’s a big problem.  People say that because of his nerve pain in his back injury, he used cannabis for pain management.  And, that is wrong.  He used marijuana to calm himself down.

Bruce Lee had a crazy temper, guys.  He was aggressive and he had a crazy temper, a short fuse.  He needed to calm himself down all the time and he openly admitted this.  He said that he had real issues with his temper.  So he used cannabis to calm himself down when he was, let’s say out with friends or filming a movie.  It really didn’t affect him at all.  It’s just like you having a beer.  Instead of having a beer, he had a little piece of hashish or smoked a little marijuana.

That’s that, really.  It wasn’t some sort of an addiction.  It wasn’t something he did every day.  It’s just in social circumstances or while filming, he used it to calm himself down.  And, that’s that.  The effects of cannabis are not enough to stop the nerve pain in his back.  That’s what people think, “Oh, he used it for pain management.”  No, no, no, no, no, no.  The nerve injury he had in his back, cannabis wouldn’t even do nothing to that sort of pain – absolutely nothing!

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

This was to calm himself down.  For his back injury, the only thing that was powerful enough to kill that pain is steroids.  So you can forget about using marijuana or hashish for your lower back injuries.  Maybe some injuries can be treated with that but Bruce Lee’s injury was hardcore.  It’s the worst of the worst type you can have, and even the steroids that he used didn’t remove the pain completely.  So, no, no, no.  Marijuana not a good painkiller for those kinds of pains.

So yeah, that was only used for calming himself down.  By the way, in those days they didn’t know a lot about the effects of hashish or marijuana.  A lot of people thought it maybe could be dangerous.  Not a lot of studies had been done on the substance.  Today we know better.  We know that hashish and marijuana are completely safe, even legalized now across the USA.  So you can say Bruce Lee was ahead of his time in using this substance for relaxation, calming his nerves down, focus, etc, etc.  So yeah, there we go!

Number three on the list, Bruce Lee’s use of slow motion in films.  So a lot of his films he uses slow motion.  It’s an effect he uses all the time in his movies.  But the origin of that effect is kind of interesting you know because he performed his Jeet Kune Do and his martial arts on screen, and it was too fast literally for the cameras to pick up his moves.  So he had to implement slow motion in his movies.  That’s how it all started.

He literally was too fast for the camera and they had to reshoot and reshoot and reshoot all the time.  The camera couldn’t pick up his movements.  It just looked bad because he couldn’t see what he was doing.  So they implemented slow motion instead.  So he was actually one of the first guys to use slow motion in future movies on that kind of scale.  So he was actually inventing this type of slow motion in martial arts movies that we have today.  He was the first one out with that kind of effect.  So there we go!  He was simply too fast for the cameras, so he had to implement slow motion.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

This was to calm himself down.  For his back injury, the only thing that was powerful enough to kill that pain is steroids.  So you can forget about using marijuana or hashish for your lower back injuries.  Maybe some injuries can be treated with that but Bruce Lee’s injury was hardcore.  It’s the worst of the worst type you can have, and even the steroids that he used didn’t remove the pain completely.  So, no, no, no.  Marijuana not a good painkiller for those kinds of pains.

So yeah, that was only used for calming himself down.  By the way, in those days they didn’t know a lot about the effects of hashish or marijuana.  A lot of people thought it maybe could be dangerous.  Not a lot of studies had been done on the substance.  Today we know better.  We know that hashish and marijuana are completely safe, even legalized now across the USA.  So you can say Bruce Lee was ahead of his time in using this substance for relaxation, calming his nerves down, focus, etc, etc.  So yeah, there we go!

Number three on the list, Bruce Lee’s use of slow motion in films.  So a lot of his films he uses slow motion.  It’s an effect he uses all the time in his movies.  But the origin of that effect is kind of interesting you know because he performed his Jeet Kune Do and his martial arts on screen, and it was too fast literally for the cameras to pick up his moves.  So he had to implement slow motion in his movies.  That’s how it all started.

He literally was too fast for the camera and they had to reshoot and reshoot and reshoot all the time.  The camera couldn’t pick up his movements.  It just looked bad because he couldn’t see what he was doing.  So they implemented slow motion instead.  So he was actually one of the first guys to use slow motion in future movies on that kind of scale.  So he was actually inventing this type of slow motion in martial arts movies that we have today.  He was the first one out with that kind of effect.  So there we go!  He was simply too fast for the cameras, so he had to implement slow motion.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

Okay, so number four.  Bruce Lee practiced a thousand punches every day.  That’s the myth.  Well, that’s actually wrong.  He didn’t.  He practiced closer to 10,000 punches every day.  Usually in his diary, he would write around 5,000 but it would fluctuate.  Sometimes 10,000, sometimes more; sometimes a bit less depending on the day.  But yeah, every day of his life he would practice let’s say 5,000 punches every single day of his life.

Imagine that guys, 365 days of his life!  Waking up in the morning, early-bird 5,000 punches right when you wake up.  No breakfast.  No nothing.  Just 5,000 punches.  That’s dedication!  So yeah, that is pretty crazy.  Five-thousand to 10,000 punches every day!  When it comes to his kicks, it wasn’t that much.  I think in one of his diaries he wrote that he performed 500 kicks on each leg.  So 500 kicks on each leg.  Still pretty crazy but not as much as 10,000.  But yeah, 10,000 or 5,000 punches every day of his life.  That is pretty insane.

Okay, so number five and this is an interesting one.  The injury he had on his lower back.  A lot of speculation around this one because people say that, “Yeah, he was in a fight.  He injured his back.”  They watched at that movie, you know called Dragon, The Bruce Lee Story and they think that he got his injury from a fight.  That’s wrong.  In that movie, they made it like that to make it more dramatic.  You know that’s how movies work, but in reality it was not that exciting.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

Okay, so number four.  Bruce Lee practiced a thousand punches every day.  That’s the myth.  Well, that’s actually wrong.  He didn’t.  He practiced closer to 10,000 punches every day.  Usually in his diary, he would write around 5,000 but it would fluctuate.  Sometimes 10,000, sometimes more; sometimes a bit less depending on the day.  But yeah, every day of his life he would practice let’s say 5,000 punches every single day of his life.

Imagine that guys, 365 days of his life!  Waking up in the morning, early-bird 5,000 punches right when you wake up.  No breakfast.  No nothing.  Just 5,000 punches.  That’s dedication!  So yeah, that is pretty crazy.  Five-thousand to 10,000 punches every day!  When it comes to his kicks, it wasn’t that much.  I think in one of his diaries he wrote that he performed 500 kicks on each leg.  So 500 kicks on each leg.  Still pretty crazy but not as much as 10,000.  But yeah, 10,000 or 5,000 punches every day of his life.  That is pretty insane.

Okay, so number five and this is an interesting one.  The injury he had on his lower back.  A lot of speculation around this one because people say that, “Yeah, he was in a fight.  He injured his back.”  They watched at that movie, you know called Dragon, The Bruce Lee Story and they think that he got his injury from a fight.  That’s wrong.  In that movie, they made it like that to make it more dramatic.  You know that’s how movies work, but in reality it was not that exciting.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

He was just basically lifting weights and he injured his back.  It’s really not an interesting point of his life.  It was just an accident and nothing more.  So but the consequences were really serious because when he lifted that weight, he prolapsed his back and he injured his nerves.  The nerves were compressed and it caused a real, real serious back injury.  So serious that the doctor said that, “You probably won’t walk again ever.  If you can walk again, you’re probably going to use some sort of cane or maybe a wheelchair or whatever.”

I mean for Bruce Lee, this was unacceptable.  So he did whatever it took and used all of his skills and dedication to build himself up and become even stronger than he was to begin with.  I mean, do you really think you can keep someone like Bruce Lee down?  No, I don’t think so.  He did what he had to do.  Unfortunately, a part of the thing he had to do is to take steroids to kill off the pain in his back and different pain medication to kill off the pain in his back.

Like we talked about earlier, the cannabis did nothing for his pain.  It was just to calm him down.  The list of painkillers he took, we don’t really know.  We don’t really know.  It’s never been revealed exact type of painkillers he used, but I’m thinking a combination, some sort of cocktail of you know…  Maybe once a week he would take some sort of steroids and then use a regular pain medication on regular days and probably some sort of injections at the hospital.

That we know for a fact, that he took injections at the hospital the first half year I think, after his injury.  Maybe he continued on a lesser frequency, maybe like once a month, once a week.  We don’t simply know.  It’s not public record and his wife hasn’t divulged information really, but we know that he used some sort of cocktail of painkillers to remove the pain.  The pain is so serious.  We know all about the injury, so we know the pain is so serious that he would have needed incredible amounts of painkillers to get that pain to go away.

Beerdy – Bruce Lee Central  (Bernard AKA Beerdy. Former IFC champion and mixed marital artist, YouTube Channel):

So he could live a normal life, you know.  Especially a guy like Bruce Lee doing martial arts every day of his life.  Unfortunately, we know how it all ends.  The painkillers and his pain in his body just caused to much inflammation.  Yeah, we know how those final hours of his life went.  So unfortunately but there we go – the top five facts that are actually real about Bruce Lee.  All of this stuff that I mentioned here is 100% true.

This has all been studied and researched and we know to be fact.  So I’m going to do more facts later on a later video, but these are the first five facts about Bruce Lee you can take to the bank!  These are real facts unlike a lot of other videos that people have done no research on.  Remember I’ve done research on this stuff for over a decade, guys.  So this stuff is fact – not fiction like most other videos.  Okay, guys!  Thanks for listening!  See you later, bye!”