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Bruce Lee Podcast

#202 Flowing with Uriah Hall

Bruce Lee Podcast

Shannon Lee

Bruce, Philosophy, Podcast, Lee, Tv & Film, Shannon, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On episode 2 of the Bruce Lee Podcast, Shannon engages in conversation with middleweight UFC mixed martial artist Uriah Hall. Uriah and Shannon became friends last year when they met in New York at an event for Shannon’s tv show Warrior, and they hit it off immediately. Uriah is getting ready to step into the octagon with his long time idol Anderson Silva on October 31st 2020. Considered one of the most devastatingly dynamic fighters out there, Shannon was reminded of this passage in her book: “Martial arts is a perfect metaphor for life. There are few disciplines where the stakes are so personal and so high as in a fight. Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances: The threat of physical harm. When you have mastery in combat, you not only meet a fight with composure and skill, you become an artist of movement, expressing yourself powerfully in the immediate, unfolding present with absolute freedom and certainty.” Hope you enjoy this discussion with Uriah Hall about how he feels about going up against his idol in the octagon, how martial arts has shaped him, how he handles the wins and losses of life, and that, ultimately, he wants you to know that everything is going to be ok.

Find out more about Uriah Hall in our show notes: BruceLee.com/podcast

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On this week's episode of the Bruce Lee podcast, I engage in conversation with middleweight UFC mixed martial artist Uriah Hall.

0:09.0

Uriah was born in Jamaica and I became

0:14.0

after being bullied as a kid.

0:16.0

Uriah and I became friends last year

0:19.0

when we met in New York at an event for my TV show Warrior,

0:22.0

and we hit it off immediately.

0:25.2

Uriah is getting ready to step into the octagon with his long-time idle Anderson

0:30.5

Silva on October 31st, 2020.

0:34.6

Considered one of the most devastatingly dynamic fighters

0:38.1

out there, I was reminded of this passage from my book.

0:47.2

Martial arts is a perfect metaphor for life. There are few disciplines where the stakes are so personal

0:50.3

and so high as in a fight. Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping

0:56.0

centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances, the

1:01.1

threat of physical harm.

1:03.0

When you have mastery in combat, you not only meet a fight with composure and skill,

1:08.0

you become an artist of movement, expressing yourself powerfully in the immediate unfolding present with absolute freedom

1:16.9

and certainty.

1:19.8

I hope you enjoy this discussion with Uriah Hall about how he feels about going up against

1:25.1

his idle in the octagon, how martial arts has shaped him, how he handles the winds and losses

1:31.8

of life, and that ultimately he wants you to know everything is going to be okay. Enter your mind, mind, perform more, shapers,

1:48.0

like water.

1:52.0

And what? Like water to more. Now water to know.

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