Jesse Glover

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Jesse Raymond Glover (October 15, 1935 – June 27, 2012) was Bruce Lee's first student and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College and was the one who first taught Lee judo. Glover was a psychology major[citation needed] and a champion judoka. 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: 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 hundredths 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 hundredths of a second (0.08 second). My own times from three feet were between 11 and 18 hundredths of a second (0.11 and 0.18 second). From a distance they were in the low twenties.
Glover lived in Seattle, Washington, and worked as an author and private martial arts instructor.

He died of cancer in June 2012.

R.I.P. pour ce grand maître (non classical kung-fu)

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je suis triste /j'ai toujours cette impréssion  que les pratiquants n'ont pas  prêter un peu plus d'attention à ces personnes pas comme les autres ,je me souviens avoir lu un article sur jesse clover  sans l'avoir vu en vidéo ,c'était  un homme aux gestes simple ainsi que dans sa façon de raisonner ......