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After a few days’ confinement to bed, Bruce decided how he was going to turn this stumbling block into a stepping stone. If he could not physically train in his martial art, then he would mentally practice it. He asked me to go to a stationery store and buy several large, black, expandable binders. He filled each one with blank paper and jotted on the dividers notes of topics he intended to cover. For the next six months, Bruce exercised only his mind.

It was, however, literally impossible for this perpetually active man to assume a sedentary way of life. Determined to prove the doctors wrong in their dire predictions, carefully and gradually, Bruce retrained himself physically, from walking with assistance to eventually performing his full range of martial art motions. From 1971 to 1973 he completed four and one-half physically demanding films, and we are left today with not only the celluloid record of his determination, but with volumes of his journal-writing exercises compiled in his down-time.