Jesse Glover is Bruce Lee’s first student and creator of the “Non Classical Gung Fu” system which is comprised of the techniques he learned during his study under Bruce Lee. He is one of the leading figures on Bruce Lee’s Oakland era of Martial Arts progression. Jesse is currently battling a form of life-threatening illness and treatment of this illness is needed to ensure his well-being.
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About:
Jesse Glover
Jesse Raymond Glover 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 while Bruce was a philosophy major. Glover was 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 hundreths 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 hundreths of a second (0.08 second). My own times from three feet were between 11 and 18 hundreths of a second (0.11 and 0.18 second). From a distance they were in the low twenties. Glover currently resides in Seattle, Washington, and works as an author and private martial arts instructor.