“Be like water, daddio”

Life springs from unexpected sources. Browsing lenta.ru, a Russian news site, which I find pretty straight up, I found a piece (in Russian) today about a “Russian net sensation”, a hard-looking man in Dagestan they call Kama Pulya (Kama the Bullet), who keeps it real in videos, whether it’s with a rant or a karate kick for the camera. All in glorious, heavily accented Russian. In this clip (one of his hits), he roars, “Whatever speed you drive, daddio, the main thing is not to stop. Be like water. Be like Bruce Lee!” If that’s too obscure, you can catch the late Mr Lee himself explaining the water thing in this clip on YouTube. Anyway, the self-styled “old gangster” from Dagestan and his life tips brought back happy days to me of posters tacked to bedroom walls in the 1970s, when boys in Belfast seemed either to be channelling Mr Lee or Clint Eastwood (I was more into Clint myself). All that time like water flowing from the spring out to the sea.

“Whatever speed you drive, don’t stop.” Want more?

“I fall from one empty space into another, just not to lose height.”

Pretty deep dive.