Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73587 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Ingram
An expanded sequel to the bestselling The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, this landmark book will serve as a complete presentation of Bruce Lee's art of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do. The development of his unique martial art form, its principles, core techniques, lesson plans, and illustrative sketches are presented in Bruce Lee's own words. 100+ illustrations.

Customer Reviews

Very Good Addition to the Tao of JKD
This book is a great addition to the original Tao of JKD book. It has even more thoughts of Bruce Lee compiled in this good sized book. You can never stop learning from all his books. There seems to be something new every time! It's just up to us to take what he has written and transform it to our own way...our own JKD...which is what the total product is of "honestly expressing yourself"...which I think can take a man 100 years or more. So read up, learn, and train hard!

Be Water, My Friend. - Bruce Lee

More Evidence Bruce Lee Died Too Early
Like the bestselling Tao of Jeet Kune Do, this book is a compilation of short sayings, quotes, excerpted comments and observations by the most influential martial artist in history. What is frustrating about it, and it's not the fault of the publisher or writer, is that it seems as though Bruce was never able to really complete his thought. He was constantly evolving so you're never quite sure at what point in that evolvement he is making the comment. Was it before he abandoned Wing Chun? After he worked with Joe Lewis? In Seattle? Oakland? Hong Kong before or after immigrating to the U.S.?

Bruce Lee was a genius. It's very difficult to pin a genius down or "freeze them" so they are the same forever. With his early passing though, we are left with little else of this man's actual work in the martial arts (not films) than these compilations and the observations of his training partners such as Joe Lewis, Danny Inosanto, Chuck Norris and Mike Stone in books such as Lewis's How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System.

Very detailed and thorough
Speaking as a student and teacher of martial arts myself for almost 40 years, this is a very detailed and thorough discussion of Lee's ideas. There's so much detail here that one problem is organizing it successfully so it can be presented in a coherent and structured way, but Little does an excellent job of that too. This book will be of interest too all those interested in Lee and his ideas on martial arts.

I won't try to go into too many of Lee's ideas about fighting, which wouldn't be practical in such a short review, anyway, but I would like to make one comment. One thing you'll notice in this book is that Lee spends a lot of time discussing strategy and principles rather than techniques. He comes back again and again to such notions as timing, distance, interval, gauging your opponent, knowing when and how to attack, creating your own openings, etc., rather than discussing the technical details of technique per se. This is because the book pretty much assumes you've already achieved the necessary physical and mechanical skills and attributes--speed, power, coordination, and so--and are looking for how to progress from there, having already built a solid foundation. This book will help you do that by focusing on the more advanced principles and tactics.