Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159568 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
This text is a complete presentation of Bruce Lee's art of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, and is an expanded sequel to the bestselling "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". The development of Bruce Lee's unique martial art form, its principles, core techniques, lesson plans, and illustrative sketches are presented here in Lee's own words. The inclusive "Questions Every Martial Artist Must Ask Himself" are a series of questions that Bruce posed to himself and intended to explore as part of his own martial art development, but never lived to complete. The resulting book is an insightful look into the world of Bruce Lee.

Customer Reviews

Good to read
I think I could agree with some of the points from others who have reviewed the book. I think that it has been bulked up with unnecessary stuff, like Jab cross left stancer...right stancer boring to read. Although, as an Instructor of JKD, I did enjoy it. It was quite good to read some of Lee's notes. It was a pitty that there wasn't much on Dan Inosanto. I would say if you like Bruce Lee it's worth reading. Don't take it too seriously though.

Tao of Jeet Kune Do
This has to be the definitive book on Bruce Lee's martial art. If you own this you do not need "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do". John Little has done a great job of locating, formatting, editing and presenting Bruce Lee's writings in a manner that is easy to read, espcially when compared to "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do" which, in comparison, looks to be so many of Bruce's notes just randomly written. This book presents Bruce Lee's writings and sketches on his art of Jeet Kune Do in an organized and comprehensive manner.This book is, quite simply, the best book on Jeet Kune Do ever written

A meagre handful of quotes and ideas. Lacks in depth.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Bruce, his films, theories, ideas and his life in general, but . . . .
It's a loose collection of notes which aren't very well put together, only Bruce himself could have done this book justice. I think you'll find that it goes against what he was about i.e. conforming something that has no form, he increasingly applies methods, something he wanted to avoid. I think he'd have sooner burned these notes than have them printed.
As I say, it has some good quotes from the man himself but there are some parts that I think were added just to bulk up the book. I was disgusted when I found that a lot of it was little move variations which had no relevance to the prior text. For example it goes from the principle of jeet kune do, to notes like- side kick high-left stance; side kick low-right stance. It all left me rather confused. Only buy it if your into Bruce Lee in a big way, otherwise get The Celbrated Life of the Golden Dragon, it well documents his career and life, and has some very good photos.