Product Description

Originally published in 1963, this book includes personal testimonies regarding the author and his art from James Y Lee, the legendary Ed Parker, and jujutsu icon Wally Jay. Through hand-drawn diagrams and captioned photo sequences, Lee's text comes to life as he demonstrates a variety of training exercises and fighting techniques. Topics include basic gung fu stances, waist training, leg training, and the theory of yin and yang.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182057 in Books
• Published on: 1987-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 125 pages

Customer Reviews

A stage in Bruce Lee's development.
This is a great book for a Bruce Lee fan. It constitudes the only book published by Lee during his lifetime. It includes excellent diagrams for streaching-excercises drawn by Lee himself! However, this book is not really an introduction and it would prove non-beneficial to a beginner. There are far better introduccions to martial arts or even Bruce Lee's art and I suggest you look at the Bruce Lee Library books for that. On the other hand, this book provides a great insight into Lee's early technique and thoughts on the martial way.

A taste of Bruce Lee's knowledge
This book, though pretty short, does an excellent job of outlining Wing Chun's basics. The illustrations are well done and easily followed unlike so many other books of this type. The book is well worth the price if you are interested in Wing Chun.

for collectors
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An interesting one this. This is one of the few books actually published while Bruce was still alive. Its very short with large print. Combine this with the drawings and photographs and what you are left with is not much more than a pamphlet showing some of the basic moves of Chinese Gung Fu. Having read other 'Bruce Lee' books, in particular Tao of Jeet Kune Do, I have concluded that this Chinese Gung Fu book was nothing more than a precursor, briefly examining form and only touching on practicalities.
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Some great pictures are included but considering most of these are included in other more thorough studies of the man and the art, this is only for the devout Bruce Lee collector.