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Summary: This book pioneers the modern martial arts movement
Review: I think this book is excellent. Bruce talks about real fighting. His book focuses on picking up the best parts of each martial art. He uses punching, kicking, trapping, and grappling. Very interesting book. His mental ideas are also good. As for the guy earlier who reviewed this book, GRACIE JUIJITSU did Royce a lot of good when he passed out from a choke. I would like to see what a gracie would do if two or three guys fought him at the same time. While Gracie is in the guard with one guy, he would be getting kicked in the head by the other two. Gracies can't strike or do good takedowns. Grabbing someone and falling to your back does not qualify as a takedown. Bruce is a much better total fighter than any gracie alive.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK TO COMBINE WITH ANY MARTIAL ARTS STYLES!!
Review: I studied aikido and jujitsu for 7 years among many other styles, I just take and learn all the martial arts I can. Not too long ago I heard about jeet kune do. I bought this book and learned the technique, then I combined it with aikido to experiment. It has made the aikido techniques more effective. I can do the techniques faster from the small phasic bent-knee stance. I now am going to try it with jujitsu,kenpo,and ninjutsu.
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Summary: If I could rate this book with more stars I would.
Review: I just got this book in the mail and it is excellent, a little hard to understand but if u take your time on the book it is great. Don't listen to other peoples reveiws listen to mine. Other people just wright stuff when they havent even read this book. I am reading it right now. The whole first part of the book is sorta hard to understand like "What is this guy talking about?" but when you keep reading it makes since. I am no martial artist but I sure wish that I could get into this. Just by reading this book I am learning much about martial arts from it. This book will show you blocks, attacks, and different stances to use. I had doubts on this book before I got it but now that I have it I am one happy guy. If you are looking for a martial arts book this is the book you should buy. If you have any questions what so ever, please e-mail me.
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Summary: if you study martial arts you should have this book
Review: Noone doubts that Mr. Lee was a master of the fighting arts... His philosophy of getting rid of that which is useless and adding that which will improve an art is seen documented in this book. the overall message of the book is that you should find what works for you and continually adjust your style to enhance your fighting ability. it should ne noted that Bruce's original style was Wing Chun. this book is an incomplete work. the reader has to piece together the ideas in the book which are in a random hodge podge fashion. If you are a serious martial artist I recommend this book very strongly to help spark the more well rounded martial artist in you. :)
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Summary: The Real Art of Fighting Without Fighting
Review: For those of you who wish to grasp an understanding of the man behind the myth, this book will take you along the most direct path. It shows in more ways than one why Bruce was a pure martial artist in the truest sense. His philosophy of fighting is a combination of many years of complete dedication and searching one's inner self to realise your full potential. Sadly, it was the same dedication and desire to achieve the impossible that lead to this extraordinary human beings demise. After studying the arts for 18 years, this still remains the best book on my shelf.
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Summary: Excellent resource for Advanced Martial Artists
Review: As a Kenpo practitioner for 15+ years, I have found this text as an excellent source of "enlightenment". Lee's notes touch on a number of subjects relating to the physical and mental aspects of the combative arts. I find that when I review the text every 6 months to a year, I gain new insights and often utter an "Ah-Ha!". This will not teach you martial arts but it will enhance your understanding of theories from an outstanding practitioner. It's not a beginners book but certainly a must for instructors!
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Summary: An interesting read but not much more
Review: Lee's Tao of JKD has been heralded as a masterpiece. Perhaps at the time, it was the best that was available. However, with multiple readings, I always think of a comment made by Oscar Levant concerning Leonard Bernstein - something like "He exposes secrets that have been known to the world for hundreds of years." As Lee himself said, there is nothing new in this book. However, as a classical kung-fu student, I am repeatedly saddened by his "rejection" of classical technique for its "inefficiencies." It seems to me that Lee did not truly understand the depths available from his classical Wing Chun and rejected his roots to try to find something which he would have found if he had simply stayed. His expositions on "non-classicism" are the same expositions made by every single competent classical martial artist - make the techniqe your own; don't just follow the pattern. For the Chinese style practitioners, this book may be read for its reconstruction of basic Wing Chun theory. Lee's JKD theory was simply Wing Chun plus some fencing and boxing terminology. Some of his theories on body movement are good, but the more "modernized" ones simply show Lee's impatience by his emphasis on muscle development. This is not to say that one cannot develop fast power by building muscle, but there are limits there that can only be surpassed by proper qigong training. For the serious martial artist, this will be an interesting read. I do not recommend this for the beginner - there is some bad stuff mixed in with the good, and they will not have the sufficient wisdom to be able to weed it out.
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Summary: Just what I wanted.
Review: Everything I expected and more
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Summary: 05 013 4812512
Review: Av. Pres. Kennedy, 26.418 - Praia Grand
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Summary: amazing truly one of the greatest books of self defense ever
Review: A true leap foward in the life and thoughts of one of the greatest of all time. this book truly shows that he was a man that took every thig he did to the extreme.
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