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Summary: Learn for life
Review: I was twelve years old when a friend asked me if I wanted to learn martial arts. He was in his late twentys and a confident martial artist of asin desent. I got beat up alot, so I said yes. We went into a basement of my building and he said that this will be the best thing that will happen to me. He taught me chinese philosophy for one year then he taught me wing chung. After three years I told him that bruce lee was my favorite fighter, I liked his power, his calmness, and his stlye. Which I found out that it is'nt a style at all. It's a way of life. I am now thirty seven years old. and thanks to my sensi, I also teach neighborhood kids and some adults the art of being ones self in war or at home. Jeet kune do has made me a better person overall. my special thanks to mr.bruce lee for being a giving individual with a heart of gold. Oh yeah my martial arts skills are very unorthodoxed and very hard to beat. I've only had one real fight since the age of thirteen. In the words of bruce himself, the best way to fight is not to fight, use your mind.
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Summary: The science of street fighting
Review: I'm only on page 82 out of 400+ pages. WhatIcan say is that this is a great book. This book isn't the kind that gives you endless lists of moves. Rather, it tells you the science of street fighting just as if you were studying from a tetbook from school. I am a practitioner of JKD myself and go to a certified academy to learn it. This book complements your learning, but, like any martial art book, isn't a substitute for learning. This book is one of the best!
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Summary: Great book, I've read it 4 times!!!!
Review: I've read this book 4 times and each time I get something new out of it. I really think that this will help the serious martial artist out there or anyone that is thinking about joining a martial art.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: It was a good book and I recommend it to anyone that is a fan of "Bruce Lee" books. I think that they would enjoy it. It goes into sparring philosophy, economy of movment, footwork, and many other aspects of Jeet Kune Do.
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Summary: Disorganised and rather painfull
Review: Jeet Kune Do is a book full of insight into the martial arts through the eyes of Bruce Lee. It does contain many important aspects of martial arts. It appears to attempt to address very important topics which many martial art styles tend to ignore. Martial arts are more than lists of techniques and pre arranged kata. They are about developing fighting skill, and about how to train in order to perfect your agility, balance, power and timing. Volume three does address these concepts and more.
The down side to this book is that it isn't very much more than the brain storming sessions of Bruce Lee committed to paper. One statement after another is made with very little logical connection. What this book needed was to be ordered such that related statements and concepts were grouped together. In places there are simple lists of various techniques without little or no explanation of the context. Rather than clear explanations of concepts we are treated to short unrelated sentenences.
The job of trying to extract from these notes the real meaning of what Bruce was trying to convey was very difficult indeed. The book is full of photos of Bruce in action, however these photos are generally not related to the content. Drawn illustrations are in somewhat better context, but they are obviously the original illustrations Bruce had drawn himself.
For those who are interested in the original notes from Bruce Lee there may be some interest. However, for a general reader the presentation of his ideas is confusing and incomplete. This isn't to say that the book does not have value. There is quite a bit of good advice. My issue with the book is that the editors could have substantially reorganised it in such a way as to make it more comprehensible. It would also have been an advantage to redraw the illustrations professionally so that we don't have to strain to read the notes.
Bruce was a great Martial Artist, but that doesn't mean we should expect him to be the best writer. In this case his ideas should have been extended and examined. Where there were incomplete sections the context should have been filled in for people. Also the order of ideas should have been changed so that similar ideas were not repeated throughout the book.
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Summary: More Evidence Bruce Lee Died Too Early
Review: 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.
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Summary: Very detailed and thorough
Review: 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.
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Summary: A book with a good composition
Review: The book was well writen and composed in an easly understandable way. I recomend this book to any one with any intrest in the Art.
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Summary: Bruce Lee's ultimate definition of Jeet Kune Do
Review: This book exposes Jeet Kune Do on all levels. Bruce Lee explains in depth the philosophy as well as the offensive/deffensive positions of JKD. There are also many visuals giving the reader a clear view of what Lee is explaining. I've gone through this book numerous times, and I still have not found it to lack anything. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking into JKD.
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Summary: Bruce Lee's ultimate definition of Jeet Kune Do
Review: This book exposes Jeet Kune Do on all levels. Bruce Lee explains in depth the philosophy as well as the offensive/deffensive positions of JKD. There are also many visuals giving the reader a clear view of what Lee is explaining. I've gone through this book numerous times, and I still have not found it to lack anything. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking into JKD.
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