MARTIAL ARTS GEARBook: Bruce Lee – The Tao of Gung Fu
Bruce Lee not only popularised the practice of
Chinese martial arts, and martial arts generally,
he revolutionised it. Before he was a hero, he
was considered a heretic for promoting the idea
that students could pick and choose combat
methods and training regimens to suit their
own personal needs and fighting styles. At a
time when martial artists were expected to
study with only a single master, Lee lived his
own philosophy, combining many elements
from different masters and different traditions
to develop his own method, Jeet Kune Do. As
the first modern martial artist to really attempt
this, today he is revered as the ‘father’ of mixed
martial arts practice around the world.
In addition to presenting the fundamentaltechniques, mindset and training methods of
traditional Chinese martial arts, this martial
art treatise from Lee explores Taoism and Zen
as applied to kung fu, as well as Eastern and
Western fitness regimens and self-defence
techniques. Also included is a kung fu ‘scrapbook’
of Bruce Lee’s personal anecdotes regarding the
history and traditions of China’s martial arts.
After Lee’s death, his manuscript was
completed and edited by martial arts expert
John Little in cooperation with the Bruce Lee
Estate. It also features an introduction by Lee’s
widow, Linda Lee Cadwell, and a foreword from
his close friend and student Taky Kimura.
Price: $30.
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