Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Book Review: GREAT BOOK TO COMBINE WITH ANY MARTIAL ARTS STYLES!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Not for beginers, and not an intruction manual.
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been training in a fairly traditional style of kung-fu for a couple of years. Before that I did some karate as a kid.The reason I bought this book was that I read some excerpts on a web site, and applying what I read, I improved my sparring notably the same day.
Reading the book has given me an insite into some of the techniques of the people I spar with. The opponets I find invincible and impregnable are using the approach described here by Bruce Lee.
I still can't beat them of cource, but I know how they are beating me.
Sparing is practice fighting, and my kung fu style has never tried to teach fighting as such. I learn sound self-defence techniques and stratergies, but at my level I do not learn how to win a fight. If challenged, I would concede, and niether party would be hurt. Sha! I wish I was that mature.
There is a school of thought that says that sparring takes away from the art, and I do love the art, but the martial arts draw people who want for whatever reason to be able to fight. That includes me, and this book is for us.
This is an unusual book, not written as a book really. It is more a reasearched and assembled collection of notes drawings and writings by Bruce Lee, edited into theams and collections.
It is not a text book. There are no intructions on kicks punches holds etc. The guidence is on how to apply these techniques, on ergonomics, on observation. Bruce Lee was a very experienced fighter, and his pain has tought him a lot, some of which we can start to learn from him.
Being of a much higher level than I am, a lot of the fine points dicussed by Bruce Lee probably won't apply to me for a very long time. But there are a lot of simple observations that light bulbs above my head, and that I can implement imeadiately.
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do is about the use of martial arts more than anything else, it's about how to win fights, and unless you are as good as Bruce Lee, you can learn from it.
If you want to start learning kung fu, find some teachers, if you want to explore the figting potential of what you know, buy this book.
Book Review: This book pioneers the modern martial arts movement
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Book Review: If you only buy one martial arts book, this should be it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Tao of Jeet Kune Do is the most in depth book of all around fighting that I have ever read. Bruce Lee goes into the details of each concept he covers. This is a must buy for the serious martial artist.Book Review: This book makes you want to get up and learn!
Summary: 5 Stars
Bruce Lee developed, I think one of the most incredible fighting styles. The way this book motivates you is incredible. His pasion towards the art is unlike any other. Toa of Jeet Kune Do is time and money well spent.