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: Bruce Lee's Philosophy in his own words
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent guide to Bruce Lee's thinking and approach to training. Many of his ideas are pretty widespread now, and I don't think he gets enough credit for literally changing the way people approached martial arts thanks to his influence.Book Review: Bruce Lee....
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Bruce Lee, but I couldnt get into this book! I cant honestly tell you to read it or not, because I havent! I bought it here at Amazon and gave it away a month later! Watch "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", thats a classic!Book Review: Contains EXCELLENT information regarding Sandbag Lifestyle!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi! This is Scott Mulligan of New Jersey.This book contains all the information you need about Bruce Lee, including the hard to find information about the little sandbaskets he used to train with, as well as fruitweave commentary regarding his controversial life. I began taking martial arts myself after a bunch of bullies attacked me with little shells they found on the beach. They also tied me to the pier for high tide, and I was very hurt with that. So I decided to learn martial arts to get better confidence, and it has completly change my life.Book Review: Deep, intelligent, interesting
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though this book is very philosophical, if you're reading ToJKD just to learn the mystical arts of butt-kicking, you'll still come away with a strong education. Lee's art is about truly understanding fighting, not about the superficial stuff that works when your opponent is standing still. He is obviously very passionate; the book is an attempt to convey how he thinks about the Art. His passion is in fighting itself; he goes through systems without particular preference, searching through the useless parts to find the things he can learn from. In fact, Lee agonized about whether or not he should write this book, since he was afraid that people would think JKD is some formal system instead of a way of thinking. Sadly, this was supposed to be a seven-volume masterpiece where he dissects all the nuances of fighting, but his early death left only enough material for this single book. Still, this perhaps was the best compromise with Lee's wishes, since ToJKD contains the fundamental kernel of his thinking.Book Review: Defense via Streamlined Interception +++
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps an approach to summing-up Jeet Kune Do [JKD] would be "defense via streamlined interception". Bruce Lee explored many Eastern, Western [and other] older and newer Arts of self-defense, found what was useful via theory and action, and creatively developed it into "defense via streamlined interception". This MOST-PRIMARY JKD neo-classic, "Tao of Jeet Kune Do", introduces an approach to JKD. This JKD seems in direct contrast to the on-screen movement of Bruce Lee that is wild, complex or convoluted. Yet, even on-screen we get to see some actual JKD.
Way before it was generally popular, Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do from Western-and-Eastern, "kickboxing"-and-"grappling" and newer-and-older self-defense Arts -- as this unique work shows. Bruce Lee was a philosophy follower as well -- exploring and using wisdom from Eastern and Western philosophies -- especially in Jeet Kune do. "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" seems both technically spot-on and metaphysically informative -- with rare usage of sharply consistant strategy [defense via streamlined interception].
I feel that my own quiet modest path has gone in a direction much like Jeet Kune Do. My own quiet modest [very small] Kenpo Art is an offspring of a "Kenpo Jiu-Jitsu" Art [which blended Kosho Ryu Kempo with some Jiujitsu, Aikido, Judo and Arnis -- in Hawaii]. Yet, later, I have become inspired to blend-in quite a bit of Fencing, Savate and Boxing [old-and-new] as well as quite a bit of Tibetan White Crane, Isshinryu Karate, Shotokan Karate and Kenpo Karate, followed by Jiu Jitsu Complete [Kitoryu Jujutsu and Kodokan Judo].
All along I have tried to "keep-it-simple-stupid" -- ending-up with only a few Kata with only a few moves in each -- to guide all movement -- closely following a certain simple strategy. It seems very difficult [but very necessary] to keep streamlining -- while getting angles sufficient to counter versus likely attacks. It would seem far easier to just throw together a bunch of moves, Kata or Arts in an attempt to have a huge hoard of movements versus most any attacks -- but, most surely, losing way more than is gained -- due to complex, cluttered and convoluted lack-of-streamlining [therefore slowed ackward reaction]. So, I have to deeply admire Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do and "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" +++