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Larry Hartsell has real life experience using his martial arts skills from serving in Vietnam to being a professional bodyguard to training law enforcement and the military. Read More...
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In 1970, Bruce Lee suffered a back injury which confined him to bed. Rather than allowing this to slow his growth as a martial artist he read feverishly on Eastern philosophy and Western psychology, constructing his own views on the totality of combat and life. It was during this time that Lee wrote 7 volumes containing his thoughts, ideas, opinions, and research into the art of unarmed combat, and how it applies to everyday life. Some of this material was posthumously published in 1975, but much more existed. This lost material is now available for the first time. Read More...
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My husband Bruce always considered himself a martial artist first and an actor second. At the age of 13, Bruce started lessons in the wing chun style of gung-fu for the purpose of self-defense. Over the next 19 years, he transformed his knowledge into a science, an art, a philosophy and a way of life. He trained his body through exercise and practice; he trained his mind through reading and reflecting and he recorded his thoughts and ideas constantly over the 19 years. The pages of this book represent the pride of a life's work. Read More...
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"Bruce Lee showed me life and truth," states Dan Inosanto, the genius' premier disciple and the man Bruce Lee personally groomed to help point the way for those seriously interested in pursuing his recently conceived method of self-discovery, Jeet Kune Do. Read More...
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(Note: This is still a work in progress.) Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco on November 27th, 1940. Raised in Hong Kong, he returned to the United States in 1959. After attending the University of Washington as a philosphy major, Lee established a Gung Read More...
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by Larry Hartsell
The root of jeet kune do lies in its emphasis on constant change. As a longtime practitioner of the martial arts -- most notably jeet kune do -- I have often heard people talk about Bruce Lee and the type of training he advocated. Many of these people ahve focused their discussions on the meaning behind jeet kune do, or more specifically, what it does not mean. Read More...
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by Linda Lee Caldwell
"What is Jeet Kune Do?" With these words, Bruce began his profound article entitled, "Liberate Yourself From Classical Karate" in the September 1971 issue of Black Belt magazine. Twenty-three years after his death it seems appropriate to ask this question once again. Read More...
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by Dan Inosanto
Jeet Kune Do - the literal translation is "way of the intercepting fist" - was conceived by Bruce Lee in 1967. Unlike many other martial arts, there are neither a series of rules nor a classification of techniques which constitute a distinct Jeet Kune Do (JKD) method of fighting. JKD is unbound; JKD is freedom. It possesses everything, yet in itself is possessed by nothing. Those who understand JKD are primarily interested in its powers of liberation when JKD is used as a mirror for self-examination. Read More...
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by Dan Inosanto
People are still trying to define JKD in terms of a distinct style, i.e. Bruce Lee's Gung-Fu, Bruce Lee's Karate, Bruce Lee's Kick-Boxing or Bruce Lee's Street Fighting. To label JKD as Bruce Lee's martial art is to miss completely its meaning; its concepts simply cannot be confined within a system. To understand this, a martial artist must transcend the duality of the "for" and "against" and reach one unity which is without distinction. The understanding of JKD is a direct intuition of this unity. Truth cannot be perceived until we have come to hill understanding of our selves and our potential. According to Lee, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self- knowledge. Read More...
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by Dan Inosanto
Learning what is useful in the martial arts is not contained within the four walls of a dojo, dojang, gwoon, studio or academy. Learning and absorbing usable knowledge is not located within the structure of your style or system, whether it is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Okinawan, Burmese, Filipino, French or whatever. Learning comes from all your contacts, experiences and all facets of your life. The assimilation of learning is called knowledge and the proper use of knowledge is called wisdom. Read More...
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For years, martial artists have associated Larry Hartsell with two ultra-effective fighting concepts: grappling and jeet kune do. Bruce Lee’s system will forever stand at the forefront of martial arts popularity, and now that proponents of Brazilian jujutsu have focused the world’s attention on the effectiveness of ground fighting, grappling has come into vogue. This naturally brings us to Hartsell—an expert in both ways of fighting—as he twists Black Belt into a knot and chokes us into submission. At the mercy of his elbow lock and hook punch, we bring you the following interview. Read More...
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Think on these things... Willpower Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind. I will exercise it daily when I need the urge to action for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power Read More...
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BB: No one in the Jeet Kune Do community has been subjected to more questions and scrutiny than you have when it comes to matters of Bruce Lee and his teachings. Have the many years of turmoil and controversy taken a toll on you? GURO: I am 60 years old. Read More...
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Excerpted material from Bruce Lee's book, Tao of Jeet Kune Do - the most famous martial arts text of modern day - and has been adapted for use in Black Belt magazine.
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Jeet Kune Do, ultimately, is not a matter of petty technique but of highly developed personal spirituality and physique. It is not a question of developing what has already been developed but of recovering what has been left behind. These things have been with us, in us, all the time and have never been lost or distorted except by our misguided manipulation of them. Jeet Kune Do is not a matter of technology but of spiritual insight and training. Read More...
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