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Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee'sCommentaries on the Martial WayBruce Lee Library, Volume 3Edited by John Little
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 ...
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TAO OF JEET KUNE DOby Bruce Lee
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 ...
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JEET KUNE DOThe Art and Philosophy of Bruce Leeby Dan Inosanto
''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.Aside from his ...
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FILIPINO MARTIAL CULTUREby Mark V. Wiley
Widely practiced but little understood, the Filipino martial arts have a rich history and distinctive character that until now, has not been fully documented. Written in the context of Philippine history and culture, Filipino Martial Culture uncovers the esoteric components of the Filipino martial arts and ...
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THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTSas taught by Dan Inosantoby Dan Inosanto
Combat is as old as man himself. In the Philippines it developed to a degree of effectiveness unsurpassed anywhere in the world. The Filipino martial arts is an expression of man's indomitable will to survive adversity in the most direct and self reliant manner possible.There ...
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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 Fu institue in Oakland, California, in 1964, to teach the art he later named Jeet ...
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I'll get this started with the most recent book I read. There is a lot of debate regarding the history of Filipino Martial Arts, yet one piece of history that can't be denied is the ''first'' book every published on the subject. Some people have said that the word Kali is ''made up'' and that people in the Phillipines don't use the ...
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