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Jeet Kune Do

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The Jeet Kune Do Emblem
The taijitu represents the concepts of yin and yang(☯). The Chinese characters mean: "Using no way as way" and "Having no limitation as limitation". The arrows represent the endless interaction between yin and yang.[1]

Jeet Kune Do (Chinese: 截拳道; Jyutping: zit6 kyun4 dou6; literally: "stop fist way or: way of the intercepting fist"[n 1]; abbreviated JKD) is a hybrid martial art conceived and practiced by martial artist Bruce Lee.

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense is a book written by Bruce Lee expressing his martial arts philosophy and viewpoints. It describes his early style of gung fu which was based heavily on Wing Chun. This was before the development of his unique style of martial arts called Jeet Kune Do in the late 1960s. Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense was published in early 1963 by Bruce Lee.[2]
Tao of Jeet Kune Do is a book expressing Bruce Lee's martial arts philosophy and viewpoints, published posthumously (after Bruce Lee's death in 1973).[3]

  1. Bruce Lee appeared, in 1971 in the TV series Longstreet, in four episodes: "The Way of the Intercepting Fist" (Jeet Kune Do), "Spell Legacy Like Death", "Wednesday's Child" and "I See, Said the Blind Man" as Li Tsung, an antiques dealer and Jeet Kune Do expert who becomes Longstreet's martial arts instructor (Wikiquote has quotations from Li Tsung's teachings).

References

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  1. Bruce Lee: Dynamic Becoming, p.23
  2. John Little (2016). "Preface". Bruce Lee, The Tao of Kung Fu: Commentaries on the Chinese Martial Arts (Book). Tuttle. p. 12. ISBN 978-0804841467.
  3. Lee, Bruce (1975). Tao of Jeet Kune Do. Ohara Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-89750-048-2.
    "The Annotated Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Retrieved 2008-07-08.
    "The Saga of Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Black Belt magazine. June 17, 2015. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015.

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Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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