Bruce Lee's Fighting Method

Cover of Bruce Lee's Fighting Method - The Complete Edition book with dust jacket ISBN 0-89750-170-5

Bruce Lee's Fighting Method is a book of volumes covering Bruce Lee's martial arts abilities of the Jeet Kune Do movement. The book is available as a single hardcover volume or a series of four paperback volumes. The text describes Bruce Lee's Kung Fu fighting techniques, philosophy and training methods. This book was originally written in 1966 by Bruce Lee. However, Lee decided not to publish this work as he feared that instructors would use the fighting knowledge in this text to promote themselves. In 1978, after Bruce Lee's death, his widow Linda Lee Cadwell decided to make available the information on her husband's work. Lee's death changed the perspective of releasing the information that Bruce Lee himself had vacillated about. The book was published with the help of Mitoshi Uyehara. Uyehara was the founder and owner of Black Belt Magazine. During the early years of the publication, Uyehara served as the publisher. Bruce Lee contributed many articles to the publication during the 1960s and a friendship ensued between the two men. Uyehara, a martial artist in his own right, was a key personage in arranging Lee's material for publication.[1]

Hardcover edition

The hardcover version of this text features in volumes in a different order:[2]

New hardcover edition

In 2008 Black Belt Magazine released in update to this book which was unavailable in hardcover form since 1981. The new version contains a new introduction by Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee. It also contains a new chapter entitled Five Ways of Attack by Mr. Ted Wong. Mr. Wong is a first generation martial arts student of Bruce Lee. Mr. Wong is also in many of the illustrated pictures within the text along with Bruce Lee depicting various Jeet Kune Do principles and techniques.

Volumes 1-4

See also

References

  1. Lee, Bruce (1978). "Introduction". Bruce Lee's Fighting Method. Ohara Publications Inc.,. ISBN 0-89750-062-8.
  2. Lee, Bruce (1978). "Table of Contents". Bruce Lee's Fighting Method. Ohara Publications Inc.,. ISBN 0-89750-062-8.
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