Tao Of Jeet Kune Do
Publication date1975Tao of Jeet Kune Do is a book expressing 's and viewpoints, published (after Bruce Lee's death in 1973). The project for this book began in 1970 when Bruce Lee suffered a injury during one of his practice sessions. During this time he could not train in. He was ordered by his doctors to wear a back brace for 6 months in order to recover from his injury.
Tao of Jeet Kune Do: New Expanded Edition Bruce Lee on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Compiled from Bruce Lee’s notes and essays and originally published in 1975. The term jeet kune do was coined and put into use in 1967 by Bruce Lee in an attempt to put a name to his martial expression. The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
This was a very tiring and dispiriting time for Lee who was always very physically active.It was during his that he decided to compile a on the system or approach to martial arts that he was developing; he called it. The bulk of these writings would become the 'core set of writings'. Many of these writings were done during a single session which provided natural continuity.
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Lee had also kept various notes throughout the development of his philosophy and these would become the disparate notes used in the book. Many of these notes were 'sudden inspirations' which were incomplete and lacked any kind of a construct. The combination of the 'core set of writings' and the 'disparate notes' would be known as the text Tao of Jeet Kune Do.In, it was Lee's intent to finish the treatise that he started during his convalescence. However, his film career and work prevented him from doing so. He also vacillated about publishing his book as he felt that this work might be used for the wrong purposes. Lee's intent in writing the book was to record one man's way of thinking about the martial arts. It was to be a guidebook not a set of instructions or 'How to' manual to learn martial arts.In 1975, after Bruce Lee's death, his widow decided to make available the information her husband had collected.
Lee's untimely death changed the perspective of releasing the information that Bruce Lee had vacillated about. The 'core writings' and various notes were put together in a logical fashion by various editors. The main editor was Gilbert L. Johnson along with Linda Lee, and other students of Bruce Lee helped him understand Jeet Kune Do well enough to editorialize and organize Lee's material into text.The book is dedicated to: The Free, Creative Martial Artist. Lee's wife, Linda Lee Cadwell holds the to the book. The book is attributed to Bruce Lee as his notes and work were used to compile the book. It is important to understand that although Lee's material was utilized it was not organized by him; therefore Bruce Lee was not strictly its author.
Contents.Bruce Lee's autobiography Tao of Jeet Kune Do was compiled posthumously from Bruce Lee's personal notes, some of which were in turn copied from Bruce Lee's personal library of martial arts and philosophical books. Ohara Publications has acknowledged Edwin Haislet, Hugo and James Castello, Roger Crosnier and Julio Castello as original sources. After the book's initial publication, additional passages were discovered to have been sourced from the works of, Eric Hoffer, and other authors.Many of Bruce Lee's statements are derived from his own studies of various schools of philosophy and the martial arts, and are sometimes paraphrases of previous expressions by others which he wrote down for his own instruction into his own words. 1975 1st edition.
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Cover of the 2006 Limited Edition Collector's Edition book with certificate of authenticity.In 1975 the Tao of Jeet Kune Do was first made available only in paperback. The book was initially NOT available in; A Hardback edition was first made available in 1976. The forgoing statement is attributed to Black Belt Magazine and the source data is at 4 Subsequent editions have been available in form only except for the following; In 2006, offered this book in hardback form, on a 500-copy; the book is personally signed by Bruce Lee's widow Linda Lee Cadwell and his daughter. Copies of the hardback edition from such sources as typically fetch high prices and usually do not include the much sought after.See also.References.