Tao of Jeet Kune Do Summary
Bruce Lee

Tao of Jeet Kune Do Summary

This 208 page manual, published in 1975 after the author's death, presents Bruce Lee's notes, writings, and sketches that he recorded over nineteen years of martial arts study and practice. He begins this book project in 1970, when confined to bed for six months. Lee gets a back injury for which his doctors forbid martial arts practice during recuperation. During this time, he reflects on his life and writes the Tao to record his way of thinking as a guide for readers interested in martial arts. Bruce Lee's expressed intent for the work is not as an instruction manual or how-to guide. However, since the book is published after his death from notes and sketches compiled by his widow and an editor, it is an extensive study in the practice of Jeet Kune Do. The editor hopes the book is a source of ideas... View more of the Tao of Jeet Kune Do Summary