Tao of Jeet Kune Do Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 40 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tao of Jeet Kune Do.

Tao of Jeet Kune Do Themes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 40 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
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Freedom and Transformation

Bruce begins martial arts training as a thirteen-year-old to be free from the fear of not being able to defend himself. That fear causes him to find the freedom that enables him to transform himself from a defenseless adolescent into a young man able to take care of himself. He becomes free from the fear of attack by others.

His initial desire and freedom to learn self-defense transforms Bruce Lee's life into a nineteen year study and career in martial arts. Over that nineteen year period of study, he transforms freedom from fear into knowledge that he transforms into a science and art, and a philosophy and a way of life as a film star. Those freedoms however, ironically according to his own writing, require the lack of freedom from practice and exercise to maintain his career as a professional martial artist. His freedom paradoxically becomes...

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