Written by Lak Loi I am writing in tribute to Sijo Bruce Lee, who would have celebrated his 71st birthday on this auspicious day. Sijo Bruce Lee has touched the hearts & souls of billions of people, through his awe inspiring movies, and not least his martial art & philosophy of Jeet Kune Do, …
Written by Lak Loi As many of you may know, the legendary Bruce Lee was born on 27th November 1940. To celebrate Bruce Lee’s birthday, JKD London is giving away a Limited Edition Film Cell numbered plaque (14/1,000) from Bruce Lee’s blockbuster movie, The Way of The Dragon. JKD London offers Bruce Lee’s original teachings …
Written by Chris Kent “in reaction to the other’s truth, another martial artist, or possibly a dissatisfied disciple, organized an opposite approach. Soon this faction also became a large organization, with its own laws and patterns. A rivalry began, with each style claiming to possess the “truth” to the exclusion of all others.” — Bruce …
Source: Black Belt Magazine Written by Bruce Lee In September 1971, Bruce Lee authored perhaps the most important and controversial article for Black Belt magazine. Titled “Liberate Yourself from Classical Karate”, the article introduced Lee’s personal martial art and philosophy of Jeet Kune Do as a method for gaining freedom from the dictates of classical training. I …
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, …
A JKD member who says JKD is exclusively JKD is simply not with it. He is still hung up in his self closing resistance; in this case anchored down to a reactionary pattern and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can only move within its limits. He has not digested the simple …