![]() Like it was yesterday, I remember Bruce sitting on the back steps of the gym, head in hands, despairing over his inability to finish off the opponent with efficient technique, and the failure of his stamina when he attempted to capture the running man. The entire fight lasted about three minutes, leaving James and me ecstatic that the decisive conquest was so quickly concluded. Finally, Bruce brought the man to the floor, pinning him helplessly, and shouted (in Chinese), ‘Do you give up?’ After repeating this question two or three times, the man conceded, and the San Francisco party departed quickly. He completed this circle several times, with Bruce in hot pursuit. Within moments of the initial clash, the Chinese gung fu man had proceeded to run in a circle around the room, out a door that led to a small back room, then in through another door to the main room. Linda Cadwell remembers the fight that followed as a pivotal point in Bruce Lee’s life: Without hesitation, Bruce Lee accepted the challenge. So strongly did they harbour this historically bound belief, that a formal challenge was issued to Bruce, insisting that he participate in a confrontation, the result of which would decide whether he could continue to teach the ‘foreign devils’. Look favourably on Bruce’s teaching martial art to Westerners, or actually to anyone who was not Chinese. Then by late 1964, Bruce Lee received a letter with the signatures of the most important elder Chinese martial arts masters in San Francisco who did not ![]() ![]() First however, I will give an anecdote of his wife Linda Cadwell on Bruce Lee’s initial motivation to develop Jeet Kune Do at all.īruce Lee’s initial motivation for Jeet Kune Doīruce Lee started teaching martial arts to Westerners in his newly founded Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute, a training gym in Oakland, California. I will identify several Taoist aspects that form the philosophical foundation of Jeet Kune Do. In this post I will discuss the application of Taoist philosophy in Jeet Kune Do (‘the way of the intercepting fist’), the martial arts that Bruce Lee founded in his mid-20s, and its roots in Taoist philosophy. In one of my previous posts, I discussed the similarities between the libertarian concept of Spontaneous Order and the Taoist concept of the Tao. I often asked myself these questions: What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is ‘glory’? What kind of ‘victory’ is ‘glorious’? My majoring in philosophy was closely related to the pugnacity of my childhood. Writing about where his interest in philosophy came from, he wrote: What is less known among the public is his keen interest in philosophy, a subject he studied at the University of Washington. He was recognized by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20 th century. He was a cha cha champion in Hong Kong at age 18, a world renowned martial artist and a Chinese actor who was not only immensely popular in Asia, but who also made his breakthrough in Hollywood at a time when oriental actors were rarely accepted for lead roles. Even though he was just 32 upon his death, he had achieved so much in his limited lifetime. Bruce Lee was born on Novemand died on July 20, 1973.
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