tao of jeet kune do by: bruce lee

[TigerAnsTKDLove]

i got this book for x-mas this year and it is kick butt awesome! i love how it discusses jkd!!!! bruce lee did a great job on this book! it goes into great detail! and i love how linda lee wrote a letter in the beginning. i reccommend this book to any bruce lee fans seriously its that damn good:)

[YODA]

Just remember- Bruce Lee didn't write that book. It's a collection of his personal training notes put together after his death. Much of it is copied directly from other sources.

That said - it has some great stuff.

[TigerAnsTKDLove]

right on!!!!!!!!!

[Pinyou]

That book is sweeeet. It should really help my tactics when sparring.

[Xio]

I seriously envy you guys.
I don't have the book. But i am definately going to get it. DEFINATELY!!

/Xio

[king__jojo]

Whats the book called???

[stratiotes]

It's called Goodnight Moon.

[Shortfuse]

i didnt think it was good but hearig these reviews i should try and buy it

[aml01_ph]

Bad as a training manual. More like reading a diary.

[stratiotes]

It has some nice concepts and ideas, but no not as a training manual. There is some material in it actually showing how to do stuff, most of it is just like reading a book of martial arts proverbs though.

[Kenpo Kicker]

I love tao of jeet kune do. It is dirt cheap and worth more than what I payed.

[ipscshooter]

i got this book for x-mas this year and it is kick butt awesome! i love how it discusses jkd!!!! bruce lee did a great job on this book! it goes into great detail! and i love how linda lee wrote a letter in the beginning. i reccommend this book to any bruce lee fans seriously its that damn good:)
I bought it because my 11 year old son was starting JKD lessons. Some of it is pretty interesting, but a bit over his head. It's really more philosophy than martial arts training manual. Some of the vocabulary is a bit strange. I never heard of "isness" before...

[stratiotes]

Isness... lol where did that come from. I haven't read the whole book, just skimmed over parts i was interested in. What page is it on??

[ipscshooter]

I'll have to look back and get page cites for you. He uses it on several occasions, I think to mean something along the lines of a present state of existence. I think he also used the word "thusness" a couple of times.

[Ad McG]

I'll have to look back and get page cites for you. He uses it on several occasions, I think to mean something along the lines of a present state of existence. I think he also used the word "thusness" a couple of times.

It's used in philosophy. If you're more interested in that sort of thing, check out Bruce Lee's Striking Thoughts, a combination of different quotes and philosophies that Bruce used (usually taken from other philosophers but who cares).

[Mushroom]

It's used in philosophy. If you're more interested in that sort of thing, check out Bruce Lee's Striking Thoughts, a combination of different quotes and philosophies that Bruce used (usually taken from other philosophers but who cares).

Yeah i got that book too (striking thoughts). Its mainly stuff that he was inspired by, cos he studied Philopshy, but many people mistaken that those are his own personal quotes.
At the beginning of Tao of JKD, Linda Lee wrote, when you finish you can use this book to wipe stuff up with it.

[Maximicus]

Yeah, this, the Bo5R, and others are more philosophy than how to. I wouldn't put too much time into any of the techniques sections. Those were Bruce Lee inovating and reflecting on his own tech, learn them in a school.