"Bruce Lee's Fighting Method"

[joesteph]

I've received my copy of Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: The Complete Edition, and remember the original four short books it comprises. What a difference the digital enhancement makes; the photos are so crisp!

Although I'm only on Chapter 5, I've noticed that what's said is likely far clearer to someone already familiar with Lee's concepts. I'm glad I picked up a few things in the past, including those JKD lessons. It's like reading an in-depth book about, say, a certain event in history. You often have to know something about that event in order to profit the most from reading the book about it.

Got to get back to the book . . .

[Toptomcat]

Lee's stuff is always great to read through. Probably due to the rapidity with which his fighting style evolved within his lifetime, he was a better rough-outline man than final-draft man: in my experience a lot of what's published under his name is best read as notes, using a single chapter or section as conceptual help to inspire a training session or experimental few rounds of sparring rather than trying to hoover up whole books at a time and trying to find some overall, unifying fighting method within it.

Which dovetails quite nicely with his more general and philosophical writings on what he considered Jeet Kune Do to be, so I don't even have to feel guilty that I may be missing something

[bushido_man96]

His stuff is always good to read. I have the four originals, but not the new volume. Maybe someday.

[Jay]

I have a question joesteph.

I believe there is a chapter in it that was written by Ted Wong in this new edition. Do you think you could tell me what is in it. Because other than that im pretty sure its similar to the old versions.

Thanks

Jay

[joesteph]

Here it is Jay:

Chapter 16, "Five Ways of Attack," by Ted Wong, pp. 338-349.

• A: simple angled attack (SAA)

• B: hand-immobilizing attack (HIA)

• C: progressive indirect attack (PIA)

• D: attack by combination (ABC)

• E: attack by drawing (ABD)

[Jay]

Thanks for that . I don't think I will get this new edition at the moment. I already have two Teri Tom Books (Student of Ted's) that cover this in pretty good detail.

[bushido_man96]

Oh, well, if it has new stuff in it, then I may have to push up the wish list....