An interview with James Demile and how he met Bruce, Bruce's training, how Bruce taught, what Bruce left out in teaching, creating the one-inch punch and the falling out between James and Bruce.
link to interview: https://archive.org/details/james-demile-black-belt-interview
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An Inside Kung Fu interview with Howard Williams where he discusses his childhood, how he joined Bruce’s Oakland JKD school, the differences how others teach jkd, how Bruce and James Lee taught, why he started to be outspoken on jkd, the real about jkd and the evolution from Jun Fan Gung Fu to jkd.
link to interview: https://archive.org/details/the-jkd-gospel-according-to-howard/mode/1up
link to article collection: https://archive.org/details/@gamemaster2000
An interview by Inside Karate with Ed Hart recalling when he met Bruce during the Seattle years. Ed goes on to explain in detail how Bruce taught, why Bruce explored other arts, Ed's thoughts on grappling and the UFC, clearing up misconceptions about Bruce and the fight Ed witnessed Bruce was in against a judoka.
link to interview: https://archive.org/details/img-2001_202507/mode/1up
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An Interview from the 64 Dream magazine covering 20 questions on gameplay, Character design, level design and cutscenes.
link to original magazine: https://archive.org/details/64dream-April-1999-ozidual/64Dream%201999%2004%20%28J%20OCR%29/page/n95/mode/1up
link to translation: https://goodblood.games/ootstaffqa64dream31
Bruce Lee's birth certificate, showing his birth at the Hour of the Dragon, in the Year of the Dragon.
There are many versions on the meaning of Bruce Lee's birth name - Lee Jun Fan. This is how the Bruce Lee Foundation articulates it in his biography: “The true meaning of Bruce’s name—JUN FAN—was ‘to arouse and make FAN (the United States) prosperous.’
As the story goes, Bruce was bestowed his English name by a member of the medical staff in the delivery room at the Chinese Hospital. Bruce's father would later explain to immigration officials that he couldn't pronounce his son's American name. More interesting still....Bruce was entirely unaware that he even had an English name until his early teens.
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It is known that Bruce was againat styles since they are fixed ideas of combat, JKD is a martial art that adapts according to the various circumstances in combat. Bruce has called jkd a style of no style, yet he never described JKD as a philosophy or a philosophical idea for martial arts.
sources:
Bruce Lee's letter to Taky Kimura, Letters of the Dragon
Seattle-Post Intelligencer, December 32, 1966
https://archive.org/details/bruce-lee-in-the-seattle-news
Bruce Lee to William Cheung, January 1969, Letters of the Dragon
Commentaries on the Martial Way
bruce Lee interview, 1972
In June of 1968, a group of known martial artist teachers including Bruce Lee of gung fu/Jeet Kune do, Dick Taylor of Aikido, Harold Sharp of Judo, Maki Miyahara of Kendo and Tsutomu Ohshima of Karate where they gathered at the offices of Black Belt magazine where they discussed the common problems martial art schools face and the pros and cons of having a martial art convention.
Bruce believed the convention would be good to expose phonies, a way to help others explore others arts and should learn more then one art.
link to article: https://archive.org/details/martial-arts-forum-international-convention-why-with-bruce-lee
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I notice that even though JKD is one of the most known martial arts in the world, it is one of the most misunderstood and debated topics when it comes to it’s training, evolution and what Bruce had in mind for it. Would like to know other people's take on it and if anyone has questions about JKD, feel free to ask and I shall answer it the best way possible.
In August of 1965, Bruce attended a martial art panel in Hong Kong with other kung fu teachers in attendance including Sifu Siu Hon-San and Chang Chin-ting. Bruce critiques and questions traditional martial arts, how ineffective forms practice is for real world combat and emphasizes realistic training, putting the whole body behind the strikes and being able to strike in any position with full power.
During this time, Bruce was visiting his family in Hong Kong along with his wife Linda and Brandon from May 7th to September of that year.
Link to interview: https://archive.org/details/conversing-with-bruce-lee-on-martial-arts-1965-interview
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A compilation of newspaper clippings from the Seattle Daily Times and the Seattle-Post Intelligencer from 1961-1967 with Bruce demonstrating gung fu, being on the Green Hornet, finding and returning a valuable briefcase, being part of a committee, his thoughts on practical martial arts and his thoughts on the 1967 Karate championship.
link to newspaper clippings source: https://pauldorpat.com/2020/11/12/seattle-now-then-bruce-lee-1963-1964/amp/
link to article collection: https://archive.org/details/@gamemaster2000