Bruce Lee (Part 2)

Jeet Kune Do originated in 1967. After filming one season of The Green Hornet, Lee found himself out of work and opened The Jun Fan Institute of Gung Fu. He has a match with Wong Jack Man which  influenced Lee's think up about Jeet Kune Do martial arts. Lee found that the fight had lasted too long and that he had failed to live up to his potential using his Wing Chun techniques. He started to use different methods of training such as weight training for strength, running for endurance, stretching for flexibility, and many others which he adapted, including fencing and basic boxing techniques. Lee called it "the style of no style". This consisted of getting rid of the formalised approach which Lee thought was indicative of traditional styles. Lee felt the system Jun Fan Gung Fu was even too restrictive, and eventually evolved into a philosophy and martial art he called Jeet Kune Do or the Way of the Intercepting Fist. It is a term he would later regret, because Jeet Kune Do implied specific parameters that styles connote; whereas the idea of his martial art was to exist outside of parameters and limitations.

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