#Tao of jeet kune do autographed manual
This Mantis manual that Bruce passed to Taky Kimura would eventually go on to be auctioned sold for £52,000.Bruce Lee developed an expression of martial arts that was personal to him called Jeet Kune Do (translated: Way of the Intercepting Fist). Special Thanks to Paul Brennan for translating this list. Translated by Paul Brennan and sourced from Brennan Translations. Images of Bruce Lee’s White Ape Leaves the Cave Mantis book by Wong Honfan courtesy of Heritage Auctions. 1977 Martial Arts Magazine “Bruce Lee: His Unknowns in Martial Learning” Bruce Lee, The Dao of Jeet Kune Do, 1975 (Copyright 2000, Phoenix Films Pty Ltd.), video. Title Quote “Bruce would go to and say ‘… I’ll trade you my Wing Chun knowledge for your Praying Mantis’… that’s what Bruce did… When I first learned under Bruce… I was learning a set in Northern Mantis.” Dan Inosanto within the first four minutes of: Interview with Dan Inosanto, Produced and Directed by Walt Missingham. It is quite safe to assume that this world-famous martial artist/actor had a degree of respect for Wong Honfan’s Praying Mantis Kung fu. He absorbed moves and concepts from Praying Mantis into his personal repertoire, and even spent time translating a Praying Mantis form into English, (Wong Honfan’s Beng Bu book). Not only was Lee personally taught a Praying Mantis form ( Beng Bu): he then also taught it to his early students.
#Tao of jeet kune do autographed manuals
He gave these Mantis Fist manuals to Taky Kimura specifically for his use as an instructor in Bruce’s system.
Regardless of less historically grounded comparisons, the actual evidence and record is quite clear: Bruce took careful hand-written notes on the movements in Wong Honfan’s manuals. Other seemingly accurate similarities between postures and quotes will in fact be mere coincidence, the patterns and ideas matching because they are both found more broadly in martial arts as a whole and not because Bruce was purposefully emulating Wong Honfan’s work. Some of these comparisons will be justified and undeniable, with Bruce himself having specifically taken notes on the pages of Wong’s work. Such comparisons between a photo of Bruce here or his notes on Jeet Kune Do there could surely be made with the voluminous amounts of texts and photos Wong Honfan’ left behind. Of course, those familiar with Bruce Lee’s famous One Inch Punch demonstration and his admonishments to blend hard and soft will immediately note the similarities. I hope that my fellow practitioners will deeply study the mysteries within the art so that they can ascend to a level of elegance that much sooner.” Unless they are practiced equally, I fear it will be difficult to achieve the best results. Most styles tend to emphasize one or the other, but Mantis Boxing uses both hardness and softness in equal measure, combining them to greater effect. To apply boxing techniques requires some distance, but inch force can be applied even if you are already touching the opponent’s body, meaning that long-range power and foot-length power would not be able to catch up with it. “Inch-length power is also called ‘passive power.’ It travels merely from the wrist to the fingers and involves the slightest rotation. The topic of which movements Bruce favored and kept from Praying Mantis, how or if he altered them, and even which moves he disregarded entirely: all of that remains a subject which has not even begun to be thoroughly and properly addressed.Ĭould Bruce Lee have owned Volume 3 of Wong Honfan’s Mantis Series, which details the following: The purpose of this article has been simply to highlight the Praying Mantis Kung Fu manuals that Bruce owned, annotated and studied. For whatever reason (and despite being a traditionalist no longer), Bruce Lee still saw value in this set of moves from the Mantis tradition as he dedicated his time to translating them into English, presumably with the aim of sharing this text and its applications with a wider audience. Curiously, this recorded translation effort is marked 1968: after Bruce had denounced traditional Chinese martial arts in favor of creating his own style Jeet Kune Do. This references the form depicted in his Mantis books by Wong Honfan, the form he had been photographed performing applications from. “Peng Pu” is a romanized spelling for transliterated characters: 崩步. Looking over at his Beng Bu book by Wong Honfan, he adds:Ĭompletion of translating The Peng Pu Chuan He then sits at his desk and pulls out a notebook and a pencil, and writes:
Bruce has already worked his core that morning so he opts for a few one-legged squats.
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