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Editorial Review:
This is Bruce Lee’s treatise on his martial art, jeet kune do. This international best seller includes the philosophy of jeet kune do, mental and physical training, martial qualities, attack, and strategy. BEST SELLER!
Description of Tao of Jeet Kune Do:
To watch Bruce Lee on film is an amazing experience. Those who have read Tao of Jeet Kune Do, however, know that Lee's prose can also be exhilarating. This praiseworthy and enduring bestseller (mainly written over six months when Lee was bedridden with back problems) compiles philisophical aphorisms, explanations on technique, and sketches by the master himself.
Tao of Jeet Kune Do Reviews:
A very good book recomend to any one to pick up and read 
2009-10-02 - this book is just very well written. you can tell when he is sad from when he is happy and you just fill good about your self after reading this book. i cant stand reading at all but after i watched this movie i had to buy this book after getting it in the mail i started reading it. and yes there are some very cheap stick figures drawing in it and some strang art but it still was an out standing book.
Defense via Streamlined Interception +++
2009-08-19 - Perhaps an approach to summing-up Jeet Kune Do [JKD] would be "defense via streamlined interception". Bruce Lee explored many Eastern, Western [and other] older and newer Arts of self-defense, found what was useful via theory and action, and creatively developed it into "defense via streamlined interception". This MOST-PRIMARY JKD neo-classic, "Tao of Jeet Kune Do", introduces an approach to JKD. This JKD seems in direct contrast to the on-screen movement of Bruce Lee that is wild, complex or convoluted. Yet, even on-screen we get to see some actual JKD.
Way before it was generally popular, Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do from Western-and-Eastern, "kickboxing"-and-"grappling" and newer-and-older self-defense Arts -- as this unique work shows. Bruce Lee was a philosophy follower as well -- exploring and using wisdom from Eastern and Western philosophies -- especially in Jeet Kune do. "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" seems both technically spot-on and metaphysically informative -- with rare usage of sharply consistant strategy [defense via streamlined interception].
I feel that my own quiet modest path has gone in a direction much like Jeet Kune Do. My own quiet modest [very small] Kenpo Art is an offspring of a "Kenpo Jiu-Jitsu" Art [which blended Kosho Ryu Kempo with some Jiujitsu, Aikido, Judo and Arnis -- in Hawai'i]. Yet, later, I have become inspired to blend-in a bit of Fencing, Savate and Boxing [old-and-new] as well as a bit of Tibetan White Crane, Isshinryu Karate, Shotokan Karate and Kenpo Karate, followed by Jiu Jitsu Complete [Kitoryu Jujutsu and Kodokan Judo].
All along I have tried to "keep-it-simple-stupid" -- ending-up with only a few Kata with only a few moves in each -- to guide all movement -- closely following a certain simple strategy. It seems very difficult [but very necessary] to keep streamlining -- while getting angles sufficient to counter versus likely attacks. It would seem far easier to just throw together a bunch of moves, Kata or Arts in an attempt to have a huge hoard of movements versus most any attacks -- but, most surely, losing way more than is gained -- due to complex, cluttered and convoluted lack-of-streamlining [therefore slowed ackward reaction]. So, I have to deeply admire Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do and "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" +++
i had this when i was too young to understand what it was!!part 2
2009-08-08 - this was given to me by my uncle.he bought it while in korea during the vietnam war.i received them when i was 8 or 9 in around 1980.they were in plastic and perfect!!over the years i lost them to the ether."sigh",another in a long line of "things"ive lost over the years.oh,well.im here to tell you that the books had a profound effect on my life.not just in martial arts,but in everyday life!buy these,they will change your life for the better forever.
A Martial Arts Must Have! 
2009-07-25 - This book was very cool, and I was very impressed with the way they draw connections between the philosophy of martial arts, and the physical disciplines needed to be a serious student. Highly recommended! I would also recommend "The Samurai Series", which contains "The Book of Five Rings", "Hagakure", and "Bushido" all in one volume. The Samurai Series: The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure -The Way of the Samurai & Bushido - The Soul of Japan
Learn the Art of the Master
2009-07-23 - I haven't gotten much into this book yet already it is very interesting to me to learn how the master of all times thought and felt for his passion of the martial arts.
Such and inspiring person.
