Sifu Lak Loi explains what the book Master Your Life – 9 Steps to Self Mastery Inspired by Bruce Lee all about.
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Andrew J. Stanton Introduction & Demonstration
Andrew J. Stanton, author of Jan Fan journal from Martial Arts Illustrated magazine, introduces himself and the book launch, as well as providing a small demonstration of Jeet Kune Do.
Tessen Fan Dance | Master Your Life Book Launch
Fay Goodman, a leading martial artist in several disciplines, performs the Tessen fan dance at the book launch of Sifu Lak Loi’s Martial Mind Power, 9 steps to self mastery inspired by Bruce Lee.
Best Top 10 Bruce Lee books
It’s quite interesting that even though Bruce Lee was known as a fighter, a martial artist or movie star, he was in fact a very deep philosopher too. Bruce was an avid reader who kept a personal library with some 2000+ books on a broad range of topics including martial arts and philosophy. Over the years his writings have been published in various books about his work and which are inspired by his work. Here are, in no particular order, 10 Top Bruce Lee books.
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Contents
Master Your Life – The Art of Martial Mind Power – 9 Steps to Self Mastery Inspired by Bruce Lee – A book by Lak loi
Move your body, move your mind, move to your success.’ — Lak Loi.
Master Your Life is a unique, motivational literary experience for readers, inspired by the teachings of Bruce Lee. Lak Loi is a third generation instructor in Bruce Lee’s martial art and philosophy, and in this book he teaches you how to:
- Tap into your ultimate potential
- Align yourself towards your personal liberation and self-actualisation
- Achieve your personal success goals
Allow Loi to guide you on a nine-stage self-mastery journey, focussing on a different area of development in each chapter. Loi uses the secrets of the martial arts to help you live a life of excellence — by cultivating not only your body, but also your mind. He calls this Martial Mind Power. This exciting expedition will help you create a state of aliveness and fluidity that allows you to get on top of your game, control your own life and soar to success.
As Bruce Lee said, ‘Self-conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.’

Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Compiled from Bruce Lee’s notes and essays and originally published in 1975, this iconic volume is one of the seminal martial arts guides of its time. The science and philosophy behind the fighting system Lee pioneered himself—jeet kune do—is explained in detail, depicted through hundreds of Lee’s own illustrations. With the collaboration of Lee’s daughter, Shannon, and Bruce Lee Enterprises, this new edition is expanded, updated, and remastered, covering topics such as Zen and enlightenment, kicking, striking, grappling, and footwork. Featuring an introduction by Linda Lee, this is essential reading for any practitioner, offering a brief glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s greatest martial artists.
The Warrior Within

During his lifetime, legendary martial artist Bruce Lee formulated a complex personal philosophy–a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideals–that extolled the virtues of knowledge and total mastery of one’s self. However, most of his philosophical writings could be found only within the personal library of the Bruce Lee estate–until now. The Warrior Within is the most comprehensive volume of these teachings, meant to help you apply Lee’s philosophies to your own life. This unique guide reveals such life-affirming secrets as:
- Seeing the totality of life and putting things into perspective
- Understanding the concept of Yin and Yang
- Defeating adversity by adapting to circumstances
- Tapping into inner spiritual forces to help shape the future
With a foreword by Linda Lee Cadwell and photographs and other memorabilia from Bruce Lee’s short but celebrated life, The Warrior Within is an engrossing and easy-to-understand guide to the little-explored world of Bruce Lee. John Little has been identified as “one of the foremost authorities on Bruce Lee in the world” by Black Belt magazine. He edited a three-volume series for the Bruce Lee estate and has written articles for several publications, including Men’s Fitness, Official Karate, and Inside Kung Fu.

Striking Thoughts
“A teacher is never a giver of truth he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.” Bruce Lee
Within the pages of “Striking Thoughts,” you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee’s amazing success as an actor, martial artist, and inspiration to the world. Consisting of eight sections, “Striking Thoughts” covers 72 topics and 825 aphorisms from spirituality to personal liberation and from family life to filmmaking all of which Bruce lived by.
His ideas helped energize his life and career, and made it possible for him to live a happy and assured life, overcoming difficult obstacles with seeming ease. His ideas also inspired his family, friends, students, and colleagues to achieve success in their own lives and this personal collection will help you in your journey too.
Sections include: On First Principles including life, existence, time, and deathOn Being Human including the mind, happiness, fear, and dreamsOn Matters of Existence health, love, marriage, raising children, ethics, racism, and adversityOn Achievement work, goals, faith, success, money, and fame On Art and Artists art, filmmaking, and actingOn Personal Liberation conditioning, Zen Buddhism, meditation, and freedomOn the Process of Becoming self-actualization, self-help, self-expression, and growthOn Ultimate (Final) Principles Yin-yang, totality, Tao, and the truth.

The Art of Expressing the Human Body
Learn the secrets to obtaining Bruce Lee’s astounding physique with this insightful martial arts training book.
“The Art of Expressing the Human Body,” a title coined by Bruce Lee himself to describe his approach to martial arts, documents the techniques he used so effectively to perfect his body for superior health and muscularity.
Beyond his martial arts and acting abilities, Lee’s physical appearance and strength were truly astounding. He achieved this through an intensive and ever-evolving conditioning regime that is being revealed for the first time in this book.
Drawing on Lee’s own notes, letters, diaries and training logs, Bruce Lee historian John Little presents the full extent of Lee’s unique training methods including nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching and weight training.
In addition to serving as a record of Bruce Lee’s own training, “The Art of Expressing the Human Body,” with its easy-to-understand and simple-to-follow training routines, is a valuable source book for those who seek dramatic improvement in their health, conditioning, physical fitness, and appearance.

Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
– A rare, never-before-seen collection of Bruce Lee’s private letters and writing! Bruce Lee was an intense man with such sheer concentration of energy that no one who encountered him, on screen or in person, could help but be drawn to him and his enthusiasm for life and knowledge. A voracious and engaged reader, Lee wrote extensively, synthesizing the thought of East and West into a unique personal philosophy of self-discovery. “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life” explores the development and fruition of Bruce Lee’s thoughts about gung fu (kung fu), philosophy, psychology, poetry, jeet kune do, acting, and self-knowledge.
This volume from Bruce Lee’s private notebooks is capped by a selection of Lee’s letters that eloquently demonstrate how he incorporated his thought into actions and advice to others. Also included are multiple drafts of select compositions, showing how Lee’s thought evolved and was refined over the years and how the ideas he was reading and writing about were reflected in his work and everyday life.
Sections include: Gung Fu—reflections on gung fu, psychology in defense and attack, how to choose a martial arts instructor, and Bruce’s own view on the martial artPhilosophy—regarding human understanding, Taoism, Plato, Socrates, and DescartesPsychology three types of philosophy, the top dog and the underdog, the four basic philosophical approaches, and learningPoetry ‘The Dying Sun, ‘ ‘Love is a Friendship Caught on Fire, ‘ ‘Once More I Hold You in My Arms, ‘ and ‘Parting’Jeet Kune Do–The Liberation toward personal liberation, notes on JKD, true mastery, and an objective evaluation of the combative skill of Bruce Lee, by those who know what it isActing what exactly is an actor, the art of actingSelf-knowledge in search of someone real, self-actualization, and the passionate state of mindLetters ‘The True Meaning of Life–Peace of Mind, ‘ ‘Use Your Own Experience and Imagination, ‘ and ‘It’s All in the State of Mind’
Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon
A behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all time Bruce Lee. “Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon” is a photographic catalog of all facets of this fascinating man, from the start of his career to his untimely and tragic death in 1973. This book reveals a quiet family man behind the charismatic public persona. It shows the real Bruce Lee the man who was so much more than an international film and martial arts celebrity.
This brilliant photo essay compiled and edited by Bruce Lee expert John Little with the assistance of Lee’s widow, Linda Lee Cadwell reveals never-before-published family photos, including rare photos of Bruce’s childhood in Hong Kong. Tender moments with his children are caught on camera and action shots from his martial arts films are shown.
With a preface by his daughter Shannon Lee and a foreword by wife Linda, the text is drawn directly from Bruce Lee’s own diaries and journals. Based on the award-winning Warner Bros. documentary, “Bruce Lee: In His Own Words,” sections include: Chronology of the Life of Bruce LeeEarly Years why he began studying gung fu (kung fu) and took up wing chun, his first starring role, and his return to the USHollywood why he got the part in “The Green Hornet,” teaching Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant, filming “Enter the Dragon,” “The Way of the Dragon,” “Fist of Fury” and more, training and acting with Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dean Martin and Sharon Tate, and the creation of Jeet Kune Do (JKD)Family meeting Linda, having children, daily life
The Tao of Gung Fu
“The Tao of Gung Fu” reveals Bruce Lee’s thoughtful analysis of the tapestry of Chinese martial arts offering glimpses into the varied styles and his commentary on these arts. Lee’s intense curiosity led him to accumulate this knowledge and expose the limitations of strict adherence to tradition, which inspired him to develop his cosmopolitan “way of no way.”
“The Tao of Gung Fu” includes insights into various Chinese martial arts and training methodologies, sketches of martial arts techniques, Lee’s personal scrapbook of his famous thesis, “The Tao of Gung Fu.” Witness Lee’s personal cultivation of excellence in martial arts. His application of philosophy to physical movements epitomizes the unification of mind and body a genuine way of living for the martial artist.
Chapters include: What is Gung Fu? An Introduction to Chinese Gung Fu, On Yin and Yang, and Bridging the Gap of Yin and YangSome Techniques of Gung Fu The Fundamentals of Gung Fu, The Basic Striking Points of Gung Fu, Introducing the Wing Chun Straight Punch, and The Practice of FormsTaoism in the Chinese Art of Gung Fu On Wu-Hsin (No-Mindedness), On Wu Wei (Nondoing), and Centered ThoughtsIdeas and Opinions Traditions and Histories of Chinese Gung Fu, The Question of Psychic Center, and Bruce’s view on Gung FuAppendices Bruce Lee’s gung fu background at the time he wrote this book, Gung Fu terminology, and Letters and gung fu scrapbook
Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon
“Letters of the Dragon: Correspondence, 1958-1973” is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image.
So much has been written about Bruce Lee the martial arts superstar whose combination of strength, agility and charisma are legendary but seldom are we able to see beneath the veneer of Lee’s public image to view his inner self. Bruce Lee Letters of the Dragon does just that offering a highly personal view of the man through the letters he wrote to his close friends and family from his teenage years right up until his untimely death in 1973 at the tender age of 32.
This unparalleled collection of Bruce Lee’s own personal correspondence begins with his high school days in Hong Kong and continues throughout the period when he was working as a successful actor in America and in Hong Kong, right up until the time he died. During this period he was also developing radically new concepts about Asian martial arts including his own Jeet Kune Do martial arts system. In these letters we are able to see clearly all the optimism, tenacity, integrity and intense loyalty for which Bruce Lee is known and adored by millions of fans today. More than a fascinating chronicle of his rise to superstardom, these letters offer intimate glimpses of the artist, husband, father and friend behind the legend.
Bruce Lee: Conversations
Bruce Lee belongs among the top echelon of influential stars and iconic figures in the world. More than 35 years after his death, he remains a perennial bestseller in video stores, comic bookshops, on T-shirts and posters. He has influenced pop culture more than anyone before or since. Lee was named among Time magazine s 100 most influential people of the 20th century. He has achieved the iconic status of a cultural legend and has had a greater impact on more people worldwide than Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean combined.
In this unique and intriguing landmark book, you will discover a compilation of exclusive interviews with Bruce Lee s original students, close friends, co-stars and colleagues. Those who knew him best give their candid views on the great martial arts master and action movie star adored by millions around the globe. Their memories and stories capture him in a way no straightforward narrative ever could. Furthermore – for the first time ever – you will discover exclusive interviews with some of the best professional Boxers, bodybuilders, UFC fighters and personalities from the motion picture industry paying homage to the legend who continues to have an indelible impact on athletes and people from all walks of life.
To your delight, you will be treated to over 50 compelling and thought-provoking interviews. Fighter, film star, philosopher, teacher, fitness aficionado: Bruce Lee continues to reach us even though his light was extinguished over three-and-a half decades ago. This is a unique and fresh insight into a man whose mysterious life proved one of the most startling enigmas of the century. Bruce Lee: Conversations is the ultimate tribute to the man whose legacy continues to grow worldwide.
What Is Self-Mastery?
Master your life is all about self mastery, learning the art of mastering your own thoughts and emotions. I wanted to share this video which I cam across on What is Self Mastery
Self-Mastery is the practice of having supreme control over your thoughts, feelings and actions. Though it isn’t the most popular of practices in today’s world, it holds some of the greatest rewards.
It requires control over your perceptions, with much meditation and mindful practice. It is a life long discipline, but will eventually grant you a life of ease and simplicity.
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior” – Confucius
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Having No Limitation As Limitation
Written by Enoch Tan & Lak Loi
When we look at the lives of extraordinary people, they seem to have overcome impossible odds to accomplish what they intended. They were either faced with situations that seemed to prevent their idea from being workable or they lacked certain things that were thought to be necessary for the achievement of their goal. But yet they still succeed in getting what they desire as though those things that were supposed to stop them, didn’t even existed at all. Such are the people that live lives without limitation.
A limitation is a limitation when you perceive it as one. In truth, there really are no limitations. Perception creates reality and whatever you perceive something to be, you create it to be. Hence when something appears to be a limitation but you do not perceive it as one, it will not become something that limits you. Having a mindset of no limitation is very powerful because it causes you to become unstoppable. When you perceive yourself to have no limitation, you will become totally irresistible to others.
The reason why people resist us is because they perceive that there is something we are lacking. They only want to accept or let in that which will complete them and not something that doesn’t fit because it is incomplete. Our perceptions create their perceptions. When we perceive limitation about ourselves, we will project it to others to perceive. We’re the creator of all the resistance that we experience. When we perceive no limitation about ourselves, we project it to others and they have nothing to resist.
People want to be free and they are drawn to others who can make them free. You can’t free others unless you yourself are free. Being in the presence of someone who perceive no limitation is so liberating, because makes you feel that you can be, do and have anything you desire. People who have no limitation have great influence over us because they are able to make us do anything they want. We feel under their control as they are able to have their way with us and make us drop all our inhibitions.
Bruce Lee understood this concept down to the core, and it is engrained in the symbol representing the Tao of Jeet Kune Do. The words written in Cantonese which surround the Ying Yang symbol, translate into “Using No Way As Way, Using Limitation As No Limitation”. Many people have misinterpreted this phrase to mean, “Use any way you wish and be limitless in these ways”. This is not correct.
“Using No Way As Way” means do not presuppose a way. Be in the moment. Be present. Be open to the best way to meet the moment in which you find yourself, rather than planning before hand what way will be best.
“Having No Limitation As Limitation” means keep an open mind. Do not limit yourself or your thinking. Do not let your beliefs or your style limit your experience.
This lesson applies to combat as well as daily life. Be boundless and may your lives be filled with abundance my friends.
Bruce Lee – My Definite Chief Aim
Written by Lak Loi
Bruce Lee studied profound philosophers, both past & present. One such philosopher, was Dr Napoleon Hill (26 Oct 1883 – 8 Nov 1970), who wrote the bestseller book ‘Think & Grow Rich’.
He presented the idea of a “Definite Major Purpose” or “Chief Definite Aim” as a challenge to his readers in order to make them ask themselves, “In what do I truly believe?” According to Hill, 98% of people had few or no firm beliefs, and this alone put true success firmly out of their reach.
Bruce wrote the following “Chief Definite Aim” — at which time Bruce would have been 28 years of age and a minor TV star in the United States, having featured in a number of shows which included, most notably, the ill-fated Green Hornet series. With his second child recently born and no financial security to speak of, the clearly determined founder of Jeet Kune Do decided to put his “Definite Chief Aim” down on paper.
The rest is history.
Transcript
My Definite Chief Aim
I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.
Bruce Lee
1969
My Verdict
Bruce Lee died on 20 July 1973 at the young age of 32 years, 2 weeks before the release of his blockbuster movie ‘Enter the Dragon’. After Bruce’s death, ‘Enter the Dragon’ catapulted Bruce Lee into a superstar, not only in the USA, but worldwide. His exciting performances are revered today as the pinnacle of martial artistry, and Bruce’s legend and martial art Jeet Kune Do inspires millions worldwide.
‘Enter the Dragon’ grossed over $25 million in the US alone, so it’s probably safe to assume that the Bruce Lee Estate has exceeded £10 million in revenues.
As for inner peace and harmony, I personally feel that Bruce’s fame would have bought him unrest on Earth. Chillingly, I feel that his passing dealt him the ‘inner harmony and happiness’ that he longed, but in another universe.
As they say, “Be careful what you wish for?” On the same token, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get”. So why not live life to its truest potential by writing your own “Chief Definite Aim!’
To find out more about Dr Napoleon Hill and his works such as ‘Think & Grow Rich’, please visit www.NapHill.org
About Dr Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. He began his writing career at age 13 as a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers and went on to become America’s most beloved motivational author. Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. His book, Think and Grow Rich, is the all time bestseller in the field. Hill established the Foundation as a nonprofit educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement. His books, audio cassettes, videotapes, and other motivational products are made available to you as a service of the Foundation so that you may build your own library of personal achievement materials… and help you acquire financial wealth and the true riches of life.
Be Water My Friend… For Your Success
Written by Matt Morris, The Unemployed Millionaire
Be Water My Friend… Bruce Lee Interview with Pierre Berton, 1971
This is an AWESOME metaphor from the legendary Bruce Lee that describes so many elements of success in one simple 38 second clip!
Obviously it’s not meant to be literal and it’s talking about your mind and your energy so don’t actually try to shape shift or anything but definitely USE this idea.
When you can allow your thoughts, emotions, and actions to mimic water you instantly gain power, peace, and control.
This might help to put this metaphor into real life useful perspective:
Water can flow – Go with the flow and don’t try to change the environment if it serves a purpose.
Water can create – Water is an essential part of life. When you add it, life forms. When you remove it, life ceases to exist. When you add your energy in the form your creativity, thoughts, emotions, and actions you create. When you don’t add them nothing is created.
Water can open new paths – When water is “in the flow” it will always seek out the path of least resistance to where it is going. It can gracefully and powerful cut away dirt, rock, and even metal to get where it’s trying to go. When you are in the flow and you find a better way, carve that way out for you and open a new path to success and freedom for others to follow!
The simple beauty of all of this it to remind us that we have the ultimate power to sharp our lives how ever we choose. Sometimes we behave more like ice than water and get “stuck” in one form or place and start to believe that is the sum of our lives. That is NEVER true unless you make it your truth.
You can create your life however you want and if you’re stuck somewhere you don’t want to be right now, take the perspective as if you are frozen water stuck in a form and place you are not happy with.
Just add some heat in the form of inspiration, vision, hope, desire, or even frustration and anger and melt that ice so you are free to flow to new heights in your life. (NOTE: It’s VERY important that you don’t get angry with your self, just get angry enough with your results that you create the drive to change them)
Then you can flow in to the container of success, happiness, peace, freedom, vibrant life, and fulfillment! (How ever you define those)
It’s a very simple concept that is easy to understand that happens to fit perfectly with how we create success in our lives.
And the bottom line lesson here is to remind ourselves that WE not only have the power and ability to create our lives how ever we desire, but we are the ONLY people creating our own lives PERIOD!
Take a look at your life today and if you are happy with what you’ve created, celebrate and smile and show gratitude. If you are not happy with what you have created, start thinking about your energy as a chunk of frozen ice that simple needs to be melted so you can easily flow into new results.
But most of all, know with 100% certainty that YOU and ONLY you have the total ability to take on whatever shape, or form you desire. The pot doesn’t become the water, the water becomes the pot…
If Knowledge is Power Then Why Pass it Out Indiscriminately
Written by Lak Loi
In 1967 Tim Tackett saw Bruce Lee demonstrate JKD at Ed Parker’s tournament in Long Beach, California and wanted to start studying with him right on the spot, but Tim soon realized that he would not have enough time until after he finished college. In 1968, Tim started a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) program at UCR and no longer had time to teach martial arts full time. So Tim closed down his school and rented a hall in Redlands two nights a week where Tim taught what he called Chinese karate as hardly anyone had heard of Kung Fu let alone Kuo Shu.
In 1970 Tim received his M.F.A. and started teaching drama in high school. Soon after this his first student, Bob Chapman and Tim, on the recommendation of Dan Lee, sought out Dan Inosanto. Dan one of Bruce’s closest friends and confidante’s had opened up a backyard Jeet Kune Do school after Bruce Lee had closed his L.A. Chinatown school shortly before moving to Hong Kong to star in The Big Boss. Tim and Bob both felt privileged to be accepted in Dan Inosanto’s backyard class. The class consisted of about 10 students. Tim got to meet for the first time such JKD luminaries as; Bob Bremer, Dan Lee, Richard Bustillo, Jerry Poteet, and Pete Jacobs. Later Chris Kent, Ted Lucay Lucay, and Jeff Imada joined a second class.
Sifu Tim Tackett mentions, “In 1973, Dan Inosanto honoured me with the rank of Senior First and I was given permission to have a small Jeet Kune Do group. In Dan’s backyard school it was always stressed that JKD was something special. There were certain techniques that Bruce Lee did not want given out outside of what we all felt were a small and special group. Dan told us that Bruce said, “If knowledge is power then why pass it out indiscriminately.”
After Bruce’s untimely passing, Dan opened up, with Richard Bustillo, the Filipino Kali Academy to promote Filipino martial arts as well as JKD. Since Dan made a promise to Bruce not to teach JKD publicly, he created a curriculum with four phases of Jun Fan Gung Fu which is what Bruce called his art before he named it Jeet Kune Do. His backyard Jeet Kune Do became a closed private class at the Kali Academy.
At the same time Tim was teaching the principles of JKD and using them as tools to examine the martial arts he had learned up until that time. Tim found that much of what he had been teaching was not very efficient. For his own personal experience Tim kept some Hsing-I and all of his Tai Chi for himself, but Tim had no desire to teach anything but Jeet Kune Do. Since Tim didn’t want to teach JKD openly he closed the school and moved the senior group to his garage where he’s been ever since. This became known as the famous Wednesday Night Group (WNG) which is still running from strength-to-strength today.
Right from the beginning then, it has been an honour and a privilege to be able to learn Bruce Lee’s JKD, and Sifu Lak Loi who runs JKD London is a Certified JKD Instructor under Sifu Tim Tackett and his famous WNG. Lak is truly grateful to have had the opportunity to learn JKD so he can keep Bruce Lee’s spirit alive for generations to come. Lak states that his mission is “To preserve and promote Bruce Lee’s martial art and philosophy of JKD, to help define and teach the core curriculum, not to confine us but to liberate us, and to discover our personal expression of Bruce’s art.”
When Lak was honoured with his instructorship under Sifu Tim Tackett, he was made privy to a rare copy of Sifu Tim Tackett’s personal JKD notes compiled from his days training with Dan Inosanto and the Back Yard Group, which forms the basis of the JKD London syllabus from which Sifu Lak Loi delivers the core JKD curriculum, or what is commonly known as ‘Old School or LA Chinatown Jeet Kune Do’. One day Lak hopes to pass on this honour to his own select students who have earned it just like him, without “giving it away indiscriminately”.
To help students during their JKD journey, Sifu Tim Tackett recommends that they purchase the following JKD books which cover the core curriculum and provide invaluable reference materials: –
- Chinatown Jeet Kune Do: Essential Elements of Bruce Lee’s Martial Art (Tim Tackett);
- Chinatown Jeet Kune Do, Volume 2: Training Methods of Bruce Lee’s Martial Art (Tim Tackett);
- Jeet Kune Do the Textbook (Tim Tackett & Chris Kent); and
- Jeet Kune Do Kickboxing (Tim Tackett & Chris Kent).
Good Luck in Your JKD Journey



