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The purpose of both volumes is to fill in some of the instructional gaps between the Fighting Method series and the Tao of Jeet Kune Do. As we noted in the last book, Bruce Lee did not intend for the Tao to be published as an instruction manual. It is merely a collection of his personal notes, most of which were taken from other sources. It is not a how-to book—nor is the Fighting Method series. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee was never able to assemble what became the Fighting Method series as an instructional manual, and much of the material had become outdated by the time of his death. The photos that would comprise the Fighting Method books were taken early in the development of JKD in 1967. If you compare them to movie stills from Game of Death in 1972 and Enter the Dragon in 1973, you'll see that he'd made some very important modifications in the interim.

This is where we are so fortunate to have Ted Wong's powers of observation and analysis. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Ted Wong spent more time in private instruction with Bruce Lee than any of Lee's other students. Unlike many who claim to know Bruce Lee's art, Wong may be the only one truly qualified to make that claim. He was there. This is on record in Bruce Lee's own Day-Timer^® notes.^{1, 2} Even more important than the frequency of sessions, though, is the time of those sessions. Wong had the fortune to study privately with Bruce Lee more than anyone else, but he also did so during the last stages of JKD development, right up until Lee's death in 1973. He is the most frequent, if not the only—and this is documented as such in Lee's own handwriting—witness to JKD in its most advanced stages. Without his tireless study, Bruce Lee's life's work would be lost forever.