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A huge debt of thanks is also owed Linda Lee Cadwell, Bruce’s wife of nine years and the lady that Bruce once told me was “directly responsible” for his success. Linda has always remained loyal to Bruce and was not only the mother of their two children, Brandon and Shannon, but, in my opinion, she is also the spiritual mother of jeet kune do for, without her entering his life and being the yin to his yang, Bruce would have had to work a nine-to-five job and thereby been deprived of the time necessary to create such a beautiful art and to share it with the world.

Jeet kune do is a unique martial art in that it is the first martial art that is not based solely upon tradition. Granted, jeet kune do has specific and distinguishing techniques and a core curriculum that Bruce thought important enough to teach to all of his students. However, this is viewed more as a “launching pad” from which the individual practitioner initiates his own exciting journey of self-discovery and self-expression. In fact, to truly ascend to the higher aspects of this art, one really has to do it on one’s own. What Bruce is offering us in the pages of this book and in the personal lessons he taught to those of us fortunate enough to have studied under him is a prescription for freedom—both in combat and in day-to-day life—and that prescription lies in the discovery that we already are free, we simply have to be willing to do the homework necessary to realize it.