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The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning.

Note: Ted Wong is considered one of the most knowledgeable men in the world regarding Bruce Lee’s art of jeet kune do. Wong was Bruce Lee’s private student from 1967 until Lee’s death in 1973. Lee’s day timer diaries reveal that he and Wong got together on no less than 122 separate occasions. Wong received certification in jeet kune do directly from Bruce Lee himself.

PREFACE

Between the ages of twenty two and thirty two, martial arts legend Bruce Lee was a very prolific writer. To be sure, not all of his writings were in the form of essays or systematic presentations of themes and philosophical dissertations. However, it is worth observing that during this brief span of time, Lee wrote and self-published one book, prepared manuscripts for two additional books (that he later decided not to have published), authored several articles that were published on the theory and nature of unarmed combat, scripted no less than three screenplays, and penned seven volumes of writings containing his thoughts, ideas, opinions, and research into the science and art of unarmed combat. And then there were the notes! Whether on an airplane at 35,000 feet above the ground, in a car traveling down a bumpy dirt road in the Indian Desert, or in the privacy of his own study, when Lee wasn’t training or reading, he was writing. And his mind was constantly active, triangulating new viewpoints on techniques, technique efficiency, and training methods to realize novel ways of improving each.