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Fighting and instruction

Instruction should comprise the fighting as well as the technical training. Fighting training should be given for each stroke before going on in the study of a new one.

• How it is done

• Why it is done

• When it is done

Jeet kune do—not a mass art

Of my art—gung fu and jeet kune do—only one of 10,000 can handle it. It is martial art. Complete offensive attacks. It is silly to think almost anyone can learn it. It isn’t really contemporary forms of the art I teach. Mainly that which I work with—martial attack. It is really a smooth rhythmic expression of smashing the guy before he hits you, with any method available.

On closing my schools

I was teaching martial art in the United States. I had three schools; one in Oakland, one in Seattle, and one in Los Angeles. And then later on I just closed them, you know, and just taught private lessons. I do not believe in “schools.”

I’ve disbanded all the schools of jeet kune do because it is very easy for a member to come in and take the agenda as “the truth” and the schedule as “the Way.”