| Bruce Lee did more than blaze the movie screens | | | | limitation" stage where advanced students were |
| with powerful, lightning quick punches and kicks. | | | | free to change and explore their personal styles |
| He launched a martial arts revolution and | | | | of fighting. |
| encouraged martial artists to break the ties that | | | | Bruce Lee was able to accomplish this feat |
| bound them as practitioners. Lee freed himself | | | | because of superb physical and mental training. He |
| and other martial artists from the ties that limited | | | | freed himself of the stress and anxiety that |
| the skills traditional fighters. He envisioned unity | | | | distracted his training. He developed his abdominal |
| among the divided disciplines of martial arts. After | | | | muscles because these muscles play a key role in |
| years of research and development, Lee | | | | the movement of martial artists. In addition, these |
| managed to fuse every helpful martial arts | | | | muscles protects the ribs and other vital organs. |
| components into one system. He incorporated | | | | Lee constantly trained and attempted to achieve |
| western boxing, the Chinese style of Kung Fu | | | | maximum efficiency, according him martial artists |
| called Wing Chun, and Western fencing and added | | | | of his time lacked necessary physical fitness to |
| bits of Karate, Judo, Aikido, Muay Thai, and Jiu | | | | back up their skill. There were times when Lee |
| Jitsu. The result was a concept that served as a | | | | would ride a stationary bike for 45 minutes to |
| forerunner for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), called | | | | increase his muscle definition and reduce body fat. |
| Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Intercepting Fist). | | | | He combined weight training with his regular |
| Jeet Kune Do, according to Lee, is not another | | | | workout to improve his performance and |
| martial arts style or method. It is a concept | | | | physique. His workout was designed to avoid |
| where different combat arts and techniques are | | | | bulky muscles to avoid hefty muscles that might |
| used. Whether it is from Japan, China, India, or the | | | | interfere his martial arts movement. In addition, |
| Philippines, combat artists are encouraged to | | | | Bruce Lee trained properly to avoid muscle |
| explore various fighting system and absorb its | | | | spasms and lower back pain. Injuries may hamper |
| essence. Lee wanted to create a martial art that | | | | his training and affect his performance. He also |
| was unbound and free, where movements are | | | | took nutrition seriously and was strict on his diet. |
| simple, direct, and non-classical. He later expanded | | | | He drank his concentration of vegetables, apples, |
| the notion that the art should be used for | | | | celery, carrots, and prepared it using an electric |
| personal development and become a better | | | | blender. Lee consumed high-protein drinks which |
| fighter. The final stage of training designed for | | | | included powdered milk, eggs, bananas, and peanut |
| practitioners of Jeet Kune Do was the "no | | | | floor. |