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Jeet Kune Do San Antonio

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Grandmaster Ip Man and Bruce Lee practicing Wing Tsun sticky hands.

Bruce Lee, Wing Tsun and Jeet Kune Do

The original martial art of Bruce Lee was Wing Tsun Kung Fu. Lee learned Wing Tsun in Hong Kong from Grandmaster Ip Man in the late 1950’s. After studying Wing Tsun for about 5 years, Lee’s parents sent him to the Seattle, Washington to attend school. After Lee arrived in the U.S., he began teaching a modified form of Wing Tsun which he called Jun Fan Gung Fu. Years later, after moving to California, Lee further modified his original Wing Tsun by adding ideas from arts such as fencing, boxing and northern kung fu style kicking. Bruce Lee called his new art Jeet Kune Do, the “way of the intercepting fist.”

A close examination of Jeet Kune Do reveals that it's theories, techniques and training methods are indeed actually Wing Tsun Kung Fu. Jeet Kune Do’s emphasis on economy of motion and simultaneous attack and defense, its use of the vertical fist for punching combined with low kicks, as well as its use of trapping hands, sticky hands (chi sau) and wooden dummy training can all be traced back to Lee’s Wing Tsun training. So it is safe to say that Wing Tsun was the basis for Lee’s art of Jeet Kune Do.

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