Bruce Lee's Tao of Aliveness [Audio Essay]

Teaching Martial Arts by Combat Learning

This is an audio version of a previous combat learning article, Tao of Aliveness.

Bruce Lee superfans have to pretend about his fighting prowess because, to them, that’s what makes him legendary. It bolsters the legitimacy and mystique of his jeet kune do system. Jeet kune do, as Lee taught it, is the chief artifact of his legacy in the eyes of martial artists who can only see formal systems and styles.

The philosophy stuff is cool to them, sure, but their social conditioning prevents them from appreciating just how legendary this aspect of his legacy truly is.

Among all his ideas, one would come to influence real martial arts practice in a massive way: aliveness.

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