{"id":1542,"date":"2017-03-26T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/?page_id=1542"},"modified":"2024-09-05T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:16:20","slug":"bruce-lee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gaitensp\/mindset\/bruce-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms, and since it has no style, Jeet Kune Do fits in with all styles. \u00a0As a result, Jeet Kune Do uses all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any technique or means which serves its end. \u00a0In this art, efficiency is anything that scores.”<\/p>\n

– Bruce Lee,\u00a0Tao of Jeet Kune Do<\/em><\/p>\n

According to legend, after the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty (circa 1700), five elders, known as the Venerable Five, managed to escape and go into hiding, each carrying within them the tradition of various forms of kung fu. One of these was Abbess Ng Mui (Chinese:\u00a0\u4e94\u679a<\/span>,\u00a0W\u00fa M\u00e9i<\/i>), holder of the White Crane tradition. \u00a0In the village within which she took refuge, Ng Mui met 15-year-old Wing Chun, who was being hounded into marriage by a bandit. \u00a0Desperate, she asked Ng Mui to teach her how to fight. Ng Mui, recognizing that Wing Chun’s age and body (and the time limit) would not allow mastery of full-force kung fu, distilled the White Crane form into its essence, and taught this simplified (but still highly effective) form of martial arts to Wing Chun.<\/p>\n