Bruce Lee Research Paper

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Bruce Lee made great contribution to martial arts as he founded a new martial art system called Jeet Kune Do. When Lee was a teenager living in Hong Kong, he was not interested in the school life, instead, he always went looking for fights. All he cared about was how to improve his moves to win the street fighting. His father then sent him to Yip Man ‘s class to learn Wing Chun, which is a traditional concept-based Chinese martial art. The fluid style of Wing Chun seemed to suit him well, but he was not satisfied. Early experience of street fighting made Lee desire more flexible, more practical and more powerful fighting system. He then decided to build a new, non-classical martial art system with the concept of “the style of no style”. He

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