While many say Sijo Bruce Lee discarded all forms by the time he developed his system of Jeet Kune Do, the truth is there were forms. or more specifically sets, taught by him during the Los Angeles Chinatown-era. My teacher, Sifu Tim Tackett, recalls that they worked these kicking sets constantly during his session in […]
Feint vs Fake
When I began boxing and later Jeet Kune Do, you’d often hear people talk about “throwing a fake” or “just feint a movement”… and to me the terms seemed to be used interchangeably and to mean the same thing. Only years later, when I began training with my Chinatown Jeet Kune Do instructor, Sifu Tim […]
Training the Straight Lead Punch
“Training the Straight Lead Punch” is an article that was originally published in the August 1998 issue of “Bruce Lee Magazine”, and was written by my teachers Sifu Tim Tackett and the late Sifu Bob Bremer. The straight lead punch is a “bread and butter” technique of Jeet Kune Do (could be argued that it’s the […]
Kuoshu Chinese Fist & Foot Fighting
This is an article from the May 1965 issue of Black Belt Magazine with the title of: “Kuoshu Chinese Fist & Foot Fighting”. The article is about my teacher, Sifu Tim Tackett, who spent nearly 3 years on the island of Taiwan during his stint in the US Air Force (at the Shu Lin Kuo Air […]