i wanted to revive this topic. as i hope you know by now, we are having a contest to win one of Bruce Lee's books, so i thought it would be nice to continue some good points that were made on this thread. the one that particularly caught my attention is whether JKD is a personal style or a new martial arts style.
although Bruce Lee did not want it to become a formalized school because he did not want the style to stagnate or stop evolving, i would argue that it was meant to be more than a personal style. he did want to pass on what he had learned and he did believe that he had the best style availible, but i think he wanted the art to continue on and grow and evolve past his own life and his own fame. thus i would say that it is its own martial arts style.
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