Editing Jeet Kune Do (section)

==Overview and philosophy==
{{See also|Bruce Lee}}
Growing up in [[Hong Kong]], Lee was a  student of [[Wing Chun]] Grandmaster [[Ip Man]].  However, around 1964, following his duel with [[Wong Jack-man]], Lee disavowed the rigidity of systematized martial arts.<ref name="Dorgan">Dorgan, Michael. [http://www.kungfu.net/brucelee.html ''Bruce Lee's Toughest Fight''], 1980 July. Official Karate</ref><ref name="Mental Floss">{{Cite web |last=Rossen |first=Jake |date=August 10, 2015 |title=Bruce Lee: The Time Bruce Lee Was Challenged to a Real Fight |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/67108/time-bruce-lee-was-challenged-real-fight |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711225623/http://mentalfloss.com/article/67108/time-bruce-lee-was-challenged-real-fight |archive-date=July 11, 2016 |access-date=July 10, 2016 |website=Mental Floss |location=New York}}</ref> Following this, Lee began a journey of research in order to refine his way of practicing martial arts. In 1965, he outlined the basic concepts of Jeet Kune Do in a press interview,<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.blurb.com/b/10483726-original-jeet-kune-do-quarterly-magazine-issue-11 |title=Original Jeet Kune Do Quarterly Magazine - Issue 11 by Lamar M. Davis II |date=2020-12-10 |publisher=Blurb Books |language=en}}</ref> but Lee resisted giving his school of thought a name. It was not until 1967 that he came up with the name Jeet Kune Do, but Lee's philosophy is still known by other names, such as Jun Fan Gung Fu{{Efn|name="JunFan2"|As in [[Gung Fu]] of [[Lee Jun-fan|Jun-fan]], Bruce Lee's birthname.}}.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name="Thomas">{{harvnb|Thomas|1994|p=14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Linda Lee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAuMRjSUSIC&pg=PA26 |title=The Bruce Lee Story |last2=Mike Lee |publisher=Black Belt Communications |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-89750-121-7 |pages=26– |access-date=November 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727141228/https://books.google.com/books?id=2NAuMRjSUSIC&pg=PA26 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bruce Haines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4zTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT131 |title=Karate's History & Traditions |date=November 22, 2011 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-0139-5 |pages=131– |access-date=November 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727154721/https://books.google.com/books?id=p4zTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT131 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> As Lee explained:

{{Blockquote|I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct, and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is. Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case, anchored down to a reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive.
Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.|Bruce Lee<ref>{{Citation |last=Lee |first=Bruce |title=Liberate Yourself From Classical Karate |date=September 1971 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtcDAAAAMBAJ |work=[[Black Belt Magazine]] |volume=9 |issue=9 |page=24 |postscript=. |publisher=Rainbow Publications, Inc.}}</ref> <!--http://www.blackbeltmag.com/daily/traditional-martial-arts-training/jeet-kune-do/liberate-yourself-from-classical-karate/ --><!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=RM4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16 -->|source=}}
[[File:The age of 18 Bruce Lee and Ye Wen.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Bruce Lee]] with [[Wing Chun]] grandmaster [[Ip Man]]]]

The [[metaphor]] Lee borrowed from [[Zen|Chan]] [[Buddhism]] was of constantly filling a cup with water, and then emptying it, used for describing Lee's philosophy of "casting off what is useless".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pollard |first=Maxwell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM4DAAAAMBAJ |title=In Kato's Gung-fu Action is Instant |date=November 1967 |publisher=Black belt magazine |pages=14–20}}</ref> Lee considered traditional form-based martial arts, which practiced pre-arranged patterns, [[Kata|forms]] and techniques, to be restrictive and ineffective in dealing with chaotic self-defence situations. Lee believed that real combat was alive and dynamic and conceived Jeet Kune Do to enable its practitioners to adapt to the changes of live combat, believing that it was only through its use in real combat that a martial arts practitioner could judge a technique worthy of adoption.<ref name="Tao" />