|  How Bruce Lee has impacted my martial arts training.
I have followed his advice and have been training diligently in order to improve my efficiency. I have also been researching and developing the use of pliable energy in my defensive
It has been 36 years since I had the privilege of studying with Bruce in his Los Angeles Chinatown school. It was a life changing experience. I have been practicing faithfully over the years and I am determined to preserve Bruce’s legacy and vigorously carry on his original art, philosophy and spirit so that they may be passed on to the next generation. Dan Lee, 2005
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There is no one teacher that has made so great an impact on my martial arts training. Bruce has liberated me from the classical training of blindly following fixed fighting routines and believing that they can be used in actual combat. Bruce re-oriented my attitude and helped me to learn that I should think for myself and concentrate my training on the quality and efficiency of my punching and kicking because they are my tools.
Bruce once said, “Look at any tool as an art. Remember, for a single tool to be a masterpiece it, must have totality, accuracy, speed and power. Until you have the ability to move your body 
and adapt to whatever the object happens to be in front of you, as well as punch and kick from any angle, you still haven’t gotten your total efficiency.”
moves and combining them with my hard hitting and kicking offensive moves. By doing so, I hope to reach to the goal and aspiration of blending the Yin/Yang energies in my JKD techniques that Bruce has depicted in his Jeet Kune Do emblem. I have also been studying the essence of the Chinese Yin/Yang philosophy hoping to apply it to by life and bring harmony to the world around me.
