Bruce Lee

Artist: B. Emil

Date of Art:21.04.2012

EGC: Emil Group of Companies

Description: Bruce Lee Portrait slanting on Mirror 

After leaving Hong Kong, Lee began to teach his own form of martial arts. He based his style on the teaching of Man and what he learned of Wing Chun, but called his form Jun Fan Gung Fu, which translates into Bruce Lee's Kung Fu. He was a very humble man.

Lee opened his first martial arts studio in Seattle, which he called the . He continued to develop his style until he created Jeet Kune Do in 1967. Jeet Kune Do evolved after Lee's fight with Wong Jack Man in 1964, a fight that arose due to Lee's insistence on teaching non-Chinese students. The fight went on for 20 minutes — upon reflection, Lee concluded that lasted too long, and the form of Kung Fu he was following was too formalistic to be practical. This led to the evolution of , a system of fighting that abandons the rigidity of established forms, and places an emphasis on practicality, flexibility, efficiency, speed, and physique.