Ted Wong

 

In many respects, Ted Wong is quite fortunate that when he began his training with Bruce Lee, he had never had any previous martial arts training, with the result that he had nothing to "unlearn." Ted came to the United States in 1953 and became very interested in Western Boxing, which he watched on television. He watched Bruce on The Green Hornet , and shortly thereafter, learned that Bruce Lee would be opening a Gung Fu school in L.A.'s Chinatown. Bruce gave a lecture on that first day and Ted was very impressed, joining the school on the spot. Bruce encouraged him during classes and shortly afterwards took Ted as a private student. Bruce Lee continued to teach Ted privately from 1967 up until he moved to Hong Kong in 1971, a period of four uninterrupted years, and then corresponded with Ted right up until his passing in 1973. Bruce Lee's teachings influenced Ted profoundly, Ted believes that Bruce Lee left behind a legacy the significance of which transcends mere punching and kicking methodology. It has been during the last two years that Ted Wong has taken what he learned privately from his mentor, Bruce Lee, public in the form of seminars and magazine articles.

Chris Kent

 

Chris Kent began his martial arts training by studying judo and ju jitsu and later, Chinese Gung Fu. His involvement in Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do began shortly after he called Bruce Lee's assistant instructor at the Chinatown school, Dan Inosanto, after reading an article that Dan wrote on Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do in the May, 1970 edition of Karate Illustrated . Chris was seventeen-and-a-half years old at the time. He began training in Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do under Dan Inosanto six weeks before Bruce Lee passed away (i.e., in June, 1973) and has continued his training in the art ever since. He presently teaches Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do out of his school in Santa Monica, California and conducts seminars nationally and internationally.

Tim Tackett

Tim Tackett started his martial arts training in 1954 when he began studying Judo. Shortly thereafter he joined the United States Air Force and in 1961 was stationed in Taiwan. While there, Tim studied under three separate teachers for up to seven hours a day. Tim joined Ed Parker's school in late 1964. He first saw Bruce Lee at the 1967 Internationals and was impressed with Bruce but did not pursue him to study with him. Tim began to study T'ai Chi Ch'uan and, one day when he finished a class, a young man named Daniel Lee told him, "you won't learn anything here. You should study Bruce Lee's art of Jeet Kune Do. Although Bruce is making a movie in Hong Kong, his assistant instructor, Dan Inosanto, is teaching the art out of his backyard, so why don't you go there?" Tim did and has been studying (and now teaching) Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do ever since.