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Step 1
Throw away the notion of a martial arts style or even a system since Bruce Lee's philosophy holds that fighting styles serve only to box you into a narrow framework. Instead, gather techniques from your fighting and apply them in ways that work for you.
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Step 2
Learn to apply the maxim that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, since this is one of the primary physical principles behind jeet kune do. Experiment with this idea by squatting into certain punches and directing your energy forward.
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Step 3
Start to understand yourself as a weapon that, as a beginner, is turned against yourself. Examine your general behaviors, the things that restrain you from accomplishment, such as fear and greed, and begin to annihilate these impulses as you would annihilate a fighting opponent.
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Step 4
Develop an ability for self-understanding and self-overcoming that you apply as a philosophy in your life in general and as a technique in your fighting. Push your self-knowledge further by testing yourself in relationships with others by fighting with many different sparring partners and developing your relationships outside the jeet kune do studio.
