The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You: How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System (The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You, 1) [Paperback]

Joe Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004 | Series: The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You, 1

This is the first book by martial arts legend Joe Lewis about his secret training sessions with martial arts superstar Bruce Lee. This book is almost like getting three books in one. You will have expert instruction and analysis of Bruce Lee's Fighting System by the Greatest Fighter in the History of Karate, Joe Lewis. You will also have over 150- step-by-step photos demonstrating the techniques. Finally, you will read never before told stories of the real Bruce Lee by his most famous student and nine martial arts champions and stars.

Why this is the most anticipated Bruce Lee book in martial arts history:
1. This is the first book by Bruce Lee’s most famous student, martial arts legend, Joe Lewis. Lee trained Lewis in secret sessions at his house in Los Angeles in the late 1960s.
2. Joe Lewis teaches and demonstrates, with over 150-clear photos, what he and Bruce Lee worked on in their secret lessons. It’s like getting a private lesson by Joe Lewis and Bruce Lee.
3. Nine of Joe’s friends have contributed chapters full of fascinating, never revealed stories about Joe Lewis and Bruce Lee.
4. Joe Lewis was voted as the Greatest Fighter in the History of Karate by a poll of his peers. He has a huge worldwide fan-base and organization.
5. This is the only time a martial artist of the stature of Joe Lewis has shared such detailed and candid opinions and observations of the most famous martial artist in history, Bruce Lee.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Easily, the most important Bruce Lee book in 30-years. -- Ed Houston, Martial Arts Teachers Association

Easy-to-follow instructions coupled with revealing insights, it's like having Joe Lewis as your private instructor. This is a must-read. -- Walter Anderson, CEO and Chairman, Parade Magazine

This book is a classic. Lewis combines timeless fighting principles with vivid, detailed memories of Bruce Lee. -- Arnold Howard, Editor, Martial Arts Professional magazine

knows more about fighting and how to teach someone to fight than anyone I know. This book is great. --Jeff Smith, World Kickboxing Champion

From the Publisher

As a brown belt teenager in the mid-1970s, I had two heroes; Joe Lewis and Bruce Lee. When the other kids would pretend to be football players, we always played Kung Fu Fighting and would pretend we were either Bruce Lee or Joe Lewis. There are no bigger names in the martial arts world and we are thrilled to bring them back together, some 30+ years after their fabled secret training sessions. -- John Graden, Seconds Out Media

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Seconds Out (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932835008
• ISBN-13: 978-1932835007
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,306,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One book -- Two all-time greats, April 5, 2004

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Scott Miller "CEO, 3D Realms Entertainment" (Garland, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You: How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System (The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You, 1) (Paperback)

Bruce Lee is still the leading hero of martial arts, and rightly so as its chief innovator and practitioner. But Joe Lewis could rightfully claim to be the number two guy. I have deep respect for both, and to have a book that contains the thoughts, teachings and wisdom of both men is more than I could have hoped. And the book lives up to the greatness of the men it covers. (I just ordered a second copy for a martial arts friend.)

If you only order one martial arts book, this MUST be the one. It covers the fundamental tactics and techniques that must be in place to be a great fighter -- teachings not often found in most corner traditional martial arts schools.

Thanks, Joe. You've done Bruce proud.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book on Sparring, With a Few Extras, April 11, 2004

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K.H. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You: How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System (The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You, 1) (Paperback)

Joe Lewis, considered by many to be the greatest karate fighter of all time, has written, with the help of some friends, a nice martial arts text about fighting with an emphasis on Bruce Lee's fighting system known as Jeet Kune Do. This book succeeds where his early work, also reviewed by me, failed. His other book was a sequential photo book with very little written information. Relying primarily on the visual approach, it did not get into the serious thoughts on fighting application.

Further, the biographical section of the latter book also was a little disappointing. This book helps redeems Joe Lewis' efforts. First, the books primary objective is established in the titled and the text gives the reader the information necessary to understand many of the most important fighting concepts. Although the information presented has been presented elsewhere, Joe succeeds in communicating the ideas to where the novice to intermediate fighter can easily understand the material and should be able, with the help of a partner, learn and develop the advice into their own martial repertoire. While there are some photographs displaying some of the concepts the material strength is in the writing and it surpasses other books that have tried to deal with some of Bruce Lee's concepts. The strongest chapters are "The Science of Movement", The Art of Distancing", "The Explosive Initial Move," and "Angular Attack."

The extras in this book are a nice surprise in that they give one a break from the study of fighting material and allow the reader to get an understanding of Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis from the perspective of others, most of whom are great martial artist in their own right. Chapters I particularly enjoyed were by Dan Inosanto, John Korab, Gene Lebell, and Bob Wall. Even some of the contributions I did not necessarily like (Mike Stones' piece) I did think it was honest and fair to put the essay in the book.

This is a good book and achieves what it sets out to do; which is to simply explain some of the innovations and ideas pioneered by Bruce Lee and Joe Lewis.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The book is called: The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You: How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System by Joe Lewis. I was in t, December 13, 2007

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This review is from: The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You: How to Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System (The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You, 1) (Paperback)

I was in the book store at the mall killing time when I saw this on the shelf. I was amazed at how pretentious the title was. However, as I flipped through it and read a little, it turned out to be so good I ended up buying it. Rather than being a book showing lots of techniques, it focuses more on the theories and conceptual parts of JKD. Things like timing, distance, speed, broken rhythm, and gives lots of the training methods Bruce Lee created for Joe Lewis to develop these attributes. It was also very interesting to see Lewis' interpretation of what Bruce Lee taught him. It was interesting because he was already an accomplished fighter and he also got to put what he learned into use in the ring. I have been training Jeet Kune Do for 8 years under one of Dan Inosanto's associate instructor's and I honestly think that this is one of the best JKD books I've ever read.