Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

John R. Little is a writer and bodybuilding expert. A native of Canada, Little is a writer in the fields of martial arts, bodybuilding and physical conditioning. John Little is considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on Bruce Lee, his training methods and philosophies. Selected by... the Bruce Lee estate, Little is the only person who has ever been authorized to review the entirety of Lee's personal notes, sketches and reading annotations and to edit books on the subject of Lee's martial art and its far-reaching philosophical underpinnings. He is the former Associate Publisher of Bruce Lee magazine and the managing editor of Knowing is Not Enough, the official newsletter of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, the official Bruce Lee martial arts organization. Little's articles have appeared in many martial arts and health and fitness magazines in North America including Muscle and Fitness. He is the author of The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee. Probably his most notable work is the book The Art of Expressing the Human Body, in which he shows the results of a five-year search in Bruce Lee's notes trying to find the fighter's original bodybuilding program.
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Bruce Lee was a Chinese American Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement. He is widely considered by many commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be the most... influential martial artist of the 20th century, and one of the biggest pop culture icons. He is often credited with changing the way Asians were presented in American films. Lee was born in San Francisco to parents of Hong Kong heritage but was raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. Lee returned to the United States at the age of 18 to claim his U.S. citizenship and receive his higher education. It was during this time that he began teaching martial arts, which soon led to film and television roles. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked a major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West in the 1970s.
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