| Bruce Lee's entry into martial arts evidently began | | | | Seattle teaching what he called Jun Fan Gung Fu |
| with his father who taught Bruce the basics of | | | | or "Bruce Lee's Kung Fu". His first student was |
| the Wu style of tai Chi. At the age of 13 in 1954, | | | | Jesse Glover whom Bruce had met at school. |
| Bruce started learning Wing Chung under | | | | Jesse was already a boxer and studied Judo. |
| Grandmaster Yip Man. After some time, some of | | | | Jesse was the first to introduce Judo to Lee. |
| Yip Mans other students did not want to train | | | | Jesse was with Lee for 5 years and was his first |
| with Lee because he was not of full Chinese | | | | teaching assistant. |
| heritage. | | | | It was about 1959 that Bruce started his Jeet |
| From that point Lee trained only with Yip Man one | | | | Kune Do. It was after the match with Wong Jack |
| on one and with his friend William Cheung outside | | | | Man that Bruce realized that traditional martial arts |
| of the school. Supposedly Bruce would get into | | | | was too restrictive, he needed to develop a style |
| street fights and one time an opponent was | | | | that used only what was useful from different |
| believed to have mafia background and may have | | | | styles and merge them into a new, more flexible |
| had a hit out on him. His parents decided to pack | | | | way to fight. It was also at this time that Bruce |
| him up and send him to San Francisco to live with | | | | started training to improve his strength and |
| his sister, Bruce was 18 at this time. He eventually | | | | endurance, we know how impressive his physique |
| wound up in Seattle. | | | | became from this. |
| Bruce starting teaching martial arts in 1959 in | | | | |