A Tim Tackett Book Proposal

[watchdog]

Hi Sifu Tim,
I think it would be very interesting if you wrote a book about your experiences with Bruce and Dan in the early 1960's and your early years training in Dan's backyard and school in the 1970's. What do you think?

[frankiefuller]

How about a fiction book too? Let's have Tim Tackett be the "Good Guy" and you can go around fighting all of the top JKD instructors to the death to determine the "Best JKD Man," including original Bruce Lee students. You can make it a 1-on-1 fighting game to go with the book, like Street Fighter, and you go through the different stages beating everybody to a bloody pulp. Heck, why not just have a real tournament? Then, at the end, Tim get's the girl and a $1 million cash if he wins.

[Tim Tackett]

I don't think I remember enough for a book, and who would bother buying it? But Bremer and I could do a good one on JKD.

[watchdog]

I don't think I remember enough for a book, and who would bother buying it? But Bremer and I could do a good one on JKD.

That's a good idea. Between you and Bremer, you could cover the 1960's and 1970's regarding Chinatown and backyard JKD training. I think there would be interest in the book from a historical perspective.

[Tim Tackett]

It would be good from a technical viewpoint as well as not too many people know what Bremer knows.

[LMD II]

Hi Tim!

I for one say that you and Bob should go for it! I know that would be required reading for EVERYONE in my group! I would love to see a book from you and Bob! DO IT! :D

[john]

I'd like to read it if you both have time to write it please.

[Arron Grammond]

Think about how much MORE screwed up JKD would be if Bruce didn't put some of it down in writing. Sometimes you can read through something 20 times before it clicks... In the absence of personal time its the best way to prevent the loss of information.

It doesn't need to be about much more then passing on what you know and documenting it so people can't twist it as much, or miss represent what you have tried to teach others.

I'd buy it.

[blueyedmule]

I'd like to see a JKD book marketed with a companion DVD or with a pass for a website where you can download short vid clips that accompany each technique discussed. Just a thought.

[kuanti]

hey tim, you once said in an interview something about that your not getting any younger and you want to teach your students so jkd will continue correctly, well from that viewpoint sir id say you have to write the book. it is a must. and id say to you right now, id treasure it like a bible!

[Valpolicella]

Forgive my naivity but how come there can not be a definitive version of JKD?
Bruce had students that he passed on his curriciulum to after all. And it seems top me that even thought there are different eras of JKD would not what Bruce was practising at the end of his life be the definitive version? After all he is the grand leader of JKD even beyond the grave with all that he left behind. There is a trail to follow. IS the problem that so much of JKD is based in philosophy? Why are there so many interpretations? simply because it is open to interpretation?
I do not know the answer to any of this so I'm asking those of you who know more that I do which would be just about anybody who practises JKD.
I guess all this came to mind from reading blueyemule's last post. It would be grat to have an online JKD dictionary where you could look up a technoque and a short video would pop up. As grand an under taking as that would be.

[kuanti]

jkd is allowed to evolve IF the technique to replace another is actually better and is more direct. jkd is not about philosophy. it is about the right body mechanics. bruce used to use philosophy to open your mind so you would say; oh ya, now i get it! to associate philosophy to how you are supposed to act, think, and move. but if you want real insite make a new forum subject and in the title direct it to tim tackett. he is a great man and used to personally know bruce. he is one of the coolest cats i have ever had the honor to train with. and is a very humble man. just direct the question to him and i promise you he will answer it.

[frankiefuller]

Here's my baloney version of a book about my experiences with Bruce Lee. Hey, they made CSA, about the South winning the civil war, right? This is going to be made into a movie soon, by the way.

I trained for awhile with Bruce Lee. His form was terrible, however, until I showed him how to throw a proper punch. In fact, the stuff I showed him somehow turned up in Joe Lewis's arsenal when he started winning championships, and I got upset when he told Lewis to claim that Bruce was his teacher and taught him, when Bruce was simultaneously a student of mine in fact. However, I got really mad when they edited out my final fight scene in Return of the Dragon with Lee and re-shot the scenes with Chuck Norris instead. I couldn't take it anymore because of this and fought Bruce to the death, right on the set. He cracked my rib and I got a bit tired, but not before I knocked him to the ground and made him submit, forcing himself to say that I was better than him before I took a break myself. Best fight since Wong Jak Man, but nobody else saw it because the footage was destroyed in a tornado some time back. Actually, an Italian guy with bad eyesight mistook the film for Rigatoni and accidentally melted it trying to cook the whole thing in an oven, but that was before the tornado came and swept everything away. However, the real tragedy was the fact that I was teaching philosophy to Jiddu Krishnamurti in grad school around the same time as Bruce Lee was with me, and Jiddu got upset that I was paying so much attention to Bruce, so Jiddu, who was rebelling a lot in his delayed adolescent phase, was trying to show independence from his professors and told Bruce that I said to close all of the schools, MY schools, by the way, and don't teach anymore JKD, which was what Bruce called his funny way of wiggling his arms and legs and thinking it was some kind of fighting. Jiddu just didn't like authority, but I told him to pass the class he had to write his own papers and make up his own philosophy instead of plaigairizing from other philosophers' writings. I guess Jiddu was rubbed the wrong way and got mad about that, so he wanted to feel important and told Bruce to just copy what he said. Jiddu got lazy and didn't want to study other philosophers, so he just said what the heck, it's pointless to have students and followers, and people are just equal, and I can make up my own stuff and don't need your stinkin' authority. Honestly, I really think Jiddu just wanted an excuse not to study anymore. I told Bruce he shouldn't have hung around those hippie types, which is what he did too much of (and too many did back then, and I think he spent too much time taking side trips to India), and look what it cost him--I told him all the grass would eventually catch up with him, plus God knows what else Jiddu was giving him. Too bad, because he was just beginning to be a decent martial artist. It's all because he met that lousy Jiddu dude. Where would his skills have gone then?

[Luis]

Is the Tackett/Bremmer book in the works?

[Tim Tackett]

It's going to be soon. We'll be signing the contract whn I get back from vacation. Black Belt will publish it. The title is "Bruce's Lee's Chinatown Jeet Kune Do" By Tim Tackett and Bob Bremer.

[LMD II]

That's GREAT news Tim! I'll definitely be looking forward to that one! :)

[simplicity]

Awesome.......Looking forward for it! :D


Take "IT" Easy,
John McNabney

[watchdog]

It's going to be soon. We'll be signing the contract whn I get back from vacation. Black Belt will publish it. The title is "Bruce's Lee's Chinatown Jeet Kune Do" By Tim Tackett and Bob Bremer.

I'm glad you took my advice! :D

[Luis]

The market for the book here isn't that big, but when I get my copy I'll definitely plug it on my television talk show.

[SamHiroaki]

A book would be great to see. But more on theory and history would be the best option, far too many books with photo strips out there and little text already, not worth buying as instead of photostrips , it is easier to buy an Instructional DVD. Would be great to hear Tim's meeting with Bruce Lee, watching his Longbeach demonstrations, training in the backyard class with Dan, and much more. Also Tim's meetings with other people from Bruce Le's life like William Cheung, Jesse Glover, and others. Okay, I'm off to reserve a copy at Amazon now, hope it will come out in the future.

[Tim Tackett]

It will be a technique book with lots of photos. It will focus on what Bremer learned from Bruce. There will be things that has not been in a book before.
We don't want to to a dvd on this subject.

[Arron Grammond]

I realize your out... and that you haven't signed the contract yet...
Just wondering though if you knew the following.

How long do you have for the submittal of the initial manuscript to the editor?

Have you all started the manuscript already?

How long has their turn around been (the publisher) after the initial submital of the origional manuscript?

When are you taking pre-orders on the initial run of books...lol

[Tim Tackett]

I really don't know any of that. I will be signing the contract soon. I will first do a photo outline then I will do the manuscript. I won't be one the one selling the book so I don't know about advance sales.
Tim

[Tim Tackett]

I really don't know any of that. I will be signing the contract soon. I will first do a photo outline then I will do the manuscript. I won't be one the one selling the book so I don't know about advance sales.
Tim