The Tao of Hadouken: What Bruce Lee Can Teach Us About Improving At Fighting Games

Jeet Kune Do was Bruce Lee’s own method-non-method of approaching martial arts. Lee took everything he could from other disciplines and teachers, but refused to emulate them; he was never willing to commit himself to a singular fighting style. Over the course of his life, Lee wrote extensively to define his own approach to fighting and life itself. Though it’s impossible to succinctly describe the conclusions he came to (“Jeet Kune Do is the art not founded on techniques or doctrine,” he wrote), many of his writings were collected into a volume called The Tao Of Jeet Kune Do. As beloved Polygon-video-man Pat Gill said, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwVYXRi4SY&ab_channel=Polygon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce Lee is fighting games</a>. His influence over the genre is undeniable. And though his image may be plastered (nearly universally) across the genre, what’s more amazing is how much of his personal philosophies mirror the very way fighting games are played. Here are three brief lessons on fighting and life (that might make us better fighting game players): <a href="https://medium.com/@mediocratesgames/the-tao-of-hadouken-what-bruce-lee-can-teach-us-about-improving-at-fighting-games-9a70caa9822d">Visit Now</a>