Another book I'll probably have to get

(from Jaime Elias Castro's Facebook page)

After two years of intense work, I am excited to be able to share with you all my first literary work. Writing about a myth so dissected by the media as Bruce Lee is not an easy task. That is why I always told myself that if one day I dedicated my time to him again it would be to offer something new and unknown about him. His millions of admirers around the world deserve no less from me.

The journey has been long and sometimes exhausting, but since I visited San Francisco’s Chinatown for the first time in 2010 and got to know the places where the story took place, I had clear its meaning.

One of the key moments in Bruce Lee’s life took place in November 1964. The Chinese martial arts community of the Bay Area in San Francisco, tired of the continuous attacks of the Little Dragon, sent a master named Wong Jack Man to take down this young man from nowhere who questioned all the established canons and attacked centuries of martial tradition.

That fight, which could have gone unnoticed, became the most ‘unknown’ and discussed about martial fight of the 20th century. An episode of such magnitude in the life of Bruce Lee is something that had hardly been dealt with in the necessary depth, much less in our language. I sincerely believe that this work succeeds in clearing up all doubts surrounding the fight forever.

The book, created in a large format, 170 pages and 200 photographs, tries to transport us to another era. It was always my intention to place the reader at the epicentre of the historical, social and cultural context in which these events took place. No work done to date has managed to bring together such a quantity of testimonies, interviews and press clippings about a fight that changed the history of the martial arts forever. A duel that led Bruce Lee to evolve as a martial artist, to create the Jeet Kune Do and to install martial arts in the most absolute modernity

Note: Pending tying up a few small details, I will be able to announce shortly the date of the presentation of the work and its release date. Thank you very much.