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| James W. DeMile | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 6, 1938 San Francisco, Califoria |
| Style | Wing Chun Do |
| Teacher(s) | Bruce Lee |
James W. DeMile (June 6, 1938) was one of Bruce Lee's first students in Seattle[1] and is one of the foremost proponents and authorities on Bruce Lee's Seattle period.
Previous to meeting Lee, DeMile was a street fighter and an undefeated heavyweight boxer in the Air Force.
DeMile and Lee, along with Jesse Glover, attended Edison Technical School.
DeMile trained with Lee from 1959 though 1962.
DeMile, Glover, and Leroy Garcia started a Gung Fu school.
After Lee died, DeMile started to teach what he had learned from Bruce. He soon realized that he didn't have the methodology to teach the necessary skills so he developed his own system, Wing Chun Do (WCD), the Way of Wing Chun. Later, DeMile created a second system called DeMile Defensive Tactics (DDT). DDT focused on fighting application skills rather than understanding the concepts of why they worked, as in WCD.
DeMile appeared in Lee's book, Chinese Gung-Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense. ISBN 0897501128 (revised edition)
Books by James DeMile[edit]
- Tao of Wing Chun Do, Volume 1: Mind and Body in Harmony, ISBN 0918642019
- Tao of Wing Chun Do, Volume 1, Part 2
- Tao of Wing Chun Do, Volume 2: Bruce Lee's Chi Sao, ISBN 0918642035
- Bruce Lee's 1 and 3 Inch Power Punch, ISBN 0918642027
Selected magazine articles[edit]
- Bruce Lee's First Generation - James DeMile Sets the Record Straight, Paul Bax, Black Belt Magazine, Feb 2004, pg 99-103
- James DeMile's memories of Bruce Lee, Martial Arts Illustrated, Bruce Lee Supplement, Oct 1995, pg 7-9
- James DeMile Tells the Bruce Lee Story, New Zealand Martial Arts, June 1994, pg 6-10
- Develop Bruce Lee's Power Punch, Inside Kung-Fu, May 1992, pg 60-66
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Lee, Bruce; John Little (1997). The tao of gung fu: a study in the way of Chinese martial art. Tuttle Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8048-3110-9.