Originally Posted by
Ken Cheng
Bruce Lee famously taught, "be like water, my friend." Indeed, the underlying philosophy of his Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Intercepting Fist) was a kind of formless martial art...based not on set stances, but read-and-react, departing from traditional, orthodox kung fu systems.
That sounds a *lot* like Dook Goo Kau Bai's formless sword theories. I don't know if Bruce was a Jin Yong fan or read any of his wuxia novels, but it seems that some philosophical affinity exists between Jeet Kune Do and the formless sword theories of Dook Goo Kau Bai.