Jesse Glover

Jesse Glover
Style	Non-Classical Gung-Fu
Teacher(s)	Bruce Lee

Jesse Raymond Glover was Bruce Lee's first student^[1] and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College^[2] and was the one who first taught Lee judo.^[3] Glover was a psychology major^{[citation needed]}. Glover was a champion judoka.^[4] The character based on Glover in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, starring Jason Scott Lee, was named Jerome Sprout.

Jesse started a Gungfu class of his own and Leroy Garcia and James DeMile came along and assisted him, which was the first ever independent Jun Fan arts related class. Jesse Glover was the first authorized martial arts instructor to be trained by Bruce Lee. He has developed his own method which he calls Non-Classical GungFu.

He currently resides in Seattle, Washington, and works as an author and private martial arts instructor.

Written works

• Bruce Lee: Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do
• Bruce Lee's Non-Classical Gung Fu
• Non-Classical Gung Fu

References

1. ^ Lee, Bruce; John Little (1997). The tao of gung fu: a study in the way of Chinese martial art. Tuttle Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 9780804831109. 
2. ^ Tackett, Tim (2004). "Observing The Differences Between Stages In The Evolution Of Bruce Lee's Martial Art". The Jeet Kune Do Wednesday Night Group. http://www.jkdwednite.com/observingdif.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-27. 
3. ^ Campbell, Sid; Greglon Lee (2005). The Dragon And The Tiger: Bruce Lee, The Oakland Years: The Untold Story of Jun Fan Gung-fu and James Yimm Lee. Frog Books. p. 69. ISBN 9781583941188. 
4. ^ Thomas, Bruce (2008). Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit. Pan Macmillan. p. 41. ISBN 9780283070662. 

Paul Bax's The JKD BrotherhoodWeb page dedicated to Jesse Glover

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Name	Glover, Jesse
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Date of birth	1942
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