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fenwick99 · 06-14-2007, 05:27 PM

"if I wanted to kill you you'd be dead already."
Wasn't that quote by a non-martial-artist, Virgil Sollozo, in the Godfather?

If you look at the Inosanto website, he refers to his classes in the BL arts
as "jeet kuen" rather than jeet kunedo or jun fan, and I would assume
that it was because he lost his case to the Nucleus and he wants no further conflict on the matter.
In any case, if you look at the history of the Bruce Lee arts, you can see the evolution, and I believe that this evolution itself invalidates the standard arguments between partisans of ojkd and jkdc.
Bruce started with wing chun, then added western arts like boxing, wrestling,
savate, fencing, and Parker's kenpo. Dan Inosanto enriched the curriculum
immeasurably by adding muay thai, FMA, silat, bando, and ultimately shooto and BJJ. You are left with a matrix of disciplnes that covers all ranges and involves great training for self-defense. Of course, people are then free to choose which school to attend or which track to follow. What impresses me is that Dan was doing things like submission and muay thai long before the mma craze broke in 1993. Dan was studying Machado jiujitsu and shootwrestling with the top guys in those arts, and this was long before
Royce Gracie extracted a submission from Dan Severn.
But make no mistake: Guro Inosanto has always taught Bruce's art as Bruce taught it.

06-14-2007, 05:27 PM	#39 (permalink)
fenwick99 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 184 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	re "if I wanted to kill you you'd be dead already." Wasn't that quote by a non-martial-artist, Virgil Sollozo, in the Godfather? If you look at the Inosanto website, he refers to his classes in the BL arts as "jeet kuen" rather than jeet kunedo or jun fan, and I would assume that it was because he lost his case to the Nucleus and he wants no further conflict on the matter. In any case, if you look at the history of the Bruce Lee arts, you can see the evolution, and I believe that this evolution itself invalidates the standard arguments between partisans of ojkd and jkdc. Bruce started with wing chun, then added western arts like boxing, wrestling, savate, fencing, and Parker's kenpo. Dan Inosanto enriched the curriculum immeasurably by adding muay thai, FMA, silat, bando, and ultimately shooto and BJJ. You are left with a matrix of disciplnes that covers all ranges and involves great training for self-defense. Of course, people are then free to choose which school to attend or which track to follow. What impresses me is that Dan was doing things like submission and muay thai long before the mma craze broke in 1993. Dan was studying Machado jiujitsu and shootwrestling with the top guys in those arts, and this was long before Royce Gracie extracted a submission from Dan Severn. But make no mistake: Guro Inosanto has always taught Bruce's art as Bruce taught it.