Sorry, a few beers.
I trained with Mr Carruthers briefly in 1998. In my opinion he is excellent at what he does, which is very effective Jun Fan Gung Fu. His sources are all 1st generation students of Sigung Bruce Lee: including Sifu’s Ted Wong, Howard Williams, and Jesse Glover. In all of my training since I have not met many people who can match his speed, power or athleticism.
The only point I would make is that Mr Carruthers has (or certainly had at that time) very clear opinions on restricting your study to that of “pure” JKD. I’ve always had a slightly more exploratitive approach to martial arts, so this naturally led me to the “concepts” approach under Guro Inosanto. Therefore I moved on, purely out of personal preference, and will stress again that I rate Mr Carruthers very highly at what he does.
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