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imstriker · 11-20-2007, 01:46 AM

Hello all. This is my first post here. I am seeing a trend that some schools fuse JKD and FMA together into a single program. Is this the latest trend in JKD training? I am seeing this trend in a school that I intended to register but now I have a little doubt. I am not really interested in weapons training at this stage. Why should I learn both JKD and FMA at the same time?

I have done some research and I could not find any references to any weapons training in the original JKD that Bruce Lee himself taught. Also, I am not sure how doing both unarmed and armed combat together at the same time will benefit and accelerate my JKD which is primarily an unarmed combat art.

11-20-2007, 01:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
imstriker Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 5	Trend to mix JKD with FMA (Kali, Escrima) Hello all. This is my first post here. I am seeing a trend that some schools fuse JKD and FMA together into a single program. Is this the latest trend in JKD training? I am seeing this trend in a school that I intended to register but now I have a little doubt. I am not really interested in weapons training at this stage. Why should I learn both JKD and FMA at the same time? I have done some research and I could not find any references to any weapons training in the original JKD that Bruce Lee himself taught. Also, I am not sure how doing both unarmed and armed combat together at the same time will benefit and accelerate my JKD which is primarily an unarmed combat art.