There you go, my friend, with one of your conclusions. Gotta say, I always welcome your challenging assertions, really.
No disrespect to you, but though FMA be "standard" JKD, these days, all my research indicates otherwise; no disrespect to Inosanto intended either. Better to call that Inosanto JKD, if that.
http://jkdtalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=6...er=asc&start=0
And JKD is
not "a mix of martial arts." At least not Bruce Lee's expression of it. For what he did was to look at other arts (wing chun, western boxing, fencing, savate, what limited Thai Boxing was available back to him then, etc.) not so much for their techniques as much as for their principles of combat efficiency.
For example, he eventually abandoned Wing Chun. His vertical punch, to anyone who has not done the research, looks like Wing Chun. Even some Wing Chun people confuse it (some intentionaly, I suspect). In actuallity, it's based not on Wing Chun with it's specific means of transporting it, etc., but on his own objective, painstakely dissected studies and experiments of early Western Boxing
principles of effective delivery. And yet, it's not Western Boxing (Lee JKD's
scientific emphasis of one's strong side forward vs Western Boxing's
traditional emphasis on one's weaker side forward, etc.).
In short, as Lee himself, put it, Lee's own JKD uses/relies on "no (particular) way (of doing things), as a way" (set principle). As a result, Lee's own JKD was/is purely
his unique expression in motion.
In motion, Lee's JKD was/is like a spinning top; ever appearing, to most observers, upon their
one, or the
same glance,
each time, the same, ever appearing "a style" or "mix," yet ever ending up somewhere else - something else - as dictated by it's relationship to it's context.
This is not only a key to understanding and reading the man's true abilities (and JKD) from what little actual sparring, etc., footage we have of him, thus far, as well as from pieces of his movies illustrating said principles, but a key principle in his having been ahead of his time (still is), a key principle in why
his JKD was/is
not "a mix of martial arts."
Your turn, Ghost - "Relationship, relationship, relationship!" - Bruce Lee