With respect, that wasn't my point at all Tant. Jeet Kune Do is an individual's personal expression of the martial arts, and to that I attribute no label.
If you train in PFS, Paul Vunak's expression of JKD, then your assessment is fair. However if you train with Rick Faye, that is the last thing on the agenda, his expression is one of self development. Damon Caro or Chad Stehelski's expression of JKD is visual and theatrical. etc etc.
This is kind of my point. The people who I look at and believe are really expressing themselves as indivduals, people who have made the arts their own and teach their own concepts and philosophies, they are teaching JKD. The thousands of other people who just teach curriculum material verbatim, with no personal identity - thats not JKD, that is TMA.
And JKD can very much express a sports approach. Just look at the lesson programs for the Chinatown School 1967 to 1972. The place was pretty much ran as a Boxing gym - skipping, padwork, bagwork, glove drills, conditioning and lots of sparring. Move on since then, Erik Paulson's CSW is a great example. I can't think of many other people that I would attribute the words Jeet Kune Do to more than Erik.
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