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Originally Posted by g-bells  wrong, jkd has a foundation and it includes economy of motion,directness,simplicity. To just mix and mash things together is'nt being formless it's just combinding. not to say it's bad but it's not jkd |
I think the secret isn't so much in what you add or discard but the how and the why you discard it. First and foremost JKD is an art that is seriously focused on surviving an encounter that is real, rules-free, in which you could be seriously injured or killed.
If you are a boxer say, and you think, that your skills in the clinch don't work well for you outside your sport applications, and you study Muy Thai clinch work and add what you find effective, then regardless of what anyone else says you are practicing and applying JKD. So long, I think, as you are testing what works in hard sparring with few or no rules (but saftey equipment!) to test and verify. Without this all you are doing is hypothesizing from your arm chair in absence of real data.
Most people who practice JKD do, though do have a very useful foundation in Jun Fan. This is a good thing indeed, but not entirely necessary (Unless you want to be able to say, "I practice Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do.").