Mixing and matching martial arts is simply called cross training. People were doing it years, decades, and centuries before Bruce Lee, and many people have done it on their own terms since. Absorbing the useful elements of several arts, and discarding those that prove ineffective for the individual, is not a novel concept. This is an approach that most intelligent martial artists adopt at some stage in their journey.
The art of Jeet Kune Do has a set of specific concepts and principles behind its study that distinguish it from an arbitrary mixing of arts. |