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Originally posted by RobertG
Thanks BB Wolf. I did overlook Kajukenbo. After you mentioned that I looked up the history of Kajukenbo. At least 12 arts went into it and covering all ranges of combat (from the ground to weapons). It sounds as about ideal a way to go about evolving an art--a bunch of black belts from different styles training together in a rough part of Hawaii. Some of their ideas pretty much parallel JKD ideas (as far as students learning to express themselves through their art and not fit themselves to a set mold). |
I could be wrong but I do believe that Bruce Lee did a little training with Charles Gaylord, one of the Kajukenbo guys who brought it to the mainland. I know they knew each other through the martial arts circuit. I spent a number of years studying Kajukenbo with a guy from the Gaylord line. It's (especially among its more progesssive elements) an effective combatives art that is still evolving and adapting to the needs of a self defense oriented martial artist .