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Originally Posted by smartmonkey
JKD? Form must follow function.
JKD should not be Bruce Lee's method, JKD should be YOUR method.
The fact that it is still BL's method may indeed be the baggage. After all, it should be each individual's own method, if it is truly JKD.
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JKD is Bruce Lee's method. When you change or develop it beyond what Bruce Lee did, then it starts to become something of your own. As long as you are clear on what is Bruce Lee's and what is your own I see know problem in using the name JKD. Provided of course you have lineage to Lee. Now, if what you are doing has nothing to do with Bruce Lee's method (JKD) and you are using the name, Jeet Kune Do, then you are being dishonest and simply using the name to gain customers.
If you feel like you are doing something more effective than JKD as developed by Bruce Lee, then put your own name to it and stop trying to explain how it's your own JKD. All anyone does by teaching this or that and calling it JKD, is confuse the uneducated public. Beyond that, there are more than just a few of us who think Original JKD as a system is extremely effective. But, I have seen many practitioners who weren't good, as well as instructors who sucked. I don't think they as individuals would be any better if they studied SBG material to the same level. They would most likely still suck.
Matt, based on your experience in orignal JKD, which doesn't seem to be very extensive, I don't think you have been exposed to the proper instruction. Sure, you have trained with a bunch of concepts based people, but they don't know OJKD either. There are plenty of pre-73'ers out there teaching OJKD. I think if you had the fortune to train with several of them, you might have a different opinion on the current day effectiveness of OJKD.