Matt,
I wasn't suggesting that I had anything to show you. I was suggesting that many of the pre-73 "original" first generation students that studied with Bruce Lee, or at least at one of the schools while he was alive, do have something to show you.
I saw your bio in relation to your JKD training in another thread. If it was accurate then you could spend another 12 years training with those people and still not experience JKD. You bio indicated that you taught PFS, Richardson, etc., I don't see any relation to JKD, other than they were students of Dan Inosanto. Inosanto hasn't taught JKD as he leanred it in close to 30 years. Your program may be sound, but it isn't JKD. JKD is a concept, but it is also a combative SYSTEM with its own techniques void of the classical, ritual, and sport aspects found in most systems.
JKD is not like the MMA training that you teach or that is found at countless other schools. You may be a great instructor and teach an effective program...but JKD is specific, not a combination of anything other than what Bruce Lee put to it.
Now, I know we won't agree. That is fine. You are kind of stuck in the idea that you can prove original JKD less effective by a contest on the mat. You can prove many things that way. I'm not sure OJKD is one of them. It's not a sporting contest. About the only thing you might do in such a contest is prove one fighter is better than the other...not SBGi is better than OJKD.
Anyway, you seem to be doing well for yourself. I wish you luck.
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Drew Howe
Original JKD Union
www.ojkd.com
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