What exactly is Jeet Kune Do?

[gungfuhero]

JKD is to transcend style. The only reason I call what I do JKD is that it is an easier way to describe my training and philosophical beliefs than to say "I have no style/way; and thus, all styles/ways." It's a simpler name for a simple thing.

[Evilution]

Exactly gungfuhero. I just call myself a mixed martial artist.

[Dion]

*When one truely begins his journey, then his "strikes" will also begin to journey out, to every "corner" of 'the world' with out "effort" or "thought" and in every possible "way"...*



Freedom Ultimate... !

[GinSueDog]

Something that I posted before, and I think really expresses my point. I think if you go with either a Jun Fan JKD or JKD Concepts instructor, you're just learning there way, but I think as long as you go with what works for you and lose the rest you can not go wrong, it's what works.

With the Concepts of JKD in mind, there really is no base art or style if you really think about it. There is only what works and what doesn't, where you get it doesn't matter as long as it works. Those that study JKD under a JKD instructor are basically using those instructor's experiences as a guild post. Most JKD instructors often study other arts on there own, in fact most hold ranking in a number of other arts, one of the instructors I trained with, an original Bruce Lee student, not only was certified by Dan Inosanto, but was also certified with the Olympic Training Center as a coach and official with USA Boxing, and a Kru in Muay Thai, recognized by the Council o Grandmasters of the Philippines as Ninth degree Black Belt (Grandmaster) in Doce Pares Eskrima, not to mention a blue belt in BJJ. Many spend years researching other systems from Savate, to Muay Thai, to Judo, to whatever interests them. Hell, Burton Richardson went all the way to Africa to research tribal fighting systems. I stopped officially studying under a certified JKD instructor just over a year or so ago and have been researching things on my own, but whatever it is, BJJ, Muay Thai, Shooto...I still consider it my own personal flavor of JKD. What you guys are failing to see is that you need to stop seeing things as this style or that style and maybe just look at it as what works for you and what doesn't. One of the problems with JKD that messes it all up, is that Bruce and then his followers had to call it something.-ED


"The grappling arts imply most fights end up on the ground...take them there. The striking arts imply all fights start standing up...keep them there. The mixed martial arts imply any fight can go anywhere...be ready and able to go everywhere."-a mix martial artist



[Edited by GinSueDog on 01-16-2001 at 03:31 PM]

[Dion]

Remember... You can never kill a spirit nor break a dream...

but also remember that without guidance the spirit can be lost for all the colours of the dream...

Freedom Ultimate... !

*and dawns the realisation that they are artists inside, it was just their desires to be the martial that kept themselves hidden from the art... let the martial guide your art and also never let the art lose your martial guide..*

[Chad W. Getz]

Originally posted by GinSueDog


"The grappling arts imply most fights end up on the ground...take them there. The striking arts imply all fights start standing up...keep them there. The mixed martial arts imply any fight can go anywhere...be ready and able to go everywhere."-a mix martial artist

Great quote...and let's add..."The clinching arts imply they can clinch to stop the striker from striking, and stop the grappler from taking it to the ground." between the striking and the MMA analogy. And instead of "the mixed martial arts", how about "a mixed martial art"?

Mind if I modify and use it as a sig line?

[GinSueDog]

Chad,
Go for it