Mixed Martial Arts is NOT Jeet Kune Do

[Davidc316]

Bruce Fan-

thank you for your constructive comments.

I'm glad you like the site- it's only a few weeks old and it nearly killed me putting the thing together (I lost a few hours sleep, let me tell you!). Ha! It's quite funny really cos somebody just the other day on these forums was slagging my site saying it's just another fan site. But the funny thing is- he's right! That's all it is and it's all that it was ever intended to be!

I've just written a very long reply for you in another thread where I talk specifically about Dan Inosanto. Please take a moment to read it and let me know what you think.

-David

[Davidc316]

Oooops. I hardly addressed your points.

Well, basically my fingers are falling off from all the typing I've been doing in this forum lately so I'll give you a very short response by merely saying that the problem I have with SOME (key word!) concepts practitioners is that they treat Jeet Kune Do as little more than a license to dabble in other martial arts.

As a guy who did philosophy at university I can give you a list as long as your arm of philosophers who have talked about the need to constantly change, evolve, remain flexable and so forth.

If I wake up tomorrow and suddenly decide that I want to embrace these concepts for myself, then I fail to see what right that gives me to strongly associate myself with Bruce Lee and to cash in on Bruce Lee's name (regardless of who taught me!).

In short, what I'm saying is that SOME of the concept-based Jeet Kune Do clubs appear (in my opinion) have nothing in common with Bruce Lee or the JKD that Bruce Lee taught other than the fact that they embrace one or two vague philosophical concepts that were supported by Bruce Lee.

-David