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Jeet Kune Do System The style of Jeet Kune
Do literally means way of the intercepting fist, and this is not just a random
name there is an actual technique that is an intercepting fist. Bruce Lees famous
fighting system began in 1962 with his Wing Chun based modified Gung Fu. Lee's
Wing Chun Training was from his famous master Yip Man, and this was his first
formal training in the martial arts. From this formal training Lee began his journey
to be the most proficient martial artist or fighter possible. He quickly learned
that traditional Kung Fu in its current form was not well suited for his purposes.
He often referred to the traditional martial arts as a "classical mess",
and set out to absorb what was useful and to disregard the rest. He dismissed
the standard stances and punching technique for his own new philosophies that
even today are revolutionary. Jeet Kune Do was the first mixed martial art in
history, and was comprised of three main systems of fighting. While Lee often
studies other arts, he did not practice them as a student. He only viewed them
from the outside to learn their deficiencies so he could place appropriate counters
in his system to exploit all the other martial arts weaknesses and lack of fluidity.
In his three schools he had during his lifetime, Lee focused
on three different objectives for each one, and rarely blended his teachings across
the time lines in the classroom known as a Kwoon. While he enjoyed the philosophical
aspects of arts, he was a hands on teacher and student of change if it meant making
his system better. Throughout martial arts history there have been many misconceptions
about the Bruce Lee fighting system often referred to as scientific street fighting.
One of which was that it was only a philosophy and not a style. JKD was always
a style with a set of techniques for each of the three schools, and Lee also had
written training manuals with the techniques for his prized students, (no not
all student received the written manuals). For further information of the style
of Jeet Kune Do and the three schools on this site click
here.
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Jeet Kune
Do Specifics The number one rule in JKD
is economy of motion. Everything is designed to be as efficient as possible to
be more combat effective, as well as to conserve the practitioners energy for
combat. Lee learned early on when one of his sparring sessions went over half
an hour that he was winded and must make changes to his classical Gung Fu training
to end the fight as soon as possible. Second is that the
stances were altered to make them more natural and cat like, and that the orthodox
left lead out stance was abandoned for the strong side out lead. Third
was the elimination of all chambering or telegraphing of movement to allow for
less predictability and more suprise in the attack. He defined
the ranges of combat into four categories. Kicking Punching
Trapping Grappling All
of these ranges refer to distance, and this was the first art to include all four
ranges. Most arts at the time only utilized two at the most. Now
Lee addressed the offensive maneuver in his Five Ways of Attack SDA
Single Direct Attack HIA Hand Immobilization Attack PIA
Progressive Indirect Attack ABC Attack By Combination ABD
Attack by Drawing For further information of the style of
Jeet Kune Do on this site click
here.
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Bruce Lee Specifics Lee
Jun Fan was born in San Francisco California November 27th 1940, and passed away
during the filming of his film the Game of Death in Hong Kong China July 20th
1973. He was a teacher (martial arts and dancing) as well as philosopher and movie
actor. He was the father of two children Brandon Lee who was also an actor, and
Shannon Lee the caretaker for the Bruce Lee Foundation. For more Bruce Lee information
on this site click here.
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The Two Jeet Kune Do Systems There
are two distinct Jeet Kune Do systems or branches. The first system is know as
original. The original is the exact techniques that Bruce Lee taught at his schools
where are teachers learned and that we pass on to you. The
second Branch is called Jeet Kune Do Concepts and is mainly available in California
as most of its teachers were based there the most noted being Dan Innosanto. This
branch has mainly Filipino stick and weapon fighting as its basis instead of the
Wing Chun and Western Boxing and French Fencings of the original. The
WJKDF teaches the original JKD, not concepts. This is not to say one is better
than the other, only that we deal with JKD core teachings that Bruce Lee taught,
not techniques that he could have or should have.
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The Phases of the Jeet Kune Do
System The first original phase of JKD was Wing
Chun. The second phase was combat modified Gung Fu. The third phase was grappling.
. Each of his three schools taught a different phase. The Original Jeet Kune Do
training manual is available here. World
Jeet Kune Do Federation Headquarters Instructors are available to travel to your
location for private instruction, consultations and seminars for $3000 dollars
per day. . Simply send us an e mail with your request for instruction at your
home or office.
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