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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 Philippine
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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