JKD Concepts
(Kick Boxing/Kali/Eskrima/Muay Thai)
Jeet Kune Do is Bruce Lee's combat philosophy which he created after his research into fighting styles which had originally lead to the creation of Jun Fan Gung Fu.
Jeet Kune Do advocates may utilize techniques from any martial art.
Bruce Lee stated that his concept is not an "adding to" of more and more things on top of each other to form a system, but rather, a winnowing out.
The metaphor Lee borrowed from Chan Buddhism was of constantly filling a cup with water, and then emptying it, used for describing Lee's philosophy of "casting off what is useless".
He also used the sculptor's mentality of beginning with a lump of clay and
hacking away at the "Unessentials".
The end result being what he considered to be the bare combat essentials or Jeet Kune Do (JKD).
Jeet Kune Do not only advocates the combination of aspects of different styles, it also has to change many of those aspects that it adopts to suit the abilities of the practitioner.
Additionally, Jeet Kune Do advocates that any practitioner be allowed to interpret techniques for themselves, and change them for their own purposes.
Bruce Lee emphasized what he believed to be the combat effectiveness of Jeet Kune Do, and did not stress the memorization of solo training forms or "Kata",
as most traditional styles do in their beginning-level training.
While practicing Western wrestling, Lee was once pinned by a more skillful opponent,
who asked what Lee would do if he found himself in the situation in a real fight.
Lee replied, "Well, I'd bite you, of course".
One of the theories of JKD is that a fighter should do whatever is necessary to defend oneself, irrespective of where the techniques used come from.
Lee's goal in Jeet Kune Do was to break down what he claimed were limiting factors
in the training of the traditional styles,
and seek a fighting thesis which he believed could only be found within the event of a fight.
Jeet Kune Do is currently seen as the genesis of the modern spate of hybrid martial arts.
The notion of cross-training in Jeet Kune Do is similar to the practice of mixed martial arts
in modern times -- Bruce Lee has been considered by UFC president Dana White as the
"father of mixed martial arts".
Many consider Jeet Kune Do to be the precursor of Mixed Martial Arts.
This is particularly the case with respect to the JKD "Combat Ranges".
A JKD student is expected to learn various combat systems within each combat range to thus be effective in all of them; just as in Mixed Martial Arts.
Definition: Mixed Martial Arts Fighting Concept
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