JKD Concepts and Bruce lee

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JKD Concepts and Bruce lee

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Jeet Kune Do concepts

Jeet Kune Do Concepts

Description
Jeet Kune Do Concepts is a complete self defense process for the streets. It covers components from CSW, Kali, Muay Thai boxing, Savate, Boxing, Jun Fan Gung Fu and Defensive Tactics from the Law Enforcement field. The purpose of this class is to integrate different techniques and tactics from many sources to produce a style that is suitable for an individual, allowing them to defend themselves in kicking, boxing, clinch and grappling ranges, with or without weapons, against one or many opponents.

History
JKD means the way of the intercepting fist and was developed by Bruce Lee. His thinking was to combine techniques taken from some other martial arts such as the trapping and short-range punches of Wing Chun, the kicks of Savate, and footwork and rhythm of Western Boxing. More importantly JKD not only combines aspects of different styles, it also simplifies many of those aspects that it adopts by stripping what is unnecessary. Ultimately JKD preaches that a fighter should do whatever is necessary to defend him or herself. It should not be a specific set of styles, but rather the fighter should choose the tools necessary and disregard what is not useful to them in a fight. Many proclaim Bruce Lee and his JKD philosophy as the beginning of modern mixed martial arts.

A Martial Art Legend

I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method.

On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . .

Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it.

I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is.

Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits.

He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive.

Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.
Bruce Lee