I believe that no martial art style is more important than the individual who practices it. By utilizing the philosophy and concepts of Jeet Kune Do, I encourage my students to create their own martial arts “style” that best fits their own unique personal attributes.

My focus is self preservation in “real world” situations. Once an individual has developed the tools to ensure a good chance of self preservation, he/she can expand their tool chest in a never ending journey towards self perfection. But the bottom line is, if something will not work reliably and effectively on the street, it is not a major part of a student’s repertoire. Research ... Absorb ... Reject ... Add.

Jeet Kune Do–the literal translation is “way of the intercepting fist”–was conceived by Bruce Lee in 1967. Unlike many other martial arts, there are neither a series of rules nor classification of techniques which constitutes a distinct Jeet Kune Do (JKD) method of fighting. JKD is unbound; JKD is freedom. It possesses everything, yet in itself is possessed by nothing. Those who understand JKD are primarily interested in its powers of liberation when JKD is used as a mirror for self-examination.

Jeet Kune Do is not a new style of kung-fu or karate. Bruce Lee did not invent a new art composite style, nor did he modify a style to set it apart from any existing method. His concept was to free his followers from clinging to any style, pattern, or mold.

The total picture Lee wanted to present to his pupils was that above everything else, the puplils must find their own way to truth. He never hesitated to say, ‘Your truth is not my truth; my truth is not yours’.Bruce did not leave a blueprint, but rather a series of guidelines to lead one to proficiency. In using training equipment, there was a systematic approach in which one could develop speed, distance, power, time, coordination, endurance and footwork.But Jeet Kune Do was not an end in itself for Bruce–Nor was it a mere by-product of his martial studies; it was a means to self discovery. JKD was a prescription for personal growth; it was an investigation of freedom–freedom not only to act naturally and effectively in combat, but in life. In life, we absorb what is useful and reject what is useless, and add to experience what is specifically our own.No art is superior to any other. That is the object lesson of Jeet Kune Do, to be unbound, to be free: in combat to use no style as style, to use no way as the way, to have no limitation as the only limitation. Neither be for or against a particular style. In other words, Jeet Kune Do ‘just is’.
- Written by Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee’s Training Partner

Jeet Kune Do offers a full range of study & benefits including:

•             how to evade

•             how to close the gap

•             how to slow the attack down

•             how to joint lock

•             how to set up takedowns

•             how to intercept attacks

•             how to subdue an attacker

•             how to survive on the ground

•             how to use weapons

•             be guided spiritually

•             how to increase physical health

•             how to develop mind-body awareness, flexibility, & coordination

•             how to be adaptable

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“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

 

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