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Jeet Kune Do – Bruce Lee Combat system and philosophy
Jeet Kune Do ( JKD ) is the name Bruce Lee gave to his combat system and philosophy in 1967. Originally, when Lee commenced researching diverse fighting styles, he gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu. However not wanting to form another style that would share the constraints that all styles have, he instead gave us the method that made it.
JKD as it survives today – if one wants to view it “refined” as a product, not a process – is what was left at the time of Bruce Lee’s death. It is the result of the life-long karate skills development process Lee went thru. Bruce Lee said that his idea isn’t 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’s useless”. He also used the sculptor’s mind-set of starting with a pile of clay and hacking away at the “unessentials” ; the final result was what he considered to be the bare combat necessities, or JKD.
One of the ideas of JKD is that a fighter should do whatever is critical to protect himself, irrespective of where the systems come from. One of Lee’s goals in Jeet Kune Do was to break down what he told were limiting factors in the coaching of the traditional styles, and seek a fighting thesis which he believed could only be found in the reality of a fight. Jeet Kune Do is at present seen as the genesis of the modern state of half-breed martial arts.
The idea of cross-training in Jeet Kune Do is like the practice of Mixed martial-arts ( MMA ) 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 predecessor of MMA due to its syncretic nature. This is especially the case with regard the JKD “Combat Ranges”. A JKD student is predicted to learn various combat systems within each combat range, and therefore to be effective in each one of them, just as in MMA.
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