Greetings,
http://www.brendavenus.com/?p=182
mickey
Greetings,
What i enjoyed about this article is that the author defined Jeet Kune Do better that better than anyone else: that it is clearly Bruce Lee’s interpretation and no one else’s; so, no one can claim to teach Jeet Kune Do nor even practice it. It was Bruce Lee’s personal truth.
mickey
mickey,
I agree. I’ve seen some people who claim to do JKD who do the same movements Bruce Lee tended to do, such as (if in southpaw stance):
Right lead jab
R backfist
R spear hand to eyes
Left cross
R side kick
R lead round kick
R hook kick
Left spinning back kick/hook kick
L cross kick
And only fighting from the one side forward, done in the exact same manner that BL did them and saying that is JKD.
Now I know different JKD groups have differing approaches, but I’ve seen a lot of the above. And that, then, has become a style, or system. I remember something about BL saying he didn’t want any JKD schools because it wasn’t a system, and opening JKD schools would make it a system. But it happened anyway. Not that I have any issue with that, it’s really not my business either way. Some people have made ‘JKD concepts’ work very well for themselves. But some people I’ve seen are doing ‘Bruce Lee style’.
I believe Bruce’s style is Jun Fan Kung Fu with a primary WC base.
People can say his WC sucks but he spent as much if not more time learning Red Junk than he did Yip Man right here in the good old USA. Source, Jesse Glover. Instructor- Fook Yueng. And that is not his only 2 instructors. Ask the William Reeders guys about Bruce being one of 3 people taught Reeder’s private family style of Silat. The list goes on and on. Nor can we discount what he learned from friends like Ed Parker, Danny Inosanto, James Lee etc.
Jeet Kune Do is Bruce’s and perhaps anyone’s personal interpretation of themselves? I guess Bruce felt boxing and fencing were closer to his personal expression. Whatever all that means.