JKD’S Mentality on Training
and Real World Self Defense
Jeet Kune Do is a street worthy system of self defense that has been taught to Elite U.S. military forces such as the Navy Seals. The movements in the system are to be kept quick, simple and effective.
JKD is based on down and dirty effective tactics, which will help you be effective during a street attack. It ensures that you can hold your own against the criminal element by training you to become more vicious, determined, and more prepared to inflict more damage than your attacker!
As one criminal has been quoted saying “the only rules are for the person who loses the street fight” How true!
JKD is catered for you the individual, you don’t have to cram yourself to fit into the art, the art fits the needs of the individual.
JKD is a simple art that almost anyone can do regardless of gender, size and level of athleticism.
JKD is not complicated; it is based on mastering simple movements. You don’t have to memorize numerous techniques and moves.
It is based on training and mastering fundamental attributes such as:
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JKD is not a flowery art… It has no aerial and spinning type of movements. It is easy for you to learn and master. You don’t have to be a superb athlete and incredibly well coordinated to pull it off.
As a personal protection system, Jeet Kune Do focuses on making the practitioner effective in all ranges of combat equally as well as being able to integrate them.
These ranges of combat include:
- Kicking Range- Using the Bottom of the Foot, Shin, Instep or Toe
- Hand Range- Using the Fingers, Fist or Palm
- Trapping or Clinch Fighting Range- Using Close Quarters Punching, Forearm, Elbows, Knees and the Head!
- Body to Body Contact- Using throws and takedowns, as well as take down defense. Biting, pinching, and gouging can also be employed in this range to help gain a release.
- Ground Fighting- Where kicks, short range punches, elbows, locking, choking, cranking, gouging, and biting can be done from a grounded position as well as being able to reverse your opponent to establish a superior position for striking or for an escape to a standing position.
Jeet Kune Do can be used for competition with rules yet it most effective for street encounters where there are no rules.
How Does Jeet Kune Do Differ From Other Systems of Self Defense
The art of Jeet Kune Do differs from traditional or classical forms of martial arts (i.e. karate, judo, aikido, tae kwon do, jujitsu) in a number of important ways. First of all because of its core principles such as:
- Simplicity – Easy to learn — easy to master, using one or two movements to get the job done
- Economy Of Motion – Using no wasted energy or motion and a non-telegraphic delivery system
- Longest Weapon To The Nearest Target – Striking with the tool that’s closer to your opponent while using speed to set up numerous follow-ups and attack combinations
- Just Think of Hitting – Striking is paramount than attempting to control a would be attacker. Attempting to control someone who doesn’t want to be controlled could lead to disastrous results.
Jeet Kune Do does not rigidly prescribe to pre-arranged fighting movements or techniques that students memorize. Classical arts often refer to these as kata.
While practicing these forms, classical martial artists often engage in static two-person drills, where one participant acts as the attacker and the other as the defender. In these training scenarios, the attacker strikes (using a pre-arranged technique), while the defender responds by blocking (using a pre-arranged technique), and then counter-strikes.
These training methods can prove to be impractical for the unpredictability of the “Real World.”
“Form-based” (or kata-based) martial arts leave practitioners ill-prepared for attacks that do not follow the pre-arranged scenario that a student has been trained to defend.
By comparison, Jeet Kune Do is more alive, flexible, evolutionary and unpredictable enabling its practitioners to adapt to any situation or any opponent.
Jeet Kune Do has no allegiance to any particular “school” or style, instead it is a wide-ranging art that draws its core principles from several areas of study including the Chinese martial art Wing Chun, fencing, and Western boxing.
While Bruce Lee’s art is primarily made up of these systems, he also studied combative arts such as Judo, Jujitsu, Wrestling, Muay Thai, and Savate (a French kickboxing art). He studied a rich variety of combat arts not simply to incorporate their techniques, but to immerse his knowledge of the essence of these systems.
As Bruce Lee once said:
“Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just a punch, a kick just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I’ve understood the art, a punch is just a punch, a kick just a kick.”
Philosophically Jeet Kune Do’s guiding tenets are a blend of the West’s emphasis on irrefutably proven scientific methods with the spiritual and philosophical yearnings of the Far East.
The Goal is to Make JKD Part of You!
The training methods at the training center are streamlined and efficient. Numerous drills are used to develop a student’s second nature responses to be efficient and effective against a variety of attacks sceneries that they may come across.
The key is to make everything as instinctual as possible; you don’t have time to think! You need to be able to respond!
Jeet Kune Do’s system of skills-training & personal development creates “Second-Nature Reactions” to whatever attack an opponent may attempt.
