[jkd_student]

Originally Posted by DARKTIM

cool well ill keep that in mind and let you know when i come over again. sooner rather then later hopefully. your so luck to live in NYC. was dead impressed with it.

so wee bouts is your dojo/school?

i have trined in jun fan jeet kune do for 5 years. i was never really interested with JKDC. my ONLY problem with it was that this style was what inosanto's thought Bruce would be teaching if he were still alive. and i know that Jeet Kune Do was never finished, but who is to say that Bruce wouldn't change his philosophy later on in life. but i do, however, think it is a great thing what mr. inosanto has done in his effective attempt in the advancement of the martial art. i just personally think that a JDK student should try to train in the basis of what bruce ( wing chun, chinese kickboxing, fencing) taught and THEN go off and train in other martial arts and to pick what works for them. i apologize if i have upset anyone.

[jeetkunedomaster]

dont worry about it. it's good to get lots of opinions on these kinds of topics

[DARKTIM]

well tere was a decusion i an earlier thread about whether studying other ats before getting into jkd. will it help. some say yes some say no. jkd is all aboout personnalising your own fighting style. take what you need throw away what you dont right? we do junfan martial arts/jeet kune do concepts. ithink that if you supplement your training with other styles then it will give you more of an understanding.

[jeetkunedomaster]

i definately think that studying other arts along with jkd is a great idea because training in them will help you understand what jkd is and they will also help you personalize jkd as your own

[MileHighMadMan]

JKD is simply defending against any attack, and attacking the weak points of your enemy with the most simple and effective means available at that second. It may be a Muay Thai elbow or knee, it may be a Karate chop, it might be grappling on the ground, or a head butt to the mouth. Why not pull from all other "styles" and use what is easiest to defeat your enemy. This is what JKD is. I would go to a place to learn where the sign read simply "Fight", before I would waste time at a place that is making money off of the words Jeet Kune Do written on their sign or window.

[confusingDot]

i consider myself a jkd practitioner altough i'm not i'm in any studio, or place, but the concepts are waht i follow, sinc that IS what jkd is.

[Stg]

fishkill aint in nyc. it's upstate.

[Christo]

I haven't posted for a while so hello to all again.
Not long ago i spent a month in the US and spent about half that time training at Matt Thornton's Straight Blast Gym (SBG). They practice 'functional JKD' and heavily incorporate the concept of 'aliveness' in all they do. Aliveness refers to the practice of technique against a resisting oponent. Matt has done away with trapping almost altogether and has ditched the trapping range full stop. SBG works around 3 ranges of combat strike, clinch and ground. I learnt at SBG how to really train to fight for both self defence and NHB. I cannot talk more highly of the gym and its cirriculum if you really want to know about what it is to learn how to protect yourself. Having said all this SBG is a radical departure from dare i say traditional JKD and is now the cirriculum i train with.
Check it out, go and see an SBG gym and make up your own minds. I got so much out of SBG and wish you guys the same.

[wingchun_jeetkunedo]

Of course there is some traditional traing involved bruce lee had to go through steps of wing chun and classical gung fu to add to the concepts of Jeet Kune Do.
you simply take in what is useful and reject what is useless
somthing you can't adapt to reject it however for what you give away you must traing harder with the things you know.
there must be tradtional traing so you know something to train harder with.

[wingchun_jeetkunedo]

Of course there is some traditional traing involved bruce lee had to go through steps of wing chun and classical gung fu to add to the concepts of Jeet Kune Do.
you simply take in what is useful and reject what is useless
somthing you can't adapt to reject it however for what you give away you must traing harder with the things you know.
there must be tradtional traing so you know something to train harder with.