[Stg]

the part where it INVOLVES ANYONE HERE. if it DOESN'T, then don't cry about it to us

[Gong||Jau]

Stg, if you don't care about it then don't read it. You don't need to tell people what they can and can't post, and neither do I. That's the mods' job.

[bamboo]

Gentlemen

If you were having a conversation face to face I'm sure your tempers would not flare because of semantics. Try rereading in a more positive light and don't be so quick to attack eachother.

-bamboo

[Fa Jing]

nothing i have posted or ever will post should be taken as personal to anyone. STG sorry if you took it personal it wasnt ment to be. If i was going to get personal, i wouldnt beat around the bush you know i would direct it whomever i was speaking of.

[DARKTIM]

lets get on track lads. we dont want to be jumping on planes and having a straightener in some for away land.

so i take it we agree and this guy is talking out of his bakside unless he repeats "take what you want leave what you dont"?

peace all

[The Axe Murderer]

Sounds like a McDojo or wannabe JKD IMO...

[TKDman]

The thing is, there's no need for a "Korean" JKD. It's a philosophy. It's not something that would change just because of the name. So him renaming a philosophy (assuming that it IS the same philosophy...), and then trying to coin it as his own is very dishonest and greedy. Thus he should be ignored. Junsado is just a name. A name won't fight.

[binhdinhboy]

calling it korean jkd makes no sense. many people already cant agree wut jkd is, how can someone term a style korean jkd. i hate it just as much when people take the another style and add a country to it. unless there is something absolutely defining to it (i.e. BJJ) theres no point. its like saying, "i know russian capoeira"

[lakan_sampu]

hmmmmmm...............

I am really suspisious about that Junsado thing...honestly. I am really turned off when someone explicitly states his/her own advantages as such, while in a sense discrminating another. It is not credible for me...maybe when I see them train or at least their demo.....

[Gong||Jau]

I must admit that I haven't read the article, mainly because the art doesn't interest me, but I definitely do think that you could conceivably have something very different from JKD based around the same principles. Bruce Lee was short, fairly thin, in impeccable condition and initially received training in Wing Chun and a little bit of a longer northern style. Imagine what it would look like if a Taijiquan guy had decided to supplement his training with weapons work from Kali or if a Sumo picked up western boxing to add more strikes to his arsenal. The concept of JKD isn't anything new, and when you compare what Lee was doing to something like what most MMA guys use, there's a huge difference despite the fact that both "use what works and discard what doesn't". If you want to treat it as just a philosophy, then you really can't study at a school. Truly following JKD would be going out on your own, achieving a high level of competence in an art, then doing the same with a few others, and battle testing what you know regularly so you can keep working on the techniques that work better for you. I have nothing against JKD schools at all, but if you're going to mess with semantics and say that it's a philosophy, you can't say that you train in JKD. Besides, speaking of names, JKD itself has JKDC, OJKD (I think, I can't remember what that stands for), SBGi, and a swarm of others.