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You can remain safe anywhere if you only maintain poise and absolute resolve. This is a key lesson in the art of survival. Your determining features are the desire to live and your aptitude. Your odds of survival are improved as you accrue practical knowledge, refine your ability to devise, and learn to employ those lessons in real world situations.

Bruce Lee never wanted JKD to be a style - but 50 years ago the term “style” was something very closed and had a negative connotation. Today, the styles are much more open than before and usually adapt a lot of things from other arts. Bruce Lee never wanted JKD to be a closed system, but he had a JKD structure, a JKD base, and certain JKD techniques.

An attack is an offensive action made with the objective of scoring a hit on an opponent. This action may be a single motion (simple attack) or comprised of several motions (compound/combination attack). It may be a direct attack in that it travels straight to the target via the most direct route. Or it may be indirect in which case while the attack begins in one line, it finishes in another.

In boxing this drill is also referred to as a corner drill, used as an essential element of a fighter’s ability to take and defend against a punch, and to see where the attack is coming from. It dates back to the Filipino boxing era and was employed by many knife fighters to teach them how to acknowledge the lines of attack and the body movement necessary to set up the combinations following the primary attack. Dan Inosanto originally trained many of his students and fighters with this drill that was passed down through several of his teachers and trainers.