While not a primary training tool in Jeet Kune Do, the Wooden Dummy is great for working on sliding leverage, parrying and slipping, and other Wing Chun and boxing elements of JKD. Sifu Tim Tackett shows his personal mook jong made for him by Jerry Poteet, an original student of Bruce Lee. Senior Instructor Jeremy...Continue reading
While the back fist is a valuable tool in combat, sometimes when it is used it has too much preparation, or is thrown from an obvious position if you are in a proper Jeet Kune Do ready stance. In the video below, Jeremy Lynch demonstrates the correct ways to deliver the back fist. One common...Continue reading
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,...
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...Continue reading
Jeet Kune Do was one of the first martial arts built upon the idea that the system should adapt to the individual rather than the individual to the system. Bruce Lee’s personal journey in the martial arts began with Tai Chi as a child and Chinese Boxing as a teenager, and ultimately led him to...Continue reading
Just about every day I get messages from people on social media and in my inbox about how they can get started in JKD. Reasons for wanting to study Jeet Kune Do vary. Some do because they’re a huge Bruce Lee fan and watched and re-watched all of Bruce Lee’s movies. While others, like myself,...Continue reading
In all areas of study and practice there is an inevitable desire to crystallize, standardize, and otherwise encapsulate that which was once free, fluid, and in a constant state of evolution, into a definable and easily digestible product by imposing boundaries and limits. Gradually over time, The Way is mistaken for The Truth and becomes...Continue reading
1. Build a JKD filter There are many techniques in the martial art world that are taught. Some are very efficient and some are not. Some only work on certain types of opponents. Once you have learned the essential elements and have worked on trying to understand the strengths and weaknesses of any particular technique...Continue reading
By labeling Jeet Kune Do as “just a philosophy” with no curriculum or progression of techniques, we rob it of the technical merits of the material taught by its founder, Bruce Lee. On the other hand, by crystallizing the art as “only what Bruce Lee taught,” we deprive ourselves of the free expression and naturalness...Continue reading
One of the most frequently recurring topics of discussion within our group centers around sparring. Specifically, the best progression of drills to prepare new students for contact sparring, as well as how and when to step up the intensity. Now, we realize there is a certain segment of the martial arts community that believes light...Continue reading