Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do is the systemized personification of the Bruce Lee fighting self defense system. It is a dynamic martial arts system designed to mold and blend with the individual martial artist. It has no strict rules, it has no strict disciplines. It's basic philosophy says to use what works. To mold the art to fit your body type and skills.

Bruce Lee

Much of Jeet Kune Do incorporates the training regimen used in Wing Chun Kung Fu (A Southern Chinese Martial Arts System), Kick Boxing, Filipino Martial Arts, and Kenpo.

Jeet Kune Do, The Street Fighting Philosophy

"Use no way as a way, No limitation as a limitation."...Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune Do's fighting system was the first "FREE-FORM" martial art to ever be brought to martial arts. JKD is the martial art created by Bruce Lee. It is a simplistic systm that allow the fighter to to be creative in his own expressiont of JKD.

The expression of JKD is like DNA, similar to all humans but not exactly the same from person to person. The are as many expressions of Jeet Kune Do as there are practicioners. They all abide by the basic structure and guide lines set by Bruce Lee, but each adds his one individual twist to his form of Jeet Kune Do.

You cannot put JKD in to a catagory like Tae Kwan Do for instance, you can say that they are feet fighters, but what is the Jeet Kune Do street fighter what is he, HE IS THE UNKNOWN.

Jeet Kune Do--the literal translation is "way of the intercepting fist"--was conceived by Bruce Lee in 1967. Unlike many other martial arts, there are neither a series of rules nor classification of techniques which constitutes a distinct Jeet Kune Do (JKD) method of fighting. JKD is unbound; JKD is freedom. It possesses everything, yet in itself is possessed by nothing. Those who understand JKD are primarily interested in its powers of liberation when JKD is used as a mirror for self-examination.

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