Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee Combat Systems
| July 4th, 2009Jeet Kune Do is the name Bruce Lee gave to his combat system and philosophy in 1967. Originally, when Lee began researching numerous fighting styles, he gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu. However not desiring to make another style that would share the constraints that all styles have, he instead gave us the method that made it.
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JKD as it survives today - if one wants to view it “refined” as a product, not a technique - is what was left at the time of Bruce Lee’s death. Bruce Lee said that his concept is not an “adding to” of more and more things on top of one another to form a system, but rather, a winnowing out. The metaphor Lee borrowed from Chan Buddhism was of constantly filling a cup with water, and then emptying it, used for describing Lee’s philosophy of “casting off what is useless”. He also used the sculptor’s mind-set of beginning with a pile of clay and hacking away at the “unessentials”; the final result was what he said to be the bare combat necessities, or JKD.
One of Lee’s goals in Jeet Kune Do was to break down what he claimed were limiting factors in the training of the traditional styles, and seek a fighting thesis which he suspected could only be found in the reality of a fight. Jeet Kune Do is currently seen as the genesis of the modern state of half-breed martial arts.
This is particularly the case with regard the JKD “Combat Ranges”. A JKD student is anticipated to learn various combat systems inside each combat range, and therefore to be useful in each one of them, just as in MMA.
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