Functional JKD

[MMA Apostate]

Jesus why dont you just go train....I think Bruce Lee or Dan Inosanto would like you to work on having a better cross then debating what is and what is not JKD. In the grand scheme of things, why does it really matter?

It only matters(IMO) in the context that it is wrong to capitali$e on something by selling goods or services that isn't true.

And last I checked Jesus didn't have a problem with anyone on this thread. And I'm willing to bet his cross is just fine...since he is Jesus

[bodhisattva]

It only matters(IMO) in the context that it is wrong to capitali$e on something by selling goods or services that isn't true.

And last I checked Jesus didn't have a problem with anyone on this thread. And I'm willing to bet his cross is just fine...since he is Jesus

The Straight Blast Gym was a Jeet Kune Do Concepts school.

They continually evolved.

They quit doing wing chun trapping.

They mostly quit doing kali stickwork altogether.

Now they spend most of their time doing jits, clinch and boxing.

And that is the state of Jeet Kune Do today.

And that is why the SBGi has such a winning record.

MMA Appostate, your understanding of Bruce Lee's philosophies are severely limited. He told people to absorb what is useful. He told people to be their own authority. He told people SPECIFICALLY not to train exactly as he trains. Was all of that lost on you? Yes. I think it was totally lost on you.

[Sagacious Lu]

Can you show me an example of what happens when a boxer tries to hit someone who doesn't fight to the rules of boxing?

Did you miss this thread?

http://www.defend.net/deluxeforums/showthread.php?t=21932

With or without rules when you get punched hard you fall down

[MMA Apostate]

The Straight Blast Gym was a Jeet Kune Do Concepts school.

They continually evolved.

They quit doing wing chun trapping.

They mostly quit doing kali stickwork altogether.

Now they spend most of their time doing jits, clinch and boxing.

And that is the state of Jeet Kune Do today.

And that is why the SBGi has such a winning record.

MMA Appostate, your understanding of Bruce Lee's philosophies are severely limited. He told people to absorb what is useful. He told people to be their own authority. He told people SPECIFICALLY not to train exactly as he trains. Was all of that lost on you? Yes. I think it was totally lost on you.

Actually as I read Bruce's work I have found and continue to find that he was for fighting as it truly is. Not sport oriented fighting/limitation. Matt's SBGi gym (in my neighborhood) is just sport MMAs. Which means you train yourself with limitations. Yes sport MMA has become the best marketable way to train for prize fighting that includes all ranges of the fight, but that doesn't mean that JKD has distilled itself down to just boxing, clinch, and different forms of jiu-jitsu. That is just how Matt prefers to fight, and how can SBGi be a JKD concept school by teaching ways of limitation and not offering other means of options that might benefit an individual? You know Richard Ryan's Dynamic Combat is more along the lines of a JKD concept school. However Richard understood what BL was talking about and created his own personal scientific/effective method of combat to market and not use the name JKD to help sell DVDs.(There's just one example for you)

You know I will continue to answer your critisism as long as you want this thread to keep on going.

[gungfuhero]

Holding fast to the a priori "truth" of boxing, wrestling and "jits" is not the way of no way. Saying that a technique can work or not rather than leaving the individual to his own power and responsibility is not JKD either.

[gungfuhero]

One positive influence Matt Thorton had on me, although I've never personally met him, is that he inspired me to functionalize skills that I could have trained rather complacently. All the buzz about JKD being obsolete made me train it harder to prove it to myself. It was a good emotional spur that lead to a revitalizing of my own training methods and a critical look. I could have been a total fantasy martial artist, but instead I focussed on functionalizing what I was taught. It was a stubborn move, but one that I'm happy with.