What is, and what is NOT Jeet Kune Do.

[Lost Ronin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lizard
How is JKD for "personal growth" does the stretching make you bigger or something?

MMA does not allow all MA techniques

What I mean by "personal growth" is that JKD can be used by someone as a method of becoming a better person. JKD is not just punching and kicking, its not just martial arts. It is an outlook on life. Nice joke...

In regards to your second statement,I agree with you in a way. MMA allows any martial art techniques to be used as long as the fighters adhere to the rules. The only reason why you don't see many different styles is because people have pretty much figured out what the most straightforward methodolgy is. That is why most people practice similar disciplines.

[akja]

Originally posted by Lost Ronin
This argument has been discussed many times... OH what the heck. I don't disagree with you and I don't exactly agree with you Bri Thai. I mean, MMA is a full contact sport that allows practitioners to use any and all martial arts techniques. MMA athletes always strive for efficiency, its all about making it better and trying to surpass the given limits as much as possible. Kinda sounds like JKD, doesn't it? Honestly, apart from the shift of focus from disciplines such as Wing Chun, Savate, and Boxing you can't really tell apart "JKD" from MMA, in the techniques anyway.

The only thing that sets JKD apart from MMA is its philosophy, one is a sport meant for entertainment and the other is a vehicle of personal growth and development. I don't think anyone has the right to claim a particular set of techniques or principles as JKD. Because that is not what it was meant to be in the first place. Bruce himself said it, "JKD is just a name, don't fuss over it." For example, if I practice Boxing, Wrestling and Brazilian Jujitsu and I focus on practicality and self growth. Who is to say that I am not practicing JKD?

You don't have to practice a single shred of Wing Chun or any of that stuff to practice JKD. JKD is from the heart, it is a persons emotions and training expressed physically. Then MMA is in a way JKD. Its all about the individual, screw everybody else. It may not be "JKD" in the sense of the philosophical background, but then again JKD philosophy stresses that fact that there are no set ways to do anything.

So if there are set techinques and such in JKD and its all philosophical, then anybody should be able to figure it out ON THEIR OWN, without an instructor and without formal training be QUALIFIED to teach Jeet Kune Do.

To really understand anything about JKD, "we" can't just read what Bruce "wrote" right before his death, we need to read all of his writings. Theres to much contradition in his writings due to his "evolution" in his personal growth.

I'm not saying you have to read all of the books and such, just that the principles and concepts do have a structure behind it. Accept it or not but there is more to it than meets the eye.

[Skull X22]

Originally posted by brokenelbow
Heck Ryu, according to Lamar you don't even do JKD, so I don't see where MMA = JKD.

Well, I got the answer. Not all MMA teaches JKD !!!
There is hundreds of JKD schools all over the world!
Do you think that Dan Inosanto woud travel to them ALL ?
It's like one school in Sweden that teaches JKD.
And MMA isn't a JKD school. Look at the name: Mixed Martial Arts !
Hahahahahah, take that you JKD hating......*CENSORED*!!!