Post date: Aug 10, 2014 8:02:16 AM
As our last discussion ended on should women learn self defense and why? which already got a great response from many people. This weeks topic of discussion is "Arts involved in jkd concepts" which some of you may have already guessed..
Q. Basis of Jeet Kun Do Concepts, what ground does this concept stand ? What are the arts involved ?
This is more of a question to everybody.
I have heard many people say that this is another form of martial art but as Bruce Lee himself said that it is more of a concept than an art since it involves the use of many different forms of art like Wing Chun, Western Boxing, Fencing, so on and so forth. But has it stopped evolving, and the simple answer is "No"
From the time this concept has been developed people have tried to add many different styles to it, some of them have laid different fighting stances and incorporated use of many other forms of martial arts than the original Jeet Kun Do have been taught. Even today there are several practitioners who are employing use of other forms which aren't commonly know to people which makes this art very lethal.
Jkd instructors often do teach this concept in such a way that the person learning becomes ready for a real fight situation and not for some tournament.
I would say that the basic moves that jkd teaches us are derived more or less from Wing Chun & Western Boxing, though the fighting stance, basic hand punches and body movements like bob, weave, jab, cross, hook, uppercut so on.. are more of western boxing styles but the trapping range what we emphasize more on comes from the wing chun in which we use the pak sau, lap sau, so on and so forth. As Bruce Lee said that a set of restricted movements which we see almost in any martial art are not useful since a person does-not explores his own body inorder to perform physical movements but he depends on a set of constrained movements which he was against as heard. But i say that isn't the case because even to learn and understand jkd one must first learn the basic hand movements which are taught in wing chun and other arts that are employed inside of this concept.
Although jkd is primarily based on movements that are adopted from wing chun & western boxing, there are other arts which also place an important role into learning jkd such as Kali, Panantukan, Pananjakman, Dumog, Kino-mutay etc. My favorite jkd practitioners are Paul Vunak, Guro Dan Inosanto & Emil Martirossian who are very well know as you might also know, they have developed this concept into a their own style which in a way is quite amazing. I haven't got the opportunity to learn jkd hand to hand with these expert artists, but i hope i get to one day.
This topic is somewhat endless and i want to hear some replys which i haven't had any as of yet. You can tell me what you like about jkd and even if you have a different view contradicting mine i would encourage you to come forth and discuss. Please share it with your friends if you like it. Until next time..