I hope this doens't get moved as I want to get a wider variety of opinion than just that of those in the JKD forum.
When Bruce Lee first came up with JKD it was his expression of the martial arts. He took what he found useful from a variety of sources and presented it as JKD.
Bruce Lee had quite a few students, not all of them were built the same way he was so what he found useful they may not have been able to use as effectively.
They added things to their expression of the art and taught their students what they found to be most effective for them which due to the different body sizes of people again may not have been all that effective for those individuals.
These people added their bit, taught their students and so on. Bruce Lee died over 30 years ago and given that a number of his students have students who have students (i hope you're all following me) how much of what is taught is the JKD that Bruce Lee taught?
Is the term JKD just a term to use in marketing to sell a persons own martial art put together from a number of others? Even if the lineage is there after each person changes things to suit themselves, adds things and takes things away how can it be the same art? I know people such as Dan Inosanto don't use the term anymore.
Just my thoughts, I would love to hear yours.
Cheers
Sam
When Bruce Lee first came up with JKD it was his expression of the martial arts. He took what he found useful from a variety of sources and presented it as JKD.
Bruce Lee had quite a few students, not all of them were built the same way he was so what he found useful they may not have been able to use as effectively.
They added things to their expression of the art and taught their students what they found to be most effective for them which due to the different body sizes of people again may not have been all that effective for those individuals.
These people added their bit, taught their students and so on. Bruce Lee died over 30 years ago and given that a number of his students have students who have students (i hope you're all following me) how much of what is taught is the JKD that Bruce Lee taught?
Is the term JKD just a term to use in marketing to sell a persons own martial art put together from a number of others? Even if the lineage is there after each person changes things to suit themselves, adds things and takes things away how can it be the same art? I know people such as Dan Inosanto don't use the term anymore.
Just my thoughts, I would love to hear yours.
Cheers
Sam