Most people will tell you that JKD isn't a style and doesn't so much have techniques as it does an "adopt what is useful" strategy.
Yet, if you go to a JKD school, they're teaching something--and that something is highly likely to include pak sao/lop sao, the straight blast, HKE, finger jab, jab, cross punch, and a few other specific techniques.
Are there specific techniques that, despite the "absorb what is useful" paradigm, you feel simply must be in a school's teaching if they are indeed to be said to be teaching JKD? Please interpret this question both literally and also in a "gut feeling" sense--that is, you may well feel that JKD is about an approach and not a specific set of technqiues, but how would you really feel about a JKD school that had no boxing/savate/Wing Chun/Muay Thai style techniques but instead had "absorbed what is useful" out of Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and Tang Soo Do? Would that seem out-of-whack to you?
Yet, if you go to a JKD school, they're teaching something--and that something is highly likely to include pak sao/lop sao, the straight blast, HKE, finger jab, jab, cross punch, and a few other specific techniques.
Are there specific techniques that, despite the "absorb what is useful" paradigm, you feel simply must be in a school's teaching if they are indeed to be said to be teaching JKD? Please interpret this question both literally and also in a "gut feeling" sense--that is, you may well feel that JKD is about an approach and not a specific set of technqiues, but how would you really feel about a JKD school that had no boxing/savate/Wing Chun/Muay Thai style techniques but instead had "absorbed what is useful" out of Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, and Tang Soo Do? Would that seem out-of-whack to you?