Bruce lee's style defined?

Question

was bruce lee's jeet kune do basically wing chun? what were his primary modifications?

thanks..

ps,,any instuctional videos that you can recommend?

Answer 1

Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do defined:

It is awareness and not limited to anything.

It is aggressive, and based on awareness and adaptation.

Answer 2

ron balicki has some good jeet kune do videos out. as does paul vunak. rick tucci and dan inosanto. just search their names.

jeet kune do is not a style...its a process...its a way of looking at things, and a set of concepts. it means way of the intercepting fist.

his personal expression of jeet kune do was called jun fan gung fu. which was basically modified wing chun. which was his first system. he also trained in other kung fu styles such as choy lay fut, tam tui...etc...but mainly wing chun.

bruce began to modify wing chun and do away with the set patterns and called what he came up with jun fan gung fu. he made all of his students study jun fan before moving on to jeet kune do because jeet kune do isnt a system...its a set of concepts. to teach and apply those concepts....you first have to have a base art to start from. you have to have a 'vehicle' to teach those concepts.

his main influences were...wing chun, western boxing, western fencing, and grappling. no muay thai, no kali, no bjj...that all came later after bruce died. those are the 4 main styles bruce drew from when creating jeet kune do.

"use no way as way"...dont limit yourself to an okinawan way, japanese way, chinese way...it doesnt matter because "under the sky...under the heavens...there is but one family" ....make your own way.

"take what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own" ....pretty self explanatory...try different arts and get different ideas from all of them...take what you find useful from each...and reject what isnt...but TRY IT FIRST.  dont just disregard it without giving it a shot.

"longest weapon to closest target"....economy of motion.

"jeet kune do..way of the intercepting fist"...when someone attacks you they are vulnerable...they are giving you the opportunity to intercept them...which is more efficient than blocking ...and then countering.

in jkd they use a common delivery system for everything...no fixed stances, no forms, no set patterns (even though there really are lol)....they call it the 'bi jong" stance.

jkd could be seen as the process in which you make your art truly unique to yourself...truly your own. because noone else has your particular shape, or attributes.

now days you have 3 factions of jkd..

traditional jkd: to me this is an oxy-moron if there ever was one. but some people think they have to teach everything just exactly as bruce taught it to them and nothing else!! this is exactly what bruce was trying to avoid..."the original founders started out with a hypothesis...over time it became the gospel truth that you cannot change"

jkd concepts (commonly known as jun fan/jkd): to me the truest jkd to what bruce envisioned....do pretty much anything you want...just follow these concepts. ...jun fan/jkd people must learn jun fan before learning jeet kune do. but not all "concepts" guys teach jun fan.

jkd kickboxing: basically jeet kune do taught in a live..kickboxing format. using bruce's "5 ways of attack" ...bruce was the first to coin the term "kickboxing" ...he used to refer to what he taught as chinese kickboxing.

Answer 3

Bruce Le style wasn't jeet kune do. His original style was wing chun. He added muay thai and other style. jeet kune do is his philosophy. He adapted several martial art forms including judo instead of being limited to one basic rigid set of counters and attacks. He said be like water. Water adapts to whatever touches it.

Answer 4

Bruce Lee's style ?I can hear him screaming from the grave"it's not a style".

He didn't even like using the name  jeet kune do ,.

Truth is you can use his concepts and theorys and apply them to any style any starting point of formal lessons .

This was his original intent not creating a bunch of variations and methods of his ideas and calling it jkd.

People have done what he feared would happen become trapped within a name and his ideas without trying to exceed that and progress past it.

JKD has become catch all phrase used by people with no real training that dont have a clue somewhat like the word ninja.

Answer 5

He tried to learn many different styles from what I heard.

So JKD might be a mix of everything he learned just like the modern MMA. But it's very close to Wing Chun in my opinion.