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Simplified and refined, Jeet Kune Do is based on the following core principles:
- Simplicity
- Economy Of Motion
- Longest Weapon To The Nearest Target
- "Fitting-in" with your opponent
- Look to hit - always!
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Holding no allegiance to any particular "school" or style, Jeet Kune Do is an eclectic art that draws its core principles from several areas of study, including the Chinese art Wing Chun, fencing, and Western boxing. While Bruce Lee's art is primarily made up of these systems, he also studied a wide array of arts such as Judo, Jujitsu, Wrestling, Muay Thai, and Savate a French kickboxing art. Not to incorporate these systems techniques, but to study the essence of these arts. Jeet Kune Do's philosophical tenets are a blend of the West's emphasis on scientific methods with the metaphysics of the Far East.
The art of Jeet Kune Do differs from traditional or classical forms of martial arts (i.e. karate, judo, aikido, tae kwon do, jujitsu) in a number of important ways. First, Jeet Kune Do does not adhere to prearranged fighting movements or techniques that students memorize. Classical arts often refer to these as kata. While practicing these forms, classical martial artists often engage in two-person drills, where one participant acts as the attacker and the other the defender. In these training scenarios, the attacker strikes
(using a pre-arranged technique), while the defender responds by blocking (using a pre-arranged technique), and then counter-strikes. Impractical for the unpredictability of the real world, "form-based" (or kata-based) martial arts leave practitioners ill-prepared for attacks that do not follow the pre-arranged scenario a student has been trained to defend.
By comparison, Jeet Kune Do is more flexible, unpredictable and enables practitioners to adapt to any opponent. Rather than rote memorization of forms, Jeet Kune Do practitioners train to develop certain attributes - speed, power, timing, skill, etc. - along with a highly refined and simplified arsenal of striking tools.
Jeet Kune Do's system of skills-training & personal development creates second-nature reactions to whatever attack an opponent may present and provides the ability to (counter) strike from every angle or any distance, producing explosive results in a real-world altercation.
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