Bruce Lee Foundation Said It! - Jeet Kune Do

[@Matthew_Singer]

Straight to the point. Let`s keep the real alive!

[@RogerMartinez-w3d]

Thanks!

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

Thank You!

[@RogerMartinez-w3d]

@@ThomasMarxJKD thank you sir.

[@franktidwell8392]

Excellent breakdown Thomas...

[@gus-199]

It was hard, but I managed to find the original PDF by searching the first statement between quotes: "we at the blf wanted to take a moment" It's part of a 4-page pdf on what you should look for in a JKD instructor. Interestingly, under lineage, they mention spending significant amount of time training with a first or second generation student of Bruce Lee. Makes sense and probably there aren't that many people out there who would qualify. There was only one link in the results list for me. I saved it to my personal drive but might be really hard to find in the future if there aren't more online copies out there.

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

They took all that down years ago...

[@SuperMaryu767]

@gus-199 This PDF you have found, have you considered uploading it to the internet archive? That way it is preserved and others can download it. Plus I would like to see this PDF.

[@sunn209]

Sadly, this should have thousands of views, but just shows very few desire the truth. The truth of how to get Bruce Lee like attributes is just too much work and too boring. Simplicity, for majority of folks, is simply not sexy.

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

There is one main problem. The subject is not compelling to anyone who isn't in JKD, so to little people react to the thumbnail and it's really difficult to make a compelling thumbnail for a video like this. So the video won't get pushed by KZbin. But as it's really evergreen content, which means, it's something that can get watched anytime in future, its not bound to this particular time in history, it may still reach thousands of people over the years.

[@sunn209]

@@ThomasMarxJKD Maybe..., ....but I look at other martial arts videos & their subjects...,a percentage are GOOFY , theoretical and not really based on the reality of life threatening street combat but more of sport..., ....and they 12,000, 30,000, 57,000 views or more trying to solve a puzzle of combat that Bruce solved some 50 years ago. Add to that, Tommy Carruthers, IFO Instructors have answered all the questions in numerous, creative ways..., ...and Tommy is STILL evolving JKD to realms unmatched....,to no end. People have other agendas than fighting for their life for reals.

[@jeffdoeskungfu]

great recap. i think about how the name of the art calls for interception, whereas i saw a slew of so called jeet kune do videos floating around in the early 2000s that showed nothing about intercepting anything

[@walterevans2118]

Because JKD is mistaken as sports combat a lot of people out there conflate and confuse interception with counter strike. (Paul)

[@axelstone3131]

The worst person I’ve seen demonstrate “JKD” is Paul Vanuk who is a concepts guy under Inosanto. Seen some of his 80’s videos and it’s some of the sloppiest self-endangering stuff I’ve ever seen. The dude loves headbutts and being within close (stabbing) range. Crazy stuff.

[@jeffdoeskungfu]

@@axelstone3131 i seen Vunak and his headbutts and bites. that always weirded me out 😂. but there was also this Emil guy doing crazy spin kicks and slappy trappy stuff too - major cringe

[@axelstone3131]

@@jeffdoeskungfu yeh that’s the rhino the stalker guys instructor (Emil). It’s all fake kune do 🤣 these guys haven’t got a clue what Bruce Lee was doing or where his mind was at. He wasn’t trying to endanger himself by trapping himself in close with headbutts and biting and the possibility of getting shanked.

[@abdelatifelarif5006]

Well, Thomas All what your said about Bruce Lee's JKD is 100% truth!

[@intfstft]

Thats why Dan decided not to be part of the Nucleus. SAD.How else to make lots of money but to teach whatever is popular at the time and calling it JKD CONCEPTS. Thus using Bruces name of JKD and gaining further attention /students

[@walterevans2118]

I re-watched the ‘I Am Bruce Lee’ documentary dvd last night. And believe it or not in it Dan was saying that the finger jab was one of Bruce’s primary weapons. (Paul)

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

@walterevans2118 yeah, we've discussed that here.

[@walterevans2118]

@@ThomasMarxJKD With all due respect to Dan I can't follow him sometimes...He's a nice chap though.. Didn't you also discuss evidence that in 1969 Dan was making statements about JKD which could have come from an original JKD practitioner ? ...And then after Bruce passed away he changed his mind and started claiming than no one but Bruce could ever achieve that level ? ...But in this documentary made in 2012 he remembered that the finger jab was Bruce's favoured weapon. (Paul)

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

Yes, he did an article in Black Belt magazine about jkd, before Bruce died. It was a total different approach than after Bruce's death. He described JKD as vicious street fighting.

[@walterevans2118]

@@ThomasMarxJKD Well maybe it is. But I think Bruce quickly realized it would be the only way to survive in life threatening situations ... I remember Bruce was emphasizing the finger jab in JKD in 1971 during the LONGSTREET series ...He tries to get the James Franciscus character to do it with goggles on but he refuses...Dan must have been refering back to that when he talked about it in the 2012 documentary (Paul)

[@axelstone3131]

“While Bruce never denied the debt his art owed to Wing Chun, he wanted Wong to know that Jeet Kune Do was unique, a distinctly different approach to unarmed combat.” - Wrath of the Dragon by John Little page 184

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

All this will not make any impact to the TFGs. To Far Gone's, they have been indoctrinated with the classical mess, thinking its JKD.

[@axelstone3131]

@@ThomasMarxJKD I understand but it’s there in black and white in print. I don’t know why people keep denying it.

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

@@axelstone3131 doesn't matter, nothing will change it, no amount of evidence, even if Bruce came back and told them, they would put him down.

[@paolosmaldone9856]

The truth only the truth not anything else!

[@axelstone3131]

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[@ThomasMarxJKD]

@@axelstone3131

[@axelstone3131]

@@ThomasMarxJKD can’t wait for all the idiots to comment on this and say the Bruce Lee foundation, and by direct connection, Bruce Lee himself is wrong about his own art 🤣 Just like the clown the other day who kept replying to the guy who wasn’t even responding to him

[@marcocastoldi7403]

Great video Sifu Thomas

[@jarrodpelrine7229]

Brandon said it Best on video in an interview

[@DerRicksteRick]

In anderen Kampfkünste und Kampfsportarten lernt man festgelegte Tricks nachzumachen. Man macht es so lange bis man alles beherrscht. Du lernst die Art kennen. Beim JKD gibt es zwar auch bestimmte Haltungen und Bewegungen aber sie sind nicht einheitlich. Je nach Situation sind sie formbar. (,,Be water my friend''). JKD lernt dich kennen. Es existiert und es existiert nicht. Es ist eine außergewöhnliche Verteidigungsart. Eben genauso außergewöhnlich wie Bruce Lee selbst.

[@axelstone3131]

Too much philosophising JKD won’t get you Bruce Lee like skills.

[@nmr20067]

Can you do more video on Bruce’s dirty grappling, and wrestling for JKDs? Many people falsely assumed that Bruce didn’t grapple or wrestle at all. Even Joe Rogan falsely claimed Bruce didn’t do any grappling and got balled up by Gene LeBell, which is another proven BIG lie.. Totally false they and never read the Tao of JKD… Bruce mixed in dirty grappling…. Like you said before, you don’t need BJJ. Bruce studies Judo and American Folkstyle wrestling and maybe even catch wrestling like he did boxing.. He just made it simple and dirty for the streets.. I saw you do one video where you bent down and did the punch to the groin before a single or double leg like Bruce did the Tao of JKD book drawings. I’d like to see more videos from you on that. I’m sure the BJJ guys would lose their minds…. lol.

[@ThomasMarxJKD]

@@nmr20067 grappling drawings in the tao are fighting choreography from his movies, they are exactly the same. They should have never end up in that book in the first place. That book was made years after Bruce died. He wasn't involved.

[@nmr20067]

@@ThomasMarxJKD I don’t know about all of that…. Maybe some of that was clearly self-defense he had learned and he put the dirty grappling into it. Like the punch to the groin for a leg takedown and attack the eyes.. Bruce never attacked eyes in his movies.. And there is proof he did study grappling. He talked about the 4 ways of distances in fighting. I know trapping was one and you don’t like it and that fine. Maybe he did drop trapping because of some of the unrealistic parts of it.. But he never threw out and disregarded grappling all together. That is 100% not true. But I see what you are saying that book was released after his death and others were involved…. But I don’t believe all that grappling he drew up was for his movie choreograph scenes, at least not all of it. Maybe some of it was put in. But he specifically showed the mechanics of leg takedowns from folkstlye wrestling Judo takedowns then he added how he would mix in the dirty stuff.. Grappling is important because sometimes you can be forced into a grappling situation whether you want to be or not. It’s easy to say I’ll never let someone grapple or wrestle me. Okay. That’s assuming you always know when you’re going to be attacked from the front,side, or back. Many streets attacks are surprised attacks. And notice I said grappling, NOT BJJ. Even though BJJ was alive in well in Brazil during Bruce’s life.. America just didn’t know about it yet (until 1993), and I’m not that they needed to. Because BJJ, like JKD did a lot that they took from other arts and put it together and modified disciplines and called it their system of jiu-jitsu that they learned from the Japanese.. I’m not saying this is right or wrong, but that’s what it was. The Gracie more less did a very similar thing, only with grappling. Carlos and Helio Gracie did…. What the Gracie did was put together what they learned from other Martial Arts and combined in, and they threw out what they felt was useless from traditional judo and jujutsu…

[@SuperMaryu767]

@nmr20067 It’s not that Bruce maybe stopped practicing trapping, he got rid of it all together by 1970 and there is a lot of proof to back that up. With grappling, it would make the most sense to strike instead of trying to grapple back since the opponent is already some steps ahead and likely has a better understanding of grappling. With grappling you can’t protect your body which is now open to strikes especially the groin, eyes and feet/shins.

[@nmr20067]

@@SuperMaryu767 I’m not saying you have to be a grappler in the streets or do BJJ. I actually think 1 to 2 years of American Folkstyle wrestling is enough and maybe even better than BJJ. What I did say it is really easy for someone to say I’m a stand up fighter and I will never grapple or allow someone to grapple me…. Yeah, okay. The reality of the streets is that it won’t always be your choice, especially if you were surprised attacked, which happens everyday in the “street.” Many street attacks are a surprise... just Google or KZbin unprovoked attacks in America, Europe and Latin America. I hear you not on initiating the grappling yourself by way of the BJJ clinch to the ground or double leg etc... Okay, fine. My thing is Bruce still knew, practiced and understood grappling. You have to. Do you know how many boxers will say I’ll never let somebody grab me. Boxer Devin Haney said he’ll never let 6’5 250 Bradley Martin grab him in a street fight fight. He’s only 5’7 walks around at 150-160. Two other boxers Eyan Garcia and Terrence Crawford said that’s BS… It’s easy to say, I’ll knock you out or put you down before you do it? Yeah, that’s assuming your attacker is an untrained person you see standing right in front of you.. and even untrained people can attack you suddenly from the back or side in the street.. I’ve seen people get headlock from behind and didn’t even see the person. I’m saying you at least better know how to defend at least have a rudimentary knowledge of grappling and BJJ, especially today. Again, does that mean you have to initiate it? No. Of course not. But the rise in popularity of MMA on every Saturday night is in our culture now and has people who are unskilled emulating the moves... And a poorly implemented headlock or choke is worse from an untrained street person.. They’ll put you away by accident by holding the choke too long… Plenty of video online showing in America and Brazil. Today, you better grappling and how to counter it. I know Bruce would agree…

[@SuperMaryu767]

@@nmr20067 Actually bruce have talked about grappling and countering by saying this: "The best fighter is not a boxer, a karate or a judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a boxer, throws too good for a karate man and punches too good for a judo man." He understood that you don’t copy the other person since they might know the style then you do. You don’t try to out box mike Tyson or out grapple the Gracie’s. You exploit the style's weakness.

[@Yoandrys23]

First, the term MMA was created on the spot, and it makes no sense if you think about it for five seg. MMA is mostly composed of Boxing (Not a Martial Arts), BJJ (Not a martial art), Wrestling (Not a martial art), Kick boxing (Not a martial art). So, it is a mix of combat techniques and combat sports. Martial arts have a cultural heritage component. MMA is too unstructured, too diverse, too young, and too global for martial arts, same as JKD which was never intended as a Martial Arts and its more like a philosophy or a system.

[@Bartron_Flat_Earth]

? 🙄 Martial arts is fighting, that's all it is

[@Yoandrys23]

@@Bartron_Flat_Earth In that case, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is 50 times more Martial artist than Bruce Lee. Gen Pop Prison martial arts´s heaven, Streetbeefs martial arts heroes.

[@Bartron_Flat_Earth]

@@Yoandrys23 Floyd is a rat 😆 Martial Arts is just FIGHTING