Is Jeet Kune Do an Effective Self Defense form? • ft. Matt Thornton

Many see that martial arts such as Aikido are not effective for self defense but still believe Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun to be so. In this video I'll talk with Matt Thornton, a martial arts legend who has been an instructor in Jeet Kune Do, yet was able to see it's flaws and went on the path to functionalize his martial arts. He will explain in a simple manner why Jeet Kune Do is not actually and functional martial art and why it is so.
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Now to come back to the subject of whether Jeet Kune Do is an Effective Self Defense form, we need to look at the details of what an effective self defense form is. As Matt Thornton very well said in this interview segment: you can not expect a martial art to be functional if you do not include alive training with resistance. That applies as much for Aikido as much as Jeet Kune Do or Wing Chun.
Although Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun appear more "realistic" and more as an effective self defense form, without proper training methods one can not expect it to really be effective for self defense. Jeet Kune Do (or JKD) also has a lot of techniques which are more favored by traditional martial arts which are clearly not effective for self defense which is interesting, because it clearly gives trouble for the vision of Bruce Lee that he had for Jeet Kune Do.
If you ask Matt Thornton whether he still does Jeet Kune Do, he would say yes, not because the forms of JKD are still used, but mainly because he follows the vision of Bruce Lee of looking at what is effective and what can be applied for self defense. This is something that would should all look for as well.
So in the end if Jeet Kune Do is an Effective Self Defense form or not, you will have to decide for yourself. Yet after listening to this talk with Matt Thornton I think you will have an easier time figuring it out.