Bare Knuckle Fencing: How Jeet Kune Do Creates Power 

Nice work!! Great video on the basics and foundation of Jeet Kune Do!

as a fencing instructor you have given me something to consider some of the ways I teach my art.

JKD I absolutely love 🥊🥊

JKD Lead hand= Bladed stance, 3/4 or vertical fist, 'Hammer Principle' ( from fencing, move the hand first, dropping towards target,) Explosive fencing like burst of rear leg, Upper body twirl (Jack Dempsey,) fist lands before the lead foot hits the ground (Jack Dempsey, ) hit with bottom three Knuckles (Jack Dempsey.) These are all the components that make a JKD lead hand powerful. Bruce incorporated Boxing, fencing and specific things form Jack Dempsey into this punch.

For only attending one class, you picked up a lot! Nice video as usual!

“The majority of people who practice Jeet Kune Do are mixed up, they think it should be a part of Wing Chun, a part of MMA, a part of Thai boxing, a part of wrestling, you know, a part of Wing Chun, which this is completely incorrect. You don't go from style to style, you go from distance to target or target to distance. Longest weapon to the nearest target and the most direct and efficient route possible, that is Jeet Kune Do.” - Tommy Carruthers

Very informative. Great work Rob!

Good video man... I took the jkd stance and strikes (lefthanded doing traditional) and combined the MT kick (especially switch steps) so it helped get the power back in the rear strikes...

Good vid bro....following!

I've read thing or two 'bout Jeet Kune Do - but this video opened my eyes to Jeet Kune Do in a totally new way

Awesome channel dude, I like your style and your take on other styles, thank you for creating and sharing.

I’m too late to this video… But I love the simplicity of this whole video… Been wanting to learn JKD for a long time now and been YouTubing many videos here and there to master the basics and this one right here is solid with the basics… Good stuff… Much respect 💪🏾💪🏾

Nice video. Sifu Mike Gittleson is a great instructor. There's more to JKD than what you just picked up from one class, but it's a good start ;-)

My style is no style. - Bruce Lee

You taught me alot! Thanks! 👍🏽

6:48 best explanation of retreating leg! 6:52 best explanation of retreating jab! Whole video was excellent, and well oriented!

I've had some JKD but apparently, I forgot the one skipping footwork pattern, thank you. I last did it around 1991 in Cleveland. Love me some focus mitts. Def. not traditional.

Thank you,,,,, this what I been trying to say for many years now

Lee was a fan of Jack Dempsey's work. His straight lead was also heavily inspired by the way Dempsey throw his jab with the falling step ( jab with your body weight behind it). The way you throw with the rear hand with the rear leg step forward is called trigger step, basically to increase the range of your rear punch. There's another concept that you left out is the High Low concept. Basically if i attack with the lead hand (eye poke, straight lead) then the follow up won't be the rear hand (most of the time) but the lead leg instead with side kick to the leg or front snap kick to the balls (in self defense) or push kick (if i'm doing combat sport). Of course there's another combination to use the rear hand is jab/eye poke to create flinch reaction and used passing step to switch side, get close and barrage them with hooks and uppercuts

Love the sleeping dogs intro music!

Bruce was simply optimizing his main attributes!!!

rule of thumb in jkd: start off every encounter with a kick. Bruce's best practice in one of his books. also to make all kinds of crazy sounds to irritate your opponent. the retreating jab is part of a pendulum movement its also to avoid lower kicks

Bruce Lee: This is not a style, jeet kune do is about using only what you need. I only use what i need and works for me People: Ok, i’m gonna make that a style and copying it (? Ok no, to be fair the video is great, and explain a lot of the basics of jeet kune do, but lots of people thinks that jeet kune do has a proper style to learn, but people shouldn’t try to copy bruce lee moves, because what worked for him may not work for you and me. It’s not about you adapting to jeet kune do, it’s about jeet kune do adapting to you, to have your own jeet kune do

Bruce Lee said " do fencing for six months"

In Europe such approaches to JKD are a rarityv

Interesting, For a while I wondered if you could turn Fencing into a fist style.

When your shoulder is turned against the opponent (3.19) your hit lands him before and he cannot even reach you if you are not dwarf or otherwise short hand (attacker most likely will hit in a box formation, if attacks) but you can. After the first punch comes the back hand. Try it. Basic Silat punch combo. Your first posture is perpendicular to opponent, 1st and 2nd punches comes from the body rotation.

Bare knuckle fencing....fkn right!!

@mariakeller is the channel for my Sifu, Duane Keller. He has black belts under Ted Wong, Joe Lewis, Lamar Davis, and others. I'm not belted, but I trained w him for years. We went over alot of this.

Oh, Bruce. A hundred years ahead of his time.

Yeah he did explained vety clearly for sure, im a chick im 58 years old now 2024, i used to do taekwondo when i started at 16 years old and i used my body weight to lean in to my punches what back then too 😮to me this is normal i showed my son he was 7 years old at the time it was in a after school class first time i said to him to lean in use your body weight ! He did there was kid slot older then him too 14 years olds there to my sons turn the instructor said this boy did it correctly and he very strong hes a natural 😮it was Damiens ever furdt time too. Go boy hes 18 years old today !! So proud of him too awwww❤😊

It meant to be a way of fighting not a style of fighting I thought.

Haha you were here in Colorado??? Nice I've trained with Sifu Mike for a good bit here... I'm one of the other JKD full instructors in Colorado. His gym is a good one!

Be like water. Flow. As Mr Lee said.

4:04 it lands but my opponent isn't dead ... now i want throw second punch 👊

It isn't a style. It's a concept.

Couldn't Savate (which some of JKD's kicks come from) be considered empty handed fencing?

It resembles fencing because the entire basis of JKD footwork IS fencing... he states this clearly in The Tao of JKD books...

Man these comments suuuuck lol. Thankfully this video doesn’t. I love when JKD is given its due instead of being dismissed or worse misrepresented like so many mma inspired channels do. Great job explaining the uniqueness of JKD principles when applied to arts and i love the fencing metaphor.

Instead of stepping out with the rear leg, I step out with the front leg with the cross. Why? It gets your head off the center line.

I do CANE-DO--- and have challenged "jeet kune do" guys.. one in particular- challenged me- and without hesitation, I accepted. He took his bladed position and I could easily see the shoulder lift to tighten and throw his jab-- and smacked his ankle rather sharply with my cane and he was down.. and I didn't have to move.. :) I told him- "you need more practice".. and walked away.. (I need to clarify- I have high ranking black belts in 5 arts- plus jeet kune do and just plain hillbilly mean- also a retired ranger- ex fed bodyguard with over 1000 Transactions- which is what I call fights because someone always pays--- and only 2 losses)... My EXPERIENCE and awareness far outweighed his "know it all" method..

I usually take my Chi Tea with milk and sugar. Saying 'Chi Tea' is a bit like saying 'Tea, Tea', as Chi means Tea in Urudu. What? Oh... Tai Chi, not Chi Tea. Apologies, please continue...

People. like Bruce said, as long as people have two arms and two legs there is only one style, and that is scientific self-defense. Why aren't there a hundred styles of basketball?

Jeet Kune Do does NOT have a distinctive "style"-- it has a distinctive PRINCIPLE-- basic physics PRINCIPLE-- that will work on ANY "style"....

Who would of thought my fighting style imitated Bruce Lee style with little to no effort 😉

You need the hand traps

Dude ill give you my whole paycheck and live in the stret if you come to Missouri and train me.

I also like 52blocks.

Never lower your hands always protect your face

The issue is finding someone who teaches the jeet kune do youre talking about.

actually this "fencing" style is often used to describe wing chun, depending on your lineage. Not surprising, given where BL got his basic training

Actually, that’d be you doing the wrong formation.

You don't use gloves in a real fight, only bare knuckles. Do you carry gloves when walking on the street?

0:13 instructor is doing the wrong fist formation for punching.

3;45 के बाद से आप हग दिए। You just screamed shit after 3:45 .

Too much theory, not enough practical applications. If these boxing applications are valid demonstrate it against a competitive resisting opponent. If you can't, it's just more dry land swimming.

Nice but not quite correct.🤔🤨 When you punch directly with the back hand, you punch like a boxer and not like a JKD practitioner. In JKD, you strike with the back hand without changing the position of your legs while you punch like a boxer, that is not the way of JKD.😵😵‍💫🥴🥶🥵🧐😕😟🙁☹😮😯😲😳🥺😧😱😖😣😞🥱

JKD does strong side forward. So Bruce hypothesis that he could KO people with his lead hand. Think Ryan Garcia.