Sorry Mr. Beasley, you are not a certified Jeet Kune Do instructor so I am not sure how Panther Productions were able to ask you to do a series on JKD. What I see is your interpretation of JKD not what Bruce Lee or Dan Inosanto teach. ANYONE WATCHING THIS DISMISS THIS IMMEDIATELY AND FIND AN ACTUAL CERTIFIED JEET KUNE DO INSTRUCTOR
Hey bud. I didn’t see anything wrong with MR BEASLEYS JKD. It might not be the way I like to tweak it. But it was sound. That said. Certified doesn’t mean shhhhh. Ok. There are PLENTY of people who practice JKD, policeman, fireman, UFC FIGHTERS and firmer athletes. Who have pedigrees way above any kind of tutorial of seminar. That said. If you spent years under a master. I’d listen to you, but that’s no guarantee the person can fight. I do follow DAN INOSANTO in lock step mind you, so I do agree about that.
JKD: Absorb what is useful and discard what isn't. I find this useful so I am going to make some use of it. Bruce Lee was always experimenting and looked at dozens of different martial arts and from each of these incorporated techniques into his system of fighting. He was just building on what was already there; he didn't just pull it out of the vacuum. I believe Bruce Lee was reluctant to give his method any name (1) to avoid plagiarism and (2) as once you give something a name, you impose limitations, which opposes adaption and fluidity. Certification means nothing if it's a copy of something else, which JKD is. It is based on Wing Chun and all the other styles he copied from. In all fairness, all martial arts are a copy of something that came before.
I see nothing wrong with his expression personally I always look at him as a Modern JeetKuneDo certified expert for years even before I start studying the system he's one of the practitioner old instructor who's expression of JKD system I respect its simplified useful easy to understand
