JKD INSTRUCTOR REACTION To Ramsey Dewey Bruce Lee's Strong Side Forward Video  

Thank you for reacting to this video. A lot of people with lower or no understanding of the interceptive nature of real Jeet kune do and its connection with fencing, will still not understand your comments, but its OK...JKD is what it is. Some can get it some can not. Please keep sharing the truth.

Ramsey Dewey has a good understanding of MMA (sport) fighting and a real passion for it, but clearly he has not tasted JKD cup yet. He only presented his point of view, based of what he knows.... Your response video is GREAT!!!

Having your dominant weapon in front gives you the advantage to intercept quicky and accuratey without you being telegraphed. As a JKD practitioner who trained under Ted Wong student, I've sparred alot of Muay Thai and BJJ practitioners here in the philippines and I can say that I can easily intercept or interrupt their attack by using simple angle straight lead punch or lead (mid/low) side kick. Sometimes I regret not to continue my carrer and join our local MMA here, just to show how great the concept of jkd is.

Thanks for leading the way and being an advocate for the truth.

He' s presenting his opinion in a quite silly way, though very masterfuly... Nice, logical and natural counter Thomas.

My teacher had a great expression, he would say, "they think they know". Very applicable towards Mr Dewey.

Terrence Crawford recently destroyed Errol Spence Junior fighting with his strong side forward the entire fight. A Jeet Kune Do man can analyze that fight and find many hallmarks of Jeet Kune Do. Especially the effectiveness of Crawford’s strong hand lead power jab.

Bruce Lee's science is sound. The science is the power hand requires less acceleration to do damage - the weaker hand needs more time and distance to accelerate hence why it is the back hand. It was back in 1994 when I learned it and switched to power hand forward and I've never looked back.

Thomas ,you have to realize 1 no matter how good you are ,Bruce ,Beatles, some 1 always finds what they can talk negatively.They don't see truth.they can only see negative

This guys MMA fight record is 3 wins, 4 losses. He's as amature as it gets. His footwork and striking looks like crap. His MMA fights show how slow and really, sloppy he is. This all sounds mean spirited I know, but it's true. He has no business giving an opinion on an art as technical as JKD, that he clearly doesn't understand. A great response and explanation is given here by Thomas Marx, a real JKD teacher.

Yes. JKD is to finalize . To close. To finish. The only bad thing seen in the video? Is ring sport training compared to street. That will always bring arguments. Great video of Jeet Kune Do.

In my opinion, correct me if I'm wrong Thomas, but JKD is not sheild and sword. JKD is parrying dagger and sword. Typically a parrying dagger is held in the rear hand.

Dan Inosanto said Bruce had incredible knockout power in his lead , he also said that the majority of trained fighters will never achieve that level of power and speed that Bruce had. I'm sure Tommy Carruthers has knockout power in his lead hand.

I train in HEMA, we hold the buckler or dagger in the left hand, sword in the right.

Ramsey Dewey probably haven't heard of Marvin Haggler, one of the greatest boxers to ever live with a strong KO power. Marvin Haggler is a right handed southpaw. De la Hoya and Miguel Cotto are left handed orthodox. Also, I am going to bet that Pacquiao is a right handed southpaw because on many occasions, you could see him write or eat using high right hand. The reason why we have very few southpaw boxers is simply because we have very few trainers that can train southpaws. Hence why some left handed boxers become orthodox. P.S. I am a Jeet Kune Do practitioner by the way and I was orthodox initially because my first art was kickboxing based Karate. I find myself doing better when I went for southpaw. Of course, everyone tends to be comfortable at this or that. It's really all up to you. In my case, yes. Transitioning to southpaw wasn't easy. But it was worth it. I also did not neglect training my left hand and left leg.

Veŕy well deconstructed video, thank you!

JKD seems like an advanced martial art, putting speed, distance, power and interception. I think it works best when you have close to Bruce lee attributes. speed, power, timing.

IKR @10:39 The left hand in the bia Jong stance works as a perfect shied to deflect or parry or intercept. Sadly Dewey does not know what he is talking about, he needs to empty his cup. I paused the video, but you even finished my exact thought you can even intercept with a left punch talk about versatility.

And when standing strong side forward and being right handed would give the appearance that you were south paw, which would also make it tougher for your opponent.

Bruce lee talked about the difference between a real fight and a sport

Bruce Lee stated many times, my truth is not your truth. Do you all understand this?

Appreciate the video 🫵 that guy seems to have a chip on his shoulder. Cant even watch him 🤷‍♂️

The power hand forward can be devastating, look at the long beach demo. he has it 30 centimeters away from Dan, then boom. It' easy to put you weight into that punch generating lots of power and its so quick. You can also keep distance longer, then traditional boxing stance. JKD is more jabbing, then cross's. It's in and out quickly.

And also strong lead hand is good when you need to control the attacker when the fight goes to close range. R.D. doesn't understand basic concepts of self-defence.

I m glad your counter pointing on Dewey s take on his own non sensibility. He should stick to MMA commentating

and jkd is self defence not for sport , dustin porier , marvin hagler are right handed south paw just off the top of my head , also lomo who is a martial artist who chose boxing dewy is ok but , sometimes a fool

many fighters do this great fighters as well ,

Really good. Many thanks.👍

I am a Concepts instructor looking into Sifu TC's program to get more experience regarding what Bruce did. This concept should not be hard to grasp though. The strong hand is usually slower. We put it in front to increase the speed because it is closer. Rear hand then gains power due to increased distance and velocity. In Concepts they talk about it but don't train it. It baffles me.

I do prefer the tone of the video rather than comments. Better to go at the arguments than personal attacks against Ramsey Dewey. I appreciate his content just as much as the JKD videos on your channel. 😊

Ramsey is a joke. I have fought in real fights, actual real situations, against single and multiple opponents, I have also sparred boxers, MT and TMA fighters, and unorthodox, strong side forward stance worked extremely well for me. I was never formally trained in JKD, but used many of its concepts, and never felt more efficient. Ramsey himself isn’t a top level fighter, just an average martial artist. No idea why he has such a big ego thinking he can critique someone else. Moreover, most people miss the point of Bruce’s demonstration - it wasn’t a real fight and they weren’t going all out. Bruce was just doing a semi-chill demonstration of sparring with full body gear on. Gosh, people like Ramsey and Icey Mike ought to be grateful to pioneers like Bruce - without him, they wouldn’t even have a channel that mattered.

Boxers manny pacquiao and vasile lomachencho both are right handed but fight I south paw position.

Good to correct these silly comments about JKD. There is too much misinformation about JKD (especially about JFJKD). Mainly due to opinions. We should always self educate and test before making "intellectual" statements. WELL DONE 👍🏻

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Sportfighting tactics or NOT streetfighting tactics. Apples vs pears. I wonder if Dewey realises this? Thinking like a sportfighter is not going to help on the street.

Super Response!

Which stance depends on gloves and rules. Clearly, weak side forward is what works best in the boxing ring, with boxing rules.

Great rebuttle, very well said. Here's a bit extra that may help you out. About 90% of the earth's population are right handed. The real reason in sport that the left lead is adopted is to make it safer for the athletes as the weaker and less controllable side will be doing most strikes. In JKD there is no sport it is a combat art so the power side forwards principle is primal to do the most damage the quickest and the rear left weaker side when needed can travel further to gain power. Simple. Its all about context. Cheers, peace bro.

I'm a Jeet kune do student and I have been mostly training strong forward. But I'm starting to think that left forward will probably work better for me so I've gotta start training it more. Both methods have merit your way is not the only way. Also we get it. Kicking the nuts or going for the eyes is more effective in a self defense situation. You can't do that in sparring it's not a sustainable way to train. We get it. It's an effective strike. But you can't be kicking your training partners in the balls. That's a crappy thing to do.

This guy Ramsey Dewey has a crap MMA record. I believe he’s lost more than he’s won, I don’t think he should be teaching or be in any position to teach.

I'm training jkd I want to get in to mma and show that bruce knew best it's sad that there ain't more fighters fighting in the cage to show that it is effective in the street and for cage with few adjustments

Every time someone talks about Bruce Lee, they never talk about return of the dragon, enter the dragon, and the deleted scenes from game of death. That’s where Bruce Lee was headed.

I think a pay for view fight is in order!!

100pro deiner Meinung!!! Bin grade erst bei min 10 ca aber sehes es genauso

How many real fights have any one really had?? One must get losses to really understand what the HELL is really goin on from the initial start of the fight,The Fight before the Fight where most Freeze or think too much ect ect Like mike tyson bruce lee had lots of real street fighting and it made them killers❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hi Thomas, Ramsey Dewey did a new video about JKD. Maybe you want to do a reply video to these claims too. He did it with the RU-vidr "Martial Arts Journey", they talk about women self defense, but they say many wrong things about JKD. I cant post direct links otherwise the comment isnt visible, but go in the searchbox for "Martial Arts For Women Self Defense ranked ft Ramsey Dewey". After 1 hour, 7 minutes and 30 seconds they speak about JKD.

See the probem Thomas, this guy wants to be an famous "psyco actor philosopher trying to get in in people's minds, and he succeds because the fact is that there are Luniees out there calling themselves Martrial Artists and are beliving his rubbish 😂😅 Thanks Thomas for showing the World scientific facts about the Art in a simple and "clean whay".

RD is comparing a sport to a street fight. There is a world of difference. Take it from an expert. Mike Tyson, the Heavyweight Champion of the world said this about his street fight with Mitch Green: I was nervous. I hadn't had a street fight in seven years. I was scared.

Leg check removes your ability to move, no wonder Muai Thai loves to take damage.

For weak or who are not good enough or speed enough do the basic cus you can't cause a devastating blow with lead hand front. that's it . After all that philosophy and intelligence didn't you realized that Bruce hadn't studied all that moves ? And btw even Bruce may have started with weak hand front .....da

' absorb what is USEFUL ..... remove what is USELESS ..... and make it YOUR OWN ' - Bruce Lee With those wise words being said, each discipline is different. Each personal style of fighting is different. Yes, in most sport fighting you put your strong hand to the rear because that's your knockout hand and you want the MOST POWER in that hand which comes from distance. We know this, we know the science of that. For ME, yes I have more balance when my right hand is forward and I knew that BEFORE JKD.. Dan inosanto teaches you to use what is most comfortable for you ALTHOUGH yes, to come away from what Bruce taught, he Indeed likes when students go weak side forward as well as strong side forward but that's just how he saw the progression of JKD. I respect all fighters that know their craft and fight with honor. Most fighters are indeed taught to always have your power hand to the rear due to that's your knockout punch. We know JKD isn't designed that was cause quite honestly ..... Bruce Lee wanted fights to be done fast ......heck, before they even PHYSICALLY START and that's another topic. In the street .....in won't matter anyway unless you've trained and trained and trained for it. In the street ...... you got 30 seconds at best. Hit first ..... hit often ...... hit last That's my two cents. Great video !!!!!

“ JKD is Rapier and Dagger “but that attack can only be allowed to come into the picture at all when it is employed as an auxiliary to defence and that the strongest form of defence is a vigorous attack, carried out mainly and almost entirely with a view to the minimising of the risk, or the repulse, of all counter-attack. And this is where the straight left comes in. Not, as is usually supposed, mainly as a mode of attack, but rather as a more effective and valuable means of keeping an opponent at a respectable distance. As already observed, the science of modern boxing, as instituted by Figg and Broughton, was and always has been a material development of the art of fenc-ing. It is practically sword fencing without a sword and in all its movements follows, or rather should follow, the same principles’ - Jim Driscoll Note- in his book he explains that using the left is simply traditional. But he emphasized putting full power into the lead hand (in his case the left)

Get in the ring with these guys, spar with there rules, then post that video, you in the ring with them showing how good you are!

I believe your channel would have more Subscribers if you become more articulate in how you deliver your thought into words. and maybe a better Microphone when demonstrating something in your other videos.

Who's this Ramsey Dewey???

MMA guys like t bash Bruce, but what re: fighters leading right while right-handed?!??

They use the left in front to play a game ...

It's the same arguments over and over again from tradional martial arts. You mentioned the groin SEVERAL times in the video as if that's the holly technique that MMA does not allow and that can win you a fight instantly. A strike to the groin is not magical, you're not going to completely, instantly stop anyone with that. You know about Vale Tudo? Early UFC? They allowed strikes to the groin and people still had to fight, they still needed fight skills to win. Man, if removing groin strikes from JKD makes it not work, it just does not work for fighting man. If JKD really works, it should work in MMA without groin strikes. If your martial art only works if you're allowed to do something very specific and if that's removed you can't use it what kind of martial art are you training? That doesn't work, man. If you want something effective, do something that works everytime. MMA works in sport, works in self defense and works if you have groin strikes or not. We have so much evidence in video of what works and what doesn't. You see BJJ working in self defense situations, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Wrestling, Boxing, etc. Why don't you see videos of Jeet Kune Do, Kung-fu and Aikido working in the same situations? If they work for fighting we should see that, but we don't. Think about that for a minute. And I'm talking about actual proof, not claims because anybody can make a claim. I could see you got a lot of things wrong in this video so I'm going to address some of it: 04:53 - You don't do a better job with your lead hand forward. That is simple physics, your lead hand can't generate as much power as the other one. So why would you hinder yourself by doing that? If you keep your stronger punch in the back you're gonna generate much more power. That's also the reason why fighters do that, it's not just because they're taught that way. Modern martial arts don't do things because of tradition mostly, they keep what's useful and discard what's not. 6:33 - Why wouldn't anybody check kicks? You can't evade all the time. Sometimes checking a kick is more eficient and training how to that gives the option to evade or check whenever it's necessary. Saying you don't need to check kicks is just not true. Go test that with a Muay Thai fighter and ask him to just kick you while you try to avoid him. 07:44 - That's not just due to the rules. You think kicking somebody's leg does not deal massive damage? You really believe there's no benefit to leg kicking in the thigh or calf? If you can't use your leg, you can't fight. There's plenty of fights out there in video of people getting kicked to the thigh multiple times and just not being able to move properly anymore. Just because it is a big meaty muscle it doesn't mean you can't inflict serious effective damage on it. Also, in MMA you can kick to the calf which is a small muscle that can also suffer a lot of damage and you can kick to the knee, no rule against it. MMA fighters kick the thigh because it's effective, not because they don't have other options. 09:05 - This idea that if you remove groin strikes or pokes to the eye you can't use your martial art is just very weird. If your martial art is all about eye pokes and strikes to the groin and if you remove that you can't do anything else why would you train that? It's just a crappy martial art. Other martial arts give you plethora of things to do in many situations. And we have tons of evidence of modern martial arts working in self defense situations ("on da streetz") while the arts where people say it's actually for the streets there's none or close to none. If JKD really works for fighting you should be able to use it in MMA or Kickboxing, even without groin strikes and eye pokes. And this idea of someone just turning off (or breaking down like you said in 09:45) out of a sudden because they've been hit in the groin it not reality. Sure, groin strikes are effective and painful and you can use them for self defense, but it does not mean if you strike someone in the groin you win. That person will still attack and hurt you, you gotta know how to defend yourself in all aspects of fighting (striking to the entire body, grappling, clinching, etc). If JKD works for fighting it works for MMA. If it does not work for MMA it does not work for fighting. Also, same to what you said about the lead hand: Simple physics say you can't generate as much power kicking the way you're describing. If you put your leg behind and kick with it turning your body it will generate much more power. 12:57 - Would you care to explain why a kick to the head would not work? I mean, sure, you could kick the groin in that situation and it would be effective, but why kicking the head wouldn't? What is the logic behind that? You think you can't get a KO with a head kick? Plenty of fights end with a head kick. I don't understand your logic here. 14:10 - Not true. In MMA you can attack the head, the arms, the torso, the thighs, the calfs, the knees... You can attack pretty much anywhere with a kick except to the groin and the back of the head. What you're saying makes no sense. How can he know where he's getting hit because there are limited options of places to kick your opponent in MMA? The options are not limited at all, quite the opposite. And you really think kicks to the ribs make no difference? You can break your ribs getting kicked there, my friend. You can get hit in the liver and lose right there (which actually is much more efficient in "breaking down" people than groin strike contrary to popular belief). 14:17 - He's bringing he's hands up because that's an effective guard to defend against strikes to the head. Getting hit in the head is how KOs happen, it's important to defend you head. It has nothing to do with the head being the only good option for his opponent to hit because of the rules. 14:57 - That is simply a lie. There is absolutely no rule in Mixed Martial Arts stating you gotta have your stronger hand in the back and your weaker hand as the lead. People do it because it works. Ok, I'm gonna stop here because this comment is already too long and I see no point in continuing watching. But man, I'm not here to say if JKD works or not, but you can think for yourself if it works or not. Do you see yourself in the cage fighting someone? Even if there are no rules? Do you really believe that if a JKD practitioner goes into a fight with a MMA fighter he's going to win? Deep down you know the truth.

Jkd is not for everyone but everyone benefits from it

I’ve asked Ramsey Dewey to spar - no answer from him yet. I think he is jealous of Bruce’s body, power and most of all, hair. I have hair loss too but no issue with it. Ramsey obviously is green with hair envy.