Kali JKD Trapping-Paul Vunak 

The Bob Ross of fighting. This dude is still changing lives! 🤙🏻

What a great instructor. Vunak was amazingly progressive. He saw the value of incorporating Muay Thai into their training way before the MMA world noticed it, and apparently he was also the guy who convinced Inosanto to start incorporating BJJ into JKD.

I went to go see him back in 1988 originally. That man had a lot of answers in what i was looking for. An intelligent view to realistic fighting back when most were doing patterns of some sort. His teachings influenced the way i teach JKD today. :)

Paul was such a bad ass, he knew what's up back then, way ahead of his time. To his respect very awesome, I enjoy and feel blessed by his teachings, very rare man here folks, Mr. Vunak understood and applied jkd concepts to the essence. Man , I never met him but I have most of his DVDs and this guy's is for real... Very few are the elect remnants of Dan inosanto... Ron Balicki,yori Nakamura just to name a few are real badasses... No disrespect to others, you know who you are, Richard bustillo, Taki kimura, Larry hartsell, Ted Wong, Ted lucay lucay, James demil, Tim tacket, Bob Bremer, James Lee, Chris Kent, and many more... You know who you are..." The real ones"

This man impressed me and inspires me in the 90s. After watching and training the „JKD Streetfighting Series“ i begann to train JKD.

Very informative, thank you Paul.

This is from his first JDK series from 1988, the tape was called simply "JKD - Trapping", it also featured young Marc Denny of DogBrothers.

This is gold pay attention to what this man says I have been through wrestling,Karate,judo & jiu jit su, and boxing. but learning how to put all useful combat together is great thing to see you can learn more from these videos than your local martial arts studios

Great classic vid, great to see Paul at his best and Marc Denny together!

Dang that was a blast from the past. I remember seeing this from Paul years ago and it always stuck with me. The power of the mullet!!👊🏼

It's aways good to come back to these vids to touch base. The concepts are universal and transferable. Whilst MMA/BJJ is good stuff and a vital support system for when it goes to the ground, a viable armoury of infighting and dirty tricks is always a good place to start. Video's by the likes of Paul and Dan certainly made be rethink my own approach to Japanese Ju-Jitsu and the bridge from punching and kicking to grappling range..

Paul was my teacher of Kali and JKD. He was and is still amazing and yeah we were 30 years ahead of our time. It's only now in 2020 that MMA is starting to do what we were doing back in the 1980s and they still have much to learn.

@w0rdisbond WTF?!? This guy was taught by Dan Inosanto, Who was taught by Bruce Lee. Of course this will not be exactly the same as Bruce Lee's form of fighting but that's pretty normal. That's what Bruce would have wanted! He didn't want people to copy his fighting style but to use his concept to develop a style of their own. And VUNAK! Did just that, effectively!

I been in JKD for years and I love Paul Vunak's way of teaching and instruction. I would do anything if I could train with him just for a day!!

Saw this on VHS in the early 90s. You can tell he understands what Bruce Lee was trying to teach, the idea of not one style but a flow of strikes that emphasize efficiency, to end a fight fast.

this is a great vid of Paul ! Good explanation of his program

If given the choice between sight or sound you would certainly choose sight"....Paul for years now is someone I have only been hearing about.

This is a really nicely made and explained vid. 👍🏻

Thank you for this great lesson it was very informative . I hope I never have to use it but the tools are there and ready

there were no dvds in this times little man vhs :P

I wished he had a dvd series on trapping progression. slow it down and step by step. it is all too fast to comprehend. He is amazing!

Surprisingly good asmr

I saw his dvd last year and it was awesome. What the name of the rock song at the beginning of the tape? Please let me know.

Post coke, pre meth, prime Vu. When he was the fighter of the family. Panther and TRS were great tapes.

Great video...

08:50 what happened in Silva v Weidman 2

Beautiful old school JKD!

This is one if the best vids I've seen on jkd concepts and Kali entries. Both brutal and deadly effective combat arts - not sports

When he starts sparring and moving around the trapping seems to go out the window.

what is the title of this video? Do you know where i can buy it?

Destructions are underrated, imo.

I gota buy this tape man Paul is the man.

I love it

is it true that close proximity of opponent acts your pre-built in defense

JKD is what you take with you and can apply effectively.your path may not be my path,but they probably lead to the same place.

Lost art. So, effective.

I trained for years with this stuff when I was younger. I can say that some of that stuff just didn’t work full speed. Good luck zoning out with foot work while trapping a jab. Whenever I boxed the only thing I was ever able to catch full speed on a consistent basis from a fast jab was the elbow destruction to the hand. There is no way you are going to zone out with footwork and catch a jab at the same time unless you are fighting a sloth.

I have problem! Not very many people took JKD because there are no dojo. Now in future you can buy dvd set and show up and get certified. How long does it take to get a jkd dojo in Reno Nevada and else where. America need chain school for jkd please apply!

Butt the bag two hours a day? Shaolin monks: Challenge accepted.

source?

what martial art is this?

Wouldn’t Judo or Greco Roman style be good here too ?? Lots of great info here

Why didn't he demonstrate the butt slamming the groin technique?

Hey man, which Paul Vunak DVD is this clip from?

crazy to see Master Marc as a student but as he says we all started at the bottom ;)

whhat do u guys think, does this stuff work? Please give feedback

What intense speed this man has! 6:19-6:22

@osensei2987 how do you know ß where can I read about that ß

Christ, he's fast.

What happened to Paul?

Thanks man and i do believe it works i was just curious to ask because of some ddumb ass comments ive saw.

A very young Paul Vunak and Marc Denny

Vunak is a beast.

The enemy he doesn't even want to know what happens when I get to my groin

@Pitboss306 ok, thx

Was there a name for this video series?

god bless

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That 6:10 to 6:36 illustrates real application.

@BratanDimon Uh ....! Yeah! Paul Vunak is stone cold mad! He went out and tested these techniques in actual street fights.

what do you think guys- is it good for self-defense on street-fight ?

He forgot pumbling/ clinch range which is slightly closer than trap range. More combative & rudimentary than trapping, IMO trapping should've taught as advanced technique

Add what is Usefull but it must not take away from that which is simple. Blocking is a low level but we All do It. Parrying is more advanced but still a low level. Evade. Slip Snap Back Counter Intercept Not just kick the Balls. IF THE ATTACK COMES FROM THE CENTER ATTACK AT AN ANGLE " Semi Circle" IF THE ATTACK COMES FROM AN ANGLE. ATTACK THE CENTER. simple

Jim 10 \ 10

I have a ton of Vunak DVD's. The stuff sounded great and looks awesome, and a good bit of it is relevant, particularly the emphasis on headbutts knees and elbows, etc. However, after spending a few years actually training in Krav Maga, and doing a LOT of full contact sparring and fighting with gear with full speed and force and a variety of different opponents, you really get to see how insanely difficult and flat out impractical trapping is in most situations. If you go around with the mindset of trapping punches, or expect people to just let their arms linger there waiting for you to take them, you will get hurt. There are definitely "traps" that are useful in certain contexts and situations, but not these wing-chun style ones trying to pluck strikes out of the air.

I'm not trying to shit on this guy as a martial artist but I just don't how anyone could pull off the limb destruction thing in real time.

Good friends with a guy who trained with Paul.

This is vintage vunak

@Pitboss306 No, KALI is a weapon art first! They teach the weapon FIRST! But what you learn with the weapon translate into empty hand!

Hmm... I wonder if Jiujutsu would flow well with this. My personal opinion is never to get on the ground, that's where the guys buddies are able to stomp on you, and that's just a general philosophy of mine and not related to any specific art. I am sure I'm not alone in this. On your feet you are mobile and fluid. So escape from the ground is important to me, I don't want to be comfortable there... But I wonder if Jiujutsu would help in that matter. But then again, he is explaining here that this is merely regarding trapping range, the working range of these close in fighting styles (as opposed to the flashy kicks of TKD and others similar). I am just looking into Kali-JKD and have a school near by, so as you might tell so far I don't know much of anything about this art. JKD = a Philosophy as I understand it, not an art in and of itself. It can borrow from many different arts to suit the purpose for YOU or just ME. So if you are using Kali as a base, a JKD philosophy would allow you to add in many things from other styles if it goes well with your flow. So Muay Thai and Wing Chun techniques could make their way into what you are doing if those techniques work in your flow... Or your fighting methods. Through this you create a system for YOU which works well for YOU... Your own style. What is right for you isn't always right for another. I took Tai Kwon Do as a kid. It's not for me, but it may be for someone else. But the lower, shorter kicks of Thai Fighting... THOSE have worked well for me. But so far everything I have learned has made me into a stand up MMA sort, and not even a good one at that. But it's worked.... Now I look at Kali and think it may be for me. I plan to take some classes to see how I think of it. I think I should find at least some art and stick to it, in that I should stay in it long enough to say this is what I base my fighting style on. I've taken Tai Kwon Do, karate, boxed a bit, even went to some "Ninjutsu Dojo" (Rolling my eyes here, the dude was a joke). But I've never stayed with any of them.

in the street, you wont have boxing gloves on.. we feel safer with them, But take them away and you have bare knuckles, elbows and teeth flying, broken nose, rapid heart rate, so to learn trapping skills are made to survive a street confrontation! a must. perfect for in a airplane, train, or anyplace where their is limited room.. think about it.

Functional trapping...

Conor used the shoulder to destroy Cowboy Cerrone.

gun range works for me everytime

I trained with Paul several times. Great experience, great martial artist. Crazy as hell too. I won't reveal hhis secrets, just have to trust me. Kevin Gallagher

To really learn how to utilize trapping watch: HAWAII MMA KUNG FU or BRUCE LEE CHI SAO

Unfortunately the reality is to be a great street fighter you need to actually street fight and get used to the stress of it

This guy hasn't seen Conor McGregor throw a shoulder lol.

Master Paul Vunak would own any MMA fighter and defeat them with ease.

Wing chun and boxing dude drop the kali and Just interccept all his movvemeent

Well,all i can say,Paul Vunak was,is and will be a great JKD instrcutor,and jkd works as fillipino martial arts is very usefull in urban surrounding,but paul is right,so if you dont have range control,nothing works..

Some of it works some of it won't all depending upon who you're up against. Most aren't very good street fighters and street fighting in general is sloppy, unorganized and lazy. Some people can take vast amounts of punishment and some cannot. If youre a well trained and tough fighter odds are you'll take most street fighters. A rare few are tough as nails, smart concerning tactics and accurate. Most aren't.

高手。

@rkcsam69 I heard he is very cocky as well. I've never met him, so I don't have an opinion. But i've heard that from a few people.

I haven't practiced that much lately a natural at close combat not advanced to lethal standards doe

Vunak vs Bruce ,would love to see that.

loool is guro marc ahaha .

@w0rdisbond So what do you propose. Screw 4 ranges? Screw Kali trapping? Come on. You need some understanding of what's up. And you are stuck within a boundary. "Classical, non-classical"? What the hell does it even matter. If it works, you use it. Old or new. If you think that you could just be a JKD fighter without even understanding some of these principles. You've got a long way to go. Yes. Bruce said this, Bruce said that. But Bruce studied other arts before he said anything.

It's just a game in kicking and boxing range and the fight doesn't start till you enter trapping range (@2:46)? Not really. Ask the millions of street fighters, kickboxers, and MMA fighters that have been KOd by a kick or stung by a jab so bad that it sets up a finish. I like Paul Vunak's teaching but some things should be questioned, even from him.

That's cool , but I want to see him fight a MEXICAN

What ya Smokin dude, Thats not True. we are talkin bout Boxing and wing chun.

lol.

no it doesnt, it's not like a jeet kune do and kali expert and a former trainer of navy seals in combatives is any good at all in the streets..... haha, it works and if you dont believe what you see, do it yourself. Only you can find the real truth.

Vunak is a genius too bad he got cocky. He trained with Inosanto and Lee

This is bad advice, always keep people outside of striking range, if you cant escape then close the distance fast and take them down to the ground. If there is more than 1 person run, you cant win a 2 on 1 fight. If they are way bigger and taller than you run, if they have a weapon run. Take jiu jitsu classes and learn how to take someone down. Learn how to control them and get mount. All this stuff is bullshit, jiu jitsu class your actually taking people down over and over for hrs everyday, opponents that dont want to be taken down. How much more real than that can you get? This crap will get you hurt.

you clearly don't understand the power of the easyness of this method ... continue watching movies pretending they're the reality

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Strange how Vunak pushes this mixture of different arts but Bruce Lee didn’t. Bruce Lee didn’t do thai boxing. Bruce Lee stopped doing trapping. Inosanto’s JKD concepts is NOT Bruce Lee’s JKD. This video is an example of the classical mess Bruce Lee talked about avoiding. Sloppy, indirect overly complicated and inefficient.

Trapping range doesn't really exist. Watch the sparring again, he can only trap when his training partner stops attacking. There are only 3 ranges in stand up. The kicking range, punching range and wrestling/clinch range. Try Trapping on anyone that knows any wrestling, you will get fucked. I give leeway on this video because its before the UFC was invented.

such a misconception of JKD, apparently the man hasn't read any of Bruce's writings, i.e.: Fighting Method, Tao of Jeet Kune Do. You are not a Thai Fighter, you are not a wing chun man...you are a JKD man, plain and simple. JKD is not the mixing and matching of martial arts. Word for word from the TAO.