The Reason Bruce Lee Created Jeet Kune Do • Ft. Burton Richardson and Matt Thornton 

because is not up to you, you can come across one who is capable of taking you down specially if stumble down alone with him. moreover, you can give him trouble with striking, that wouldn't probably stop him from taking you down. he probably one who can endure a fight.and if you ain't ready for such grabbing, you probably find yourself waking up from a dream or probably with a broken arm ?

@CharlesBenitez-bt6ci You do realize that everything you said is what I met with Paul De Thouars ridiculous statement of what do you need grappling for?

JKD is indeed the answer to everything. JKD is about adapting and evolving. Evolution is a process, NOT a destination! If they don’t know how to defend against grappling, then it’s not true JKD. Then it just means they’re stuck in old traditions which was not what Lee wanted. BJJ is a part of fighting now, whether people like it or not.

Haaahaaa thanks

William Allen he studied Judo and Catch wrestling under Gene Lebell

@@daxmafesino he learnt from Jesse glover and Fred Sato. Also Japanese jujutsu. Gene Labell had nothing to do with Bruce’s grappling knowledge. He knew all that before he even met Gene.

@@axelstone3131 I know he trained under Fred and Glover but he also trained under Gene. The comment was asking about catch wrestling Bruce has several Catch wrestling moves (Not judo like Glover/Fred) in his books and movies. Also Gene is on Bruce Lees documentary I am Lee Saying he taught Bruce Same movie his family is on and they would have not let him say that if it weren’t true. Last Bruce Lees own student Dan Inosanto and Larry Hartsell mention him training with Gene. In his book Larry says thank God Bruce Learned from Gene!

@@daxmafesino he didn’t. John little disproves this. I have an interview with John on my channel talking about Gene Labelle not being honest about training with Bruce. It wasn’t an uncommon thing for Gene to do. He lied about the seagal thing also. Why would Bruce need to train with 4 to 5 different judo guys? It didn’t make sense. It’s like the lie about Leo fong showing Bruce boxing when he was already boxing back in Hong Kong. People would have you believe Bruce trained with everyone and anything but it’s simply not true. A lot of what he did was self taught.

@@axelstone3131 yeah I disagree, John didn’t train with these guys; If Gene was lying why didn’t his family sue him like they tried to do with Inosanto? Who speaking of Inosanto, Larry Hartsell and Hayward Nishioka all say he trained under Gene. Why would they lie? Gene is even in a documentary with Bruce Lees family saying he trained under them which his family would have in no way approved of. Also why did John little wait til after Genes death to say something hmmm

Oh, we're talking about the name of the art, not the art itself.

Larry Hartsell said in one of his books, thank God Gene LeBell taught Bruce Lee grappling. Larry Hartsell was an original Bruce Lee student, and considered the ‘JKD grappling expert’ of all Lee's students. Larry states that Bruce Lee had 33 grappling techniques in ‘his Jeet Kune Do arsenal’, by the time of his passing that he learned mostly from Gene LeBell the Toughest Man alive. It’s also known that Bruce took lessons and traded knowledge with judo/jiujitsu/grappling experts and friends like Hayward Nishioka, and Wally Jay among other Judo experts. In Bruce Lee’s book “Tao Of Jeet Kune Do”, you can see his personalized drawings and commentaries about grappling/judo/jiujitsu techniques as well. I recommend this book as a prerequisite reading for any serious martial artist. In Bruce Lee’s time it should be stated that stand up fighting was the emphasis of the day, which is why he also greatly admired boxing and the boxers of his day(Muhammad Ali the most). But as his students have always noted about him also as well, Bruce Lee was always looking to improve, modify, evolve his own personal Jeet Kune Do. His martial art, philosophy, was never meant to be static. It was a living and breathing thing. He was less interested in the nationality of an art, or where it came from(though he studied the history of martial arts extensively(he had over 2,000 books in his own personal library),but rather wanted to test a martial art(system/style)for it’s practical functionality in real life situations. As he was noted to say his students,”Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is specifically your own.” So as we can apply this to the martial arts, so too this philosophical principle, can be applied to our ever day as well. It is a testament to Bruce Lee’s enduring contribution to the martial arts, and dare I say, to humanity. I for one, as a martial artist, and a living and breathing human being, am grateful I discovered him at a young age, and still find his words resonate in real life application.

@Nikolaij Brouiller Gene Lebell is arrogant too. So? So much sensationalism

@@davidtice4972why you pushing this lie? Bruce learnt grappling from Jesse glover and Fred Sato, also learn Japanese jujutsu from Wally Jay, and he spent time with Hayward Nishioka. Gene didn’t teach Bruce anything. It’s been a well fabricated lie. John little confirmed this.

Do you mean Steve Muhammad and Vic Moore?

Bruce may not have had enough experience in wing Chun, as well. Had he trained in it longer and became seasoned, Bruce may have been better for it, then creat his own " approach" to fighting.

@@williamallen2565 Ive seen them on RU-vid but im not even talking abt them. My father passed away but was a martial artist and a black panther from Ny who travel to train on the west cost a lot. However, most people really dont know what they are talking abt. Ive actually listen and saw tapes that had people actually spared with bruce lee and talking abt him. Trust me they are out there but it wont get pushed on social media. A lot of people dont know he actually fought and spared a lot and it didnt go nothing like the movies at all. I have to admit they didnt go into great detail but most was on a common ground; it wasnt bad talk abt him but nothing at all like the movies. Im from the 80s and 90s era before the Internet and as a kid i was fortunate to be around these old guys that really lived that life and had so much knowlege of the 60s and 70s. Again real sparing at that time was secretive and what happen in the gym or locations stayed there and just talked among each other and not the general population! Matches was held on roof tops, and vacant places. No where near like today. It was actually code and principle back then. Thats the only thing that saved Bruce lee from being exposed.

You are absolutely wrong. The reason why he created is because he felt that it's not enough for practical application (street fight) . Bruce Lee thought he would defeat Wong jack man easily but it took 3 minutes for Bruce to defeat him. So he thought there is a room for improvement even though he mastered wing chun.Bruce was undefeated. The last time he was defeated is when he was 13 in a street fight but again,he broke the arm of the other guy.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Ignorance to the fullest. You are just listening to the stories they tell you. Smh!

@emmy lite just to let you in on a secret ,it takes any movement a minimum of 20,000 to go into muscle memory and triple that for deep body memory ,how many movements in your system ,,yes it takes 10 years full time to reach Masters level but add another 15 years to become SiFu ,in my system we have Foshun ,Mainland and Hong Kong ,all 3 systems take 8 years each to master ,if you are studying a system built up by many systems ,that's just a bitsa and takes no where near the same time ,all depends how good you want to get but i def can't see a practitioner that has trained for 5 years beating a master that has trained for 25 years ,that's just funny as all fuck and someone's in dreamland

Nice word salad. Total bs.