When Jeet Kune Do Works - JKD vs Muay Thai 

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I'm not impressed.

that's why don't study only the JKD, even a JKD coach shared me his experience as saying this, he studied so many arts before the JKD and JKD is like the style to take down opponent on his way to deliver blows to us, which means JKD relies on counter-attacking and on the Taoism of "not being there when not wanting there to happen"

Except all martial arts have a history of learning from others and adapting. While Bruce also had this ancient philosophy and learnt many things his primary basis was still his original wingchun. Anyone can take the philosophy (not Bruce's but made popular in the US/west) jkd has set movements, set positions etc. hard to teach beginners if you don't.

@@kristoffereberius2476 If you watch UFC 1 people were more closed-minded 99% of the Strikers Doesn't Grapple in the past. Few people who practiced more than one style back then.

@@kristoffereberius2476 China never had a Male UFC Champion because they are soo in Love with their Kung FU, If they are open minded would have a lot of MMA gym in China.

@@kristoffereberius2476 Bruce are different he are open minded and always wanted evolve and learn everything, He's a True Fighter.

i think if Bruce Lee lived long enough, he would've evolved JKD into present day jiu-jitsu (MMA)

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Literally had the same thought

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It’s supposed to be. But Dan Inosanto systematized it and there was a whole controversy over who owned the name of it between him and the Lee family. If I recall correctly there was a lot of training equipment that was allegedly left to Inosanto too that was in dispute.

My understanding is that the group that systematizes more focuses more on developing Jun Fan gung fu, which was designed by Sijo Bruce for himself, whereas Guro Dan embraces crosstraining more

@@Egg_of_the_King Everyone is supposed to find their most functional individual style but somehow it also always ends up looking like Bruce Lee movie fights, that's why people can pick it out so quickly

Yep, JKD doesn't actually exist. It's for people to brag about a connection to Bruce Lee. Notice that the successful JKD fighters never use Wing Chun. They simply kickbox

@@Egg_of_the_King All you guys have to do is prove it by actually fighting and beating other styles. Wing Chun has turned into the "believe me bro style" that always loses when put to the test. By the way I love Wing Chun movies. Ip Man was overrated but the Prodigal Son was amazing. I also love modern 90's kungfu film like Police Story 1. Don't get it twisted I'm aware that Jackie and Sammo would obliterate the average person and maybe some elite fighters but they wouldn't be using Wing Chun and secondly they have elite athletic physicality, that unfortunately younger generation of Chinese do not because they've been westernised..... Sorry about the rant at the end. Wing Chun still has a lot to prove. Muay Thai and boxing do not.

None of his kicks were top level. On a scale of 1-Buakaw I’d give him a 3

The straight lead and head movement carried

Thanks man!!

Really appreciate that comment!

Thanks!

The hands down is essential for pulling off some moves but terrible for defense, that's why it's only done outside of the range.

Yeah its a trade off

ABD, right?

Everyone have his own style can work if you train like a demon.

His kicks are still lacking

Wonderboy kicks my a55 x 100 even in my wildest dreams... That guy is naturally gifted.

yup different ranges of fight in his book tao of jkd. and use what works for you basically discard what dosent

Many, many have missed the true JKD essence because of the "concept" statement Bruce made. The truth is, to really understand what JKD is you must first understand why it's created by Bruce Lee. It started after the fight with Wong Jack Man that lasted way too long than Bruce would've anticipated, though it's actually just under 3 minutes which is actually not that long by pro combat sports standard, but for Bruce, a good fighter should be able to end a fight in seconds, not minutes, hence his journey to crystallize various martial arts and fighting techniques into what's known to be Jeet Kune Do began. So no, JKD is NOT just some concept of whatever works in a fight or just essentially mma 😂 JKD is a crystallization of whatever works to end a fight as fast as possible, meaning whatever is the most effective and efficient techniques to end a fight, THAT'S JKD. That's why you can't say that it's "different for everyone", or "just use whatever works for you and that's your own JKD", "JKD is just MMA" or "JKD keeps evolving" 😂 I mean, sure, if you manage to make the techniques and ways that Bruce had crystallized from his various findings in JKD even more efficient and effective or maybe you invented or found new/other techniques that work better to end a fight than what Bruce found then yeah, that would be JKD, but as of today, I have never seen someone that claims that he has evolved JKD has actually don that and personally I myself haven't found many better techniques or ways better than Bruce's, though there are some. That's why Dan Inisanto has done a great disservice to JKD by adding many flowery techniques he found from Silat or Panantukan or whatever, hence complicating JKD which in turn made it no longer JKD. As to the "JKD guy" from the video, he had some ideas of what JKD is but was still far from understanding what it truly is let alone mastering the techniques. He missed too many chances to intercept, his timing was way off, his precision was lacking, he lacked speed and ferocity to end the fight. He should stop calling himself a "JKD guy" and change it to "JKD student" instead because he's definitely still learning.

PS I'm the Karate guy lol

​@@wissawissa83That's why Karatekas train Stamina every day, A real fight it's a War of Stamina without Stamina a fighter are nothing.

nah, jerry is too busy making his chess game😅😅

He called them Li and Malick often through the video

@@mengmao5033 I will have to watch it again. I never heard them introduced only by their style and accent color.

People are lazy and keeping hands down is energy efficient. Faster fighters succeed with low hands in spite of the fundamental flaws and don’t get exposed up to a point

@@mengmao5033 Energy efficiency is definitely a factor. There's really no need to keep your hands up and waste energy if you're out of reach of your opponent. Lyoto Machida fought karate-style blitzing in and out of opponent's effective range and his hands were down when out of range. Keeping hands up is a form of insurance at mid-ranges with a small energy premium and reduced visibility, among others.

That would be awesome!