| Jeet Kune Do is the name Bruce Lee gave to his | | | | be the bare combat necessities, or JKD. |
| combat system and philosophy in 1967. Originally, when | | | | One of the ideas of JKD is a fighter should do |
| Lee began researching numerous fighting styles, he | | | | whatever is important to protect himself, irrespective |
| gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu. | | | | of where the techniques come from. One of Lee's |
| However not desiring to make another style that | | | | goals in Jeet Kune Do was to break down what he |
| would share the constraints that all styles have, he | | | | said were limiting factors in the coaching of the |
| instead gave us the method that created it. | | | | conventional styles, and seek a fighting thesis which he |
| JKD as it survives today - if one wants to view it | | | | believed could only be found within the fact of a fight. |
| "refined" as a product, not a technique - is what was | | | | Jeet Kune Do is presently seen as the genesis of the |
| left at the time of Bruce Lee's death. It is the result of | | | | modern state of half-breed martial arts. |
| the life-long martial arts development process Lee | | | | The idea of cross-training in Jeet Kune Do is like the |
| went thru. Bruce Lee said that his concept is not an | | | | practice of Mixed martial-arts ( MMA ) in modern times |
| "adding to" of more things on top of one another to | | | | - Bruce Lee has been considered by UFC president |
| form a system, but rather, a winnowing out. The | | | | Dana White as the "father of mixed martial arts". Many |
| metaphor Lee borrowed from Chan Buddhism was of | | | | consider Jeet Kune Do to be the predecessor of |
| constantly filling a cup with water, and then emptying it, | | | | MMA because of its syncretic nature. This is especially |
| used for describing Lee's philosophy of "casting off | | | | the case with regard the JKD "Combat Ranges". A |
| what is useless". He also used the sculptor's mindset | | | | JKD student is predicted to learn varied combat |
| of starting with a pile of clay and hacking away at the | | | | systems within each combat range, and so to be |
| "unessentials"; the result was what he considered to | | | | useful in all of them, just as in MMA. |