Dan Inosanto speaks on "original JKD" critics about his teaching
JUN FAN / JEET KUNE DO
INOSANTO'S INSIGHTS
BY DAN INOSANTO
Over the past 3-4 years much has been written on Bruce Lee's art of Jeet Kune Do. Most of these recent articles have been highly inaccurate. Some articles have even attempted to "rewrite" the history of Jeet Kune Do. I can no longer stand by and watch as the public is mislead by certain individuals who have no knowledge or authority to speak on the subject.
Briefly, I will state my credentials and by what authority I, and I alone have the right and obligation to clear up the present state of confusion regarding the teachings of my late Si Fu, and dear friend, Bruce Lee.
My training with Si Fu Lee began in 1964, and continued until his untimely death in 1973. On Feb. 9 1967 I was made an Instructor by Si Fu Lee, at that time Si Fu Lee told me that my Seniors, Taky Kimura ( Seattle) and James Lee ( deceased, Oakland) and I were the only three instructors he had made. Si Fu Lee had three arts which he would certify in. "Jun Fan Gung Fu", "Bruce Lee's Tao of Chinese Gung Fu" and "Jeet Kune Do".
I have certificates of instructorship in all three. As mandated by Si Fu Lee, at the time of his death I become the principle heir and authority on his arts and teachings. As he requested, I shall always acknowledge with the utmost respect my seniors, Si Bak James Lee and Si Bak Taky Kimura.
During Si Fu Bruce Lee's lifetime, I was the "Head Instructor" of The Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute", Los Angeles, Branch. During this time I was given the authority to hand out rank. If you look at the certificates awarded at the Institute in Chinatown, you will see that Si Fu Lee signed his name and affixed his seal on the right hand side of the certificate, and I signed my name and affixed my seal (personally given to me by Si Fu Lee), on the left hand side.
After more than 30 years of teaching Jun Fan and Jeet Kune Do, it seems ridiculous that I have to now prove my authenticity to the martial art public.
At the time of Si Fu Lee's death the privilage and responsiblity of teaching, preserving, promoting and protecting these arts became my responibilty, and mine alone to ensure Si Fu Lee's contribution would not be "bastardized" and lost. I take this responsiblity very seriously and it is for this reason that I would like to address the question of "original Jeet Kune Do", "Jeet Kune Do Concepts", and difference between the two.
There is no difference.
Jeet Kune Do was born out of Si Fu Lee's art of Jun Fan Gung Fu. To understand the principles, concepts and strategies of Jeet Kune Do, you must study first Jun Fan Gung Fu. In the beginning, as conceived by Si Fu Lee, Jeet Kune Do was a style. Almost immediately, Si Fu Lee told me he was sorry that he ever named or considered JKD a style.
He felt that a style was too limiting and confining. Si Fu told me that he was not creating a new style, nor making a composite of different styles, nor modifying other systems or styles to create a new one. As he stated to me "Jeet Kune Do was to be used as a mirror, in which we could see ourselves". He hoped that JKD would be used as a vehicle to free his students from "clinging" to styles, systems, and patterns. He often quoted to me "Be not concerned with the soft styles versus the hard styles, or kicking styles versus striking styles, or long range styles versus in fighting styles, or ground grappling versus hitting and kicking.
He felt that there was no such thing as "this was better than that" or visa versa. To quote him directly "should there be one thing we must guard against, let it be partiality that robs us of our pristine wholeness and makes us lose unity in the midst of duality."
To answer the question raised so often by the "self-appointed "JKD"authorities writing so many articles today, "Does Dan Inosanto teach Bruce Lee's art, or has he mixed, diluted, changed and added other systems and styles to the "original" art, to such an extent that you can no longer learn what Bruce Lee taught, by training with him?"
The answer is the same today as it would have been 30 years ago. When I teach an individual the arts of Jun Fan Gung Fu and the principles, philosophies, concepts, strategies, techniques and methods of Jeet Kune Do, I teach them as they were developed, formulated and taught by Si Fu Bruce Lee during the years 1964 through 1973.
I have often wondered how certain individuals can write about my teaching when they have truly never trained in my classes conducted at my academy in Los Angeles, California. At the Inosanto Academy, classes are taught in individual systems and style. Each art is taught separately, in part to preserve it's identity, and to encurea certain level of proficeincy for the student. One class offered at the academy does, utilize the training methods, principles, concepts and fighting techniques of several systems and styles to familiarize the students in that class with all the avenues which are open to them.
When someone attends a seminar I may be conducting, and walks in on a section, I may be teaching any one of a number of different arts of which I am certified in. If they were to attend a seminar the following week, it would more than likely be completely different.
I see nothing wrong in exposing my students to a variety of different arts, and letting them choose which path they want to follow. During my teaching I draw many comparisons and analogies, and I will continue to do so if it continues to aid in the understanding of the material presented.
Ask any one of the individuals writing about the "Original JKD", to show you the basic 30 combination traps, they won't be able to. Ask them to perform the JKD (sets developed by Si Fu Lee) exercises on the wooden dummy, they won't be able to. Ask them to perform the basic kick boxing drills of Si Fu Lee and I doubt they would be able to show you. Ask them to perform the 1-2 counter series as taught by Si Fu Bruce Lee and I doubt that they would be able to show you.
In some publications, the readers are lead to believe that JKD is unorganized and JKD is, "do anything you want to do". One publicaton said Bruce Lee made no instructors.
On March 22, Jun Fan Gung Fu (Jeet Kune Do) was inducted into the official academy of Chinese boxing, a division of Taiwan's Republic of China, Ministry of Education. This places Si Jo/Si Gung Bruce Lee's art on equivalent terms with Tai Chi Chuan, Shaolin and other such world historic styles.
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