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What is Jeet Kune
Do?
Simply put, it's English translation is "way of the intercepting
fist." Bruce studies all types of fighting from American Boxing to Thai Kickboxin.
His simple philosophy was rather than block a punch and hit back with two distinct
motions, why not intercept and hit in one, fluid stroke. Fluidity was the ideal. "Try
and obtain a nicely-tied package of water," Bruce would taunt. "Just like water,
we must keep moving on," Inosanto reitterates. "For once water stops, it becomes
stagnant." Water, Bruce would always give as an example, is the toughtest thing on
Earth. It is virtually indestructable; it is soft, yet it can tear rocks apart. Move like
water. Bruce dissected rigid classical disciplines and rebuilt them with fluid, po-mo
improvements. "It's good but it needs restructuring," he would say. Classical
techniques did not take into account the reality of street fighting. Jeet Kune Do did. It
was pragmatic, reality-based, empirical. Bruce utilized all ways but was bound by
none. "Efficiency is anything that scores."
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