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Bruce Leez Jeet Kune Do has radically changed the way of Fighting arts. Today, JKD is the most controversial Martial art. However, it is also the most popular martial art. Bruce Lee lives on, his JKD spreading over continents. The controversies about jeet Kune Do are not whether Lee was the best martial artist around, he was undisputedly. He was one of the best grandmasters of all time, unarguably. He was also a great philosopher & teacher. His students represent the best instructors in the Martial arts fraternity. The generations of students who learnt from his lineage directly or indirectly also will obviously be some of the free-est and most open martial art practitioners in the world, to be able to accept combat in multi range facets! As for as the current controversies, JKD is a set of original technics OR JKD is a concept based art? The debate rages. But do we not agree that while Bruce did reduce his large vocabulary of technics to a few number of effective technics, he did so to make an art simpler to learn & execute. At the same time JKD will also remain a concept based art, as it was JKD & Lee which advocated that one must practice fighting in ALL Ranges. One must disregard the "Sport foul limitataions" and absorb the useful. That each man must find his own way, That every art is to be respected, that internal & external arts are NOT TWO! I got very impressed by the Jeet Kune Do Ideology India, where there is a beautiful article penned by Prof. Dr. Rao, a must read for Jeet Kune Do enthusiasts. Do See http://jkdmumbai.tripod.com/id10.html I pray that we derive all that we can from Lee & his JKD and in the process of studying it, find our own Non controversial Jeet Kune Do .... our unique way, in Combat and in Life. With respect to the entire Martial arts fraternity, Alfa

Jeet Kune Do is a set of original techniques outlined by lee, as well as a concept oriented art, with an underlying set of principles, applicable to every martial art. Thus JKD is both, a specific art as well as a set of principles applied to range combat, i.e. to Kicking, punching, trapping, grappling ranges. There is no controversy about how good lee was, he was the best. There is also no controversy about his fighting methodology. There si no doubt that his students represent some of the best martial instructors in the world, then why should there be a controversy about his art. Fiends, I read a beautiful article on the website of Jeet Kune Do Ideology Mumbai, India. If u careto read it, its at http://jkdmumbai.tripod.com/id10.html So let us all learn from lee, his art, his students and above all his philosophy, that JKD is all inclusive, and excludes nothing. It has no limitation, and uses no way as the way. In short JKD is what it is, It is Not!!