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Jeet Kune Do was the martial art, or style as it is not truly a martial art in some senses, Bruce Lee came up with.
It's a balance of grappling, striking, and anything else you can even think to imagine.
The stance most commonly used is chin down, front hand protecting your legs, acting like a broom, with your back hand protecting your face, ready to strike.
Jeet Kune Do's strikes revolve around fast punches, low powerful kicks, and occasionally, fast high side break kicks.
Bruce Lee's words of "Be like water" and "Be like a wooden doll" describe this martial art perfectly.
If you want to learn more about it, go out and buy the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
Jeet Kune Do's main focus is blocking then striking.
If your opponent would come at you with a low cut kick you could block it with the back of your front foot and come up with that leg with a round house or break kick.
If your opponent came at you with a front hand jab, you would slap the hand out of the way and most likely strike with an uppercut to the gut.

Unless I'm mistaken, and I could very well be but my research seems to indicate I am not, JKD is actually not really a martial art in and of itself, but rather a deep and practical philosophy based upon Bruce Lee's observations of both the older traditions of his ancestors and the necessities of modern day combat. He then took these principles and philosophies and applied them to the arts in which he was trained, namely Wing Chun (the classical format) and later a hybridization based in Tae Kwon Do and various derived street fighting techniques.

Fundamentally speaking, anyone teaching a martial art called Jeet Kune Do would then actually be teaching a hybrid art based in these utilizing the philosophical teachings of the master Bruce Lee. This is not to disparage the art, but semantically speaking the art that is attached to Jeet Kune Do is not in and of itself Jeet Kune Do, but is rather the logical expression of Jeet Kune Do. Hence, it is a fighting system, rather than a style or art in and of itself. To quote Master Lee:

"I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is. Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back." -Bruce Lee

To me, this strikes home insofar as the way that arts like taijiquan, xingyiquan, and baguazhang are taught and learned. The forms you see in the park are not the art itself, but the way that you learn how to move within the art. This suggests to me that Bruce Lee and his Jeet Kune Do are, in fact, an insightful distillation of very, very ancient lessons passed down from old masters. This is impressive, given his relative youth and the general disregard he held for the old methodologies of teaching and the passing on of the martial arts in general!

In summation, Jeet Kune Do (Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do specifically) is more generically used to describe an art that, technically speaking, is actually named Jun Fan Gung Fu. Bruce Lee took what he knew, applied to it an advanced understand of principle and technique, and passed it on in an impressive package.

True that ...

If anybody has a photo of Bruce in fencing gear, that would make make my whole next week.

A little blurb on JKD and fencing:
http://leongpc.tripod.com/brucelee/fjkd.htm

The way I understand it, JKD is more a martial philosophy than any one identifiable martial art.
Maybe what he wanted us to figure out is that, maybe, one doesn't go out seeking to learn Jeet Kun Do. Rather, focus on your many experiances and let them empower you.
You can't make the hit if you focus only on the goal. You need to observe carefuly each step taken before you arive at your destination.
That being said, I'm just a fencer and I only hope to sound like I know what I was talking about just now. sweatdrop

RIP Bruce. Without you, there wouldn't be the rest of us. That's why I'm trying to figure you out. Much respect.
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-A.

Definitely.
It is more of a philosophy but I always saw it as a martial art because to me it's a combination.
Like a style without a style.
That's the only way I can think to put it.
Like Bruce said, "Form with now form"

Dan Hardy visiting Bruce Lee's grave before UFC Fight Night

This may be late but still worth it ...

REST IN PEACE ... our friend ...




BRUCE LEE
(27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973)

The Bruce Lee Story - As Told by You - Episode 1