Joel+Montalvo

Joel Montalvo Jeff & PG 901 6/4/13

Jeet Kune Do’s effect on other fighting styles  Did you know that Jeet Kune Do is a mixture of many fighting styles? Jeet Kune Do affect on other fighting styles is that it is more of a concept or approach to produce speed, power, timing, coordination, footwork, and intuition it is also[| “Techniques] that are drawn from numbers of arts- aikido, jujitsu, wing chung, boxing, karate, tae kwon do, northern style Kung Fu, wrestling, and the weapon arts of escrima (kali).” “Bruce Lee the inventor of Jeet Kune Do used Muhammad Ali foot movements and Joe Louis fighting style to create Jeet Kune Do.” Not all aspects of Jeet Kune Do punching stem from wing chun kung fu, Ted Wong says. “Much of the Jeet Kune Do being taught today is based on wing chun structures. I have a lot of respect for wing chun, but it’s not Jeet Kune Do. In fact, the majority of Bruce Lee’s notes in Tao of Jeet Kune Do are from boxing and fencing.” Shannon Lee thrilled father Bruce Lee's legacy continues to be honored by MMA, "I always make the distinction between Jeet Kune Do and MMA," Shannon Lee said on Wednesday's edition of The MMA Hour. He also mentioned that “in order to be a well-rounded fighter, you have to be able to defend an attack in any situation you find yourself, he was very much about needing to have a very precise and well-rounded arsenal when it came to real fighting. Of course, UFC is a sport, it's not street fighting but it's about as close as you can get in a controlled environment to a no-holds-barred fight.” 

Also as mentioned on the UFC website “Many had consider Jeet Kune Do's founder, as one of the world's first Mixed Martial Artists. Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do  in 1967. Bruce Lee referred to Jeet Kune Do not as a system, but as name he gave his philosophy of freeing yourself from styles and patterns. On the whole, Jeet Kune Do is a philosophy for life, not just combat. Applied to combat, the idea is to use what works and abandon "styles" as they limit your ability to be prepared for a fight. It also noted that what works for one person may not work for another. Jeet Kune Do requires constant training to be ready for anything. Jeet Kune Do is about evolving, and that's what MMA fighters have to do to compete at such high levels.”  The ways that Jeet Kune Do is proven to be a mixture of different fighting styles is that “Techniques that are drawn from numbers of arts- aikido, jujitsu, wing chung, boxing, karate, tae kwon do, northern style Kung Fu, wrestling, and the weapon arts of escrima (kali).” That was stated in the article Fighting Disciplines.

 The second reason “Bruce Lee the inventor of Jeet Kune Do used Muhammad Ali foot movements and Joe Louis fighting style to create Jeet Kune Do.” This was stated in “Bruce Lee training research how boxing influenced Jeet Kune Do”  The third reason is that Bruce Lee referred to Jeet Kune Do not as a system, but as name he gave his philosophy of freeing yourself from styles and patterns. On the whole, Jeet Kune Do is a philosophy for life, not just combat. Applied to combat, the idea is to use what works and abandon "styles" as they limit your ability to be prepared for a fight. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I choose Jeet Kune Do because it was a form that was created by bits of other fighting styles and was created by Bruce Lee worlds famous martial artist who has died long ago and it was very interesting from what I have learned and researched.