How Do You Teach Jeet Kune Do Like Bruce Lee?
Bruce Lee felt that Wing Chun techniques stifled his potential and traditional martial arts were too formal and rigid for street fighting. He developed his own form of martial arts and called it Jeet Kune Do. His focus was on “practicality, flexibility, speed and efficiency.” Learn to teach the “Way of the Intercepting Fist.” Lead your students to success by beginning with weight training to build strength. Include running for endurance and stretching exercises for flexibility. Teach stop-kicks, stop-hits and other moves in a format of drills, but unlike other martial arts, there is no specific way or pattern and no set rhythm necessary to perform. Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques or means that serve its end. Focus your teaching on some basic drills. Drills include fake to the fade, refere
