This book will serve way to decide what will work the best for you and what aspects of JKD you need to keep, as well as throw away.
Just use the book as guideline to discover your own Essential JKD..
Whatever works for you is the main thing.
Others will feel comfortable crashing the line.
Some of you will want to focus on distance and footwork.
Once you have worked on these you will come to realize what will work for you and what will not.
The purpose of this book is too show you most of what we teach in my garage and the basic principles behind each.
This is something that you must discover for yourself as you work to become more a more efficient JKD practitioner.
Of course, an instructor cannot just hand you what will become your essence or foundation of your own JKD.
It was only when we started focusing on the Western fencing aspects of JKD that I was able to understand and focus on what has become my essence of JKD.
For others it was trapping energy and the Wing Chun elements.
For some it may be footwork.
For some it may be the boxing aspects.
I have been fortunate to have learned from many of the senior students of Bruce Lee and have noticed that they all focus on certain things and not on what some the others are doing.
I feel that it would be impossible to learn this from your instructor, as he will mainly focus on what works best for him.
This book will serve way to decide what will work the best for you and what aspects of JKD you need to keep, as well as throw away
