Perhaps the first thing you may notice about the system name, is the added word in brackets: Original. I am not here to get into the bruhaha surrounding the different viewpoints, interpretations, and in some ways, the tribalism that is quite prevalent in Jeet Kune Do (JKD) as well really in just about every martial art today!
I began my JKD training in 1981. Sifu Bruce Lee had not been dead yet for 10 years. The system was already beginning to fragment into different camps, but the original conception and presentation had not changed too much. That's what I learned and to this day, love. I know today, that is, I have heard JKD called or identified as Primary JKD and JKD Concepts. I only knew, and still call it Concepts. But I guess today in most circles Primary is the original and a Concepts means you take a number of systems you train in and prefer, compile them together and you can call it your own JKD. (??? OK....) So anyway, what's in a name, right? But I simply, because I have always believed and was taught, that Concepts applied to all JKD. So I refer to what I present as Jeet Kune Do Concepts (Original). Original in that it is what Sifu Lee was doing and presenting when he was alive and shortly thereafter his untimely death, to the best of my knowledge. I don't know everything and I am not perfect. But my heart is in it, and what I offer is me, my training, experience, and understanding. The JKD is offered into the Lionheart Program (Adult). Further to that, what I have done is injected the JKD stance; its principles and footwork/mechanics into all the elements/systems I present.
Bill C aka Hanshi C
I began my JKD training in 1981. Sifu Bruce Lee had not been dead yet for 10 years. The system was already beginning to fragment into different camps, but the original conception and presentation had not changed too much. That's what I learned and to this day, love. I know today, that is, I have heard JKD called or identified as Primary JKD and JKD Concepts. I only knew, and still call it Concepts. But I guess today in most circles Primary is the original and a Concepts means you take a number of systems you train in and prefer, compile them together and you can call it your own JKD. (??? OK....) So anyway, what's in a name, right? But I simply, because I have always believed and was taught, that Concepts applied to all JKD. So I refer to what I present as Jeet Kune Do Concepts (Original). Original in that it is what Sifu Lee was doing and presenting when he was alive and shortly thereafter his untimely death, to the best of my knowledge. I don't know everything and I am not perfect. But my heart is in it, and what I offer is me, my training, experience, and understanding. The JKD is offered into the Lionheart Program (Adult). Further to that, what I have done is injected the JKD stance; its principles and footwork/mechanics into all the elements/systems I present.
Bill C aka Hanshi C
Karate By The Sea Kenpo & LIONHEART Kenpo are divisions of Conley's Martial Arts