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 Original JKD and JKD Concepts. I only knew, and still call it Concepts. But I guess today in most circles Original 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. Likewise in the same way, I have blended into the JKD/everything, the Kenpo way of forming a fist. Which is sourced from GM John LaTourette (and Isshin Ryu).
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 Original JKD and JKD Concepts. I only knew, and still call it Concepts. But I guess today in most circles Original 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. Likewise in the same way, I have blended into the JKD/everything, the Kenpo way of forming a fist. Which is sourced from GM John LaTourette (and Isshin Ryu).
Bill C aka Hanshi C
JKD Five Methods Of Attack
- Single Angular Attack (SAA) and its converse Single Direct Attack (SDA).
- Hand Immobilization Attack (HIA) and its counterpart Foot Immobilization attack, which make use of trapping to limit the opponent's function with that appendage. (HIA)
- Progressive Indirect Attack (PIA).
- Attack By Combinations (ABC).
- Attack By Drawing (ABD)
As was stated on another page of this website: Jeet Kune Do (JKD) means: The Way Of The Intercepting Fist. Its creator was the legendary Late Sifu Bruce Jun Fan Lee. In my humble opinion JKD is core based on European Fencing, with Ip Man Wing Chun and Classical/Pre-Modern Era Western Boxing grafted to it. His major influences were Ip Man (Wing Chun), Aldo Nadi (Euro Fencing) as well as his brother Peter Lee a European champion fencer, Jim Driscoll (Early Western Boxing), and Jack Dempsey (Early Western Boxing). Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do (JKD) is not specifically a martial arts style as we would define a style of martial arts. The best way to define, and understand how it works, Jeet Kune Do, would be in this manner, to use a computer analogy. The practitioner in this example would be the bare bones computer> essentially the hardware. The core system that the practitioner is training in, in our case, Red Dragon Kenpo Karate, would be the operating system (OS). JKD is an app that you would apply/download into the two previous (Hardware/OS) to make them work more efficiently, faster, overall better. So, in this example JKD is designed to work with and make whatever system of training you are practicing, better.
The Jeet Kune Do presented utilizes specific footwork sequences, and the blending of striking with the footwork. The heel/hip work in JKD that we use is also assimilated into our Kenpo.
The Jeet Kune Do presented utilizes specific footwork sequences, and the blending of striking with the footwork. The heel/hip work in JKD that we use is also assimilated into our Kenpo.

Some years ago, the Late Sifu Ted Wong was asked why Jeet Kune Do wasn't more popular. He didn't hesitate with an answer. “People don't understand and respect simplicity. This leads instructors to offer more and more stuff, regardless of whether or not the extra stuff detracts from our ability to function in reality or not.”
(The Late Sifu Ted Wong was one of Bruce Lee’s closest students and confidant.)
Karate By The Sea & LIONHEART Kenpo Jeet Kune Do are divisions of Conley's Martial Arts