Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology

Athens

Greece

Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Instructor

Vagelis Zorbas

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Progressive Fighting Systems

(Representatives in Greece)

The Instructors of the Academy are members of Paul Vunak's PFS (Progressive Fighting Systems).  World famous hand to hand combat instructor Paul Vunak who is our mentor has guided us through systems based on proven field tested principles rather than a collection of techniques which don’t work in a real life encounters. The following are concepts; systems and programs that we teach here in Athens at the Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology.

Rapid Assault Tactics: The RAT system is the heart of Progressive Fighting Systems and of the Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology. It was developed by Paul Vunak specifically for the US Navy Seals as a primary combative program taken from the JKD concepts. How it differs to any other art or system out there is the straightblast concept. This concept deletes base and balance to the assailant, its an equalizer, you become capable of taking out a larger person then yourself quick and efficient with the most barbaric tools, Head butts, Knee’s, Elbows and Kino Mutai (biting, eye gouging, finger breaking and pinching). Today the RAT system is taught to Special Forces, Military, Marines, Rangers, F.B.I, D.E.A, C.I.A, S.W.A.T. Teams, over 50 police Departments in the U.S and other countries.

Law Enforcement Control Tactics: This System is a unique empty hand concept designed specifically for Police. These Tactics are taught for escorting an aggressive hostile subject that is not cooperating getting in or out of a squad car, prison jail cell or resistance to hand cuffing. Its particulars are Locks, Restraints and Dumog, which is a Filipino wrestling, art dealing with natural choke points on the human body.

Law Enforcement Baton Tactics: Again this new method of training towards defense tactics with a baton is improving officers all around the world. It will improve your timing, distance and footwork as well as other vital attributes. These tactics will enhance the way you use your baton, after understanding and applying these concepts your capability of holding back multiple opponents at bay until back up arrives becomes a reality, this training will give a tool to defend yourself through armed edged weapons that could inflict a lethal injury.

Paul Vunaks Personal Weapons Training: Paul’s method deals with all weapons available in the street. With these concepts you are capable of dealing with any weapon, the training contains attribute development, attributes are qualities that fill and make technique work, without attributes technique cannot function.

Attributes cannot be honed in only with empty hand training. So training deals with full contact weapons sparring, mass attack (multiple opponents), knifes, sticks, staffs basically anything that can be swung around and inflict pain. Weapon training is essential in today’s world, one important reason is seven out of ten fights today involve some kind of weapon, so it would be ignorant as a martial artist not to dwell in this world.

Escape to Gain Safety: This program is taught to many people especially women.

This self-defense strategy is designed for people that care about personal safety but don’t have the time to train steadily in the Martial Arts. This steady progressive method will teach you how to inflict pain to buy time to run from an attacker safely. This is only achieved utilizing full contact padded up equipment for the student to hit with full force and escape a real dangerous environmental scenario.

Ground fighting training: Our training for the ground has three levels, level 1. Brazilian jui jitsu, level 2. Vale Tudo, level 3. Kino Mutai (street). Level one is our base and foundation, it gives us the fundamentals of movement tools and attributes needed to have an awesome ground game. Level two is were we put on some head protection and gloves and we mix in the punching and kicking with chokes, leg locks and arm locks, with all this going on were still in the sport mind looking for a superior position to dominate and submit the opponent, and working on escapes while hitting is involved. Now we move into the street aspect of the ground, its no longer a sport and you don’t want to be on the ground to long especially in a mass attack, this is were Paul Vunaks blend with Kino Mutai helps us equalize (biting, eye gouging, finger breaking and pinching) So training the sport end and the street end makes a lethal cocktail.

Conclusion: Many people believe training in one area one range one art is enough. If your aim is to be an all round street orientated martial artist you got to do it all. There are so many arts that have so much to offer, let me ask you this: do you eat the same food everyday for the rest of your life? Certainly you don’t. The same concept applies to training; you must be capable of flowing through all ranges. Kicking, Punching, Trapping, Grappling (stand up or ground), Weapons and Multiple attackers. So the way you train is the way you will perform, if you sit in reference points and comfort zone training and engage in politics, belt systems, point fighting competitions, who is better than who, well you are wasting your time. If you never put on the headgear and tell your partner to feed real energy well you are just cheating yourself. Bruce Lee’s mentality is: you learn a technique, practice it, master it, before you maintain it you must be able to function it, by that I mean you must train that technique with an opponent really trying to take you out with protective gear in full contact sparring, if you prevail and the method, technique or concept works you can maintain it, if not flight time is needed until you do.

So the only way that technique is going to work is through athletic attributes, if you don’t acquire any attributes technique alone is worthless. As Paul Vunak would say Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do is like an iceberg. The tip is technique, while lurking below the surface is the greatest mass of the berg, which is composed of attributes. And as an experienced seaman well knows, it is the hidden mass of the iceberg that constitutes the greatest danger.

The two reasons why people loose an encounter in the streets are:

1. Stamina, 2. Unfamilarized range.

Example:

You might be a boxer and you get tackled to the ground and you have no clue what to do and you panic like a fish without water and you loose. Or you are a kicker and you end up in clinch range and get a myriad of head butts, knees elbows and eye gouges thrown at you and you are unfamiliar with that range and you loose. Or you end up in a bar and someone breaks a bottle and you panic and end up dead or hospitalized. I think we all get the idea.

So to be efficient in all ranges you must train it in a matrix accordion affect, where you might start out with empty hand, then it progresses and mutates as fights do in the street, to clinch range, all of a sudden it makes its way to the ground, then your suddenly on your feet again and you are dealing with mass attack two on one which then it might progress to weapons (knives, pool cues, bottles, chairs).

This was just one example out of the myriad combinations we deal with; you need to train this way if you want to survive in the streets.

At the Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology we address these scenarios with training methods, concepts and reality sparring to get you in that zone and feel how you should and can react in a life threatening situation to survive.