Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology

Athens

Greece

Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Instructor

Vagelis Zorbas

In Jun Fan kickboxing, attack by drawing refers to the art of drawing the opponent “out” through the use of fakes. To illustrate, Jerry Beasley (left) forces his opponent to react to a fake round kick (1-2), which creates an opening for a front kick (3-4).

Jeet Kune Do Curriculums

Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology Curriculum

Below you will find the original curriculums of Si-jo Bruce Lee:

Bruce Lee's Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute Curriculum LA, CA.

Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Grappling Arts (Original Bruce Lee's notes)

Seattle Curriculum

Oakland Curriculum

Los Angeles Curriculum

Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology Curriculum

This is the basic structure of our JKDC training at the Academy of Jeet Kune Do Fighting Technology. As with any structure, it is far from perfect and always open to review and scrutiny.

Jun-Fan Kickboxing

• Using tools & training methods from Muay Thai, Boxing, Savate, Fencing & Filipino Arts.
• Padwork - The use of Focus Mitts, Thai Pads, Heavy Bag & Kicking Shields to develop various attributes such as power, timing, flow, technical base, conditioning.
• Sparring - Isolation sparring & various other formats leading to all in sparring.
• Supplementary training - skipping, shadowboxing etc.

Trapping & Sensitivity

• We utilize two methods of training at this range. The Jun-Fan Gung Fu method and the Filipino method. Both have things to offer and approach the same problems from different perspectives. Our emphasis is approximately 70% Filipino.  Jun-Fan Gung Fu deals primarily with immobilizing the opponents limbs to secure the centerline. The Filipino method deals primarily with destruction of the limbs & angulations to achieve similar objectives.
• We work set trapping combinations from a variety of entries & reference points starting with simple traps & destructions leading to compound movements that are geared primarily to attribute development.
• Focus mitts are utilized to drill many of the compound movements, especially from the FMA (Panuntukan) Sensitivity drills are used to teach flow & energy manipulation. Trapping combinations are also practiced directly from energy drills.  Hubud sparring is practiced to encourage creativity and spontaneity using hubud and it's associated drills as a frame of reference.

Scenario Training

• The old "he does this - you do that" type of pre-set partner work.
• This is necessary for less experienced students who need to see where & how it all fits together. Adaptation & improvisation are actively encouraged once the basics are in place.
• Scenarios are designed to be as far away from the classical defense from a martial arts attack as possible. We work against common street type attacks & set ups, wearing cumbersome clothing etc. and in various environments.
• This is where students first learn to "blend" the various concepts & ranges etc within the arts.

Standing Grappling & Takedowns

• Entry skills & clinch work
• Standing grappling locks & manipulations
• Body manipulation & balance control
• Takedowns & Throws

Groundwork

• Positional control flow drills
• Submission / finishing holds
• Striking on the ground
• Striking from the ground
• Sparring - positional & submission sparring in isolation and all in.

Kali Weaponry
Our JKDC Concepts students learn a blend of Inosanto/LaCoste Kali. The emphasis is on attribute development and crossover to other areas. 

• Stoking / twirling drills
• Karensa / free flow solo practice
• Contra Sumbrada Cycles
• Largo mano (long range) defensive skills
• Disarming skills
• Energy / sensitivity drills
• Knife to knife & knife to unarmed training
• Espada-y-daga (stick / sword & dagger)
• Sinawalli (Double stick)

Summary

Although we phase our training program, emphasizing different areas on rotation, our training overall is generally comprised as follows :-

• 30% Jun-fan Kickboxing
• 30% Grappling
• 10% Trapping
• 10% Standing Grappling & Takedowns
• 10% Kali weaponry
• 10% Scenario work

Bruce Lee's Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute Curriculum LA, CA.

The  Original  Students Training Manual.
Los Angeles, California
By, Sifu Larry Hartsell

The Five Ways Of Attack

SECTION 1

(One) Simple Angle Attack (S.A.A.)
(Check The Eight Basis Blocking Positions)

- Leading With The Right, Guarding With The Left, While Moving To The Right.
- Leading Right Stop Kick (Groin, Knee, Shin)
- Broken Timing Angle Attack (B.T.A.A.)

SECTION 2

(two) Hand immobilizing attack (H.I.A)
(Close Own Boundaries While Closing Distance - Watch Out For Stop Hit Or Kick)

- Ready To Angle Strike When Opponent Opens Or Backs Up
- Use Front Before Immobilize

SECTION 3

(three) Progressive indirect attack (P.I.A.)
Moving Out Of Line Whenever Possible - Boundaries Close Accordingly

1.    High To Low
(a)  R STR To Low R Thrust
(b)  R STR To R Groin Toe Kick
(c)  R STR To L STR (Or Kick)
(d)  L STR To R Groin Toe Kick

11.  Low To High
(a)  R STR To High R STR (Or Hook)
(b)  R Groin Kick To High R STR
(c)  R Groin Kick To High Hook Kick
(d)  L STR To R High STR

111.  Left/Right Or Right Left
(a)  R STR To R Hook
(b)  L THR To R STR
(c)  Snap Back & L Cross's Opponent's R
(d)  Opponent Cross Hand Block (L. Cross)

SECTION 4

(four)  Attack by combination (a.b.c)
(Tight Boundaries - Broken Rythm - Surprise Opponent - Speed)

(a)  The One-Two (O-N-E- Two)
(b)  The O-N-E Two - Hook
(c)  R-Body - R-Jaw - L-Jaw
(d)  R-Jaw - Hook-Jaw - L-Jaw
(e)  The Straight High/Low

SECTION 5

(FIVE) Attack by drawing (A.B.D) 
(Awareness - Balance To Attack)
(a)  By Exposing
(b)  By Forcing
(c)  By Feinting

Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Grappling Arts (Original Bruce Lee's notes)

Do's: 1. Always keep moving. 2. Be prepared for counters. 3. Develop cat-like movements. 4. Make your opponent wrestle your way. 5. Be aggressive; make your opponent think
Don'ts:1. Don't cross your legs. 2. Don't commit your arms to deeply. 3. Don't chase your opponent. 4. Don't rely on one takedown; be ready for other openings. 5. Don't let your opponent circle you..

Joint Locks
Joint Locks may be done while standing or lying on the ground, as an immobilizing technique.

  1.   Outside armpit lock-to left or right stance. 
  2.   Wrist Lock
  3.   Reverse Wrist
  4.   Reverse twisting wrist lock - to double arm  lock
  5.   Lying across arm bar.
  6.   Standing single leg lock.
  7.   Lying single leg lock.
  8.   Single leg and spine lock
  9.   Double leg and spine lock
10. Foot twist toe.

Chokes:
1. Rear drop choke.
2. Lean over drop choke
3. Side drop choke

Foul Tactics:
1. Hair pulling while in-fighting
.....for control.
2.  Foot stomping while in-fighting.
.....for maiming
3.  Skin pinching, biting and ear pulling while in-fighting.
.....for release or control
4.  Groin grabbing.
.....for maiming or release

Takedown Methods:
1.  Circle step single leg tackle.
2.  Drop step leg tackle.
3.  Draw step leg tackle.

Throwing:
1. Hooking throw.
2. Reverse hooking throw.
3. Single leg tackle and trip.
4. Double leg tackle.
5. Right foot sweep -- with or without arm drag to right or left stance.
6. Left foot sweep -- with or without arm drag to right or left stance.

Closed & Open Bai Jong

All major modes of Jun Fan footwork

Offensive and defensive hand and foot tools, not excluding elbows, knees, forearms, and head.

3 Ranges of Attack

Five and three way kicking drills

Four Corner Lin SIl Die Dar

Extensive Phon Sao

Don Chi Sao

Seong Chi Sao

Inner & Outer Lop Sao Cycle Drills

Woang Pak Drill

Five Way Energy Drill

Free flowing combat sensitivity

Emotional Climate Training

Five Ways of Attack

    SDA

    ABC

    HIA

    PIA

    ABD

Ground fighting (this is NOT a mat-oriented grappling school or BJJ dojo).  The ground is the last place we want to be in a real fight.   

Jun Fan/ Jeet Kune Do Kickboxing Drills

Mook Ya Jong

Sparring strategy and application

Sil Lim Tao Form (Complete form as taught by Bruce Lee)

Physical conditioning

Basic Jook Wan

Theories and Principles

    Centerline Theory

    Mother Line    

    Economy of Motion Theory

    Theory of Facing

    The Fighting Measure

    Constant Forward Pressure

    Four Corner Theory

    Primary and Secondary Targets

    Defense Zones and Peremeters

    Longest Weapon to Nearest Target

    Visual Focus Principles

    Relax and Explode

    Zero Pressure

    Non-Intention

    Triangle Structure of the Body

 Seattle Curriculum

Gin-Lai or Salutation

Bi-jong or ready stance

• (Incorporating the Centerline Theory)

Immovable Elbow Theory

Four Corner Theory

• Footwork:
• Forward
• Backward
• Shifting right
• Shifting left

Sil Lim Tao (basic form taught in Seattle)

Straight punches and elbow punches and various body punches

Bil-jee (finger jab)

Kicks:

• Forward straight heel kick
• Forward shovel kick
• Side kick

Low side kick

• Low toe kick
• Groin toe kick
• Hook kick (medium & high)
• Spinning back hook kicks

Chi Sao (sticking hands)

Blocks:

• Tan sao
• Bong sao
• Gong sao
• Vertical fist punch
• Fook sao or elbow contained bent wrist block
• Palm strikes - vertical - side - and palm up

Techniques:

• Pak sao
• Lop sao
• Chop chuie - Gwa chuie
• Pak sao lop sao gwa chuie
• Lop sao chung chuie lop sao chung chuie
• Chop chuie gwa chuie lop sao chung chuie

Oakland Curriculum

Salutation

Kicking Drills:

• Five corner kicking: alternating kicks between left and right foot.
• Five corner kicking: from low to high.
• Clockwork kicking: real-time kicking with the closest weapon.
• Combination clockwork kicking & hitting: advanced.

Key: real-time, no hesitation, closest weapon to closest target.

Stance: Bi jong

• Lead stance: shuffle, front, rear, side.
• Form is the essence, balanced, smooth, feet stay on the ground, (skating)
• Strictly lower body movements: each movement is independent.
• Comfortable and alive, natural bounce, not rigid or stiff with hops or jumps.
• Shuffle to various strikes and kicks.

Key: be alive and comfortable.

Evasive Maneuvers

• Evade various strikes (some exaggerated to make easier)
• Evade various kicks.
• Evade various combinations of strikes and kicks.
• Minimal movement to make opponent miss.
• Know what position and distance is safe for you.
• Individualize and adapt to the size and reach of the opponent.
• Evade and counter: after learning the above.

Keys: Better to miss by an inch then to block by a mile.

• To block is to get hit.
• Don't engage the opponent, disengage him.

(e.g. don't tangle yourself in blocking and trapping movements)

• The whole idea is to intercept his physical and emotional intent to hurt you.

Classical versus the New (modern)

• Sil lim tao: performed the classical way.
• Regarding trapping: cut the movement in half for realism.
• Concentrate on speed and economy.

Key: economy of motion, efficiency.

• Hook punch: closer to the body then a boxer.
• Elbow next to the rib, much tighter and compact.

Key: centerline theory (from the center, not outside or wide).

• Take the skin (or paint) off of your ribs.
• Rear heel kick: tighter, more centered.

Key: Take the skin (or paint) off the inside of your legs.

Separate punching drills:

• Centerline punching (rapid): straight-line blast with closing footwork.
• Separate kicking drills

- Two Aspects for improved kicking:

1.     Power: Water in the hose analogy for transfer of force through target.

2.     Speed: Whip analogy for speed of recovery:

(e.g. shoe laces pop, kicking a gnat out of the air)

• Combine, blend power with speed drills, make adjustments.

Keys: Delivery system - instant, fast relaxed.

• Hand before foot
• Non-telegraphic (no pre-steps or stutter steps)(for punching: no flinching)
• Complete emphasis on speed and economy of motion.
• The less you move the better.
• Clean and sharp as a two edged sword, pure Chinese Kung-Fu.
• Power comes with time, sometimes years; on the spot power.
• Speed comes with accuracy.
• Proper form and body alignment with balance.
• Footwork is supposed to be light and easy, not jumping around stiff, but relaxed and smooth without deliberation, angular and instant.

Basic Trapping.

• Pak sao
• Lop sao
• Gong sao
• Jut sao
• Tan sao
• Bong sao
• Economy of motion: cut these movements in half.
• One hand trap
• Two hand trap

Key: Trapping is only a by-product.

• Hit, hit and more hit: not trap, trap and then hit.
• While engaging an opponent, if there's emptiness…Hit.
• Skim and glide with friction but let the Chi flow.

Line drills (Quiet awareness)

• Sensitivity: Touch vs. Non-Touch.

Distance: Measure your distance

• Safe
• No man's land
• Gates, body positions, and zones

Key: Put yourself where you're safe and the opponent is not.

• Circle to the outside of the strong side, away from rear hand.
• Immobilize the lead leg or hand, after you hit, not before.

Practice Drills

• Attack and defense.

Key: Stun him first, before obstruction, to break his rhythm or forward momentum.

Apparatus training

• Finger jab
• Straight blast
• Side kick: shin, knee target
• Side kick: power through target
• Strikes to traps
• Kicks to traps
• Bridging the gap
• Basic wing chun traps
• Strike to hand immobilization to takedown
• Kick to leg immobilization to takedown
• Backfist (high to low, low to high)

Keys: All trapping concludes in hitting

• Don't punch and kick at an opponent, kick and punch through him
• Broken rhythm (Don't be predictable)
• Using the stop-kick as a jab as you incorporate it in footwork

(e.g. be loose, fluid, Ali-like)

1.     Burning Step: hand to foot impetus.

2.     The pendulum: avoidance then following back swiftly and instantaneously.

3.     Basic and primary goal: Each student must find his own

• Identifying the tools
• Using the tools
• Sharpening the tools
• Dissolving the tools

In adapting to the opponent:

   The Three Phrases:

1.     Ice: solid, unchanging, rigid.

2.     Water: liquid, flowing.

Los Angeles Curriculum

Fitness Program

• Alternate splits
• Waist twisting (three times to each side)
• Run in place
• Shoulder circling
• High kicks
• Side kick raise
• Sit-ups
• Waist twisting
• Leg raises
• Forward bends

Punching:

(Hanging paper*, glove, glove pad, wall pad, heavy bag)

*Paper Hanging exercise

Bruce taught this exercise for two reasons, control and speed. Tape two wires to a concrete wall. The wires allow you to put an 8 by 11 sheet of paper at different depths towards the wall. The idea was to strike the paper as hard as you could, without moving it. You kept pushing the paper closer and closer until it laid against the wall. You had to hit as hard as you could, without busting your hand up. You became very skilled at depth control. The second exercise was for speed. You hung the paper from two corners, about shoulder high. The idea was to rip the paper with a punch. This required two elements, speed and recoil. It was the recoiling action that tore the paper. This was an important quality for doing concussion punching.

• Warm-up - the letting out of water [the idea of dropping the hammer loosely]
• The straight punch (left/right) then with pursuing

The entering straight right

• high
• low
• The back fist

Kicking:

• Warm-up - (left/right)
• letting out of water
• the whip

• Side kick - (left/right)

[note: choice of group training method]

• Facing two lines
• In group
• One student comes out

• Straight kick - (left/right)
• Rear kick
• The shin/knee/groin kicks
• Hook kicks [low first] and toe kick
• Combination kicking - eventually with hand

Basic Defense:

• The stop hit
• The shin/knee kick
• The finger jab (close range)
• Any type of kick to fit in
• The four corner counter

Power training:

• Isometric training:

• The upward outward force
• The basic power training
• The punch
• The kick

Classical techniques

• Pak sao
• Lop sao
• Gwa chuie
• Chop chuie/gwa chuie
• Pak sao/gwa chuie
• Double lop sao (a & b)
• Chop chuie/gwa chuie, lop sao/gwa chuie
• Jut sao
• Pak sao/jut sao
• Chop chuie/gwa chuie/jut tek
• Inside gate tan da
• Tan da low/gwa chuie
• Chop chuie/gwa chuie/lop sao

Combination:

• Right hand feint with groin kick
• Right kick feint with bil-jee
• Right feint to stomach with right straight to head
• Right feint to head shift to right to stomach.