Jeet Kune Do Facts
- The economy-tight structure in attack and defense (attack: the alive leads/defense: sticking hands).
- The versatile and the "artless-artful," "total" kicking and striking weapons.
- The broken rhythm, the half-beat and the one or three-and-a-half beat (JKD's rhythm in attack and counter).
Weight training and scientific supplementary training plus all-around fitness.- The "JKD direct movement" in attacks and counters-throwing from where it is without repositioning.
- The shifty body and light footwork.
- The "un-crispy" stuff and unassuming attack
- Strong in-fighting:
- shifty blasting
- throwing
- grappling
- immobilizations
- All-out sparring and the actual contact training on moving targets.
- The sturdy tools through continuous sharpening.
- Individual expression rather than mass product; aliveness rather than classicalism (true relationship).
- Total rather than partial in structure.
- The training of "continuity of expressive self" behind physical movements.
- Loose power and powerful thrust-drive as a whole. A springy looseness but not a physically lax body. Also, a pliable mental awareness.
- The constant flow (straight movement and curved movement combined-up and down, curved left and right, sidesteps, bobbing and weaving, hand circles).
- Well-balanced posture of exertion during movement, constantly. Continuity between near all-out and near all-loose.
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