Combat Jeet Kune Do

Martial arts

Jeet Kune Do

Submission Fighting

JKD is the base for our defensive tactics training. With the popularity of Mixed Martial Arts as seen in events such as The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Pride, and the IFL, it has become evident that there is not one style of martial art or one range of combat that always prevails. Bruce Lee realized this nearly forty years ago when he developed Jeet Kune Do.

Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto developed Jeet Kune Do by taking what was useful from other styles of martial arts. Mr. Inosanto taught the concepts and strategies to Paul Vunak who focused on the practical street fighting/combat applications. Paul Vunak taught Dan Mikeska.

Jeet Kune Do has taken raw techniques and applied the scientific principles of body mechanics and a proven fighting methodology to create an effective combat system.

JKD teaches the practitioner to fight in all four ranges of combat. Students are taught to flow from kicking range, to hand range, to trapping range, and to the ground. The efficient movements utilize the most direct lines and angles. Once an altercation has been started, there are no breaks or interruptions. As one technique nears completion, it blends into the next and then the next; moving from one range of combat to another until the conflict is resolved. Then we add in weapons and multiple opponents.

We train with techniques from a number of different combat systems:

American Kickboxing, Combat Submission Wrestling, Wing Chung for trapping, and Filipino Kali/Escrima for weapons. At Complete Fitness Concepts you can learn JKD as an integrated system, or you can train in each system independently. If you are interested in sport fighting, check out or MMA program.

You will learn precision combat application first and foremost. However the more you learn and practice, the more the art aspects are realized. Self preservation first-then self perfection.

A note on trapping:

The trapping range of JKD is a critical element that is left out of most training programs. In a world where schools are teaching Brazilian Jujitsu and Muay Thai Kick Boxing, the art of trapping has faded away. But trapping is not just a bunch of techniques, it is a range of combat that is largely ignored. We use elements and training methods from a number of different systems including Thai Boxing, Kali, and Wing Chung to develop our attributes in trapping range.

Trapping is a range of fighting. It is the same as clinch range, but without necessarily going into a clinch. Just like boxing has a jab and a cross, and tae kwon do has a roundhouse kick, trapping has a number of techniques such as pak soa and jut soa, as well as head-butts, knees, and elbows. The idea behind trapping is not to grab your opponent as in a grappling art, but to jamb their hands or legs so they can not execute a punch or a kick. The idea is to momentarily disable one or more of your opponent’s weapons so you can effectively execute a kick, punch, knee or an elbow without the threat of your opponent’s weapons.

Keep in mind that just like a good kicker can execute a kick from kicking, punching, or trapping range, and a good boxer can punch in punching range or clinch range, many trapping techniques can be executed in a the various ranges, not just trapping range.