Muay thai to JKD

lightning_88 · 02-23-2006, 05:19 PM

I am going to take a few lessons of JKD, and i am hoping to do some stand up sparring. I admit, i have no idea how the JKD stand us is other than what i've seen from Bruce Lee movies.

I am quite experienced and confident inmy muay thai skills, just wanted to know if theres any types of kicks and punches that i may not have encountered in Muay thai, and should be wary of.

Im thinking stuff like spinning back fists, back hand punches, flying kicks etc...

Thanks in advance.

ACR4V3N · 02-23-2006, 05:45 PM

Ive sparred people who were doing a spin off of JKD and they do side kicks and front kicks (not MT push) so be ready to catch kicks like crazy.

Stompede · 02-23-2006, 06:08 PM

JKD is about directness. So they will try to go head on, fast frontkicks and wing chun like punches.

legshot420 · 02-23-2006, 08:14 PM

beware the straight blast.

Gregster · 02-23-2006, 09:22 PM

Hard to say, really; if the place teaches authentic JKD, there's no telling how a skilled JKD fighter will fight.

JKD is not supposed to be a codified system so much as a wide variety of different tools ( punching, kicking, trapping, grappling) from a wide variety of influences (kung fu, karate, TKD, Western boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, Savate) that students are exposed to. They are then encouraged to incorporate what works for them, and discard what does not. The philosophy of the system that Bruce Lee envisioned was one where the style conformed to the student, not the student to the style, so that any practitioner wound up with a set of skills tailor-made to their strengths.

It also doesn't help that JKD has been modified to death, and there's a lot of guys claiming to teach JKD that ain't.

If I had to guess: the guy will try and stay close, using low kicks and lots of straight punches and trapping to open a path to your centerline (an imaginary line running through the center of your body, top to bottom). JKD is well-grounded in Wing Chun kung fu.

Boxeo · 02-24-2006, 10:51 AM

i do jkd. Watch out for the straightblast. (vertical fists one after another. Just sidestep or shield up.) And you might keep an eye out for oblique(spelling) and stop kicks. If he's from straightblast gym expect a mma fighter. Oh and btw bruce did flashy stuff for the movies. Not to much practical jkd on screen.

lightning_88 · 02-25-2006, 02:47 PM

What is tis straight blast? Vertical fists, like hammer fists??
Also, do JKD practitioners train in clinching?

CowboyPete · 02-25-2006, 04:43 PM

The straight blast is a bunch of straight punches, delivered with a vetical fist but in such a way that right behind the first punch is the second punch and so on and so forth. It's done that way so you can't see the successive punches coming and is pretty hard to defend if you aren't experienced.