Jeet Kune Do and the Jun Fan martial arts

An instrutor with Sifu Dan Inosanto's International Intructors Assciation, Pat Davies blends the JKD concept through the whole AMAG structure.

AMAG now has THREE instructors under Sifu Inosanto! Leigh and Peter Richardson joined in January 2008.

Bruce Lee researched and integrated 26 different arts. These methods are now known as the "Jun Fan Martial Arts". The researching of arts from around the world was able to continue thanks to Dan Inosanto.

At the AMAG the JKD philosophy is essential to our training.

"Using no way as way - no limitation as limitation"

It is the individual that is important, not the system. The art that is currently practised offers something for every type of student.

Each art is seen to cover a certain circumstance or training need and we conceive of these diverse arts as pieces of a whole. JKD is an interpretative art. This means that each student will come out of the training slightly different.

"Absorb what is useful - Reject what is useless and add what is specifically your own"

We will teach the Jun Fan curriculum using the kick boxing focus mitt drills and the trapping progression. Through JKD concepts will we use the attributes and techniques from other arts to improve on these skills.

We now have several different arts that have different trapping theories. Kali, for example, uses angling and limb hitting where Jun Fan trapping dominates the centreline. These two compliment each other well.

Elbowing tactics are similar. Our heaviest elbows come from Muay Thai. We use elbow tactics from Kali that damage the limbs as well as Silat where they use elbows to manipulate the body into throwing positions.

Each new piece of information brings new light to "old" tactics. Many times a new perspective is all that is needed to make once discarded methods seem very important.

This is especially true as the Martial Artist goes through different life cycles. What seemed to be all-important in your early 20s may have changed when you are 50.

What should be learned from all this is a sense of humility and respect for differing opinions and preferences. Understanding how different circumstances require different solutions is part of the psychology of J.K.D.