Martial Arts Around the World
| January 9, 2019
Jeet Kune Do – USA
Created by the famous martial artist Bruce Lee in 1969, Jeet Kune Do (JKD) is a combination of different fighting styles. However, instead of having a fixed style, practitioners learn to intercept when an opponent is about to attack.
Bruce Lee used to say in his interviews that JKD is “the art of expressing the human body.” He believed martial artists should “be like water,” using simple movements to cause maximum effect. He believed a fighter shouldn’t try to predict an attack, but only react to it.
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