JKD Infighting

Under pressure, simplicity is where it’s at. Especially at close range. Bruce Lee’s JKD is built around this truth: complexity kills performance. In JKD Infighting you get the close range skills you need, not just to survive, but to thrive if/when an altercation goes to the trenches. Nothing fancy will get in your way or bog you down. The first thing to know is that JKD is built upon a fencing and boxing systematic. Lee’s original work in the Ip Man Wing Chun system taught him to never trust anything that wasn’t tested under real pressure. But cut off from Ip Man’s instruction when he came to America, and frustrated by his performance in an altercation with another Kung-fu expert, Wong Jak Man in 1964, he turned his study to two of the most well-vetted methods in the world: fencing and boxing. What was he looking for? Simple. He wanted the physical expression of the “jeet” concept - that is, to cut off an attack by taking the initiative. The best defense is a good offense and the best offense is a counter attack because it subsumes the defense in the offense. In all, Lee wanted “aggressive defense.” And what Bruce Lee wanted is what we should want, which is to become an extremely hard to hit but aggressive self-defender. At close-quarters, he found the source of this in the former heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey. Before Mike Tyson, there was Dempsey. You don’t get nicknamed the “Man-Killer” by accident. Dempsey was a whirlwind of close-range destruction, elusive but extremely powerful. Lee studied Dempsey and his unique power generation, absorbing into his self-defense method the tricks that can make all of us KO punchers. Who doesn’t want that? And, more still, since Lee’s focus was on street-defense, not merely boxing, he integrated Jack’s brilliant tactics into the no-holds-barred world of all-out violence. And that’s what we cover in JKD Infighting. Holding and hitting; short-range knockout blows no one will see coming; dirty tactics one can’t use in boxing; evasiveness that makes your opponent miss and/or smothers his attack with simple traps, checks and beats. Even better, all of this is integrated in a way that doesn’t leave you open for grappling. JKD Infighting includes:- The unique connection of JKD and boxing, especially on the insideThe simple brilliance of JKD’s origins explained - clearing up the confusion. Dozens of photos to teach you all the inside techniques you need to master this dynamic range.A chapter on home/solo training to help you get the best out of the material even if you have no one else to train with. Essays to help you know WHY and WHEN to use the techniques. Just having the technique is useless unless you know the tactical keys. When you understand that the intercepting concept (or Jeet) is the guiding principle of self-defense - and infighting too! - you’ll have that critical edge. And the last chapter, JKD & Mike Tyson, is a must-read as it follows the brilliance of Cus D’Amato, the trainer and mad-scientist behind the development of Iron Mike. You’ll see how Cus and Bruce were actually quite similar - studying the past greats and trying to find a perfect balance between defense and aggression. Lee was, of course, his own D’Amato and Tyson. This chapter will help you understand what JKD is and where it can go in the future. It puts the keys of excellence in your hands. So, if you want to be an effective self-defender, you can’t go wrong by learning the tried-and-true methods that Lee trusted. The method of men like Dempsey, Duran, and later, even Tyson. JKD Infighting is dirty boxing at its best. Simple, direct, and brilliantly effective.