KALI and JKD

                                                   

Why do so many JKD instructors also include Kali in their school?  Especially when Kali drills seem to actually contradict what Bruce Lee taught.  Bruce Lee: "All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."  This is very true in actual combat, combat being a very fluid affair.  However we learned through Bruce Lee’s protégé, Dan Inosanto that we gain attributes and turbo charge our JKD with Kali drills.  Kali teaches coordination and balance better than any other warrior art I have come across.  Adding the practice of Kali drills will turbo charge your JKD quickly and efficiently.  We are not teaching people to fight in fix patterns, because that would not be JKD. However, for basic attribute development, you won’t find anything better.

Famed JKD instructor Paul Vunak said that his practice of interception, a JKD fundamental, blossomed through the practice of Kali drills.

 

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