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Quoted: The modern JKD student trains in at least Wing Chun, Muay Thai kickboxing, Indonesian silat, Philipino empty hand and weapon martial arts, Graeco-Roman wrestling, and even Gracie Ju Jitsu wrestling, among others.
| - I think it depends on the lineage of your instructor as to what you actually train in. Look to people like Matt Thorton and Burton Richardson and you'll see a total lack of Wing Chun, Silat, and to a degree Filipino influence. The people who are heavily into the Filipino influenced JKD, are people that can trace their instructor's training back to Dan Inosanto.
Also, its Brazilian JiuJitsu, not Gracie JiuJitsu
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I did mean to say Brazilian, but Gracie came out.
The picture of Royce and this other guy wrestling in UFC came to my mind.
Still, Thornton and Richardson teach kick boxing and Brazilian Ju Jitsu
and basically label it as their form of "JKD" so to speak.
Any student of theirs will be able to handle most fighters and brawlers.
Dan Inosanto pretty much owns the whole Philipino martial arts instruction.
The way I see it, kick boxing is the unifying art in JKD that ties all the
other arts together to let the student easily flow into one another.
A good kick boxer can kick just about anybody's ass because
he is not concentrating only punching an opponent, he is also kicking the shit
out of him at the same time.
A regular boxer may be able to throw a few good punches, but cannot begin to handle
kicks all over him.
If it turns into a wrestling match, then the Philipino empty hand and BJJ
arts come into play.