JKD Wins Against Standard Modern MMA Twice

Our second featurette on Jeet Kune Do practitioner Li Ke Wei (Lee Ke Wei). This time, Li goes into the MMA cage to test his mixture of arts. His first opponent is Ye Hewan and his second opponent is Lin Boxun. Let's see what skills (as well as weaknesses) our JKD practitioner brings to the table!

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Timecodes:
0:00 Match one vs Ye Hewan
0:46 Match two vs Lin Boxun
1:43 More thoughts
2:03 Fun question for viewers
2:33 Guest puppy

[FightCommentary]

Big shoutout viewer Jedidiah for sending me these clips of his teammate Lee!

[Brykk]

These are both great examples of something you dont see enough of. Its something my instructor drilled into all of his fighters. Its the ability to throw a punch without any other muscles even twitching. The true untelegraphed strike. The second fight was an excellent example of that. Having the training to allow the fist to initiate the movement for the strike. Gave me chills seeing these again. True fighters will know exactly what im talking about here.

[sammymarinero]

Humans are weird. We naturally mirror each other in communication. Bas Rutten once noted it and said if you kick a guy, they try to kick you. I remembered this once in a fight. I came from a BJJ/wrestling background, and was Fighting a good striker. I needed to get him down in the last round, so I threw a high kick, thinking he would probably mirror it. He threw a high kick back, but I was already shooting in in him, because that's the reaction I expected. I got him down, got mount, felt him deflate, it was the third round and he hadn't gotten back up every time I took him down, and punched him like 100x in the face from Mount

[Elhombresanchez]

I just wanted to say I love this channel and content. I hope you continue making these videos.

[callumbush]

It's not the style it's the fighter.

[markbroughamsindooroutdoor]

These are some good clips and all and congratulations for the JKD practitioner it's kind of amazing the way they try to make it seem like JKD is not a mixed martial art if you look at the root of it that's exactly what Bruce created it to be..and its a quite affective to say the least..

[HelloBrother]

So one question, if JKD is just using what fits you and works, and is not really a style, how can you classify anything as being JKD? wouldn't it just be MMA?

[Monster_Mick]

JKD lead hooks are sneaky compared to traditional boxing hooks

[stephanwatson]

There's a reason alot of the best MMA fighters use stuff from JKD. GSP and Anderson Silva have talked about using techniques from JKD, Jon Jones does, Conor McGregor does.

And you'd be surprised how many UFC fighters fight dominant hand forward!
GSP is a left handed orthadox and called that his secret weapon, Anderson Silva is a right handed southpaw, Jon Jones is a left handed orthadox, Nick and Nate Diaz are right handed, Dustin Poirier is right handed, Lyoto Machida is right handed, Colby Covington is right handed.

And Cyril Gane is also right handed, so I was so interested to see him vs Jon Jones; as they both usually fight dominant hand forward...but that didn't last long lol

[maximumeffort]

Little fun fact about JKD. It's specially designed to be able to mix well with other styles of martial arts in both stand up styles as well as grappling and submission.

[alanstewart]

Yeah, I saw the straight lead hit. Interesting. The guy took the hit but FELL its effects after taking another two punches. I saw that.

[farkinarkin]

The hands down routine seems to be an effective way to distract from his footwork. There are times when he’s got his lead foot back with his trailing foot close behind (like an incomplete shuffle) ……. Kind of leaning too far forward. It works for him, but it could get exploited.

His fight IQ is great and pressure is good. Definitely has some power in his strikes.

[CARLOSOrdillas-liij]

Jkd concepts is dat if you're not aware of interception, deflection and counterception you'll not gonna be able to connect dat simple it'll only work when you've studied indept in wing chun, kali escrima, kickboxing, boxing, grappling, jujitsu like bruce lee who has experience in doze arts with masters and wisely formulated to changing styles into 1 artform yall understand now from a war veteran fighter

[Pwasercan]

I wouldn't say the jkd guy fights hands down. He had them at his chest 90% of the time, and I believe this is the most effective. Many mma fighers use this position too. Advantages: your arms are in the perfect position for punching, so you can throw very fast and with max power. Your arms are in a bouncy angle that makes it so you can very quickly lift them up to block, rather than being stiff and immovable on your face which also blocks vision.

[RobertMcGimpsey]

If you look at Bruce Lee's basic training books, he NEVER taught the hands down basic stance.

[archangegaming]

Jeet kune do is also MMA.

Bruce lee studying Wing Shun, bodybuilding, wrestling, Karaté, Aikido, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Boxing like mohamed ali's moves, etc.

[jovanleon]

He's already gotten a lot better than in the first video! Great development, Li Ke Wei!

[OleSamSeed]

At 1:15 he goes in like he's a superhero sparing a villain. Like "I coulda got you...but you can go."

[victorcold]

Quite simply, there is no jkd here., no dominant leading hand, no jkd stances or footwork whatsoever. Just two rather committed but not very experienced fighters displaying some amateur MMA skills.

[suryodeepchoudhury]

This is not Jeet kin do.This is kick boxing