When Jeet Kune Do Works - JKD vs Muay Thai

We have a very good interpretation of Jie Quan Dao (Jeet Kune Do) from a Taiwanese JKD artist named Li Ke Wei (Lee Ke Wei). In this match against a Muay Thai guy, the JKD Lee uses superior boxing footwork and head movement, along with some unorthodox kicks, to confuse and outstrike the Muay Thai person.

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Timecodes:
0:00 Round 1
3:05 Round 2
6:18 Round 3
9:36 Shoutout viewer Jedidiah
9:49 Discussion topic for everyone
10:21 Something cool about to happen
10:40 Fritz

[FightCommentary]

More coverage of Lee Ke Wei to come! Stay tuned ;) Shoutout Lee's friend and teammate Jedidiah.

[DouglasGomesBueno-jwlh]

I would say that Bruce Lee already had the mentality of modern MMA fighters, learn whatever style that works don't stick to one style he's soo ahead of his time.

[fightingfitaustin]

I teach JKD. The tricky thing is that Bruce Lee evolved a lot even after naming what he did "Jeet Kune Do", so what the art looks like is largely defined by who you train with.

When Bruce Lee first described his art he said it was primarily a combination of fencing principles, boxing & wing chun.

As time went on he moved the art further and further away from wing chun and more towards a kickboxing-like style.

He also moved further and further away from trying to create the "ultimate" style and towards having no style (aka: absorb what's useful, reject what's not).

After Bruce Lee died Dan Inosanto became the main source for learning JKD. And his love for the Filipino martial arts means that now most JKD guys who learned from him post-Lee bring a lot of those concepts into how they teach the art as well.

[Autonamatonamaton]

"We have MMAShredded at home"

[stephanwatson]

The whole idea of JKD is to only use what works, if you practice JKD and can't fight, then you don't get it!
Rickson Gracie - "Everything Bruce Lee spoke was the true essence of martial arts...and his philosophy about fighting was a 100% correct."
Anderson Silva - "Wing Chun and the Bruce Lee stuff saved my life, inside the cage and ring!"

Even GSP in a video, talked about using concepts and techniques he learned from Bruce Lee

[atomic_wait]

Correct me if I'm wrong, maybe this is one of those apologist things that's just gotten into the ether, but isn't JKD more of a training philosophy than a specific school of techniques and specific approaches? The description I'd heard made it sound like a pragmatic approach to mixed martial arts, shooting adopting the useful and ignoring the useless, but I'm sure there are multiple interpretations of JKD as a concept.

[mengmao]

MT guy didn’t have a top level teep. Jerry was begging for it to get thrown. Establishing the teep and then cutting off the side stepping would have limited JKD guy’s punch offense. From there, MT guy could get a higher connect rate on his relatively telegraphed round kicks

[RefuseLose]

As a JKD practitioner since the early '90's, this is an alright example to show people on what JKD is all about. It's not flying sidekicks and yelling "wah" all the time. JKD is essentially MMA but designed for street fights. That's why its so easy for practitioners to transfer their skills over to MMA.

However, what I don't like is that the JKD is keeping his hands down and relying on head and footwork, not setting up counters, the Muay Thai guy isn't being "Muay Thai" enough (e.g., more elbows, knees, clinch, etc.). Sure he was using some teeps & switch kicks from time-to-time, but he should be the expert inside fighter out of the two. Still, it was an ok amateur match.

[戰國春秋]

That's a lot of JKD's iconic straight lead right there, including that round 2 knock out punch. It is quite apparent that MT guy has trouble react or defend against the straight lead. JKD guy doesn't seem to be able to out-box/out-kick and out-cardio the MT guy especially at later rounds, but his JKD straight lead works throughout all the rounds.

[Journeytofights]

Awesome commentary man 👍 I've seen a lot of your videos. Good job man, keep up the good work.

[drgetwrekt]

fun fact: back when UFC was still to start, in an italian comics, the "futuristic" martial art of choice for the year 2200 or so was indeed JKD.

[meanylemonhead]

DUUUUDE the sunglasses are
Great fight. Both fighters put up their best in my opinion. I learned from both contenders watching this.

[adrianfytr]

This was a badass fight! Congratulations to both fighters for putting on a Hell of a fight and leaving it all in the ring.
Great statement about the hand being in front of the face as an emergency backup.

[farkinarkin]

Great match. As it wore on, JKD guy did less range control and that led to more of a diet of punches. His head movement is impressive (though maybe a little exaggerated at times). I agree, leaving the hands down is generally a bad idea.

You might be onto something about Bruce Lee’s Cha-Cha experience. It would hone a great sense of balance and rhythm. The latter helps in sensing and then breaking up an opponent’s cadence so his (or her) timing is off. Hehe… so all those dance classes were useful. Who knew?

[RealEdwinMendoza]

I enjoyed this commentary, you get the sub! 👊

[sunflowerbadger]

Your videos always make me happy ❤

Great content 😊

[dzen_dzenkazan]

Good head and lateral movement. If he would counter more often from his evasion and had better close distance/clinch technique he would destroy the opponent

[freaker]

i've fought in a boxing ring and i find it much easier to see and fight when both my hands are down. especially, when you're tired. of course you got to have good defends and fast reactions. i also didn't choose to put my hands down. it comes naturally to me.

[BigBoy-SP]

Dudes got decent head movement. Issue is, as soon as he got tired and his opponent got his timing he started getting hit because he's hands were down.

If you're gonna have a hands down style you better be able to maintain it for the duration of the fight. even then it's dangerous.

[stfnsntcrz]

I train JKD in Colorado, and although we would be a little more relaxed at a distance, in sparring, we'd have our hands up and protect our heads at all times. We also favor a right handed lead in training (left handed if you're left handed), the logic being you'd train to your natural strengths. You could train both sides but it would probably not be as beneficial as training your natural lead. We train a direct lineage from Ted Wong, but I know other people have added and taken away things from the old days. JKD guy was awesome though, hopefully he trains those hands up. Love your vids, analysis is always on point.