#martial arts tigard
(viahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GVCNlhZao)
From our Jeet Kune Do (JKD) class earlier this week. If you enjoyed the Paul Vunak video we posted earlier, you should see a continuity here. That’s because we follow the official Inosanto curriculum.
Like many martial arts, you have to be careful where you train JKD. There’s many pretenders and frauds out there. Sometimes it’s just a matter that instructors reach a certain level of qualification and lose the aspiration to keep developing. Regardless of circumstances you want to get spoiled by great information and not waste money, time, or health training at the wrong place.
For RCW the path is pretty simple: learn and train from the best instructors on the planet. In terms of JKD there’s no better source than Dan Inosanto, who was not only Bruce Lee’s top student and heir to the system, but he’s gone on to train and grow for his entire career. At 80 years old his time in the training hall is about 60 years. That’s 60 years of continued refinement, private lessons with other high level mentors, pioneering material and endless growth.
Under the Inosanto curriculum, like our BJJ and Muay Thai, there’s a progression. A step by step approach to learn the material and get it in your muscle memory. If you look across other instructors in our association like Paul Vunak, Rick Young, Chris Kent, Erik Paulson, Francis Fong, or Chris Clarke you’ll find the same exact progression. This might seem like something simple, but this continuity is actually rare.
It’s a key indicator someone is a pretender to JKD if they don’t follow this format. They don’t have the same clear concept of range and tool set. Worse yet, some even tell you there’s no curriculum under Dan Inosanto and you just do whatever you want. Part of that stems from the fact not all black belts are created equally. Some people get certified and then DONT follow the curriculum. I’ve seen this in BJJ all the time, as Pedro Sauer has a very detailed progression to follow for the first six years of training. I’ve been to numerous Pedro Sauer schools though, where the black belt in charge relies more on wrestling, sport Jiu Jitsu, or what they think is more important than decades of curriculum refinement and implementation.
JKD the martial art does have a system to follow, and you’ll find it at RCW. We will lay out the foundation and method for you so you can see yourself improving in the first 90 days.
