Is Jeet Kune Do a good martial art to start with?

JKD is a philosophy and not an art (in fact, it is the antithesis of all martial arts).

It’s philosophy is do what works when and how you need to do it so as to address and resolve the confrontation as quickly and efficiently as possible. You would necessarily need at least an understanding of individual techniques and knowledge of how your body naturally expresses the same.

Be well and be wise.

JKD is a concept, not a martial art. But, yes, it’s excellent. I’ve been using this concept since I was a teenager. I’m 36 now.

There are two types of schools of JKD. The guys who teach it like Bruce Lee taught, such as Jerry Poteet (RIP). Then there is the Dan Inosanto who teaches Jeet Kune Do Concepts. Basically, it’s well rounded with a good mix of Muay Thai, jiu jitsu, trapping and the Filipino Martial Arts.

As far as is JKD good for real world situations, it really depends on how you train.

If you are a novice, without proper instruction, Krav Maga might be a better start. If you have a good JKD instructor in your area, then by all means join. Let him know, you want to train for self defense.

More than likely, your training will revolve more around grappling and the Filipino Martial Arts which incorporate stick and knife fighting.

The Filipino concept of using sticks is this. A stick travels much faster than your fist. Once you are used to being hit by a stick, then getting hit by a fist is like nothing. Plus, you’ll be able to practice disarms, etc. If you are in the street, if you can pick up a stick, then you’ll be at a huge advantage.

Bruce Lee wrote a book called the Tao of Jeet Kune Do. You should read it. It’s very enlightening.

There isn’t many jeet kune do teachers around but if you have any in your area (real) then that’s good, and you can start of with any martial art, no martial art or fighting system is hard just need to put your mind into it and keep training, but there are simple technuiqe ones like boxing, eventhough most people say its not a martial art , many also say it is western martial arts but anyways,, boxing as I said simple techuiqes which are jabs,cross,hook and uppercut,, these are the striking but then comes in the dodges and slips, ducking and etc…. So you have learnt the basic technuiqes in boxing but you MUST train just on those punches so that you can be effective… Witth jeet kune do you gotta be fast aswell as you counter attack by blocking and attacking at same time.. (Taken from wingchun) , any martial art you can start of with if you have the right teacher, someone who can teach you nearly everything in the art, even the tiniest things like streches for kicking if your stiff and so on… So my answer is yes. :D. Alsoo for self defence jkd is good but also look up kravmaga…

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Is just philosophy not martial art, is repeat of Japanese idea of Mu Shin. You need study some real martial arts before can use JKD. Idea is be fluid like water, instinctively use best technique you know at any situation. Must know some real techniques first before use JKD.

I supposed it is a good way to use jkd for self defense training, before you enter the world of jkd I suggest you to learn the philosphy of jkd, also learn the founder history, why he create jkd and all his quote about martial arts, luckily there is youtube and the uploader who upload some of the footage about him explaining jkd so you don’t have to so much problem finding the materials.

If you feel his teaching suitable for you just find the way so could get friends who also learn jkd hopefully they could bring you to the right place to train jkd

Although it isn’t a martial art, I suggest boxing. But if you are set on martial arts then I suggest anything but floor based combat such as Brazilian Ju Jitsu as they are for competition purposes and not self defense.

Yes.

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Sure.