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This concept guides the practitioner's understanding of ones capabilities and disabilities while exploring variations of other martial art systems. Jeet Kune Do philosophy works in similar fashion, characterizing the practitioner's thinking habits and experiences to what is known as "personal research and development". This exploration of one's identity and ambition liberates the truth in one's expression, giving true meaning to one's identity and individual character.

Training methods of Jeet Kune Do are formatted under several categories. Some of their training exercises include a variety of footwork drills for mobility with explosive attacks and counter attacks from a variety of ranges and positions. This develops the practitioner's mobility against one or more attackers. Sensitivity skills are another important category of training that is incorporated in Jeet Kune Do that are developed by using several training methods. Hand trapping drills with other practitioners is used to understand what is known as "Live Energy ".

This exercise trains the practitioner to be sensitive to the opponent's reactions when performing hand-trapping techniques. Punching combinations and kicking drills on equipment such as the focus mitts develops accuracy and speed, while training on devices like the famous "Wooden Dummy" develops sensitivity reflexes for close range blocking and striking. Using a variety of drills and training devices expands the practitioner's knowledge in different categories of energy that may be encountered in empty hand combat.

One may encounter a variety of attack actions from an opponent or opponents. Each action and reaction will differ due to the size, height, and skill of the opponent, as well as the environment in which one engages with the opponent. The ability to change techniques and fighting methods quickly is crucial to ones survival in combat. Since Jeet Kune Do uses "no limitations as limitations" it can adapt itself to every combative situation, thus using all principles and strategies to overcome any obstruction.

Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline toward the ultimate reality in combat. The ultimate reality is the returning to one's primary freedom which is simple, direct, and non-classical.

A good Jeet Kune Do man does not oppose force or give way completely. He is pliable as a spring; he is the complement and not the opposition to his opponent's strength. He has no technique; he makes his opponents' techniques his technique. He has no design; he makes opportunity his design.

One should respond to circumstance without artificial and "wooden" pre-arrangement. Your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow adapting to a moving object. Your task is simply to complete the other half of the "oneness" spontaneously.

In Jeet Kune Do, one does not accumulate but eliminates. It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. It is the half way cultivation that runs to ornamentation.

So it is not how much fixed knowledge one has accumulated, rather it is what one can apply alively that counts. "Being" is definitely more valued than "doing." The understanding of Jeet Kune Do is through personal feeling from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship and not through a process of isolation. To be is to be related. To isolate is death.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Learn the principle, abide by the principles and dissolve the principle. In short, to enter a mold without being caged in it, and obey the principle without being bound by them.

My followers in Jeet Kune Do, do listen to this - all fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Try and obtain a manageable shape of nicely tied paper package of water.

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving of a thawing ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms, when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

In primary freedom one utilizes all ways and is bound by none, and likewise uses any technique or means which serves its end. Efficiency is anything that scores. When you perceive the truth in Jeet Kune Do, you are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference.

Bruce Lee

President of Jeet Kune Do