Jun Fan Kickboxing/Jeet Kune Do

“To understand jeet kune do, you must prepare yourself for a different way of looking at martial arts. First, seek the truth in combat. Experience and master the truth at each fighting range. Then, forgetting the carrier of the truth (the art), dissolve the attachment with any one art or way. ‘To float in totality,’ we must assume formlessness. ‘To repose in the nothing,’ we simply answer the attack. When you can use no art as your art, you become jeet kune do—‘the way of no way.’”

--Jerry Beasley, Ed.D.

Volume 1: Introduction to Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lee’s original art of jeet kune do has been variously referred to as non-classical gung fu, scientific street fighting, or Jun Fan kickboxing. The fundamental skills of kicking and punching, and the principles of independent motion and non-telegraphic technique, are covered in detail in Volume 1. By “using no way as the one and only way,” we can perform Bruce Lee’s skills in whatever way that will work. By seeking no limitations, we are unlimited (that is, free to explore) in the ways we can perform Bruce Lee’s skills.

Mastering Karate

“Todays karate practitioners are equally comfortable in the kickboxing ring or on the grappler’s mat. ‘Borrow from all styles and use what works’ has become the ideal of American karate practitioners. Karate can be any expression of a martial art, limited only by the attributes of the practitioner.”

--Jerry Beasley, Ed.D.

Mastering Karate The master text of American Karate

In Mastering Karate, Beasley focuses on the crucial components of advanced karate techniques that will enhance your individual performance and give you the edge in sparring situations. The detailed descriptions and photographs will help you visualize and develop the critical skills needed to progress through the intermediate and advanced ranks.

Mastering Karate also includes specific offensive and defensive strategies you can adapt in competition as well as an entire chapter dedicated to teaching styles and methods that you can apply to become more effective in the dojo. With advanced training methods for physical and mental preparation, this book offers the practical tools you need to succeed.

In addition to a wealth of training techniques, Mastering Karate presents ideas and concepts about history, traditions, etiquette, and training methods, it traces the evolution of western karate and shows how it has been influenced by superstars like Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Bill Wallace.

Mastering Karate is an invaluable resource for students in all karate disciplines. Whether you’re an advanced black belt, an intermediate student striving for improvement, or an instructor in search of contemporary training methods, you’ll benefit from this comprehensive resource. Use the experience and instruction of Jerry Beasley to guide you to success.

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Volume 2: Strategies Every art of self defense is governed by three variables—strategy, attributes, and chance. In this program, Dr. Jerry Beasley examines the skills for mobility, the straight blast, and the five ways of attack. He demonstrates under the rigors of full contact how to introduce the attribute of deceptiveness to your JKD arsenal. If attributes fail, strategy still can insure victory. “To float in totality” simply means to respond—“using no way as way.” To constantly evolve and progress means that we continually improve our techniques and applications so that we can adapt our skills to meet all situations.

Volume 3: Hand Immobilization Attack (HIA) “JKD favors formlessness so it can assume all forms.” This tape examines the principle of trapping. First, we familiarize ourselves with the weapons of trapping range, classical trapping (wing-chun style), alternative trapping methods, and boxing-style immobilization. The concept of trapboxing is then introduced by demonstrating that trapping, as a principle, may assume all forms that work.

Volume 4: Full-Contact Fighting Jun Fan Style, Part 1 The original full-contact fighting method of jeet kune do, including the principles of evade, block, destroy, redirect, and intercept—and how they are applied in full-contact fighting—are demonstrated. Levels of progression from technique drills to level five contact fighting are introduced.

Volume 5: Full-Contact Fighting Jun Fan Style, Part 2 Full-contact principles of slip, jab, and weave are introduced. Levels six through nine sparring methods are demonstrated.

To order any of these Videos or the whole set contact Century Martial Arts (look under the Panther Video section and Jeet Kune Do).