JKD Footwork Training

It’s easy to confuse movement with footwork. Any fool can move; JKD fighters move their Ready-Position by means of specific footwork designed especially for this purpose. If, for example, you bounce when moving, instead of shuffling as you should, you obliterate your ability to instantly fire when needed. First, you have to stop bouncing, then reset, and then fire. This literally destroys your JKD because now you can’t instantly counter-attack. Your options then are to try and avoid everything by running or getting into a brawl.

In this, one can see the careful integration of the three technical fundamentals of JKD: the Bi-Jong, JKD/fencing style footwork to transport the on-guard, and the pulverizing straight hits. It’s a package deal. If one of these go, the others are soon to follow. And this is why you absolutely cannot, repeat cannot, simply add things willy-nilly to your game and call it JKD.

Roundhouse swings and bad footwork are generally added by the student because they haven’t been taught that keeping the on-guard position is of central concern. After all, if I lose focus on this, I’m liable to throw strikes that telegraph and/or make instant recovery impossible. The goal of the JKD fighter is, as Bruce called it, stillness in motion. That is to say, we want to fire without warning from the ready-position and then return immediately to it. That’s it! The more we deviate from this standard, the harder everything else becomes.

Constant drilling must be done in order to ensure that the JKD fighter is able to maintain their discipline under pressure. The Romans once had the greatest military on the planet. They called their practice maneuvers; their maneuvers were called bloodless battles; their battles were called bloody maneuvers.
If you’ve ever been to an amateur MMA or boxing event, you’ll notice how wild the fighters can get. Clearly, they know better than to swing so hard that they fall down if they miss, but novice fighters do this all the time. Why? Simple. They haven’t yet developed the discipline required to control themselves under pressure. This is no small point. Pressure causes us to make mistakes, so the JKD fighter must train and train and train – not until they get it right but until they have to try to do it wrong!

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