martial arts in kent area and cheap

[British dude]

I live in kent, biggin hill and am looking for a place that teaches jeet kune do, as i have always admired bruce lee and would love to do his martial art. so if anyone knows somewhere that teaches it close to me please could you tell me, thanx
( i am 15 years old, i live in biggin hill, also it cant be to expensive.)

[Kof_Andy]

You had nothing martial in your profile, so im assuming you got no experience yet. Is wise to start other system before doing JKD. JKD is great ,but is a philosophy not a system itself. You can learn JKD from most of Bruce Lee's book.

[DeeTee]

Hi British Dude,

The core of JKD is Jun Fan Gung Fu. This is an art in it's own right. I'm sure there'll be plenty of fellow MAPPERS giving you names and contact details etc, but whoever you decide to contact just ask them if they teach the full Jun Fan curriculum or not.

[uobirac]

hey man, I live in Orpington - about 20mins from Biggin Hill :D I used to train at Tripes Farm in Chelsfield with Rob Clarke and I'm pretty sure there's still a club running there - that was for JKD.

Also check out this thread for details on Paul Finn's club, which is running at Darrick Wood School on Sundays:

Clubs (http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1430)

Edit: I just realised you've already replied to that post lol well go back and read it! Take a look at Paul Finn's site and e-mail him, it's not that far from Biggin Hill

[YODA]

Listen to uobirac - he speaks wise words :D

[Stuart Rider]

Paul has a class in Mottingham Mondays and Wednesdays.
Well worth attending
He is an Apprentice Instructor under Guro Dan Inosanto, a level.2 instructor under Guro Rick Faye, an Instructor under Ralph Jones and a second degree in Doce Pares under Danny Guba.
As well as the above he is well experienced in Wing Chun.

Ralphs Class is at Darrick Woods School. Highly recommended.
He is a Full Instructor under Dan Inosanto, trained Wing Chun with Nino Bernardo, spent alot of time training with the JKD people who have made a name for themselves. Don't dismiss him because he is as well known as say Bob Breen, Ralph was their when Bob brought Guro Dan over 20 years ago and he has been training JF and Kali since then. He also had some escrima experience before training under Guro Dan. As well as al that he spent time training in Japan years ago studying Wado Ryu and Okinawan Weapons(but no longer teaches these).

Again another highly skiled teascher well worth getting to his classes.

[uobirac]

Originally posted by YODA
Listen to uobirac - he speaks wise words :D
Thank you Yoda, I try my best :D

I totally agree with everything Stuart has said and I would really like to start some lessons at Darrick Wood - it's only down the road from me and it's my old school! The only thing that put me off was that it was £7.50 for just an hour and half..which seemed like a lot, especially when you have no job :-/ but seeing as though it is Paul Finn and he is an instructor under the great Dan Inosanto i'm sure it'd be worth the money.

must...get...a...job lol

[Tireces]

Originally posted by Kof_Andy
You had nothing martial in your profile, so im assuming you got no experience yet. Is wise to start other system before doing JKD. JKD is great ,but is a philosophy not a system itself. You can learn JKD from most of Bruce Lee's book.

I'm going to have to completely disagree with that. NO martial art can be learned simply by reading a book (except the way of the intercepting bullet- page 1: draw, page 2: disengage safety, aim at target, page 3: pull trigger). Especially not one with so many complexities as Jeet Kune Do has. And if anything, learning "another system" first taints your way of thinking, and your way of moving, in most cases. Its something that can be overcome, but its less of a hinderance to just learn JKD, especially if thats what the fellow is after to begin with.

[LS]

maybe.. you can learn JKD from a book ..but you can't train or experience JKD from a book.. JKD is very much a martial art.. it has a philosophy, principles, physical techniques that work in harmony to form a coherent framework or foundation.

[uobirac]

sure you can read up about JKD and it's techniques in books but no way can you simply learn JKD through reading books - obviously it has to be applied somehow and the best way for that is with a teacher. JKD has been the only martial art i have practiced in and i found it great to get started with, so i say go for it :D

[Tireces]

Likewise, before that, all I had was some doofy karate lessons at summer camp, and when it came time to "spar", the guy who beat me decisively did absolutely nothing the instructor taught, while I was trying to figure out some way to make the stupid punches I'd been made to practice throwing at the air work. So he just kept shoving me, and since we were trained to work in the horse stance (great move there, "instructor"), this guy had me totally beat, because I was struggling just to keep standing up after the first shove. What I learned in the first WEEK of JKD totally blew that all away. So yes, go for it.

[Disciple]

"If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from 'this' or from 'that', then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be whiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it." -Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune Do is not a fighting system. It is a philosophy. It is a way of life, which includes how to fight. Wheb Bruce wrote the Tao of Jeet Kune Do, he didn't intend to teach kung fu from it, he wanted to share his thoughts with people. He wanted to show how he did things, so people could learn, about how to think, and how to learn from themselves.
I have always been discouraged from thinking that Bruce Lee only wanted it a a philosophy b/c of so many testimonials of people that knew him, until one man was interviewed in the 30th aniversarry of bruce's death issue of Black Belt Magazine. He seemed to be as close as others to Bruce, but instead of the others he spole at how Bruce would not have liked what haappend to his philosophy. I always thought, I never knew him, maybe I am wrong about his wrting and his thoughts, until I read waht the man who was interviewed said, he said eeverything I had felt about it and a little more.

Jeet Kune Do is about being fluid, about being like water, about ACCEPTING one's self and one's art. He wrote that you studying any martial art system is fine, but you must understand that NO system is truely complete, there is alwayas another, more applicable,, stronger technique to learn in any type of fighting.

[Visage]

Originally posted by Disciple
"If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from 'this' or from 'that', then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be whiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it." -Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune Do is not a fighting system. It is a philosophy. It is a way of life, which includes how to fight. Wheb Bruce wrote the Tao of Jeet Kune Do, he didn't intend to teach kung fu from it, he wanted to share his thoughts with people. He wanted to show how he did things, so people could learn, about how to think, and how to learn from themselves.
I have always been discouraged from thinking that Bruce Lee only wanted it a a philosophy b/c of so many testimonials of people that knew him, until one man was interviewed in the 30th aniversarry of bruce's death issue of Black Belt Magazine. He seemed to be as close as others to Bruce, but instead of the others he spole at how Bruce would not have liked what haappend to his philosophy. I always thought, I never knew him, maybe I am wrong about his wrting and his thoughts, until I read waht the man who was interviewed said, he said eeverything I had felt about it and a little more.

Jeet Kune Do is about being fluid, about being like water, about ACCEPTING one's self and one's art. He wrote that you studying any martial art system is fine, but you must understand that NO system is truely complete, there is alwayas another, more applicable,, stronger technique to learn in any type of fighting.


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