Well most people dont know this but Bruce Lee discarded most of
the Wing Chun he grew up learning (after his fight with Wong Jack
Man when he chased him up and down for too long) and started
studying and incorporating alot of Fencing and boxing principles
into his martial art which he calls Jeet Kune Do. Prior to that,
his martial art was known as Jun Fan Gungfu .
Fireng, u obviously know nothing much about martial arts because u
cant tell the difference between performing and fighting....hence
the needless debate about shaolin monks vs bruce lee. If u dig up
on youtube, you'll be able to find a video on kyokushin karate
black belt beating up a shaolin monk in a sparring match.
JKD was an ever evolving art while Bruce Lee was still alive and
hence he had to disband his schools when he realised what he was
doing was no longer the same as what his students were learning in
his schools (taught by his senior students). He was also too busy
to teach and hence only shared his most up to date knowledge with a
private group of close friends and martial artists.
JKD is not a mix of 27 different martial arts nor is it modified
wingchun as many people believe. Also alot of ppl misquote JKD as
just a mix of martial arts because Bruce Lee said something like if
you teach a guy 6 months of boxing and wrestling and he will
destroy many traditional martial artists. He was actually just
mocking the martial arts who did not practise resistance training
(e.g. sparring or live fighting)
If JKD must be defined, The best way to define it would be as
Bruce Lee's personal style of fighting(with principles which he
researched on) which in my opinion is very advanced especially
during his era and you'll see this same style being employed by
more successful fighters in the ring( major similarity but with
variation of course) especially later in their careers when they
become more experienced in fighting.
Some examples are Samart Payakaroon (muaythai), David Hayes
(boxing), Lyoto Machida (MMA) and even Manny Pacqiao shows such
traits.
I train in Jeet Kune Do under Mark Stewart whos a private
student of Ted Wong ( also attended his seminar before). Ted
Wong is the last student of Bruce Lee and spent the most hours
training with him.
Hope I have enlightened some of you....