JEET KUNE DO
Our Program
West Coast JKD offers professional and authentic instruction
in the Art of Jeet Kune Do. Available to all levels, this program is designed
to address the combative realism of self-defense and practical street fighting
as developed by martial arts legend Bruce Lee. This course is dedicated to the progressive
development of natural reactions in response to the various combative stimuli
encountered in everyday life. Continuing on in the philosophy of Bruce Lee, the
objective remains “to simply be simple” and this serves as the defining
principle of practice within this course.
West Coast JKD’s Jeet
Kune Do program operates as a California-based extension of the Intercepting Fist
Organization founded by Chief Instructor Tommy Carruthers of Glasgow, United
Kingdom. Our principle goal is to teach Jeet Kune Do as was intended by its founder;
strictly for the purpose of self-defense in reality based situations. Reality in
fighting is that there are no fixed patterns. The Intercepting Fist Organization’s
approach to teaching this “formless” fighting is to begin with a starting point;
namely techniques from Bruce Lee’s modified Wing Chun, Boxing, and Fencing
which serve as the basis upon which he created this revolutionary Martial Art. At a later
time with the progression of Jeet Kune Do, students are encouraged to strip
away the inessentials of Martial Arts toward further refinement of the
essentials within the selective view of simplicity. We believe in the validity of principles set forth
by Bruce Lee, and thus are committed to the progression of daily decrease.
Tommy Carruthers
Tommy has over thirty years
experience in the martial arts and operates as an instructor under the late Ted
Wong, Bruce Lee’s last private student and protégé. Tommy has continued to
train and build ties with many respected JKD practitioners from around the
world such as Tim Tackett and original Bruce Lee student, Bob Bremer. Tommy has built a reputation for being a very practical Martial Artist with a training regime
that would shame most professional athletes. For more information on Tommy
Carruthers and the Intercepting Fist Organization, please visit www.tommycarruthers.com.
