Hello all,

I'm not putting this up to be "political". Just found this post by Tim Tackett on another forum quite interesting.

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When I was studying in Dan Inosanto's backyard Bruce was in Hong Kong, we had the Chinatown plaque in the backyard school. It said "The Jun Fan Kung Fu Institute". What we were taught there was called Jeet Kune Do" If you look at Dan Inosanto's "Jeet Kune Do: The History and Philosophy of Bruce Lee" Published in 1976, you will see in the back of the book starting on page 165 you will see a list of 18 people who Dan says "are authorized to teach JKD". It doesn't say Jun Fan Gung Fu. When we started doing the Calif Martial Art summer seminars. Dan taught Kali and Larry Hartsell and I taught JKD. The guy running the camp wanted to put JKD on the certificate, but Dan said no as he promised Bruce not to teach JKD to the public and how could anyone "get" JKD in one week long seminar, so he had him change it to Jun Fan Gung Fu. Which is what he call the 4 phases of training that he taught at the Kali Academy. While there still was a JKD class there it is closed and secret with no visitors. You could be voted in to the class by tghe members after you finished the 4 phases of Jun Fan. Later, because all the people who were advertising for Dan's seminars kept using the name JKD, Dan started letting them use the name JKD Concepts for their advertising.
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Regards,

John M. Drake

Ive heard this before and I think everybodys on there own path,good luck to him!! :)