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Originally Posted by Chapel  This was actually a debate that came up a while ago. Basically it ended up with people realizing that Bruce Lee would not have classified Jeet Kune Do as a Chinese style because he would not classify it as either Chinese or a style. If memory serves, Complete basically put it in with Chinese styles because it had to go somewhere and Chinese best represented the nationality of Bruce Lee (even though he put everything together in America). |
bruce lee based the MA on chinese MA. and he says that although he changed a lot of it, the basic principles are very similar and you can see the original inspiration still in the moves.
bare with me, i don't know how to multi quote yet.