Does Jeet Kune Do teach you how to deal with multiple attackers?

Question

According to all I have researched, Bruce Lee never encountered 1 vs 1+ real fight situations. All the fights he had was 1 vs 1.

Answer 1

If you watch the movie that was supposed to be a pretty accurate biography he beat up a few sailors at one time.

Honestly, I think he would do better than Jackie Chan sort, but no one person can successfully defend himself against a village or army of attackers in hand to hand combat.

Answer 2

It Depends. If you are talking about Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do wich are the exact techniques/methods or Bruce Lee, maybe not, or maybe yes, but I would go to the no because in all the videos i have seen about Bruce Lee demonstrating and talking about his JKD, I never heard nothing or seen nothing about multiple attackers. But in the present day, there are alot of jkd instructors that teachs JKD, not Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, so you have a good chance that today jkd instructors/schools has multiple attacker techniques since they had more of the chance to evolve it then Bruce Lee did due to the fact that Lee died at an early age. But that doesnt mean they are better than the Jun Fan version, some Jkd schools/ instructors are not good.

Answer 3

It is not MMA. There are so many factions of JKD and they all argue with each other. The two biggest factions are: Original VS Concepts. Original is the techniques that Bruce Lee developed AS HE TAUGHT THEM. Concepts is a mixture of Filipino Martial arts, SOME if ANY Bruce Lee techniques, Silat, and whatever flavor of the month martial art is at any given time. I say find an original Bruce Lee student or a certified instructor under one of them. I used to teach it and abandoned it due to the politics and arguing. Plus it has become impractical. Learn boxing and grappling, you'll be better off.

Answer 4

First off I have not ever formally learned JKD, this is just my view.
JKD is all about the concept of a tech. not the actual tech. itself. The concepts of JKD would work on multi opponents, in my view.
Saying that Bruce didn't fight multi opponents so his system wasn't designed for it, I don't think that would fly. Take a look at some of the traditional systems. I'd wager that some of those guys never had a fight in their lives, but it is claimed that all that karate, Tkd, etc. is self defense.
JKD is not a system anyways it is only a way at looking at martial arts in general. Bruce was more intrested in the concept behind a tech. than the workings of the tech. itself. Adapt and overcome. JKD is not a set this or that, it is only an idea. I would say that if you trained in JKD and were unable to defend yourself from multi opponents then your JKD could not, as well as if you could defend yourself then your JKD would be effective vs. multi opponents.

Answer 5

I do JKD and yes it does teach to defend against multiple attackers. Just because Bruce never encountered fights with more than one opponent at the same time didn't mean he couldn't. Like I could walk across a street and not get hit by a car, doesn't mean I couldn't.

Answer 6

I've said this before on here - but here it is again:

The ugly truth on multiple attackers is every martial art prepares you form them - and none of them prepare you enough.

Think of it in percentage chances. You have two normal guys, average size and strength, same age, same health and condition. They fight. It's 50/50. Now one of them takes martial arts, lift weights, does caridio. One of them, oh lets say he drinks and smokes and plays xbox instead. Now the chances are, like, 90/10.

Okay, now the average person's chances of 'winning' a fight with multiple people is, let's say, about 5%. Two people will beat up one person 95 times out of 100, assuming other factors are equal. If you study martial arts for several years and become five times as good, you're going to win 25% of the time ... 1 in 4 times you'll walk away. Train twice as hard? Now you have the same chance of surviving as you do flipping a coin heads! You're back to where you started!

I did pull those numbers out of nowhere, and you can probably get slightly better odds then that by saying to yourself "what if I get really strong" "what if I am in super good shape" "what if I learn one of those arts that says it will teach me how to smash groins and put out eyes (most of those instructors, by the way, have never put out an eye or shattered a knee - they're passing on what their teachers told them)" . . . and yes, you can get tough enough to have a better chance, and yes, something, some training, some idea of what to do is, of course, better then none, but the truth is the only skills that will get you a guaranteed pass on multiple attackers are the skills of alertness and awareness - the skills to identify that multiple people are singling you out before it happens.

Answer 7

I have trained in JKD for 3 yrs and you are right I have not been taught too many applications for multiple attackers. However, I learned to deal with multiple attackers from training in Shorin Ryu Karate. Silat also teaches one to deal with multiple attackers.

Answer 8

He touched on this in one of his books and basically just said go for the finger jab to the eyes and kicks to the knees and try not to stay put in one place, keep moving and keep the strikes short and simple, coz if you stop to do combos on one guy and ignore the one behind you, you're gonna get tagged. The best defense against multiple attackers according to him is awareness of your surroundings and avoiding sticky situations like that in the first place. If you get yourself in a situation where you had to take on a dozen guys, chances are your guard was down and you weren't paying attention to your surroundings.

Answer 9

the best way to learn how to fight multiple attackers is to sparr all out with multiple people. don't Reilly on other people to tell u how, you have to teach your self. you now your self better than anyone else you know what scars u the most about any subject u first have to have the right mental attitude to it. Basically keep it simple,quick,and powerful. just remember apply your strongest weapon to your opponent(s) weakest target(s)(groin,shins,knees,eyes,etc...)a hit to the groin will stop any guy for at least a few minuets.

Answer 10

do you really want to encounter 1++ oppenent? i rather not..although bruce lee or other martial art instructor never encounter such situation, that never mean that they dont know how to react to multiple oppenent. they have the technique..