Rare 1970 Jeet Kune do article by Dan Inosanto

[Kung Fu Boi]

I have come across an article from Karate Illustrated from May of 1970 by Dan Inosanto demonstrating and describing jkd using the narrow fencing like stance with boxing techniques.
Notice that in the pics and text there is no mention of anything wing chun related since Bruce stopped practicing/teaching wing chun techniques by this time. Dan initially describes jkd sparring as "vicious but polished street fighting."

Link to article: JKD Is Fast, Powerful, Deceptive

 

[Holmejr]

Not sure what it all means. Danny continued teaching JKD with a heavy WC influence. Looks like he was preparing for a straight blast, but I don’t remember him teaching us such a narrow stance. In the evolution of Bruce’s method, all that he learned and kept became absorbed and lost its name. Unfortunately, in teaching you can’t really do that. Bruce from what I gathered was a philosopher that needed an interpreter. Danny was an interpreter.and a better teacher. Me thinks.

 

[Kung Fu Boi]

Not sure what it all means. Danny continued teaching JKD with a heavy WC influence. Looks like he was preparing for a straight blast, but I don’t remember him teaching us such a narrow stance. In the evolution of Bruce’s method, all that he learned and kept became absorbed and lost its name. Unfortunately, in teaching you can’t really do that. Bruce from what I gathered was a philosopher that needed an interpreter. Danny was an interpreter.and a better teacher. Me thinks.

The reason why Dan taught with a heavy wing chun influence is the fact that he was teaching jun fan gung fu and not jkd since he promised Bruce that he would not teach jkd. He started concepts because people were asking him to teach Bruce’s art after Bruce died when Dan was doing seminars. By 1969, Bruce told William Cheung that he "lost faith in the Chinese classical arts" and "my line of training is more toward efficient street fighting with everything goes, wearing head gear, gloves, chest guard, shin/knee guards, etc." and went on to say why he did not stick to wing chun because JKD is more efficient, showing how different it is. His training schedule reflects the same thing: after 1965 he started to incorporate more boxing and weight training and less wing chun and by 1970, he did not train anything wing chun related, instead he focused on boxing, kickboxing, weight training, street effective techniques and used the narrow fencing stance since that fit in more into intercepting since he did not find trapping as effective. Bruce used philosophy a lot since he graduated from college in philosophy and incorporated that with his method as a way to show that jkd is like philosophy which is constantly changing with no end unlike other martial arts.
I have a collection of other articles on jkd, Bruce Lee, interviews and his training methods. Feel free to use/share with others.
Link to collection: Internet Archive collection