The Jeet Kune Do Association (JKDA) was officially founded in October, 1991 for the purpose of promoting and preserving the JKD training program just as it was developed by Bruce Lee, as well as engaging in research and development of other martial art combat related techniques. The JKDA is the oldest JKD organization in existence, and has provided training to thousands of students in the U.S. and internationally.

The founder and chief instructor of the JKDA is Professor Gary Dill, who has the rare honor of being one of the few original students who trained in JKD while Bruce was still alive. The Professor trained at Bruce's Oakland JKD branch school under Sifu James Yimm Lee. In December 1972, Jimmy Lee gave Dill a two year instructor's training outline for JKD, as well as numerous "student's handbooks", so that he, Dill, may share his knowledge of JKD with selected friends and students in Oklahoma. Dill began teaching JKD in January 1973, and is now overseeing JKD training in approximately 40 schools in the U.S. and internationally.

In 1986, Professor Dill was appointed to the board of directors of the former Jeet Kune Do Society, which was made up of original JKD students from all three of Bruce's schools. The JKD Society is the forerunner of what is now known as the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do nucleus.


The JKDA is always open for membership to those who are open-minded and serious about learning Jeet Kune Do and the combat arts. It also has an "Instructor Development Program" for those JKDA members who have dedicated themselves to learning and developing a high level of skill in our JKD program, so that they may also help to pass on the teachings, principles, and techniques of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do.


Through the years, we have seen many "JKD" groups come and go, some legitimate, some fraudulent, but the JKDA is still here and going strong. Why? Because we have authentic lineage, still teach and maintain the techniques of JKD just as they were actually developed by Bruce, have an organization with structure and training outlines, and maintain a professional instructor staff. Yes, we are always open to fighting concepts and combat techniques from other martial arts, but we will always keep our foundation deep rooted in the Original JKD. The JKDA has been around for many years, and will be here for many more years to come. We provide JKD training through our many schools, seminars, training camps, home study videos, and private classes. If you are looking for the real JKD then you have found it...Now is you opportunity to learn it.

Jeet Kune Do is a non-classical, non-traditional, combat modified American martial art with a strong foundation from Wing Chun Gung Fu, Western boxing & fencing; based upon the principles of simplicity, realism, and individuality; void of rituals and sport aspects; and developed by Bruce Lee for self-defense in the street.

"Jeet Kune Do (jeet coon doe) is a training and discipline toward the ultimate reality in self-defense, the ultimate reality in simplicity. A true JKD man never opposes force or gives way completely. Be pliable as a spring. Be the complement not the opposition to opponents strength. Make his technique your technique. You should respond to any circumstances without any prearrangement, your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow adapting to a moving object against the sun.

Your task is simply to complete the other half of the oneness spontaneously. There is nothing to "try" to do in the final stage of JKD, opponent, self, "techniques", are all forgotten. Everything simply "flows". The true art of JKD is not to accumulate but to eliminate. Respond like an echo. Adapt like a shadow. Strike like an arrow. Totality and freedom of expression toward the ever changing opponent should be the goal of all practitioners of JKD.

When you understand the root of JKD you will know all it's manifestations."

-Bruce Lee

Objectives of the Jeet Kune Do Association:

1. To define Jeet Kune Do as a non-classical, non-traditional, combat modified American martial art with a strong foundation from Wing Chun Kung Fu, Western boxing, and fencing; based upon the principles of simplicity, realism and individuality; void of rituals and sport aspects; and developed by Bruce Lee for street self- defense.

2. To preserve, promote, and provide training in Jeet Kune Do as it was actually developed by Bruce Lee, and the way it was taught when he was still alive and supervising the JKD training program.

3. To provide a progressive, structured, organized street self-defense training program based upon the principles and techniques of JKD.

4. To utilize a standardized rank testing and certification system for all SDS/JKD members.

5. To implement a professional instructor development program (IDP) in order to train and develop qualified JKD Association members for future instructor status, so to spread and advance JKD training in a professional, structured format.

6. To develop policy and procedures for the regulation of training, certification, growth, professionalism, and instructor licensing in the martial art of SDS Jeet Kune Do.

7. To conform to the JKD philosophy of "individuality" and to "absorb what is useful". The JKD Association promotes flexibility in its training program in order to experiment and implement other compatable combat techniques from other martial arts, but to still maintain the Original JKD as our foundation for training.