Four Ways To Make The Funnel Work In Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu

Four Ways To Make The Funnel Work In Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu

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While these four moves work for Wing Chun Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do, or any close distance martial arts style, they will actually work for any martial arts system. The techniques are derived from the data in the Wing Chun book by James Yimm Lee. This book is supposed to have been written by Bruce Lee.

To set up the moves, as one would in most Jeet Kune Do schools, one should put the palms out toward the attacker shoulder width apart. This is a common 'I don't want to fight' sign, and it is a good thing to try to 'fight without fighting' by presenting the hands in such a manner. The person might not even fight, but if the fight does develop, he will find himself 'in the funnel' and being taken apart quite easily.

There are three possible avenues a fist might follow if you have opened your palms in this manner. The first avenue is between the hands, and the defense here is a simple one, turn the hips, slap the hands over the wrist and elbow, and you have a great trap or throw or lock or whatever. This is the move you might expect out of a great teacher like Danny Inosanto.

If the fellow decides to go around around the outstretched palms, you simply shift to the side and bring up a simultaneous high block and punch. This classical gung fu trick comes off the leg, turns the hips, and can damage a chest. If you don't feel like damaging a chest...spear the throat, this move is found in the form Wing Chun Chum Kiu

If the attacker tries to attack around your arms, he is going to find classical jeet kune do techniques. Simply shift to the other side, raise an elbow block, and launch a series of quick punches to his side. You might not find this move in wooden dummy forms, but it is killer for manipulating an opponent while you destroy him.

If the attacker tries to use his legs, simply shift your own legs away, lower the hands, and realize that he is going to follow up with a punch. When you shift the legs back you automatically set your legs for springing. Knowing that there is a high probability of a hand attack encourages you to raise your hands as you go in, maybe even letting your jeet kune do training out by kicking his legs.

Now, the point of all this is that when you raise your hands you set up a path for the fellow to attack. He is either going to go through the hands, around the hands, or under the hands. And thus he becomes totally and utterly predictable, and if you know what somebody is going to do, then that somebody is ten times easier to handle.

If you want to make him even more predictable, separate your hands and he will go into the funnel, put your hands closer together and he will go around the funnel, and so on. In other words, you actually tell a person what to do by your positioning of the hands. Be it wing chun schools, jeet kune do training, or whatever, this type of set up is the ultimate for winning any kind of fight.

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