Jeet Kune Do or the Way of the Intercepting Fist is a style of martial arts developed by the late great Bruce Lee. It is for the creation of this fighting style that Bruce Lee was dubbed as the godfather of mixed martial arts. Jeet Kune Do (or Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do) is a product of 26 martial arts from both East and West that Bruce Lee has combined by keeping what he considers essential and discarding what he is not. If you want to train in this form of combat, having an overview of what these 26 martial arts are will help you have a deeper understanding and preparation for learning Jeet Kune Do.
1. Wing Chun
2. Northern Praying Mantis
3. Southern Praying Mantis
4. Choi Li Fut
5. Eagle Claw
6. Tai Chi Chuan (Wu family style)
7. Paqua
8. Hsing-i
9. Bak-Hoo Pai (White Crane); Bak Fu Pai (White Tiger)
10. Ng Ga Kuen (The Five Family System)
11. Ny Ying Ga (The Five Animal System)
12. Bak Mei Pai (white eyebrow)
13. Northern Shaolin
14. South Shaolin
15. Book dad
16. Law Horn Kuen
17. Chin Na
18. Monkey Style
19. Drunk Style
20. Western fencing (foil)
21. Western Boxing
22. Western Wrestling
23. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
24. Fencing
25. Philippine Sikaran
26. Muay Thai (Thai Boxing)
Not all the techniques that each of these styles were taken by Bruce Lee to create Jeet Kune Do. He only adopted some of his techniques that he considered simpler and more economical in the four combat ranges of punching range, kicking range, grappling range, and catching range.