Company: SDS/ JEET KUNE DO
Tape Name: Combat Weapons Of Jeet Kune Do
Tape
Cost: $49.95
Length of Tape/Time: Approximately 90 minutes
Number of Moves/Techniques:
Approximately 80
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The Instructor: Gary Dill
Company's Address: P.O. Box 3396,
Bartlesville, OK 74006
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Web Page: http://www.jkd-garydill.com/
E-Mail:
sales@jkd-garydill.com
Main Grading Criteria
1. Production/Tape Quality: 1
2. Instructors demonstrated skill level: 1
3. Comprehension Score/Immediate Understanding: 1
4. Degree to which this will make someone a better Martial Artist: 1
5. Score on delivery vs. hype: 1
6. Degree to which we'd recommend this product: 1
7. Wasted Time (The higher the number,the less "fluff"/repetition): 1
8. Playback Score/Watching it over-and-over again: 1
9. Would I purchase more of this company's products: 1
10. Overall grade based on cost vs. value: 1
Grand Total: 10% (Poor = 
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Secondary Grading Criteria
Beginners:
Poor
Intermediate: Poor
Advanced: Poor
Time to benefit: Tape geared for
beginning students
The need to buy additional tapes to understand this one: None
Written Summary:
Let me say right up
front, I know next to nothing about the world of Jeet Kune Do politics and anything
I may like or dislike about this video is because of what is shown on the video.
I have no martial arts agenda, JKD, TKD or any of the rest. That said, let's jump
right into Mr. Dill's Combat Weaponry of Jeet Kune Do.
This video is an overview
look at the use of 5 weapons (knife, kali stick, nunchaku, 4 foot staff, and the
yawara stick). Mr. Dill states that the study of Jeet Kune Do is really the study
of weapons. Apparently, all you have to do to become proficient with weapons is to
learn JKD from Mr. Dill. After you do, the rest is just picking up the appropriate
weapon and applying it using JKD techniques. The first weapon we are shown is a
knife. And what a knife it is. This monster blade would embarrass Crocodile Dundee
and get most of us arrested just for looking at it. Mr. Dill makes no mention of
how he would deploy this cutlass or how he would justify it's use in the eyes of
the law. But he does proceed to show us " the correct knife fighting stance
" which is of course a basic JKD stance with a knife in the front hand. I can
think of a thousand situations where I would not want my knife deployed in my front
hand but Mr. Dill apparently thinks one size fits all when it comes to knife stances.
Mr. Dill begins to do knife techniques against a very slow uke and so far, I haven't
seen anything that I have not seen already in my grandmother's kitchen on how to
cut up a chicken. Actually, some of the stuff is pretty good IF you are a rookie
to weaponry and are impressed by slow kata-like rehearsed techniques.
Mr.
Dill moves on to the kali stick and makes a few comments about how he has really
had to use this weapon in his career as a policeman. I feel quite certain that
these technique would be exquisitely effective against drunks, unarmed students,
and most women. I would not want to use these techniques against any experienced
filipino martial artist nor do I suggest entering a Dog Brothers match with this
material either. I think you get the picture. This material is simple and is geared
for the rookie martial artist with minimal weapons training. The use of extremely
wide attack angles done at ridiculously slow speeds only serves to mislead and confuse
the novice martial artist/viewer. If you use this stuff (and Mr Dill actually calls
it the Dill system of stick fighting) against someone who knows what he is doing
and you will be hearing the voices of long dead relatives.
The yawara stick
section and the nunchaku sections were slightly better. The nunchaku are illegal
in many areas and require a great deal more practice and training than is shown by
Mr Dill on this video. The yawara, which is nothing more than a crude fist load,
is a common sense weapon that anyone can teach themselves in about 10 minutes. Once
again, fine for beginners and rookies, but way beneath the knowledge and capabilities
of most experienced martial artists. With so many other fine videos available on
the subject of weapons (Keating, Hochheim, Worden to name a few), I would say it
is best to look elsewhere for effective weapons training if you have any advanced
skill level at all.
CJ
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