JKD Lessons

Learn Chinatown Jeet Kune Do! Our vision is to share and preserve these techniques while providing Jeet Kune Do practitioners from all over the world access to the most complete Chinatown Jeet Kune Do video tutorials and training program available anywhere. While stationed in Taiwan in the 1960s with the U.S.A.F. Tim Tackett began studying Kuo Shu... [Kung Fu]. After his discharge in 1966 he enrolled in college at the University of California, Riverside campus and opened up a full time Kung Fu school in Redlands, CA. In 1967 Tim saw Bruce Lee demonstrate JKD at Ed Parkers tournament in Long Beach, CA and wanted to start studying with him right on the spot, but he soon realized that he would not have enough time until after he finished college. After receiving his M.F.A. he began teaching drama in high school. Soon after, on the recommendation of Dan Lee, Tim sought out Dan Inosanto. Dan had opened up a backyard Jeet Kune Do school after Bruce Lee had closed his L.A. Chinatown school shortly before moving to Hong Kong to star in The Big Boss. The class consisted of about 10 students including Bob Bremer, Dan Lee, Richard Bustillo, Jerry Poteet, and Pete Jacobs. Later Chris Kent, Ted Lucay, and Jeff Imada joined a second class. In 1973, Dan Inosanto honored Tim Tackett with the rank of Senior First and he was given permission to have a small Jeet Kune Do group, and has continued to teach JKD to a select number of students in his garage and in seminars worldwide. Bob Bremer is one of the original Bruce Lee students from the Chinatown era. Bob Bremer began training in the martial arts with his children at Ed Parkers Kenpo school in Pasadena, California. After practicing Kenpo for about two years he saw Bruce Lee demonstrate Jeet Kune Do and immediately enrolled at Bruces school in Los Angeles (where he was known as the enforcer of the school). He was fortunate enough to train with Bruce at both the Gung Fu Institute in Los Angeles and also as a private student, and trained with the founder himself as well as other ...Read More