“Adapt For Life” JKD Seminar for charity featuring Paul Vunak, Friday June 27th @ 630pm
Larry Hartsell & JKD Grappling
“
Reject what is useless; Research your own experience; Add what is
specifically your own” - Bruce Lee
Larry Hartsell took these words to heart when he began training
with Bruce Lee in 1967, and the grappling skills and techniques that are
at the core of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Grappling Association are the
by-product of this philosophy.
It is well known to the students of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do that Bruce
Lee broke combat down into the four ranges of Kicking, Boxing,
Trapping and Grappling . The serious students of Jeet Kune Do are
also aware that the development of the grappling range techniques in
this system were assigned to Larry Hartsell. At the time of Bruce Lee's
untimely death there were only 33 formal techniques in the grappling
range. As the final and closest range there was much research to do
in this range and Hartsell has continued his research into this area with
various discrete techniques that now form the core of Jun Fan Jeet
Kune Do Grappling.
Larry Hartsell's skill in hand-to-hand combat, his weapons training
and his development of techniques in the grappling range led to a
wide and varied range of professional experiences. With his training
under Bruce Lee, his degree in criminology, his ten years of law
enforcement experience, and his training under Dan Inosanto. Hartsell
has been in wide demand as a professional bodyguard for celebrities
like Mr. T of the A- Team fame, and as a trainer for both the Dallas
Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers . In addition to this he has
taught classes at his own schools as well as at the Inosanto Academy,
and has offered self defense and combat courses for the elite Navy
Seals and police officers through various colleges, agencies and elite
law enforcement training programs.
Hartsell is the man Dan Inosanto described as "One of the premier
Jeet Kune Do fighters of our time."
Sifu Larry Hartsell passed away on Aug 20, 2007. Rest In Peace Sifu.
Thank you Sifu for everything ! Your students greatly miss you.
Assault Proof Now!
Sifu Paul Vunak on the
cover of Black Belt, April 08.