Perhaps the only American martial art, jeet kune do was introduced to California by famed actor/fighter Bruce Lee during the '70s. It meshes Lee's spiritual, physical, scientific, social and philosophical teachings.

jeet kune do accepts students as they are without feeling the desire to mold them into any predetermined shape. Its chief characteristic is that it favours rapid combinations of movements to attack opponents, for instance, switching from grappling to kicking in a flash.