The Way Of The Intercepting Fist

Jeet Kune Do and Oakland JKD Martial Arts for Self Defense

In the early 1960's Felix Macias Sr. began his rigorous martial arts and self defense training under the great Kung Fu Sifu, James Yimm Lee in Oakland, California. Mr. Macias, Sr. continued to train and study June Fan Gung Fu and Jeet Kune Do with James Lee and Bruce Lee in the famous "Oakland School" until James Lee's death in 1973.

The martial arts and self defense knowledge Felix Macias received from Bruce Lee and James Lee was "The Way Of The Intercepting Fist" (Jeet Kune Do, JKD), the philosophies and principles of this "formless" form.

After James Lee's death, Mr. Macias continued to study, progress, and evolve the self defense and martial arts knowledge he received from his Sifu, Mr. (James) Lee and Bruce Lee. Mr. He began to pass on his martial knowledge. Operating in underground fashion, he expressed these teachings to a small group of friends, students, and eventually his sons.

The eldest son of the Macias family, Felix Macias Jr., took great interest in what he was learning from his father and trained diligently to sharpen his self defense skills and martial knowledge. He has been committed to The Way Of The Intercepting Fist ever since.

Using the knowledge he received from James Lee and his father as blueprints, Mr. Macias Jr. has continued to work underground in the ongoing process of analysis and advancement of this powerful martial art.

We as a group humbly invite the martial art community to explore and benefit from the discoveries made in this evolutionary process.

 

This is an original business card from James Lee's martial arts and self defense school in Hayward, California. Many don't even know this facility existed.

The Macias family continues to practice, teach and further develop this original Kung Fu in Hayward California, only a few miles from James and Bruce Lee's original Oakland school.

A interesting published interview with the Macias family regarding the history of their unique and powerful Oakland lineage Kung Fu is reprinted below.