Our Story

JKD London – School of Martial Mind Power®

Movement • Mindset • Mastery

My name is Sifu Lak Loi, founder of JKD London and Martial Mind Power®, and a third-generation instructor in Bruce Lee’s street-fighting martial art of Jeet Kune Do under the legendary Wednesday Night Group of Tim Tackett, Bob Bremer and Jim Sewell.

Our mission is not only to preserve and promote Bruce Lee’s original teachings, but to use them as a vehicle for something greater:

• To raise human consciousness
• To make the world a better place to live in
• To help us return “home” to our true authentic highest selves
• To empower individuals to live in clarity, freedom and self-mastery

A Path of Initiation – Not Transaction

JKD London is not a transactional school. It is a place of initiation, transformation, transcendence and belonging.

We are run in the spirit of a spiritualised monastic approach. Students are not “customers” — they are seekers. To truly learn, one must enter through surrender and trust, honouring the teacher and the community as part of their journey.

Membership fees are not seen as a payment, but as your Diksha (Sanskrit: “initiation”). It is the symbolic offering you make to be initiated into the honour and privilege of studying Bruce Lee’s martial art and self-mastery under the tutelage of Sifu Lak Loi. The philosophy of surrender and trust creates the fertile ground upon which you sow the seeds to flourish, flower, and spread your beautiful fragrance into the world with your better-self.

Every new student enters a 3-month probation period, during which we assess not only your willingness to learn, but also your openness of heart and your alignment with the virtues and values of the school (checkout our school rules for more information). Ego, arrogance, and conflict are left at the door. What remains is humility, respect, discipline, and the burning desire to transform and transcend.

Our Lineage – Old School JKD

JKD London holds direct lineage to Bruce Lee:

• Bruce Lee passed his evolving art to Dan Inosanto
• Dan trained and certified Tim Tackett as the first instructor outside of Bruce’s three closest instructors (Taky Kimura, James Lee, and Dan Inosanto himself)
• Tim Tackett (alongside Bob Bremer and Jim Sewell) founded the Wednesday Night Group, which continues to define and transmit the authentic “old school” JKD curriculum
• Bob Bremer trained with Bruce Lee in his LA Chinatown School for 2 years, and had over 1,000 hours of private lessons with Bruce Lee at his home
• Jim Sewell trained with Bruce Lee in his LA Chinatown School for 1 year 
• Ted Wong, Bruce Lee's sparring partner
• I am honoured to be a recognised third generation instructor and executive advisor to the Wednesday Night Group, committed to teaching JKD as both a street-fighting martial art and a philosophy of personal liberation.

My Story – From Loss to Liberation

In 2003, I lost everything in a single day: my Wall Street consultancy job, my home — yet gained the joy of fatherhood. I fell into despair, depression, and self-doubt. Then, one night, I had a vivid dream that called me to seek Bruce Lee’s art.

That vision led me to New York, where I found an authentic Jeet Kune Do school. Through years of training, I healed my body, mind, and spirit. I rediscovered my centre, my calm, my confidence — what I now call Martial Mind Power®.

What began as my healing journey has since blossomed into a mission: to share these teachings so others may awaken their own strength, resilience, and liberation.

The Spirit of Our School

At JKD London, you will find:

• A family environment built on mutual respect, trust, and growth
• Teachings that integrate movement, mindset and mastery
• A community of individuals from all walks of life, united by humility and discipline
• Practical self-defence that is efficient, direct, and effective
• A deeper path of self-discovery, grounded in Bruce Lee’s philosophy:

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

The Ten Commandments of JKD London

1. Enter with Surrender – Let go of ego, pride, and fear. Empty your cup to be filled.
2. Honour the Lineage – Respect Bruce Lee, our teachers, and all those who walked this path before you.
3. Diksha Before Discipline – Membership is your initiation. Give first, then receive.
4. Trust the Teacher – Follow guidance with humility; resistance blocks growth.
5. Community Before Self – Protect the harmony of the school above personal gain.
6. No Ego, No Enemies – Strive for mastery, not dominance. Learn from all, fight none.
7. Flow Like Water – Adapt to all circumstances, in combat and in life.
8. Discipline is Freedom – Show up, train with sincerity, live the philosophy.
9. Seek Mastery Within – Martial arts is a mirror; cultivate mind, body, and spirit equally.
10. This is the Way – Carry the grace, wisdom & spirit of JKD beyond the dojo, into family, work, and life.

Your Invitation

JKD London is not for everyone. It is for those willing to dedicate themselves with trust, humility, courage, grace and wisdom.

If you feel called to this path of movement, mindset and mastery, then take your first step. Begin your probation period of initiation, and earn your place in our family.

This is not merely martial arts. This is self-discovery. Liberation. A return to your true home.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Peace • Respect • Love
Sifu Lak Loi
Founder, JKD London | Martial Mind Power®

Testimonials

Private Tuition Testimonials

Taking private lessons with Sifu Lak Loi has been a game changer for my Jeet Kune Do journey. The level of attention and the amount of progress you make is on another level, what I learn in a single lesson make take several regular classes to cover. Sifu Lak's vast experience shows in the way each lessons is tailored, making small tweaks which make significant changes. Each lessons is adaptable, focused on what I want to learn and improve on and brought to life through applied sparring. I was initially hesitant on private lessons but the value and results have exceeded my expectations. Highly recommend for anyone serious about levelling up their martial arts.

- Gurbs S.

Why Join JKD London?

If you will Walk the Martial Path in accordance with the guidelines given, you will come to know a great deal of truth about yourself, discover how to rid yourself of many hangups, and encumbrances that hitherto have held you back from making use of your full potential, and come to realise what it is you want to be. Each direction is a path of true initiation. Not the kind that confines you to a group, club, school, style, method, system or cult, or shackles you with rules and regulations, doctrines and dogmas devised by others, but one that Admit yourself into the reality of your ‘self’ by your Self. Unlike many philosophical teachers, religious teachers, spiritual guides and gurus, the true martial arts teacher seeks no followers. A wise man once told me,

‘Never try to follow me, look up to me, or bow down to me. You have asked me to be your guide, and this I will be because you asked from your heart. As a guide I will be a friend and we can share discoveries. But this is your path and you are on it to discover your own truth and to be empowered in your own “medicine” and only you can find it and be responsible.’

When we parted after several days together, he looked in my eyes and repeated advice I had been given earlier: ‘Walk your talk, my brother. Walk your talk.’ Walking the Martial Way can never just be verbal adherence to a set of beliefs. It is a way of doing, a way of being and a way of becoming.

What is Jeet Kune Do (JKD)?

To set the record straight, I have NOT invented a new style, composite, modified or otherwise, that is, a style or method set within distinct form and laws apart from “this” style or “that” method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns or molds. More about this later, but in the meantime, do remember that the term Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which we see ourselves. The brand name is really nothing special.

Unlike the traditional approach, there is not a series of rules, a classification of techniques, and so forth, that constitute a so-called JKD method of fighting. To begin with, let me be the first to tell you that there is no such thing as a method of fighting. To create such a method is pretty much like putting a pound of water into wrapping paper and shaping it – although [many] futile arguments exist nowadays as to the choice of colors, textures, and so forth, of the wrapping paper.

Briefly, JKD is not a form of specialized conditioning with a set of beliefs and a particular approach. So basically it is not a “mass” art. Structurally, it does not look at combat from a certain angle but from all possible angles, because it is not bound by any system. And, consequently, its techniques cannot be reduced to a system. And, although it utilizes all ways and means to serve its end (efficiency is anything that scores), it is bound by none, and it is therefore free from all ways and means. In other words, JKD, although possessed of all angles, is itself not possessed; for as previously mentioned, any structure, however efficiently designed, becomes a cage if the practitioner is obsessed with it. To define JKD as a style (gung fu, karate, kickboxing, and so forth) is to miss the point completely, for its teaching method cannot be reduced to a system. If JKD is not a style or a method, maybe it is neutral or maybe it is indifferent. However, this is not the case either, for JKD is both at once “this” and “not this”, and JKD is neither opposed to styles nor not opposed to them. To understand fully, one must transcend the duality of “for” and “against” and look at one organic whole. Within the totality there is simply no distinction; everything IS. A good JKD artist rests in direct intuition.

- Bruce Lee

Artist of Life, Bruce Lee

“Basically, I have always been a martial artist by choice and actor by profession. But, above all, I am hoping to actualize myself to be an ‘Artist of Life’ along the way”. “Artist of Life” refers to the process of being an individual who, through the use of his own independent judgment, sought to fully actualize himself as a total human being (i.e. physically, mentally, spiritually). Lee once told a journalist, “It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and then feel pretty cool. Or I can do all kinds of phony things and be blinded by it. Or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself – that my friend, is very hard to do” – Bruce Lee.

Press & Media

Articles written by Sifu Lak Loi for WOMA Magazine

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