More than being one of the rare combative arts of the world, the JKD Unlimited is also a self-knowledge tool.

Through practicing it, the human being meets his imperfections and virtues, learning to know them, and to skirt them or to use them. To come out alive from a dramatical physical confrontation or just to face the normal daily challenges resulting from all aspects of life.

To know how to control a fight, and to understand the way you achieve that control, is to know more about controlling the environment, the opponent, yourself, and the adversity, in  general.

This site intents to give you some information about JKD Unlimited, its origins, influences, paths and methods, as well as the work and evolution of the first group authorized by Burton Richardson to practice and to spread out this combative art in Portugal.

There is, however, beyond what it is written here, much that has to be experienced. Experience it.

Aloha ⁽¹⁾

Luis Barneto (JKD Unlimited's Performance Group Leader) ⁽²⁾

(1) In the hawaiian language Aloha means much more then “hello” and “good bye” or “love”. Its meaning is bigger: to share (alo) with joy (oha) of the energy of life (ha) in the present (alo).

(2) The portuguese JKD Unlimited Performance Group is responsable for all the writings on this site, except those writings identified as quotes or citations of other authors, they too refered. I strongly advise to visit the oficial site of JKD Unlimited, where you can read, first hand and in his own words, Burton Richardson's vision of JKD concepts.