TEACHER SPOTLIGHT 

SIFU LAMAR DAVIS II

DECEMBER 2002
 

Congratulations goes out to Sifu Lamar Davis II for being chosen as the Teacher to be Spotlighted for December 2002. Sifu Davis is the Head Instructor of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Academy is Second Generation Bruce Lee student Sifu Lamar M. Davis II. Sifu Davis has trained with eighteen of Bruce Lee's original students, is certified as a Full Instructor directly by five of them, and is recognized as a Full Instructor by the rest.

Sifu Davis, who was born in 1957, has been involved in the martial arts since the age of ten. During the first ten years, he experimented with many different martial arts, eventually achieving Full Instructor degrees in seven different arts. Since 1977, he has devoted all of his efforts to an exhaustive study of Jun Fan Gung Fu and Jeet Kune Do, as well as Wing Chun Gung Fu, which he feels is a very important part of Bruce Lee's methods. After he began training in Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do, he realized that he had found his martial arts path and he has been on it ever since. Today, Sifu Davis devotes all of his time and efforts to the preservation, promotion and perpetuation of Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do.

Sifu Davis has been inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame twice, as well as Martial Arts Living Legends. An accomplished author, he has had more than seventy articles published in martial arts magazines worldwide. He has had five cover appearances, including Inside Kung Fu and Inside Karate in the United States, COMBAT magazine in Great Britain, Kicksider magazine in Germany and Irish Fighter magazine in Ireland.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do Scientific Streetfighting, which has been distributed in every major country in the world. He also wrote part of the book, Remembering Bruce: The Enduring Legacy Of The Martial Arts Superstar, by James Bishop. He has produced and starred in forty instructional videotapes on Bruce Lee's methods, as well as starred in two promotional videos for Focusmaster, an awesome piece of martial arts training equipment. he currently has thirty more instructional videotapes in the advanced planning stages.

Sifu Davis founded one of the first organizations dedicated exclusively to the preservation of Bruce Lee's original teaching, training and fighting methods. It was first known as the United States Jeet Kune Do Alliance. Later, due to growing international interest, Sifu Davis divided this organization into two new organizations. These organizations, Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do International and the Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do Trapping Association are still going strong today.

In the year 2000, The Year of The Dragon, Sifu Davis formed a new organization for the development of Instructors of Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do. This organization is the Jun Fan Fighting Arts Association. For more information as to how you can become a part of one or all of these organizations, please see the Organizations section of this website. You are more than welcome to become a part of our JF/JKD family.

"Sifu Davis is one of the most genuine martial artist that I have ever met, he believes in his art and sticks to his principles. He doesn't compromise his beliefs for anyone or anything, he is a true pupil of the art of Jeet Kune Do and Bruce Lee would have been proud, I am honored to know him", Stated Louis Velazquez of KKO

Today, Sifu Davis offers Private Instruction, Semi-Private Instruction, Group Instruction, Training Camps and World-Wide Seminars. If you are interested in training with Sifu Davis, and would like more information on our programs, please write to:

Sifu Lamar M. Davis II
Authentic Jun Fan/Jeet Kune Do
267 West Valley Avenue, Suite #223
Birmingham, Alabama 35209

or visit his website:

http://www.wcmaf.info