Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!
Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
When you freely express, you are the total style.
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.