Since Ive heard either Matt Serra, Ray Longo or both have a JKD background of some kind, would you call the move Weidman did to shatter Anderson's leg similar to a FMA destruction? 
You are kidding, right?
No,why?
grasp at dem straws,
So glad I bothered
Classic low-line destruction. Vunak couldn't of done it any better.
Oh I forgot, first rule about posting on a JKD forum...don't talk about JKD on a JKD forum...
Ha ha
Fair enough.
Thanks for the straight answer
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I'm guessing the OP brought this up is because a lot of people are posting that's what it was and not a "check" and figured he would ask the JKD forum for clarity. Ray Longo does have a JKD back round and Weidman has came out calling it "the destruction" and learned it from Longo. I will post an article link in the bottom. Regardless of what you call it the thinner bottom part of Andersons leg matching force against the thicker heavier knee of Weidman is what broke his leg. I was taught to knee check in a fight but never in sparring. Muay Thai trainers teach students not to check with knee in sparing cause it can really hurt your partner but that habit sticks with you not to check that way so it't why you don't see it that often IMO.
MMA still allows the 5 methods of attack and fighting in all ranges. It is a laboratory for full contact JKD.
Now if more JKD people trained for MMA, we would see more trapping, FMA, etc in MMA...
Thanks gents!
Clearly a great move and no doubt they'll see a spike in the martial arts schools requesting to learn this.
I call that a good entree...
anyone know if Longo really has an actual JKD background?
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anyone know if Longo really has an actual JKD background?
yes he does
"You are kidding, right?"
http://www.bjpenn.com/ray-longo-breaks-down-the-destruction-technique/
JKD, it does exist!
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anyone know if Longo really has an actual JKD background?
yes he does
well... well... well...he does!!! :)
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/1/12/5301074/technique-talk-ray-longo-deconstructs-the-destruction
What is the origin of the 'destruction' moniker?
The origin, I'll give you for how it came to be for me. I was a Jeet Kune Do (JKD) practitioner under, technically, the lineage of Dan Inosanto, who was under Bruce Lee. And I think Bruce, or at least Dan, had incorporated a lot of Filipino martial arts.
They have a concept in the Filipino martial arts that comes from knife fighting, which is called 'defanging the snake'. If you can defang the snake, obviously the snake can't hurt you. There's a thing called 'destructions' where - and it's been around forever, I didn't make it up. I'm just giving it to you the way I learned it. I think Paul Vunak at the time was the guy that was really pitching it. This was back in the 80s. From the waist up, anything that comes in your elbow takes care of and anything from the waist down your knee takes care of.
Full vid won't embed so you'll have to watch the interview on the site.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/1/12/5301074/technique-talk-ray-longo-deconstructs-the-destruction