| Carter Hargrave is known in the martial arts | | | | had been living. Hargrave began teaching as an |
| circles as the master of Jeet Kune Do. Jeet Kune | | | | apprentice instructor soon after starting as he |
| Do or JKD as its often referred to is the most | | | | was progressing rapidly through the ranks. HIs |
| effective self defense art no matter what your | | | | teacher noticed his ability and drive and soon |
| experience is in the martial arts. Carter Hargrave | | | | opened a small school to further his training and |
| learned his JKD from an original student at the | | | | abilities to teach other students. |
| Bruce Lee school in California. Bruce Lee coined | | | | In 1994 Carter Hargrave had been teaching for |
| the name for this art in 1962 when he became | | | | several years and decided to upscale his teaching |
| winded during an exhibition match where it took | | | | environment. He opened the largest Jeet Kune Do |
| him almost two minutes to subdue his opponent. | | | | school in the history of Oklahoma. Hargrave found |
| Lee found that his training to that point in the | | | | that his love of teaching that had sustained him |
| traditional martial arts had failed him miserably, and | | | | for so long had now taken a back seat to the |
| that a new distinctive approach would be needed | | | | business world. He found that teaching was the |
| if he was to shorten the time in fights or in | | | | least thing that he did. It was all about the bottom |
| matches of any sort. | | | | line and advertising and a bunch of other non |
| Jeet Kune Do / JKD while being founded by Lee | | | | martial arts related minutia that he found |
| has not been widely taught to the public due to | | | | distasteful. He also found that he was accepting |
| the fact that so few teachers existed. When | | | | the same quality of students that all of the other |
| Carter Hargrave became certified to teach by his | | | | martial arts schools in town. If you had a |
| instructor there were less than fifty teachers | | | | checkbook and a heartbeat you were in. |
| worldwide who taught the original art. It is also a | | | | After three years of doing business like every |
| little known fact that at one point the original art | | | | other Sensei, Carter Hargrave said that is enough |
| of Lee was on the verge of complete extinction. | | | | and closed his two schools. Carter Hargrave then |
| Only a handful of teachers were still around and | | | | decided to change things from a public school to a |
| none taught for a living. Most of those who did | | | | private school where students had to apply for |
| teach did so out of back rooms or out of their | | | | his lessons and to pass background checks to |
| garages. You could only find them by word of | | | | eliminate the violent and habitual criminals. He now |
| mouth. | | | | taught only those he wished, and students now |
| Carter Hargrave began his training in the art of | | | | had to prove their desire to be a student. |
| Jeet Kune Do in the early nineteen nineties in a | | | | Hargrave Martial Arts systems was molded |
| small town quite some distance from where he | | | | exactly the way Carter Hargrave had envisioned. |