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My JKD instructor was fond of calling KD Human Style Fung Fu. He was, of course, referring to the myriad of animal styles of Chinese MA, and how JKD was simply how a human fights when forced to. The concept was great, and related to your parallel usage reference. There are only so many ways a human body can move, period. Biomechanics tells us that each likmb has a certain range of motion, and will only be properly effective in a certain portion of that range. Given that mankind has worked for thousands of years on various ways in which to defend itself, it follows that those techniques that work wildly successfully with one weapon, may well work with an entirely unrelated weapon if some innovative thought is applied.
In essence, a good move is a good move, no matter where it came. That is the actual cornerstone of JKD, and other multi-disciplinary MA's. I'm very excited at all the solid, practical MA influence that is coming into gun usage.
As an aside, Krav Maga has some really great retention moaneuvers and disarms. Really innovative stuff. Their shotgun disarm was particularly keen.
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