Feral Combat Training and Jabbing Master

[Brandt Welles]

I'm having a discussion with one of my friends in regards to the wording of "Feral Combat Training" in terms of it's use of prerequisites.

Feral Combat Training says:

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Choose one of your natural weapons. While using the selected natural weapon, you can apply the effects of feats that have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite.

He's understanding that as once you take Feral Combat Training, you can now apply ANY feat that has Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite without a) taking that feat or b) having any of the other prerequisites. Implying that Feral Combat Training is a shortcut to things like Jabbing Master without having to take Jabbing Style, Jabbing Dancer and the other feats that come before.

Whereas I'm trying to explain that all Feral Combat Training does is now allow you to apply feats that only affect Unarmed Strikes to your selected Natural Attack (since Unarmed Strikes are not the same as Natural Attacks) and that you still need to a) take the feat in order to apply its effects and b) have all other prerequisites to take that feat.

[James Risner]

You can't apply benefits of feats you don't have.

[Alderic]

There is a very short answer to this.
You're right, and your friend is wrong.

All that Feral Combat Training does is allow you to use all those fancy style feats chains to both your unarmed attacks and the natural attack selected with FCT.
You need all the feats you want to use, barring some other ability that lets you skip a prerequisite or two.
(like for example how a monk can get Medusa's Wrath at lvl 10 w/o it's prerequisites)