Very good stuff. Might've been Bob Bremer or Steve Golden who said that people who watch Bruce's fight scenes and go, oh, he's using Wing Chun or karate or boxing or wrestling or savate or whatever are missing the point because he's simply using what works best in the moment. If it resembles something from a particular system it doesn't matter because he's made it his own. And that what he did with JKD wasn't to go "Oh, I like that taekwondo kick; I'll use that" or "That's a good judo throw; I'm gonna blend that in"; it was to ask "What can that technique do to me and how can I stop it?" or "What makes that technique work? Let me figure out and apply the essence of it." And, yeah, whatever you do has gotta work in a fight. Or as Bruce said to Steve about ranking, "A belt doesn't matter much if you get your ass kicked," lol.
Exactly! As BL said, a kick is just a kick and a punch is just a punch. Bruce had asked Jerry once, while watching a fight, "what do you see?" And Bruce went on to explain how a TKD guy would see one thing, a boxer another, WC something else. Because they would be looking at the fight through the lens of their conditioning, rather than seeing it for what it is. "essence" is exactly the word. If one has to flip through the mental rolodex of techniques when an attack is coming at them, they will lose because the mind is too slow. Respond like an echo is what BL said. NOT hypothesize and pontificate. It's not a chess game! We have two arms and two legs, so yeah we are similar in that respect. Great comment! Im glad you "get it"
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Very good stuff. Might've been Bob Bremer or Steve Golden who said that people who watch Bruce's fight scenes and go, oh, he's using Wing Chun or karate or boxing or wrestling or savate or whatever are missing the point because he's simply using what works best in the moment. If it resembles something from a particular system it doesn't matter because he's made it his own. And that what he did with JKD wasn't to go "Oh, I like that taekwondo kick; I'll use that" or "That's a good judo throw; I'm gonna blend that in"; it was to ask "What can that technique do to me and how can I stop it?" or "What makes that technique work? Let me figure out and apply the essence of it." And, yeah, whatever you do has gotta work in a fight. Or as Bruce said to Steve about ranking, "A belt doesn't matter much if you get your ass kicked," lol.
Exactly! As BL said, a kick is just a kick and a punch is just a punch. Bruce had asked Jerry once, while watching a fight, "what do you see?" And Bruce went on to explain how a TKD guy would see one thing, a boxer another, WC something else. Because they would be looking at the fight through the lens of their conditioning, rather than seeing it for what it is. "essence" is exactly the word. If one has to flip through the mental rolodex of techniques when an attack is coming at them, they will lose because the mind is too slow. Respond like an echo is what BL said. NOT hypothesize and pontificate. It's not a chess game! We have two arms and two legs, so yeah we are similar in that respect. Great comment! Im glad you "get it"
Thank you. This actually makes the most sense.
When I ran martial arts clubs, teaching someone new and fresh was always a joy as they weren't tainted by other styles.
@HDLifter Bruce had said, You have to unlearn what you've learned so that you can learn.