Jeet Kune Do in the now

[cross]

Maybe you cant learn jkd then and will have to settle for something else.

[dippedappe]

Damn! There must be a way! I could propebly get transportation to kobenhagen and then try a free lesson, then hope hes the real deal.

[cross]

Yes, that would be the best way to find out. I guess you just have to make a decision about how important learning jkd is to you and what your willing to do to get the tuition.

[dippedappe]

Yeah two or three hours towards training, then two hours of training, then two or three hours on the tripe home...sounds pretty bad!

[cross]

Thats alot, what type of schools do you have in your area?

[dippedappe]

kung fu toa...not real gung fu but a lot of martial arts combined into somekind of non-chines style, which is more like a gung fu, karate and mui tay mix. Not something I liked. And then there was the wing tsun school with the sadistic teacher.

 

The school im training in now is an hour trip towards training, two hous of training, and one hour home. Its a little long but its exactly the style I want to practice.

[cross]

The school im training in now is an hour trip towards training, two hous of training, and one hour home. Its a little long but its exactly the style I want to practice.

 

You should keep going with that then, you may not be able to answer all the questions you have with that a style immedietly, but give it time and you will find alot of things you didnt notice before.

[dippedappe]

Yeah thats the bedst way I quess. Then after some years I could travel to a place where I can train jkd.

 

But the people their are just a little to "I know this is the bedst style and everyone else is without power" types know what I mean?

[cross]

I know what your saying, but remember the art is what you make of it so dont worry about what all the other students say because thats their personal opinion of the art which may or may not be correct. Train hard and make it your own.

[Drunken Monkey]

...just a little back-tracking.

 

bruce lee has said that what he did in the films was not jkd.

 

the stuff for films was just stuff done for films.

 

hmm, the original 'movie-do'?

 

i keep mentioning this but when asked by one of his wing chun seniors what jkd was, he responded by saying 'pak sau and hip'.

 

jeet kune do.

 

intercepting fist way.

 

pak sau=the most basic fundemental receiving/intercepting move in wing chun

 

(ignoring the straight punch that is).

 

hip=correct use of correct structure.

 

footwork is a way to carry correct structure as you move.

 

stance is an example of correct structure, even if it is only momentary in application.

 

the only way to train footwork whilst maintaining correct structure is to have someone who can show you what works and what doesn't work.

 

you need someone who knows where and how to apply pressure to test structure.

 

as i said, jkd does not teach you fight like bruce lee.

 

it teaches you to see things differently.

 

how you fight depends on you.

 

if you are aiming to ape bruce lee's movements then you are not doing jkd.

 

if you want to fight like bruce lee then go ahead and copy things from the films.

 

just remember, moving like bruce lee doesn't make you as good as he was (or whatever).