Anyone ever get this feeling...

[Shapeless]

Has anyone ever been training... with say a kata, and while you were training you just get this... heavenly feeling and you start making your moves flow perfectly and very fluidly?

[TangSooGuy]

It happens sometimes...getting it to happen consistent and at will is the trick.

 

It's a state of moo shim (mushin) or "no mind" where everything just clicks into place, and you can do no wrong.

 

I've had it happen when practicing forms...once in competition where there were about ten people left to compete and I knew I had won without even having to see them compete, and I was right.

 

It's also happened for me in sparring, where it actually feels like the other person is moving in slow motion, and you can hit them at will....

 

Like I said though, being able to call on that feeling at will is the hard part...and I haven't gotten that down yet...

[Shapeless]

Yeah I love that feeling. It has happened to me alot while sparring. Though I dont train in any "form or style", I was able to make my moves flow freely and fluidly a couple of time. It feels great. You cant describe it you have to experience it. You know what I mean, You obviously did it before.

[Little Dragon]

Though I dont train in any "form or style",

haha u make it sound like your the only one who takes jkd xD

 

Anywhos,that happens a lot once u get into it and free your mind,you just..wing it

[Shapeless]

Ohhh no. I am not the only one whom practices JKD. I know there are others. I was just saying I dont practice any "style" lol.

[Little Dragon]

oicz,is this your first MA or have u taken previous styles before jkd?

 

and when i said that,i meant on the forums.

[MenteReligieuse]

If you study JKD as your first and only MA ...then it is a style...

[Little Dragon]

no,im askin if he did one before jkd...

[Shapeless]

I did Wing Chun for awhile, but I kinda took in to JKD. I didnt want to chain myself to any style or whatnot. And no, even if it was my first "style", JKD would still be no "style". JKD is NOT a style or form. A style you have to leanr and do everything you are SHOWED, EXACLTY how you are taught. JKD you can implement what works for you most effective. I leanred form Tommy Carruthers for awhile before he went back to Scottland, and you guys should check him out. He is LITERALLY the closest thing to Bruce as of now. You can check his site out for yourselves and read the comments about him from Bruce's personal students. https://www.tommycarruthers.com

[Shorin Ryuu]

I had that feeling once and then remembered to turn off the gas on the kitchen stove...(just kidding).

 

Just as a minor point, when you learn a style, you don't have to "do everything you are SHOWED, EXACLTY how you are taught." [sic].

 

Let me start this rant with the disclaimer: I'm not attacking you personally or generally.

 

Okay, here we go.

 

Granted, there are some things that are established as "the way" to do things, but even that changes from year to year, and is only for the purposes of preservation for future transmission (kata being the most obvious example).

 

If anything, in traditional Okinawan karate, at least, and I'm sure the same goes for true traditional Chinese boxing, combative training was always tailored towards the individual. Sure, they were given certain drills and things to do, but everyone had their own way of doing them. You look at all the karate masters on Okinawa and what did they do? They didn't obstinately learn just one thing. They traveled all over Okinawa, learning different ways of doing things. They traveled to "mainland" Japan, China, and Taiwan. They took things they liked and discarded things they didn't like.

 

Even nowadays, you learn the "official" way of doing kata. But as you progress, you develop your own way of doing it, the way that suits you the best. You might argue that the act of learning kata in and of itself is a sort of limitation, but that is an underestimation of the act of learning kata itself (not to mention the myriad of other training methods that karateka do in addition to kata).

 

As far as "JKD you can implement what works for you most effective", I certainly do the same thing with my traditional karate, and have always been encouraged to do so by every single traditional karate teacher I have had or met.

 

Sorry for going on a rant here, but the philosophy of having an open mind in regards to martial arts training isn't something unique to JKD. Perhaps that wasn't your intention in what you wrote, nor do I mean you any offense or anything like that whatsoever, I just wish to purvey to you that those who learn traditional karate are not the close-minded, rigid robots that your post implies.

 

Once again, I'm not attacking you, and I will of course come off as sounding very defensive in my post. It just kind of rubs me the wrong way when I see what I believe to be a wrong impression of traditional martial arts.