Anyone ever get this feeling...

[gojuchad]

i see what you are saying but i am afraid that maybe i was misunderstood. i dont use kata to relax in fact there are many ways that you should train your kata. sometimes you are trying to figure out bunkai so you are thinking and trying to breakdown the kata to a self defence move. and yes other times you are going much deeper trying to feel internal things such as zanchin and muchimi, and ect. my point is that you should know the kata so well after years of training that your body takes over and you dont have to think "is my shoulder back" or whatever.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Gojuchad: That's fine. Regardless of whether or not you said anything, I would have eventually posted something on the topic in this thread anyway.

 

However, even after many years of doing the kata (or perhaps because of), there are still biomechanical, structural things a kata can tell you. Not just where things are wrong, but things that may be "more right" than others.

 

But, I understand where you are coming from.

[47MartialMan]

Yes but the thing I live by..... "The best technique is to have no technique"

 

But is it true that you have to train techniques to get there? So there is "no technique", that wasn't already A technique to train to begin with.....

 

So with "no technique", there will be "no technique", that will be the "best technique"?

[Shapeless]

Well I understand what all of you are saying. I guess SOME of you dont understand the philosophies of JKD. I am a serious practitioner. I have watched other styles and my friends have tried to shwo me other styles. I have TKD, Judo, Karate friends. I was just trying to point out a couple of things but if this is going to turn into an argument, then just forget it. It's pointless arguing over nothing. Sorry I even brought it up, I knew I should not have said anything because it would offend other guys who do other styles. So just nevermind. Just continue your karate and judo, etc. Train hard. And once again, no offense to anybody. You dont have to try and get so smart assy.

[Drunken Monkey]

as bruce lee said;

 

there is a difference between having 'no way'

 

a dn having no 'way'.

 

so, who do you train with?

[Shapeless]

I TRAINED with this guy for a long time when he was in the US. Go see him at https://www.tommycarruthers.com and why not take a look at what some of Bruce's students say abouit him.

[Muaythaiboxer]

this feeling happened to me twice both at he same tournament my form felt like it did it's self and in sparring i felt like i could see the openings before they where there but this happened in point sparring and when i started to do full contact i never got this feeling again.

[Thaegen]

I don't understand JDK, how can you be any good, if you don't train techniques? Your mind your body needs to know those techniques.... your muscles needs to memorize how to utilise your learned techniques.

 

I don't believe that a JDKer who never trained a real style can defeat someone who trained a MA with whole his heart and mind.

[Muaythaiboxer]

you do train techniques in JKD just you apply them in you own way from what i have seen and heard they use 18 principals to do this or am i way off?

[Yabyahoo]

I had that once, in a sparring match during the training.

 

When we where about to start, I already had some intense matches.

 

So I was a bit out of breath, so I bent my knees a bit, and "tried" to do some kind of "chi gathering moves", I had never done that before, but after some of those "moves", we started the match, and it seemed like everything moved in slow-motion, I blocked every kick he made and was able to hit him wherever he opened his defenses

 

But how is that possible and how could I do that again?