Anyone ever get this feeling...

[austaph]

Shapeless, who cares what Bruce had to say? Who cares what your teacher had to say? What do you have to say? Anything other than a few one-liners from some old Bruce Lee movies? Watching television never made anyone a martial artist.

 

It's not that people don't "get it" as far as JKD is concerned. It's not a very difficult concept to grasp. It seems what you're failing to understand is that JKD, without the style and technique as an applied subset, is nothing more than a bunch of axiomatic wisecracks. The idea is to mix and match. The footwork of Tai Chi with some Boxing punches and Aikido takedowns, etc. Whatever suits your particular need. To be limitless with your horizons.

 

This isn't to say you're purely confined to styles and techniques. You are allowed to improvise. But only once you have a firm grasp of what it is you're tweaking. You are shown a way to throw a kick and you train yourself day and night to throw that kick without a hitch and eventually you notice that if you alter some of your footing or shift your bodyweight just right then you can execute in a quarter of the time with twice the power or whatever... you get it. If you're simply looking at someone throwing off moves and you say to yourself "well gee, that looks like a style to me, I think I'll pass" then you're not only stating the obvious but you're lazy and undriven.

 

The bottom line is... if you think you've got something better than prove it through adaptation and application *INSIDE* the system rather than sitting on the sidelines mumbling sweet nothings to your ego. I may be wrong but it sounds like your cup is full of "JKD" and you're refusing to empty it.

 

(Sorry, I was browsing and I just had to register and post on this topic because it was erking me a bit.)

[Muaythaiboxer]

bruce himself gave up jkd