there were once 3 students of martial arts, one of Karate, one of Gung Fu, and one of boxing. They decided to go to a new club that claims to teach "fighting skills" the were intreged as to what system this was.

 

On arival they asked why he (the instructor) belived this style was the best, Senior Instructor explained,

 

"every style has it's weeknesses, my style does not, because it is not a style and it is not mine."

 

 

 

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"perfection, is something we all get closer too with training, but you will never get there and untill you accept this your mind will be limited in what you can achive"

 

- Dave

 

[ This Message was edited by: dafabe on 2002-04-17 06:39 ]

Sounds like what Bruce Lee would say. The style sounds like jeetkundo to me. Jeetkundo is not a martial style and it evolves to match the students characteristic and personality.

True, JKD isnt a style but a philosphy. Some of your stances and such may be the same, but almost no one is gonna be like Bruce Lee. Everyone wants ta be like Lee, forget Jordon!

Fighters make the style the style don't make the fighter. I think Ken Shamrock said that.

right on you guys...

These comparitive topics sure get redundant:

 

X vs Y = N

Very wise, man.

In my opinion, a good martial artists is one who is open to the strengths and weaknesses of her style and tries to be effective in the defending those weaknesses by learning other aspects of different styles. There are techniques out there that are said to universally effective but they may not workl for the individual... use what works for you.