Most Powerful Technique Category

[unknownstyle]

if you are in close you have the best chance od getting the most power out of your technique, especially if you apply hip movements like in the naihanchi katas. and i also would have to say it reallty depends of the area you are targeting as to if your hands or feet will be more powerful

[Chikara]

Legs are always more powerful (they have to support 100-200+lbs everyday), but they're always much slower. Arms are faster, closer, and very effective. And if there's cement, I really love throws.

It's best to go with the opposite style your opponent is doing. Don't try to compete with their style, "Oh, this guy boxes. I wonder if he can outbox me..."

[bushido_man96]

It's best to go with the opposite style your opponent is doing. Don't try to compete with their style, "Oh, this guy boxes. I wonder if he can outbox me..."

I would agree with this as well. Don't play to their strengths. However, in Tao of Jeet Kune Do in one spot, Bruce Lee says something to the effect of "...box the boxer, kick the kicker..." so I wonder at times...

[Chikara]

Boxing the boxer and kicking the kicker may lead you to someone who can out-box or out-kick you. Too dangerous to depend on because, "there is always a bigger fish". -Qui Gong Jinn

[bushido_man96]

I am not saying that I don't agree with you. Just pointing out that one of the great masters thought otherwise...

[Chikara]

Yes, I guess I'll have to look it up. I only know a couple of Bruce Lee's sayings.

[bushido_man96]

He has a lot of 'em. Aside from forming his Jeet Kune Do, he was a philosophy major. I don't agree with all of his ideas, but they are definitely worth exploring.

[Chikara]

I didn't know he was also a scholar. It would figure though, he did create his own style.

[joesteph]

He has a lot of 'em. Aside from forming his Jeet Kune Do, he was a philosophy major. I don't agree with all of his ideas, but they are definitely worth exploring.

I didn't know he was also a scholar. It would figure though, he did create his own style.

I understand that the way Lee met his wife was when he was guest-lecturing, because the teacher had a background in Western philosophy and wanted someone who had studied or was studying Eastern philosophy to address his class. My own art's grandmaster, Kwan Jang Nim H.C. Hwang, has a degree in philosophy.

Lee was a true scholar of the martial arts in terms not only of techniques but "body mechanics." The Jeet Kune Do video series in Expert Village has a Sifu who mentions both, and makes references to Lee's way of thinking. Lee studied a number of martial arts, and was just as open to the stengths of Western-style boxing as to Eastern "Gung Fu" as he called it (in a clip I saw of him explaining, he first said "Kung Fu," then "Gung Fu"). I believe a number of martial artists in this forum have read his "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do," and examined the drawings Lee made himself to better envision what he wanted to get across.

[joesteph]

After I posted the above, I found out that there's a new, four-volumes-become-one edition Bruce Lee book that's about to be released. It's described at the following URL:

http://www.blackbeltmag.com/bruce_lees_fighting_method_the_complete_edition_available_for_preorder_from_black_belt_books/archives/687

The photos inside are "digitally remastered" for a crisper shot than the originals.