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Date Posted: 17:20:23 01/03/03 Fri
Author: OneDragons
Subject: Re: WTF?!
In reply to: Nakedswordsman 's message, "Re: WTF?!" on 05:26:53 04/04/02 Thu

>"i think jet coon dou is the best
>marshall arts ever, it beats all them japanses styles
>any time."

Just a little point on this as you obviously dont have a clue.

I assume you are refering to Jeet Kune Do which is the legacy of the great Bruce Lee. To quote an interview from one of Bruce's original pupils Richard Bustillo "in 1970, the Day Bruce Lee went to Hong Kong, we visited him to say our goodbyes..........when we got in the car I asked Dan (Dan Inosanto, sort of Bruces top student) what Bruce told him. He said to 'carry on your own way.' Dan also promised him he was never going to use the word Jeet Kune Do, because people would think it was a style."

I think these words speak for themselves. The principle Bruce taught was JKD, in other words your own way. Each of his original students had very different style backgrounds which may center in either an eastern or weatern disciplines (ohh, that means JKD by definition cannot be Chinese) and he never taught any two of them in the same way. He sort of tailored a programme to center on the weak points of each student but at the same time expanding their strengths; also students were encouraged to embrace all forms of fighting that felt right for that specific person. The general format was fairly hardcore with little room for ceremony.

Bruce studied Wing Chun, so this was the core of his JKD this does not necessarily mean Wing Chun is at the centre of everyones JKD. Bruce learned other arts to strengthen were his style was weak. Leading to the idea of taking what works FOR YOU and discarding the rest. As everyone is different, different arts may work better for different people; therefore saying Japanese martial arts are crap and pale in comparison to JKD is making a direct contradiction and shows both your arogance and ignorance. Bruce himself trained in several Japanese arts.

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