Originally Posted by
lance
Hello TopCrusader ,
By looking at your thread it seems like bruce lee studied alot kung fu systems which were different from eachother . Like Wing Chun , Choy Li Fut ,
little bit of hung gar , eagle claw , praying mantis , Hsing I , bagua .
In his early years he did practice the forms to this systems , but as times went on
he disregarded forms , and instead went on to practice mainly the applications to these systems .
The reasons why bruce lee was against forms was because people would ' nt know what they were for . Because in the chinese martial arts world , you have the forms for traditional purposes and the applications which are the techniques you really going use against the attacker should the situation arises .
There was a documentry film on youtube which talks about wing chun and JKD Guru Inosanto was telling the story about why bruce lee was against forms , while Chris Kent and Jeff Imada was demo using JKD techniques . Thr documentry talks about kung fu the hard way . They were showing Lee ' s concepts of JKD .
Altough JKD is a formless art , it useses tecniques from different arts in general .
The concepts as you already know were absorb what is useful abd reject what is useless and to keep what works for you .
Guru Inosanto once promise bruce that while he was still living , Dan would ' nt commercialize JKD , but he ' ll only teach the concepts of JKD , that is how it became JKD concepts . The meaning behind JKD varies , there different ways of describing JKD .
Lance