Originally Posted by
mvbrown21
Sorry Phil, didn't mean to upset you. I think what you're doing is great! I'm not trying to put all WC onto the same plate either to make people feel bad. I was only trying to imply that the basic technique, the technique we all learn regardless of lineage, on it's own, mano to mano, will fail more times than not and that the concept alone is what matters more than anything.
When I say WC has it's limitations, I mean the WC technique itself is limited, the tools, i.e. movements, that we all learned. What I believe they're more useful for and ultimately their purpose, is to understand the concept of martial skill so that whatever movement you ultimately do, regardless of style, you understand how to make application work. So, essentially when I said before that if the technique is not there than it's not WC but WC concept, I meant that it's simply not the WC technique, the movements that we all identify with, but the concept at best, hopefully!
So, for me, personally, that's an evolution in thought and begs myself to evolve out of forcing a technique, so to speak, when fighting. I feel I'm really starting to understand Bruce Lee's break from WC technique, as a focus, and replacing it with WC concept.
"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself." - Bruce Lee
"It’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts." - Bruce Lee
"If you believe everything I say you will never be a good fighter." - Ip Man
