Originally Posted by
hskwarrior
i have a question meant with no disrespect to the late bruce lee, but where did he go wrong in getting across his idea of throwing away the traditional techniques and just have no way.
throwing away the UNNECESSARY (not necessarily traditional) techniques isn't a bad idea. He followed the model the judo, boxing and thai boxing had already done. It leads to producing efficient fighters in a shorter time.
From what i understand is that he stopped teaching Jeet Kune Do to his students because he was turning it into a system instead of purely self expression.
theoretically, that was bound to happen anyway. Look at boxing - limited number of techniques, yet hundreds of different ways of expressing them. Tyson fights nothing like lewis, who fights nothing like RJJ, who fights nothing like JC chavez. Self expression is a natural progression in your training.
see, i feel (and this is only my opinion) that where he went wrong was he tried to teach a baby how run a mile in 6 seconds flat. however, the baby hasn't even learned to crawl yet. it has to crawl then walk before sprinting.
when I trained jun fan/jkd, it was nothing like that. We learned basics - basic boxing, thai boxing and WC, mainly. But, we were drilling it actively from the beginning.
what i mean is bruce lee already reached a certain level when he made these revelations about having no way. having the ability not to rely on pre-planned techniques in a system. he himself already travelled that road and learned traditional systems.
he only had like 5 years of formal training... Once again, look at the sport models above. shadowboxing is not preplanned, randori is not preplanned, sparring is not preplanned...heck, pad and bagwork are not preplanned.
but to teach a person who has never learned any type of martial art in their life how to block punch and kick instinctively with out any prior training is impossible. and from that point on everything you show that student becomes systematic.
I think you misunderstand what he was trying to do.
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