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how long does it take to master JKD?
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what's all that talk about secret techniques ?Comment
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Shhhh don't tell him...)Comment
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I don't know of any secret techniques in JKD. There are some things that I've seen some of the students of Bruce do that I haven't seen others do. While I learned most of the JKD that Ido know from Dan Inosanto, I picked up a few things from Ted Wong and Dan Lee and 14 things from Bob Bremer that I never saw anyone else do, but there is nothing secret there. It's clear that Bruce worked with different things wiht different people. Sometimes what he taught depends on the other persons body type. What some people kept depends on if it would work for them. An example of that is the hammer principle. While Bremer is the only one that I've seen do it, it is in Bruce's lesson plans.Comment
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Any one who thinks he can master JKD, is missing a key point of JKD.
JKD is not like all other arts, It depends on the student or artist, It cannot be mastered because it has no set pattern for attacks.
Thats just one reason.
I'm only fifteen, been pratcticing for 2 years(reading and studying between homework and sports) and sparring against a Hapkido artist my age, who has more time to train, but can't beat me, And I know that.Comment
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how long to perfection
Mastering jeet kune do would be like running the mile, you can improve every workout, but when is perfection/mastery? if you run the mile in 4 minutes to master the mile you would have to break the world record, now youv'e masterd it, right, WRONGE, next week someone else will break the record. its not masterd untill you can run the mile in 0 minutes flat you have not masterd anything, all you can hope for is to improve, not to master, and this goes for most everything, not just jeet kune do.Comment
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JKD has no special technique. It only has a special piece of wisdom behind it. if you truly want to come close to mastering JKD listen here. First master three or more martial arts. Eat, sleep breath martial arts. Constantly workout and increase flexibility. Push yourself till you break, possibly three or four times if you need it. Learn as much as possible, martial arts is 50% physical and 50% mental. Intergrate all your forms. This may take years. keep what is useful. Reject what is useless. i once told someone even if you only learned two techniques in martial arts. If you train and practice those techniques for two years. You''ll have enough to protect yourself. I hope you can take what i told you and do soomething great with it.Comment
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When I studied JKD with Dan Inosanto in the backyard, Bruce was still alive, and there was a way to do things. There was a way to do the lead punch. There was a way to do the side kick. These are just 2 examples of many. There is a core curriculum. This doesn't mean that you should be bound by it. If you can find a better way, by all means throw the JKD method away. JKD has a basic structure. The punches and kicks that Bruce taught work best from that structure. There are also basic prinicples. For example, Bruce said to avoid passive moves as blocking is the least efficient method of defense. He also stressed that you should have the minimum of resposes to a single stimulus. To understand JKD you need to understand its structure.Comment
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Thank you!Originally posted by thtackett
When I studied JKD with Dan Inosanto in the backyard, Bruce was still alive, and there was a way to do things. There was a way to do the lead punch. There was a way to do the side kick. These are just 2 examples of many. There is a core curriculum. This doesn't mean that you should be bound by it. If you can find a better way, by all means throw the JKD method away. JKD has a basic structure. The punches and kicks that Bruce taught work best from that structure. There are also basic prinicples. For example, Bruce said to avoid passive moves as blocking is the least efficient method of defense. He also stressed that you should have the minimum of resposes to a single stimulus. To understand JKD you need to understand its structure.Comment
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i second that thank you
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