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Bruce Lee's sidekick isn't from the Kung Fu he originally studied. It was taught to him by a friend studying Tae Kwon Do. The idea that Bruce Lee discarded eve
by windsignaling 10y ago
Bruce Lee's sidekick isn't from the Kung Fu he originally studied. It was taught to him by a friend studying Tae Kwon Do.
The idea that Bruce Lee discarded everything from Kung Fu as useless is an oft-repeated misunderstanding.
Many of the concepts from Wing Chun remain in JKD today:
- simultaneous attack and defense (why anyone would not want to do these simultaneously I have no idea)
- occupying the centerline
- forward pressure
- wedging and flowing rather than blocking
- using tactile reflexes as opposed to your eyes
Talk to any modern martial arts practitioner and they will agree that the above concepts are sound. BJJ is all about tactile reflexes, that's why you practice rolling all the time. You can't see what the other guy is doing because you're wrapped up like a pretzel on the mat, but you instinctively know what he's trying to do by how he's shifting his weight.
What he was against was restricting oneself to silly stances and not being able to flow freely. Unfortunately Wing Chun has a lot of that.
- swang 10y agoeven accounting for the various forms of wing chun, how are wing chun stances silly? are there even more than one or two?
- windsignaling 10y agoI find the adduction stance restricts my movement. It's not hard to find others who feel the same way, including JKDers. It may work for you, which is fine. That's the whole idea of JKD - use what is working for you. By pluralizing stances I was referring to karate as well. Much of Bruce Lee's commentary was actually about how the principles of WC were superior to those of karate - deep stances, kata, etc.