Mr Brewer: First let me apologize if I got my feathers ruffled, But I'm so used to dealing with brain dead trolls that it is a welcome relief to have a discussion on the internet, And I now can see that thats what this is. so I'm sorry about the attitude. 2nd. I'm not a Kenpo student, I am a black belt from Bruce Tegner in jukado self defense. 3rd. though I am not best Buddy's with Joe Lewis, he was one of my main instructors, (altho I was a very minor student to him,) and someone I respect, and a friend. Now back to business. What made Bruce Lee's teaching unique, what he was teaching as JKD were not techniques, But theory's and principles, these theory's and principles were not new, Bruce did not invent them, But he put them together and conceptualized them better than any one had ever done previously. While these things are common today, 30+ years ago these things changed the martial arts, And the number of people who knew what is now called JKD cold be counted on two hands and still have enough fingers to flip people off. At this time if you knew the angles of attack, you learned from Bruce or his students, the same with independent movement, set point control, None of these things were invented by Bruce, but at that time he was the only one that had put this all together and conceptualized all this. I started training with Joe Lewis in 1969, and these were the things I was learning from Joe, and he was giving Bruce the credit for teaching this to him, But after Bruce died in 1973, and every brain dead moron who had seen enter the dragon more then twice was teaching JKD, that was when Joe stopped using the term JKD, Al tho he still gave Bruce credit for everything that Bruce had taught him. Sorry but I'm starting to loose it again, With any luck I'll have it back tomorrow.
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Yours In Martial Arts.
Bob Rosenbaum
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