The whole "JKD is what works for you" is not all it is cracked up to be. Lot's of people think that what they are doing is what works for them, and they may or may not be right. What if the highly stylized happens to work for someone? Is what they are doing JKD? I think not. That is far too simplistic way of thinking about JKD. Didn't Jigoro Kano take what worked best for him? Morihei Ueshiba? Gichin Funakoshi? Mas Oyama? et al. Did they practice JKD? To truly understand JKD we must understand the root. We must go beyond our personal likes and dislikes and simply adapt to what is. |