View Single Post
Old 11-20-2007, 08:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
Liberty
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 456
Liberty has a spectacular aura aboutLiberty has a spectacular aura about
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghost View Post
thats just alot of internet reading again isnt it, most JKD schools teach FMA. what is there to argue about that.
JKD is mix or martial arts, you are trying to add on to that that it is picking the stuff that works.
you arent saying anything.
I've had my share of knife, beer bottle, biting, getting shot at encounters, so no, it's not "just a lot of reading" again. Sorry, video on the matter is the same as yours....

It is ironic you and anyone else assume someone's "experience" in such matters depends upon their age.

I believe someone posted something about you Ghost (or Bri), to the effect that you also came from a rough background. I find it hard to believe you have never encountered "kids" colder, more "street-wise" then all those DVD producing "masters" put together.

Looking at JKD from that, it's "scientific street fighting," principles of energy and striking transfer, leverage, power generation, anges of attack and so forth, and not some mix of martial arts techniques.

In fact, FMA is somewhat like that. In it's focus on angles of attack, for example. Wherein a straight thrust with a fist, foot, knife, pole, what have you, for example, is treated not according to what technique it is but to what angle it is coming from, hence, it is much more flexible and adaptable in that area, than techniques focused arts.

You've obviously never heard of nor encountered "kids" who grow up in, choose, have violent worlds forced upon them, kids as cold as a human being can become - who well know a thing or two we could all learn from where surviving violent encounters are concerned.
Liberty is offline   Reply With Quote