Bruce trained and practised with Norris. he was influenced by Norris, and by the world at large. As you sugest, 4,000 tequniques is a weakness not a strength.
But Bruce had a great copacity for learning. His method was to study, and then discard what was not useful. My wife is a former KSW student, and I a former TKD, so I have respect for these arts. Bruce respected all who trained in any art and who were humble. He felt that the names of the styles seporated us from one another and from the truth.
He was corect of course, but that wisdom also contained the seeds of distruction for JKD because it was itself a style. The internal conflict in JKD eventualy resulted in the great split between the so called Origonal and the so callled Consepts.
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