I’m back. Happy belated New Year to all. Greece has got to be one of the most beautiful places on the planet! And the Pankration training and competition is by far the best I have yet engaged in! Will post some clips of me whipping some butt Pankration style in some very grueling matches as soon as they send me my copy! In the meantime, I was catching up on the site here and thought I’d share my two cents.
“Yes of course. Chuck Norris influenced bruce to kick high. Jhoon Rhee taught bruce to break a hanging board and to perform the spinning hook kick. Ji Han Jae taught Bruce the basic hapkido takedown. Bruce was influenced by Korean arts” – Akia
Jesse Glover, Bruce Lee’s first American student (1959-1963), claims in his book, “Bruce Lee: Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do” that one evening, during the time Glover studied with Lee, he and Lee attended a Karate demo put on by Shtokan’s Hidetaka Nishiyama. That Lee was so impressed with Nishiyama’s control over his high kicks that he (Lee) went over afterwards and the two men [Lee and Nishiyama] spoke at length about the subject.
“The name Jeet Kune Do was not even conceived until 1967 in Los Angeles, three years after Bruce and James Yimm Lee formulated the content of the Oakland teaching outline” – Michael Wright
“Jeet Kune Do… started in around 1965” – Bruce Lee (clip below at 2:24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CVTq44icg
“Origonal JKD is not good, because it sugests stagnation, while our art has evolved” – Happy Cat
“If it is their inclination, students are
encouraged to study
other martial arts and
add their own personal developments once they have the experience and intellectual sophistication to do so. Nevertheless, we simply want JFJKD
teachers to concentrate and focus on JFJKD, that is Bruce Lee's (TM) personal expression in the martial arts, when they claim to teach it. In this way, JFJKD can be spread out in a much more consistent way with less confusion” -Ted Wong
http://www.totallyjkd.com/tw_article...velopments.php