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Originally Posted by eXcessiveForce
My exposure to kali is limited. So I wouldn't want to base any statements on the little bit of exposure I have had.
Of the others I have multiple experiences to know that my comments are wide spread
I remember watching on of Lamar Davis's video, granted it was old, but the knife defense would get you killed.
It just goes to show though, every system has it's issues, especially one that has been around for a long time.
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As usual these discussions are just as interesting for what they reveal about how a question responded to was understood to begin with.
In my mind JKD is the devastating martial art Lee himself was known for, prior to and outside of his movie JKD - that potential rather than the slap-fest/dead patterns joke many have turned it into. Likewise with Kali the martial art it once was, still is, though in the hands of very few.
I have to wonder sometimes what those who "play act" these arts that were once so alive, so reality based, must be thinking as they pretend to spar, etc. Not to demean these people, I just wonder what it is they must be believing they are doing.
I mean, take the following clip.
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These two guys may believe they are expressing JKD, Bruce Lee picture and all, but watching it I cannot help recall that scene in "Fist of Fury."
Where Lee's character, walks into what is purportedly a Judo school, Jigoro Kano picture and all, and basically wipes the floor with it's head instructors - as much Hollywood as it was his point about what happens when the original founder's martial art's core principles are lost sight of.
On that note, who knew he was fortelling JKD's own future, Bruce Lee picture on the wall and all!
To those of you on this forum who truly practice JKD, who have not followed that "pretend JKD" path, I commend you. We may not have always seen eye to eye on this forum. Still, I'm sure that were your art's founder to walk in on one of your training sessions, he'd break out into one of those sunny smiles of his.
As Lee used to say, "may it go well with you, my friend...."