Tai Chi vs. Jeet Kune Do. Hmmm....that's a tough one. Perhaps I could provide my answer via the following parable:
There are several martial artists in a room together. The lightbulb burns out and needs to be changed. What happens?
1. Several people, grouped together loosely as "those kata guys", begin performing strange dances that say will help them develop incredible lightbulb changing abilities...in time.
2. The Tai Chi guy says he does not go looking for lightbulbs to change and says he really isn't into it. When chided by the other, he says that everybody else doesn't understand the inner nature of lightbulbs.
3. The four JKD guys start to argue about the right way to change a lightbulb and whose heritage gives them the right perspective on it. They never cease to argue and their arguments get more esoteric and irrelevant. They never do manage to change the lightbulb.
4. The BJJ and Muay Thai look at each other and nod. The BJJ motions for the Muay Thai guy and says, "This looks like a standup job to me." The Muay Thai guy makes a wai to the BJJ guy, which makes the BJJ snicker (but, heck, a Muay Thai guy will wai a stop sign if it will get him out of a couple of hundred pushups) and changes the lightbulb.
Terry
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