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Originally posted by Akuma Kage
Come to think of it, I realize that the whole reason so many people worship or scorn Bruce Lee is because he paved the way for combining martial arts systems and saying " It's whatever works for you." |
Really Bruce was not the first to combine systems. That has really been going on for a long, long time. In modern times, especially so--both Judo and Shotokan Karate were fusions of many different systems. In the case of Judo, Kano actually ditched the stuff that didn't work or was inefficient. Guy's like Donn Draeger were studying dozens and dozens arts before Bruce thought of it. Most of the modern Silat systems are in fact hybrids of numerous, often quite different, Silat systems. The same goes for some FMA's. This sort of thing was going on all the time. Certainly a lot of hard headed traditionalists were stuck in the my single art is the best mode and thanks to Bruce's popularity as a movie star he was able to popularize cross-training. But its always gone on.