Paradoxal quotes

[treelizard]

Hey whitey, where'd your other sig picture go? I loved it.

[white devil]

http://www.sparmax.com/html/instructeurs.html

this is the owner and the sifu..he teaches silat,JKD,thai and boxing.The gym is called sparmax and is located north of the island of Montreal,Quebec

[jkdmlastudent]

I believe that you made the right choice.

[white devil]

don't judge a book by it's cover..the man is very very tough (i don't say this often)..he is talented,and impressive..

now HOW he teaches,that's another story..in fact 2/3 of the time he lets some second rate instructor(who barely trained with him for one year) teach us..we spend half of our time doing chi sau and working ''forms'' on the wooden dummy,i mean if JKD is against something it has to be forms and katas.The other half we do roundhouses and side kicks..and some wing chun forms such as pak sao,lop sao etc..no theory no philosophy,just plain dumb repetition

[aseepish]

In order to be liberated, you first need something to be liberated from.

[eXcessiveForce]

well, repetition is the key to success

[white devil]

well, repetition is the key to success

i knew you were going to say that,but what good is repetition if you don't know the purpose of what you're repeating?

[eXcessiveForce]

That would be something to ask the person teaching.

I sometimes make students do things that I don't explain to them immediately. I know what it will do, and they will gain the benefit of doing it whether they understand or not.

It does appear there are significant gaps in your knowledge of JKD. I can't speculate as to why that is. I do not know the person you trained under nor do i know you.

Part of this could be training time. How long have you trained in JKD?

[white devil]

Listen, i'm a boxer not a pure JKD practitionner,although i have trained in JKD for a while,(ive stopped going to classes because the sifu was teaching us his own misinterprated variation of JKD)..Not training the techniques i have been reading and studying the concept.
I'm an amateur boxer,I absorb what is useful for me FROM JKD and incorporate it into my boxing(excluding the wing chun,and kicks).I do so because,to me,to progress as a professional boxer and have a sucessful career is far more important than street-fighting(which I am still able to do,even while excluding some JKD techniques and principles.)

i have been on and off for about two years...for the time i have been boxing at sparmax ive been going to the JKD classes as well which were right after.(don't rely on the website schedule,it changes from time to time)..Let's say i have seen enough of practical jkd(if it is actullay jkd and not mma)

[Adept]

''Lee compared doing forms without an opponent to attempting to learn to swim on dry land''

But then he says that shadow boxing is a very important part of training.

''JKD students are told to waste no time or movement''
But then he tells us to always keep moving because it is harder to hit a moving target than a stationary one.

Theses are not the first contradictory theories ive noticed by him...Maybe i just misunderstood..if not post your comments.

Bruce Lee also regretted coming up with the name "Jeet Kune Do" because he was afraid this was going to happen.

And indeed it happened...

That was "Bruce Lee's" stuff. Paradox or not, find your 'way'.

[Wolfeye589]

Listen, i'm a boxer not a pure JKD practitionner,although i have trained in JKD for a while,(ive stopped going to classes because the sifu was teaching us his own misinterprated variation of JKD)..Not training the techniques i have been reading and studying the concept.

This is something I never understood. With something as open-ended as JKD, how can it be taught and not discovered? (in fact, I've had some very insightful discussion about this with some of the other defend.net peoples ).

When you say "misinterprated", what do you mean? I think someone who really follows JKD won't aspire to be "just like bruce". From what I've come to understand, JKD should be looked at as more of a fighting philosophy than a combat art. I say this because one "JKD man" and another "JKD man" may be two completely different types of fighters depending on their strengths and weaknesses. (which may be why he isn't teaching what you've been reading about?)

JKD is about applying efficiency and effectiveness in whatever types of self-defense works for what situation you find yourself in. Bruce didn't create JKD out of a bunch of different styles, he developed a basic philosophy for fighting effectively and then built his own fighting way around that philosophy (incorporating useful techniques from any and all styles he could find); Just like any good "JKD man" (for lack of a better term) should do as well, in my opinion.

Sorry if I got off-topic there; I have a bad habit of chasing rabbits.

[Tant01]

Not to worry...Adept replied to a two year old thread.

Old is new again!

[Ghost]

Bruce Lee also regretted coming up with the name "Jeet Kune Do" because he was afraid this was going to happen.

And indeed it happened...

That was "Bruce Lee's" stuff. Paradox or not, find your 'way'.

THis is the best post in this thread.

Go to the JKD class, try stuff out that you learn, and keep what you want from it.
If some people say that is not JKD or that is then still JKD....who cares.
I wouldnt care. Just do your own thing. Judge JKD as you see fit and take what suits you.

If you find spending a long time repeating stuff on wooden dummies and so on a waste of time, simply dont go, i wouldnt.

[FLMKane]

What is Jeet Kune Do!? Bruce Lee meant it to be way to express himself...a name for a constantly revolving process of change and adaptation.Infinitely flexible. The true way of fighting. But what is it now?

[Tant01]

What is Jeet Kune Do!? ...?

That's a good question... MY "JKD" looks like Judo...