a message to the martial artists on this forum

[mr goodcat]

LOL, YAY, another person who read the Tao of JKD and wants to enlighten us.


There is at least one person on the forum who trained with Bruce even more who have trained with inosanto and others. So who are you again?

who am i? oh im just a drifter that knows a lot. mainly. about no mind, since no mind is the right mind, i feel compelled to a life of learning outside the mold. i read the tao te ching and it has enlightened me somewhat, and i have my history with philosophy, but you can call me brian

[eXcessiveForce]

LOL, YAY, another person who read the Tao of JKD and wants to enlighten us.


There is at least one person on the forum who trained with Bruce even more who have trained with inosanto and others. So who are you again?

[mr goodcat]

yeh because you're not the 50th person to make this post...

im sure im one of the few, besides i read enough threads to realize someone needs ''enlightenment'', oh and i see the pictures people have and some of which are people who perform them here, but a side kick should not be so high that it looks like splits, because it simply looks like it lacks volume ( spacial surroundings), if the person fails to hit his opponent with his mighty splits side kick then it leaves his entire supporting leg and groin exposed and all u need to do is a shin kick to cripple him. its simple, when the opponent expands, you contract, when he contracts you expand, when theres an opportunity, there shouldnt be an ounce of thought to hit, it shoulf hit all by itself. instince

[kuk sool won]

yeh because you're not the 50th person to make this post...

[mr goodcat]

clearly a martial art mind is not logic, you do not see literally the messages handed down by master by sage by shogun by what ever. you may be tired of hearing about oh bruce lee did this! bruce lee did that!. when none of this or that really matters. what does, is to understand WHY he did these things and to understand the messages he gave along with them. not to neglect them and look at his amazing physical physique. the only reason he became who he was is because he had the mind, the wisdom to allow him not to be bounded by what everyone else here is bound by. a mold, a set way of doing this that cripples self- expression. bruce lee was a human like any other. he asked himself one day '' how do i express myself, totally and completely?'' he searched for years for this matter, and he developed his character through martial arts. simply by expressing himself. he didnt teach JKD so that his students can beat someone up, but by simply showing them an abstract reality then guiding them through building their character through it totally and completely, becoming whole, jkd became a way to look at things through the mind. there was no action being performed except the action in itself. and to step aside and see what he could get out of it was obsurd to him. his beliefs, and philosophical messages were formed directly from his self expression of his human art. his highest technique become no technicque and ultimately become one through the actions and motions of the art which he performed. thus he liberated himself of his '' self'' so then, there was nothing he was attached to anymore.