Originally posted by Ghost
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Again, you oviously know little about the ugliness some kids end up in nor the experience it gives one at being able to handle oneself. I regret those experiences, both on the dishing out and recieving end. I am grateful fot the insights though, that it has given me.
And pancration (what I had access to in place of JKD instruction) is similar in some limited respects to JKD, so I am not some kid who has no clue about things. Sure, I wish our version were more like the European kids on this tape when I was their age, so I'd take it to the streets and would at times find myself in some nasty situations. Still, I doubt even these guys (link below),when they reach 17 would qualify to meet whatever "extensive experience" standards some of you here claim you're looking for.
In the end, we cannot, nor will we agree on everything. I find myself each day moving more and more toward Ted Wong's camp, for example. Not from "internet readings" alone but that and my on ongoing martial evolvement.
Many claim Lee was developing a martial art and so forth. Taking from this and that. First of all that is unnatural, not the way life comes at you. My own personal experience disagrees with that. Rather, you find yourself unsure as to what direction to go in and it finds, it develops you - not the other way around. Like that darn spinning top, affected by it's context.
The simplicity of this fight is a case in point - to me, at least.
Look at these little warriors - you really think us young people have no awareness of what works or not because of our age!
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