Dragon

[Sphinx]

How much of the dragon film is real.

Did he really fight thoughs americans at the start. wot was bruces real name b4 he came to america. Would the bloke who taught bruce beable to beat him in a fight (street). How did bruce die was it a coma or from drug abuse.


ive just start jkd (one lesson) igot taught "on guard" position a wierd puch (ur most powerful arm and leg forward) anf a kick to a knee is this correct. 1hour and half.

[Brokenmace]

Many of the moves we see BL perform in the movies were designed for show. He both realized and expounded upon their limitations in street combat. An example would be multiple spin kicks and lowering your guard simply for visual effect (though you could do so in an attack by drawing).

He really did kick the white guy for hitting him, I hear. The man laughed about it later, and they weren't exactly bitter enemies.

Yip Man taught him Wing Chun, but he learned various things from various folks. I don't think he every met Jack Dempsey (I could be wrong there), but he did glean some principles from him, such as the so-called "falling step." JKD is a series of such principles woven together and guided by the student's self-awareness and personal expression. Eventually, if you continue, you should find yourself breaking away from some of the things your Sifu teaches you. That is as it should be.

It is impossible to say who BL could or couldn't have beaten, really. He never competed because competition wasn't his purpose.

Don't give up on the right-lead yet. It gives the fighter some powerful options. You should work it hard until you sincerely believe you cannot progress in your proficiency with it, or it compromises your fighting skills over a long time. Absorb what is useful, reject what is not, add what is specifically your own. But before you reject anything you must be able to articulate why it doesn't work, and only do so after making an honest attempt at making it work.

The shin-knee kick is one of the more powerful techniques, when its proper execution is mastered. I don't see a problem with your first class, from what you said.

[Sphinx]

y do i have to have the stronger foot and arm forward to start off with, what is the purpose. Surely i could get much more power with it being back.

Also we used the punch bags and stuff, i can i honestly say that i have never thrown a punch b4 in my life. i usually walk away from fights. Nobody really starts on me because of my size 6"3" that may not sound big to u but 4 a 16 year old im the tallest my school. Because of the fact that i have never punched anyone it REALLY hurt my wrist straight away, i thought i broke it but i didnt, any tips. Ive been told to keep squeezing a sponge ball.


How did bruce die.

[Brokenmace]

Some folks say it was an allergic reaction to marijuana leaves in his gut (brownies, anyone? ) and some sort of headache medicine. Others believe it was an aneurism. Don't bother searching for the "truth" on that one. You might as well ask if a shot came from the grassy knoll.

As for the right-lead stance, the answer is simple. You should put your strongest weapons closest to your adversary. This way when you clash, your reaction time for your heavy weaponry is reduced. Proper body mechanics brings out the power in your rear hand.

It is true that your rear side generates more force. This is due to angular momentum (your hips have more distance to cover, converting to more momentum), which you'll remember if you've taken physics. So, once you've got your body mechanics down, your left hand will generate almost as much force as your right in the rear position. It isn't about "strong side" or muscle. It is the proper orchestration of the various body parts involved in generating speed and force. In the end, if you work at it, you'll almost have "two rear hands" as some call it. Now, isn't that nice?

There's nothing essentially wrong with traditional stance, it's just that more force can be delivered to your adversary in shorter time than otherwise in right lead. Why give up the chance to double the forced of your left hand, when you can still produce highly destructive hits with your right? Also, southpaw (right-lead) confuses many fighters, thus providing you an advantage.

Allow me a minor boast in order to illustrate: I'm almost as tall as you, 260lbs, and can fight with either side of my body. Often when I spar I'm not quite as fast as my partner. However, when I switch to right lead I am able to hit him all day, because I have the speed of a jab in my right arm (due to closer distance and less telegraphing), and they don't expect hooks from that angle. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but that is because we use equipment and don't go full force all the time. When I punch straight (called the straight lead) it looks like the jab, except that my fist is vertical and my shoulders are locked down, my hips lined up with my shoulders for a split second.

With this punch I have knocked back folks forty pounds heavier than me about 6-10 feet. Some of them had a hard time breathing afterward, and they were holding phonebooks to protect their chests.

Anyone with experience in these things will note that 6-10 feet isn't mere fantasy after reaching proficiency. Without protection I may have fractured their sternums, and in a fight I might have broken their faces.

Satisfied?

[Sphinx]

Thanks 4 that it was alot of help.

But do have any tips about my wrists because i think that i might end up breaking them.

[yenhoi]

Ask your teacher to wrap your wrists for a little bit, once you get technique down, get rid of the wraps.

Squeze a foam thingie, or a tennis ball, or one of those grippers, also if you have a barbell or dumbells you can do wrist strengthening, and you can build a wrist roller out of a stick, some rope, and a weight.

Wraps would be my immediate solution, but you cant use them all the time, or for a long period of constant training. The best solution is to strengthen your wrists, and get your technique proper.

[Sphinx]

Thanks 4 that but wot exatly is a wrist roller and how do ya make one.

[yenhoi]

Get a copy of the "Tao of jeet Kune Do", it will be helpful in your journey as a JKD man, and it also has some neet little skill-helping devices, like the wrist-roller.

You need a stick, and a rope and a weight.

Tie the rope to the stick, and the other end to the weight.

Hold the stick, and roll the rope up it, bringing the weight from the ground to your hands, then roll it down, and up, and down, not touching the ground, rolling your wrists in as large an arc as possible each time. Hold the roller at different heights, and different lengths from your chest, and feel the burn move around, from your forearms, to the biceps, triceps, trapes, etc. Its a really usefull tool and no matter where you work the most, the wrist still gets tremendous benefit.

[Brokenmace]

It's good stuff. Sorry I forgot to answer that bit. Got carried away.

You'll probably always want to use wrist wraps on the heavy bags, especially if you end up developing a lot of power.

Boxers use wrist wraps all the time. The body can simply generate more power than the wrist can easily handle over long periods of time. It will also help prevent injuries like pulled tendons and damage to hand bones, by keeping the hand bones tightly squeezed together. If you enjure the tendons between your knuckles, the injury will last weeks and hurt like a mother when you punch or do pushups.

Later.