.. flesteparten vet at jeg ikke er noe Bruce Lee hypnotisert bla bla type.
Er heller ikke av den oppfatning at han var best på ditt og datt.
Men at han var en liten pioner på flere områder innen martial arts, kan ingen ta fra han.
Han har nok dessverre blitt glorisert mye av enkelte personer og media opp igjennom tidene.
Men hvis en tillater seg å høre på hva andre dyktige utøvere forteller om sine treninger med han bør vel sier litt mener jeg. Jeg har vert i usa og truffet mange av hans elever, og er sertifisert til og undervise JKD under Larry Hartsell. Ikke under noen omstendigheter har noen av de skrytt Bruce opp i skyene.
Flestparten av dere var ikke engang født, mens han var i live, hva vet dere som jeg ikke vet?
Noen sier at han ikke var dyktig, ok for meg at noen tror det.
Men for min del hører jeg mer på de som traff han og som trente med han, en på de som aldri har møtt han. Ta for eksempel utøvere av andre arter, eks:
Mike Stone (verdensmester)
Chuck Norris (verdensmester)
Bob Wall (verdensmester)
Joe Lewis (verdensmester)
Wally Jay
Jhonn Ree
Mito Uhera
Steve L. Johnson (Karate instructor and Mr Philadelphia in Bodybuilding)
Joey Orbillo (former top five ranked heavyweight in boxing and former boxing coach of kickboxing legend Joe Lewis)
De sier at han vart ekstremt dyktig, holder det for meg.
Dette er fra James W. DeMile som var en av de råeste street fightere i Seattle på 60 tallet:
James W. DeMile, original Bruce Lee-student of the Seattle era:
"People always seem to make their questions relate to the the martial arts side of Bruce rather than the fighting side. I wish they would explore the realistic side of Bruce's skill in the street, rather than compare him to tournament fighters. I read some of the comments by Joe Lewis and he always compared Bruce to the martial arts image that everyone saw and yet the Bruce that I knew would have blown Joe Lewis, Chuck Norris and anyone else for that matter that acquired their reputation by playing the game of tournaments."
"Most of the questions about Bruce's fighting skills are asked by people who did not know him. Most of the answers are from people who either did not know him or related their answer how Bruce would have done in a tournament. Joe Lewis is very out front with his comments and yet he always compares Bruce to either his tournament days or some world champion. I really enjoy meeting these people and always look forward to giving my opinion on why Bruce was the best street fighter I ever knew. Not pound for pound, but against anyone in a street fight. I was never in a tournament and had many street fights and I have never seen anyone that I would have been scared to fight, regardless of their Belts and trophies. This goes for UFC and K1. I'm not saying I could beat all of them, I am just saying they are tough, but so what. People do not understand what Bruce did in a real fight. They relate his skills to the movies or JKD. No, that was martial arts. Fighting is survival. It is mean, ugly and stupid and someone can reall be hurt or killed. Bruce knew he could be hurt if he got hit, that is why he believed a street fight should not last over two seconds and his personal skills were designed for that attitde. I am very opinionated and willing to discuss with anyone my belief in why Bruce was the best fighter I ever knew. And I still feel that way, 42 years later.."
"I was a heavyweight boxer in the Air Force. Over a four year period I had over a hundred fights and never lost one. I had a very big ego and perceived myself as the toughtest man alive. I was 5ft 10inches and weighted 225. I could knock a man out with either hand. Then I met a small 135 lb 5 ft 7 kid who believed his martial arts could beat anyone. I decided to explain the reality of fighting to him and proceded to show him what street fighting was all about. Needless to say I learned humility in about 5 seconds. He not only stopped me cold, but tied me up in such a way that he could hit me at will and the only thing I could do about it was... nothing. Later I reviewed all my previous skills, including boxing and threw all of it out as it was impractical against Bruce's skills."
Chinese Boxing - Jun Fan Gung Fu
By Bruce Lee
President of Jeet Kune Do
Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat.
The ultimate reality is the returning to one’s freedom, which is simple, direct and non-classical.
A good Jeet Kune Do man does not oppose force or give away completely. He is pliable as a spring; he is the complement and not the opposition to his opponent’s strength. He has no technique; he makes his opponent’s technique his techniques.
One should respond to circumstance without artificial and "wooden" pre-arrangement. Your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow adapting to a moving object. Your task is simply to complete the other half of the "oneness" spontaneously.
In Jeet Kune Do, one does not accumulate but eliminates. It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. It is the half way cultivation that runs to ornamentation.
So it is not how much fixed knowledge one has accumulated, rather it is what one can apply alvely that accounts. "Being" is defiantly more valued than "doing".
The understanding of Jeet Kune Do is through personal feeling from movement to movement in the mirror of relationship and not through a process of isolation. To be is to be related. To isolate is death.
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, mimics a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.
Learn the principle, abide by the principle and dissolve the principle. In short, to enter a mould without being caged in it, and obey the principle without being bound by them.
My followers in Jeet Kune Do listen to this, "all fixed set patterns, are incapable of adaptability or pliability". The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Try and obtain a manageable shape of nicely lied paper package of water.
When one has reach naturally in this art, one well have the formless form. It is like the dissolving of a thawing ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When has no form, one can be all forms, when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
In primary freedom one utilizes all ways and is bound by none, and likewise uses any technique or means which serves its end. Efficiency is anything that scores.
When you perceive the truth in Jeet Kune Do, you are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference.
By Bruce Lee
President of Jeet Kune Do
