Björn Friedrich
20-09-2012, 15:23
Ich hab mal in meinem e-mail Account gestöbert und ein paar alte Interviews gefunden, die damals auf meiner Website veröffentlicht wurden.
Das erste ist mit Jesse Glover. Leider sind meine Fragen irgendwie verschollen, aber die Antworten von ihm sind informativ und meistens ist daraus auch meine Frage ersichtlich.
Ich denke hier sind ja einige Fans von Glover und das ist ein ziemlich ausführliches Interview:
Interview with Jesse Glover
February 2000
Question 1
I have been in and around martial arts for quite a while. During this period I have seen enough good people from many different system to be able to say that each of the major system taught in the world today and some of the minor ones have at least a few practitioners who are world class. By world class I mean that they can kick, punch and grapple with great speed and power and are capable of hurting anyone. I am not sure what you mean when you ask what is the essence of martial arts. I read this as a philosophical question and those I tend to shy away from. Let me just say that people come to martial arts for many different reasons. To learn how to protect themselves, to see if they can master what they are studying, to develop a parallel to life in order to test ideas and to learn some measure of self control. I am sure that this list can be expanded to include hundreds if not thousands of other reasons that people come to martial arts. I am sure that most of these people feel that they are in pursuit of what they consider to be the essence of true martial arts.
Question 2
I am too old to be a fighter and I have never thought of myself as great in any respect. I think that I am a better than average teacher and I am happy with that. I think that anyone seeking training from another human being should take the time to learn the outline of whatever it is that is being taught before they start asking critical questions or start telling the teacher what it is that they want to learn. I am constantly amazed by the fact that many people want to tell their teacher how they think that they should be taught.
Question3
Naturally if someone comes to martial arts training and they are athletic they are probable going to progress much quicker than the average person. The thing that balances things out for the average person is that generally people who start out with a lot of natural ability soon get bored. They are often short on staying power. I think that people should develop whatever type of body they bring to the training. I also think that all technical skills in martial arts grow out of a physical base. If one doesn't have the necessary endurance to train long enough to ingrain the various movements in his neural system it is going to take a long long time before that person can develop any technical skills. In martial arts people generally look at the best fighters and movers in a style and imagine that in a few months they will be moving with the same skill that these people are displaying. The true is that such people are generally professionals who train at what ever it is that they practice much like a normal person works a job. Any one who is training two or three times a week isn't going to be able to move like these people unless they have a lot of natural athlete ability. Even then they are going to have increase the number of hours that they train.
Question 4
Bruce lee was good because of body he inherited, the gung fu teachers that he had and the number of repetitions that he did. Many people practice for years and still don't get very good because they really don't train very hard. They may have dabbled with something for several years but they haven't seriously trained. They really haven't done enough repetitions of their art to really make it theirs. By this I mean that while they can show things in slow motion they haven't practiced these things hard enough to actually be able to use them in a fight or even demonstrate them at full speed. They haven't made these things reflexive.
Question 5
Deciding that you have no choice but to fight and then giving it your all. I think that a person's first line of defense is his brain. He should use it to keep him out of bad situations. By this I mean stay away from places where fights are likely to happen.
Question 6
Fear does play an important role in fighting. Some of the best fighter that I have known were often driven to win by their fear. Fear made them much stronger and much more savage then they normally were. I remind my students that fear is a natural thing. To be unafraid of something that has the capacity to hurt or kill you is not a normal reaction. There are a few people who truly don't experience fear and even joyfully engage in dangerous activities but these people are not the norm. The only way that I know to offset fear is to train until ones moves are reflexive. Then it is possible to respond in a meaningful way even when one is afraid. If one's method of defenses require a lot of thinking in order to work, one has a very good chance of losing. When the brain is frozen by fear it can send vital messages to the body. The truth is that when the military trains soldiers for battle, they have little idea of how these soldiers will react during actual combat. The hope is that they will have been trained well enough that they do what they have been taught to do even when they are in the grip of fear. The same thing applies to martial arts.
Question 7
What I learned from Bruce Lee that I still use is how to approach learning and how to approach teaching. Since no two people are alike not even so called identical twins I can't see how any two people can learn to move exactly the same way. What I can teach people is to learn to apply the same set of principles in way that fits their mind and their body. If they do this most of them will creating their own version of what I am trying to teach. They will in effect create their own mini-system.
Question 8
They things that I think are the most important in life are, not doing things to others that you won't want done to you, living your life the way you want to with the only restriction that you are not stepping on others in order to do it. Being as honest as you can be with your self and never believe your own press. By this I mean that you should know yourself well enough that you aren't impressed by what people say about you. You should know who you are and what you are about and you shouldn't need anyone to tell you these things.
Question 9
I don't think that I want to be remembered for anything. The friends that I leave behind when I die will probable remember the good times that we had but I don't really care if people remember me or not. People have their own lives to live and I would rather that they focus on what is important to them rather than think too much about someone who isn't here. I hope that when I die that I will have done most of the things that I want to do but I feel that there are many many things to do and a very very short time to do them in.
Das erste ist mit Jesse Glover. Leider sind meine Fragen irgendwie verschollen, aber die Antworten von ihm sind informativ und meistens ist daraus auch meine Frage ersichtlich.
Ich denke hier sind ja einige Fans von Glover und das ist ein ziemlich ausführliches Interview:
Interview with Jesse Glover
February 2000
Question 1
I have been in and around martial arts for quite a while. During this period I have seen enough good people from many different system to be able to say that each of the major system taught in the world today and some of the minor ones have at least a few practitioners who are world class. By world class I mean that they can kick, punch and grapple with great speed and power and are capable of hurting anyone. I am not sure what you mean when you ask what is the essence of martial arts. I read this as a philosophical question and those I tend to shy away from. Let me just say that people come to martial arts for many different reasons. To learn how to protect themselves, to see if they can master what they are studying, to develop a parallel to life in order to test ideas and to learn some measure of self control. I am sure that this list can be expanded to include hundreds if not thousands of other reasons that people come to martial arts. I am sure that most of these people feel that they are in pursuit of what they consider to be the essence of true martial arts.
Question 2
I am too old to be a fighter and I have never thought of myself as great in any respect. I think that I am a better than average teacher and I am happy with that. I think that anyone seeking training from another human being should take the time to learn the outline of whatever it is that is being taught before they start asking critical questions or start telling the teacher what it is that they want to learn. I am constantly amazed by the fact that many people want to tell their teacher how they think that they should be taught.
Question3
Naturally if someone comes to martial arts training and they are athletic they are probable going to progress much quicker than the average person. The thing that balances things out for the average person is that generally people who start out with a lot of natural ability soon get bored. They are often short on staying power. I think that people should develop whatever type of body they bring to the training. I also think that all technical skills in martial arts grow out of a physical base. If one doesn't have the necessary endurance to train long enough to ingrain the various movements in his neural system it is going to take a long long time before that person can develop any technical skills. In martial arts people generally look at the best fighters and movers in a style and imagine that in a few months they will be moving with the same skill that these people are displaying. The true is that such people are generally professionals who train at what ever it is that they practice much like a normal person works a job. Any one who is training two or three times a week isn't going to be able to move like these people unless they have a lot of natural athlete ability. Even then they are going to have increase the number of hours that they train.
Question 4
Bruce lee was good because of body he inherited, the gung fu teachers that he had and the number of repetitions that he did. Many people practice for years and still don't get very good because they really don't train very hard. They may have dabbled with something for several years but they haven't seriously trained. They really haven't done enough repetitions of their art to really make it theirs. By this I mean that while they can show things in slow motion they haven't practiced these things hard enough to actually be able to use them in a fight or even demonstrate them at full speed. They haven't made these things reflexive.
Question 5
Deciding that you have no choice but to fight and then giving it your all. I think that a person's first line of defense is his brain. He should use it to keep him out of bad situations. By this I mean stay away from places where fights are likely to happen.
Question 6
Fear does play an important role in fighting. Some of the best fighter that I have known were often driven to win by their fear. Fear made them much stronger and much more savage then they normally were. I remind my students that fear is a natural thing. To be unafraid of something that has the capacity to hurt or kill you is not a normal reaction. There are a few people who truly don't experience fear and even joyfully engage in dangerous activities but these people are not the norm. The only way that I know to offset fear is to train until ones moves are reflexive. Then it is possible to respond in a meaningful way even when one is afraid. If one's method of defenses require a lot of thinking in order to work, one has a very good chance of losing. When the brain is frozen by fear it can send vital messages to the body. The truth is that when the military trains soldiers for battle, they have little idea of how these soldiers will react during actual combat. The hope is that they will have been trained well enough that they do what they have been taught to do even when they are in the grip of fear. The same thing applies to martial arts.
Question 7
What I learned from Bruce Lee that I still use is how to approach learning and how to approach teaching. Since no two people are alike not even so called identical twins I can't see how any two people can learn to move exactly the same way. What I can teach people is to learn to apply the same set of principles in way that fits their mind and their body. If they do this most of them will creating their own version of what I am trying to teach. They will in effect create their own mini-system.
Question 8
They things that I think are the most important in life are, not doing things to others that you won't want done to you, living your life the way you want to with the only restriction that you are not stepping on others in order to do it. Being as honest as you can be with your self and never believe your own press. By this I mean that you should know yourself well enough that you aren't impressed by what people say about you. You should know who you are and what you are about and you shouldn't need anyone to tell you these things.
Question 9
I don't think that I want to be remembered for anything. The friends that I leave behind when I die will probable remember the good times that we had but I don't really care if people remember me or not. People have their own lives to live and I would rather that they focus on what is important to them rather than think too much about someone who isn't here. I hope that when I die that I will have done most of the things that I want to do but I feel that there are many many things to do and a very very short time to do them in.