A.M.
17-04-2007, 15:15
"Mmmmmmmmmmm.... just trying to remember when Bruce ever taught Wing Chun. Huh, I remember... he didn't. He kept that for himself, entirely. He did teach a few parts of Wing Chun --- sil lum tao, straight punching, chi sao -- a few small pieces of Chum Kil and Bil Gee, very small pieces. He taught CenterLine Theory, but not the stance and movement to support it at a high level. The rest was a mix, plus his own ideas. He gave a name to his methodology -- Jun Fan Gung Fu. And it was no where near Wing Chun. But..... Bruce, himself, had built his nervous system and inner structure from Wing Chun, but also other arts to include Tai Chi and the several other systems he studied briefly. His Jun Fan was an amalgamation.
In 1965, he started making strong adaptions based on what he saw in a young boxer, Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali). In 1965, he announced at dinner one evening (Tai Tung Restaurant) to Taky, myself, and a few others that he had a new name, Jeet Kune Do. Already, the stance had changed somewhat, with slight modifications to come. In the next year, the full change occured. And what was the change? Let's see.. the hand positions and elbow changed, but with the same body structure to allow strong structure and the ability to hold Centerline and still use lin sil dar without over rotating. The rear heel raised to permit better mobility, but with the mobility came loss of strong structure. But no problem, all Bruce had to do was drop the heel and he was back into the Jun Fan stance. For that matter, the changed position of the JKD hands put great risk to structure, but then that could be corrected on the fly by just moving the rear hand two inches while very slighly flaring the upper back for power. The beauty in the new JKD stance was that it offered some strong advantages and, at the same time, could compensate for its weakness -- in a flash -- by adjusting into Jun Fan mechanical advantages and structure. It was really beautiful.
Now what Bruce so different from everyone else was that he had built an inner structure based on strong Mechanical Advantages born of the Wing Chun platform, which was diametrically opponsed to most every other martial art. For instance, Bruce was able to exert tremendous force off very short movement. At his 130-ish pounds, he could out strength and outforce men much larger than himself and with little effort. He was able to do this by using the Soft Power from Taoism coupled with the sensitivity and structure learned from his Wing Chun.
HIs body was unitized in a way to maintain full body power when moving -- something virtually lost in today's JKD. As a strong follower of Taoist tenets, he was able to combine their philosophy of "the not doing," or "letting it happen," and "the soft and invisible power," through the contact sensitivity of chi sao. He called these combined tenets, Non-intention. Again, something virtually lost in today's JKD, with the exception of what Tim Tackett and Bob Bremer are teaching, as the Hammer Principle, which is an application of the Non-intention.
So then, what is the importance of Wing Chun --- , other than to give someone the opportunity develop some of the attributes possessed by Bruce, so that they too, can deliver the amazing and incredible power, speed, senstivity and continuity in movement that he enjoyed. At least, not in the same way."
"I forgot to mention, Bruce moved the Center of Gravity forward from the original stance. For pressing and holding power when dropping the heel, naturally the center of gravity shifted to the back foot. One of the really brilliant things about the new stance was in the way that it afforded the ability of a fighter to close fast even from an absurdly long distance before an opponent could react. This amazing close depended on the forward center of gravity aided by a piece of footwork that rates as a Mechanical Advantage" - Pat Strong
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In 1965, he started making strong adaptions based on what he saw in a young boxer, Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali). In 1965, he announced at dinner one evening (Tai Tung Restaurant) to Taky, myself, and a few others that he had a new name, Jeet Kune Do. Already, the stance had changed somewhat, with slight modifications to come. In the next year, the full change occured. And what was the change? Let's see.. the hand positions and elbow changed, but with the same body structure to allow strong structure and the ability to hold Centerline and still use lin sil dar without over rotating. The rear heel raised to permit better mobility, but with the mobility came loss of strong structure. But no problem, all Bruce had to do was drop the heel and he was back into the Jun Fan stance. For that matter, the changed position of the JKD hands put great risk to structure, but then that could be corrected on the fly by just moving the rear hand two inches while very slighly flaring the upper back for power. The beauty in the new JKD stance was that it offered some strong advantages and, at the same time, could compensate for its weakness -- in a flash -- by adjusting into Jun Fan mechanical advantages and structure. It was really beautiful.
Now what Bruce so different from everyone else was that he had built an inner structure based on strong Mechanical Advantages born of the Wing Chun platform, which was diametrically opponsed to most every other martial art. For instance, Bruce was able to exert tremendous force off very short movement. At his 130-ish pounds, he could out strength and outforce men much larger than himself and with little effort. He was able to do this by using the Soft Power from Taoism coupled with the sensitivity and structure learned from his Wing Chun.
HIs body was unitized in a way to maintain full body power when moving -- something virtually lost in today's JKD. As a strong follower of Taoist tenets, he was able to combine their philosophy of "the not doing," or "letting it happen," and "the soft and invisible power," through the contact sensitivity of chi sao. He called these combined tenets, Non-intention. Again, something virtually lost in today's JKD, with the exception of what Tim Tackett and Bob Bremer are teaching, as the Hammer Principle, which is an application of the Non-intention.
So then, what is the importance of Wing Chun --- , other than to give someone the opportunity develop some of the attributes possessed by Bruce, so that they too, can deliver the amazing and incredible power, speed, senstivity and continuity in movement that he enjoyed. At least, not in the same way."
"I forgot to mention, Bruce moved the Center of Gravity forward from the original stance. For pressing and holding power when dropping the heel, naturally the center of gravity shifted to the back foot. One of the really brilliant things about the new stance was in the way that it afforded the ability of a fighter to close fast even from an absurdly long distance before an opponent could react. This amazing close depended on the forward center of gravity aided by a piece of footwork that rates as a Mechanical Advantage" - Pat Strong
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