Hi Board,

als plug für das kommende Seminar mit Cass Magda in Mannheim (22./23.04.06)

http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/for...ght=Cass+Magda

hier ein kleiner Artikel für alle.

Grüsse,

Bob Dubljanin
www.soai.de



Cultivating Partiality versus Totality in JKD
(c) 2001 Cass Magda

A fascinating aspect of JKD to train in is trapping hands. It is fast and exciting to practice with its complex counterattack and intricate hand maneuvers. It can be broken down into simple and compound movement series so a wide range of practitioners can learn it without having to make punching contact and risk getting hurt. It also affords an excellent format off of which to flow into other areas such as takedowns and grappling, the source of which could be any type of martial art.

Technique sequences, no matter how cool they look cannot take the place of actual live sparring. Bruce Lee considered sparring to be the lifeblood of JKD. To learn and memorize techniques in a flow, chaining them together is only one level of understanding. They are at best, idealized representations of possibilities but no more than that. To get to the next level, those techniques must be attempted in an alive situation.

In reality, multiple trapping beyond the first trap is very difficult to pull off in alive sparring situations. Your opponent seldom gives you the situation or structure needed to trap hands. Most opponents will not be covering and defending their centerline to give you a structure to trap. Usually they will counter punch using strange and awkward angles or try to stop you by grappling, sweeping or taking you to the ground. Once in awhile you may be able to trap an arm while you hit, but most of the time you will be blasting or wrestling.

The emphasis or specialization on one aspect of JKD (or anything) can lead to a prejudicial view of combat. We believe our view will solve all problems. The flow of combat teaches us that when a practitioner tries to force his particular view of combat on the fight he is often disturbed by the fact that the situation he wants never comes up. This partial view must be transcended into a view that embraces the totality of the unpredictable moment to moment of combat. The martial artist who has practiced only locking combinations is in trouble when his opponent is punishing his legs with kicks. The stickfighter who has practiced 18 different ways to disarm a #1 strike will be frustrated when his opponent does not allow him to grab his hand or stick and keeps pummeling him over and over on the head. The kicking specialist believes he can solve all his problems with kicking until his opponent gets too close and punches his lights out! The punching specialist believes he can solve all problems with punching until he gets taken down with his arm broken. The idea here is to develop a view towards a flexible adaptable system of fighting and that can only be accomplished by sparring. Sparring is messy, awkward and never what you want it to be. If you never spar, your art will never come alive. You will never get beyond a certain point in your development


Martial art seminars are notorious for reinforcing partiality. In seminars, the participants are at such a wide disparity of levels that the instructor chooses an aspect of his art that will appeal to all levels of martial arts experience, not just beginners. Some aspects of an art will be emphasized because they are easier to relate to an audience and may be flashier and more exciting to learn than other aspects of the art. I like to call this the Harlem Globetrotter material. Not really the way you would necessarily use it, but entertaining and great fun to practice, and in some ways very advanced. These aspects in time become emphasized and specialization occurs.


Those of us following the JKD ideal must guard against partialized views and theories about fighting. We must guard against these prejudices that will strangle our ability to intuitively flow. We must guard against too much specialization in our training and remember that fighting is never partial and never what we think it will be.