Tacheles reden !
Mal wieder was Kontroverses...und erfrischend:
Louis Berard, Instructor der JKD Wednesday Night Group unter Tim Tackett und Bob Bremer:
"You know, I must be some what of an addict too, because I decided not to post on these sites anymore. However, every couple of weeks or so I take a look at the wednite site and this one just to see what's up. I agree with the author of this post, but you're (we) are just wasting our breath. Most of the China town guys aren't teaching anything resembling JKD even if they originally were doing it well, and there were'nt a lot of em doing it well anyway! This includes first gen self proclaimed gurus I see on this site and others. People don't really want the truth,. It's the same throughout the martial art world at large. Ego, face, recognition, and money is far more important than what reality is. And people lie, lie, lie. 'I have this certificate, belt,come from this style, school, trained with him this long', etc.. blah, blah, blah.All lies. You know I don't know know of any other group besides Dennis Blue, Jeremy Lynch, and myself that have had the amount of years under two china town students, one who was arguably the best fighter, another one that was a street fighter (and was there longer then some of the prominent self promoters,) and probably the most reknown 2nd gen student in Tim Tackett! I'm talking sixteen years of regular traing, sparring, and at times ring and street fighting, and Dennis thirty years! Despite this people give me a rash of shit if I say something that might topple one of their idols or misconseptions on JKD! We've had so many people come up to the wednite group, and I or others totally out class them, then the next thing you know they are bad-mouthing us, and all the 'trekkies' are saying what a great martial artist they are, when at the best they are mediocre!(by the way, Bill Holland, I'm not talking about you.) I've realized finally, after years of waiting for Tim, Bob,Jim, Chris Kent, Cas Magda, and Linda Lee to say something about what they all talked about out of the public eye, is that the first generation and prominent 2nd gen people don't have the balls to say anything. Truthfully, I feel like I got kicked in the groin, after waitng around all these years for people to step up and tell the truth! It's even worse for Dennis Blue, who started with Tim in the late 70's. Dell Pollard (Back yard stud) made a good point to me a couple of weeks ago. He talked about some of the prominent '2nd gen' self promoters out there that never trained with somebody, but went to seminars and then eventually go their certificate. He doesn't consider them JKD men. I may agree with him, it certainly puts up a red flag. I know this, I've seen some instructors under some of these guys, also first gen guys, and they are some of the worst martial artists I've seen in my life! I got into arguments all the time with people on the wednite group website, then I see them at a seminar and they are just pathetic! And no one from the wed nite group backs me up. I use to go to people's schools that badmouthed Tim or JKD to challenge them. One of the guys I challenged chickened out, then he showed up at Dennis's school a few weeks later with a six foot four guy to spar me and I took him on. In retrospect I was defending people and an art that didn't in the remotest way deserve defending! If people think there is loyalty, honesty and courage with most of the JKD old timers, your dreaming! I wonder if someone started teaching some lame art and called it Thai boxing how long it would be until someone straightened him out?! The JKD communnity is filled with ball-less practitioners that (as a whole) don't give a crap about the integrity of the art. JKD is done. The end started because of Dan creating the concept thing, and then no one confronting the confusion. Then when the nucleus started, you had china town guys teaching crap, or thai chi, or wing chun, Kali,etc! Then some of these turkeys start lying. then look at their students, sad, sad, sad! The truth hurts, but this site and others is still just the slap everyone on the back, and tell em how great they are web site. JKD is dead!
Louis Berard"
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