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sammy3170
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I have asked this many times and am yet to receive a satisfactory answer. How is JKD graded? What techniques, drills etc are required for each level? How is this kept uniform within different organisations?
Every time I ask this question I get the old Take what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is essentially your own.. I'm sorry but regardless of size, age or whatever a style must have core techniques and priciples or it is nothing more than a name.
If that saying is true then lets say there is three generations of students connected to Bruce Lee. For arguments sake lets say Bruce Lee to Dan Inosanto to Paul Vunak to who ever. And lets say that Dan took what Bruce taught and applied that principle then Paul took what Dan had learnt and added and did the same then Paul's student took the stuff Paul had learnt from Dan and added or removed some stuff then to me a few more generations of students will be teaching something that in no way resembles JKD as Bruce Lee, the founder of the art taught it. It does become just a name.
I'm just trying to get my head around it and not one person has been able to explain it to me.
Just some thoughts
Cheers
Sammy
Every time I ask this question I get the old Take what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is essentially your own.. I'm sorry but regardless of size, age or whatever a style must have core techniques and priciples or it is nothing more than a name.
If that saying is true then lets say there is three generations of students connected to Bruce Lee. For arguments sake lets say Bruce Lee to Dan Inosanto to Paul Vunak to who ever. And lets say that Dan took what Bruce taught and applied that principle then Paul took what Dan had learnt and added and did the same then Paul's student took the stuff Paul had learnt from Dan and added or removed some stuff then to me a few more generations of students will be teaching something that in no way resembles JKD as Bruce Lee, the founder of the art taught it. It does become just a name.
I'm just trying to get my head around it and not one person has been able to explain it to me.
Just some thoughts
Cheers
Sammy