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Bruce contradicts himself a lot - elsewhere he says “a punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.” He also advises you to learn the form, and then forget the form.
Learning the form then forgetting the form is pretty normal in any discipline. First you learn how to do it, like how to punch, kick and block. Then you learn sequences and combinations. You learn these to perfection. When your body knows the moves you can start improvising and you need to forget the sequences and combinations in order to adapt.
Same goes for all art, applied science, most jobs, even social structures, economic models etc. First you learn the basics, then you learn the complex rules, when you master then you can break the rules and improve upon it.
I sort of get what he was going for, but it’s also very Confucian and kind of nonsense. I think in some of the films you see him doing little bits of Jeet Kun Do form during downtime. Muscle memory is still memory, Bruce!
How could there be 10,000 different kicks
Cue montage of Bubba from Forest Gump listing all 10,000 types of kicks.
Roundhouse kick, side kick, chop kick, kick stew...
Donkey kick, trapdoor kick, rising kick, jumping rising kick, jumping rising tornado kick...
look into tae kwon do. they got two punches and so many godsdamned kicks.
Studied it for years. There's like 50
fun! i had an NTA senior 1st black accreditation back in my early 20s. that was long enough ago i only remember the 1st white form and bits and pieces of a few of the other lower belts. who was yours through?
10 angles @ 10 speeds @ 10 heights @ 10 follow-ups
10,000 kicks
That's the fun part. They aren't all necessarilly effective.
any boot to the head is effective