Stef-x, "Stefan you made me laugh :D"
You just saved my oppinion on the polish people. I thought that Michail was the only polish man with a sense of Humour. My oppinion so far has been that you guys take anything so seriously, that there is no "laid back" and humouristic side in your personality.
Michail knows that i am a person that takes life as it comes, I like to joke. Unfortunately many take this as not being a serious person, or they take everything I say literally. every joke becaomes personal.
I understand you point of view about wanting to test your skill, and not go out on the Street to test it. It seams that your point of View on JKD Sparring is also someawhat onesided.I don´t know how the other JKD people in Poland spar, But Michail defenitely knows what I mean by JKD sparring. I will put i some links, and then maybe Michail can put a direct link on the Forum.
Back to the Sparring.There are two ways to go
1. adapt you JKD and go into sportsrelated competition
2. get some good protective equipment and just go for it
What it is all about to me is that training these groinkicks, fingerjabs, testing it by allout friendly sparring, leads to one knowing ones capabilities. If I know that I can kick someone in the groin, beacuase I have done it in friendly sparrin. If I know that I can use dirty fighting in Grappling..... I don´t have any need to proove it to anyone outside the Dojo.
I believe that it is people that have done pointfighting, semicontact for many years that will fight. They willfight because they don´t really know if they can defend themselves. So when an oppurtunity arrises on the street, they see it as an oppurtunity to test themselves. But when a good JKD prcatitoner, after having sparred all out with anybody and anything, with good safetyequipment is faced with the same situation, he will easily walk away beacause he knows the damage he can do, and has done som under friendly all out sparring.
What it then comes to, both for a point Fighter and JKD Fighter is Morals and ethics behind martial arts, Character. I always say before all out Spåparring
-You begin as friends and you end as friend. If you can´t take the beating "like a man, you should be on the sparring Floor.
I aleays stress the Morals behind Martial arts. You know all tis
- The only worthy opponent to beat is yourself, your hang ups....
- Any fool can fight, it takes a very strong person not to
- For those who fight for the wrong reason , there is always someone better
- Empty Heads have Long Tongues
- Bosting is just a fools idea of Glory
I could go on and on. This is whatI love in JKD, Yin/Yang, bot sides of the coin. At one side we have groinkicking, fingerjabs, very"evil" techniques. On the otherside we have "The art ofFighting without Fighting" I could go on forever about this.
You have to have Selfknowledge and selfcontroll. JKD is all about knowing yourself and your emotion. In a fight you have to be able to stay calm, fight with your mind, Like jason Scoltt Lee said in "Dragon ; The Bruce Lee story"
- Don´t touch me, or I will touch you back.
When everything else fails, avoiding trouble, walking way from trouble, trying to talk yourself out of trouble, trying calmy controll his attack. When you have come to the point of "touching him back". This is what My Jun fan/Ted Wong JKD is alla about.
To quote Bruce Lee
"Let the opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh. let the opponent smash into you flesh and you brake his bone. Let the opponent break your bone and yoy take his life. Lay yourlifebefore him"
it is all about your own morals and ethics and the Law. Here in sweden we have "Nödvärn", a law that says you have the right to defend yourself to a current threat with reasonable Force. Sure, itis hard to proove if you are a Black belt, they will always say that YOU were the one tht should have been able to walk away.
nevertheless, it is beter to be tried by 12 than to be caried by six, being nice to your oponent is being bad to yourself. Do awht it takes to go home safely, fight out of love, not hate. Use reasonable Force, don´t groin kick, fingerjab and kill a guy for spilling bear on your shoes
Stef-x, there is so much to JKD. I hope that you, like Bruce lee said, "have found the cause to your ignborance" and start to see JKD from different angles that you have seen before.
/SteFan