This is the attitude I meet in Romania, Norway, Sweden and everywhere people like Michail contact me for "help". They are harrassed på The Concepts approach constantly being told how wrong and narrowminded the Jun fun approach. "Please you both stop telling that Bruce was unable to speak clearly about JKD", Concepts people seem ro do anything to avoid an open discussion with Jun Fan. I have in Scandinavia invited Concepts instructors to have seminars together. Who do you think don´t want to cooperate, more importantly, why don´t theyvwant to cooperate.
Shouldn´t eveyone intrested in Bruce Lee be glad that another point of view is being given. Concepts people constantly stress how open minded they are, how they constantly search for new styles and information. I don´t see this attitude when it comes to jun fan/Ted Wong JK**. Do you? How open to jun Fan are people on this Forum?
As for myself, I gave Concepts 4 years, how many of all the experts about Jun fan in the Concepts camp has been to a Ted wong seminar, Jerry Poteet seminar or any instructor who teaches the Jun fan approach. How many years have they given to Jun fan approach?
No, someone needs to be more openminded. What we in Jun Fan are doing is simply wanting a 50/50 look on JKD. We are not in this discussion to give a "new2 ultimate truth in JKD, just share our pointof view. For 0ver 30 years the view on JKD has been onesided, and it shows on forums, in books, videtapes. The
kali-Silat-Muay Thai- Whatever you want-JKD Blend has become the ultimate truth in JKD.
Now when pople like Ted Wong, after the request of Bruce lee´s widow Lind Lee, has started to share the ither "side of the coin" I feel that someone is not being open minded., someone is being afraid to loose their 100% dominans, someone does not want an discussion that goes against 30 years of JKD tradition.
I want to stress. Ted, and I as his 1 of 3 European instructors, do not want to change anyone to anything, we are not saying that jun Fan/Ted Wong is better than Concepts. We are simply asking people to be openminded and consider that there are alternative ways of training in Bruce Lee´s JKD. I want the next generation of JKD/Bruce Lee enthusiast to see that there are 2 ways to go in JKD, not 1 that it has been for 30 years.
Buczah, you said you are clear what JKD is to you. For the sake of the discussion and your credability it would probably be good to give "your side of the coin" so that everybody intrested in JKD in Poland get a clear picture what we are talking about.
As I told you I follow the 6000 pages Bruce lee wrote down. To give people the chance to see the similarities and differences in what we are discussing, lets discuss this, not simply say that he wrote 6000 pages, not simply quote him. Lets explain how we practically and technically adapt these quotes to our JKD we represent.
Do you want me to pick a quote and you give me your point of view, as you said you are quite clear what he ment", or do you want to choose your favourite quote that describes JKD, explain it from your point of view,how you apply the quote in your training and I will tell my, how we apply it in Jun Fan/Ted Wong JKD.
Please let not "hide" behind quotes like "JKD is just a name..." that we don´t want any Fuss about JKD. We all have likes and dislikes, we all have oppinions. Let´s just give are oppinions, experience, whatever you want to call it, and just share the knowledge with each other. Let´s not ask each other to stop telling, stop talking about each others oppinions. Show me that you want to discuss with me, travel the JKD road with me Show the ttrue spirit of JKD!
So how about it. Do you have a good quote to discuss openly and withot "Fuss"
SteFan