I don´t know so much of what has been going on between you all before I started knowing Michail. Therefore I will not comment on what you are discussing.
Michail is mentioning a lot of discussions that were made before I got involved. If you are not saying anything concret I will assume that he is right. If you don´t answer, I assume therefore that all the ignorant statements about tim tacket being a Brucelee student, ted Wong receiving a honourable JKD certificate from Inosanto and all the other self made facts about JKD that has been spread in Poland is true.
All I am looking for is a discusssion without "fuss". My experience from discussions i sweden, Norway, and now poland is that too many in the JKD world don´t want to discuss different approaches to JKD. They always hide behind statements like "discussing oppinions is just making a fuss about JKD, and Bruce Lee said jkd is just....."
To me the "discussions"/answers I get when looking for a open discussion about JKD is starting to look more and more like the "Spanish Inkvisision". The Chatolic Church was so afraid too loose their Power that they started punishing anyone who dared to question their beliefs. This is what I see in JKD, someone is so afraid about to loose their power in JKD that they are blindly attacking any belief in JKD that challenges their beliefs.
Again, I am talking from personal experience. I am starting to see a definite structure in the JKd Concepts mentality. They don´t want to have their point of view challenged. Challenged might be the wrong word to choose, a Closeminded, not willing to change attitude would describe what i meet better.
dan Inosanto is this and that, Just listen to Rick Tuchi in he interview. Even Concepts instructors was offended by his desperate attitude, constantly saying, "you are the only one..." your are the one with most...."
Just because I prefer the Jun fan approach and see Ted Wong as the most knowledgable teacher in Bruce Lee´s art, and don´t praise the Concepts apptoach and Inosanto all the time, doesnt meen I don´t want to discuss what Concepts and inosanto are representing. I do go around saiyng That Inosanto has another interpretation that I have about JKd, That Concepts is this or that. I simply want to emphasize that we have our own personal favouorites in JKD, and we should be proud of that.
When it comes to critizicing, or have oppinions on something I always say that I have earned the right to critizice, have an oppinion. I gave Karate 7 years, recieived a Black belt,quit Karate because I felt it was bullshit when it came to what I was looking for in a method. This gives me the right to have an oppinion, to be critical about Karate, doesn´t it
The same with JKD. I gave 4 years to attending seminars, Training
kali, Silat. Then I decided that this was Bullshit to what my oppinion what JKD is all about. This gives me the right to have an oppinion about JKD Concepts
How about all of you that Critize Jun fan/ted Wong JKD? How many hours of training, seminars etc do you have with this approach. Have you earned the right to critizice it as i base my critique on Concepts. I can just take Scandinavia as an example. ted Wong has been for 12 years to sweden, I have never seen anyone of all the people in scaandinaivia who ceitizice what I do on a seminar. When I give seminars, not one of them has been a one of my seminars.But they all know exactly how misguided and wrong I am
Miachail is saying that he has trained with you JKd Concepts Guys. Is he lying? Is he completely without knowledge what you are teahing in the Concepts approach in Poland ? How about you who are critizicing his choice to prefer Jun fan/ted Wong approach. have you trained with him, have you Trained with ted wong?. Have you earned the right to criticize him?
I would be more that happy to come to Poland and give you this oppurtunity to criticize what we are doing. Just get together and choose a date and place for a seminar and I wil be there.
/SteFan