When I was 13, I happened to discover a school near me and did Jeet Kune Do there. There were no traditional outfits or graduations, no tournaments and the exams (which I never took part in because they weren’t compulsory and I always forgot about them ????) were certainly only private exams because you didn’t have to pay any fees.
In any case, I did JKD for 2 years and stopped because it became boring due to the lack of challenge.
But I would get back into JKD at any time because traditional martial arts like karate, taekwondo, BJJ, hapkido etc. are, as Bruce Lee said, limited.
In JKD, for example, I was able to learn (useful) techniques from karate, taekwondo, judo, BJJ, Wing Chun, Muay Thai, boxing. And above all, there are not as many forms of movement as kata in karate.
Let’s take TKD because if I had to choose a martial art, I would probably do TKD. I would have to learn these forms for the exams and in my eyes they are like any dances. I would have to learn these forms in order to pass the exams and in the end these forms do me no good. Neither for self-defense nor for these competitions.
I mean… I even doubt that a black belt will do anything because you learn the techniques, the movements, the forms. You show that in the exams, but even as a black belt you are not prepared for a real fight. And these competitions are not training for a real fight.
So do you think practicing a traditional martial art (like karate or taekwondo) would make sense if your goal is to defend yourself?
I once saw a video, a TKD 4. And fought a Muay Thai guy and he kept falling down and couldn’t complete the spin kicks properly. I think to myself: So much time and money invested in a martial art and then something like this…
2023-12-25 09:32:11
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