Does Wing Tsun work against boxing?
*shrugs*
Well, the activity is boxing and
Wing Tsun is a style of boxing so...
*shrugs again*
Things have beginnings and
Things have ends,
To see what precedes and
What follows aids your perception.
We should start with the strings
Between Bruce Lee and Randy Couture
(wake up and praise the sun)
(wake up and work the earth)
Jeet-Kun-Do is Flow:
t.y. Mr. Mihaly C.
but we already know
about evolving self
from long ago.
But actually first lets say this:
Alexander the great
brought Pankration,
As well as philosophy
(being a student of Aristotle)
through civilization
into the Orient
and up to India
Where it fused with traditional Yoga,
confused yet?
good. we're not done
not even close
to finished.
The key point is the spiritual
and the physical practice
Are not separate;
(being a student of Aristotle)
Art, religion, science
were all one to them,
the original enlightenment.
Things have beginnings and
Things have ends.
Yoga is the science of all religion
the rational of all worship,
All prayers, forms,
ceremonies and miracles.
So, Pankration and Yoga,
hidden knowledge in India,
a rigorous regimen to use.
See now:
The Bhodi Dharma
the 27th in direct lineage
from Siddhartha
it is said
He meditated in a cave
near the Shaolin temple
For nine years,
the monks learned
His yogic method
of perfect physical condition
(as it was said of the Buddha)
In union with perfect spiritual wisdom.
It was a more direct form of Buddhism,
(later called Cha'an or
Zen)
That combination
laid the foundation
for Shaolin Kung-fu to be developed.
Chinese Kung-fu
"Hard work"
Gong-fu; skill; art
Kung-fu; labor; effort
Real martial arts.
It dissipated and dispersed
Pockets of discipline,
Elements of style
That speak the same language,
Tai Chi; Baguazhang;
Wing Tsun; et al.
Chinese Kung-fu:
The internal and external styles,
they have the same origin
The eye sees it,
But no hands can take hold of it--
The moon in the stream.
Surviving over the ages.
we go now
to Hong Kong
and Yip Man
and Bruce Lee
Style:
Wing Tsun.
Bruce Lee
was first a Martial Artist
then an actor.
at the age of 13
he started lessons in
the Wing Tsun style
of Gung-fu
for the purpose of self defense.
Bruce Lee
won the Inter School
Hong Kong
amateur boxing tournament
with Wing Tsun.
The question
we should be asking
is can a boxer beat proper Wing Tsun?
Things have beginnings...
Bruce Lee supposedly beat up
a gangster's son
and moved to America
...and things have ends.
(based on his parents persistence)
Things happened
and Jeet-Kun-Do
arrives to the scene.
Bruce Lee
inspired the public
already curious in Eastern religion
and the monks
from the Kung-fu movies.
It's a shame that he died
because imagine if Bruce Lee
met Royce Gracie and
Gracie Jiu Jitsu fused with Jeet-Kun-Do
we would probably have seen real Kung-fu
in the UFC,
(not to undermine Gracie Jiu Jitsu)
instead,
traditional martial arts get ridiculed in the public eye,
as well as in the professional.
Matt Thornton
said he's never seen
a lop sau work in sparing.
*shrugs*
'I have footage of me using it
successfully while sparing,'
he says.
The story goes on,
I sit
listening.
Dan Innosanto
was one of three people
to receive direct permission
from Bruce Lee
to continue teaching Jeet-Kun-Do.
Matt Thornton trained under
Innosanto
and brought JKD back
(JKD=Jeet-Kun-Do)
for his MMA program
at Straight Blast Gym in Portland, OR.
Randy Coutre was the OSU
(Oregon State University)
Wrestling coach in 1997
when he made his debut
in UFC 13
(on three weeks notice
we might add).
Coutre visited Thornton
at SBGi in Portland
and talked shit about
'sticking hands,'
part of the JKD training
And Thornton took it out,
you see in the ads for Thornton's training vids
'functional JKD'
(as if regular JKD doesn't work)
because in the professional MMA community
Kung-fu is fairy tale.
it's not real
it doesn't exist.
Shaolin monks are myth,
internal styles aren't actually legit.
(tell that to Wang Shu Jin)
So there you have it,
the string tied between
Bruce Lee and Randy Coutre
through Dan Innosanto and Matt Thornton,
now this is history.
(it's the best history I've heard from off the top of someone's head)
Conor McGregor
trained at SBGi
since 15.
Mr. 'They should have a new belt
called the McGregor belt,
the anytime anywhere belt'
get's dethroned
by a home-grown
California boy.
Nate Diaz.
Yes welterweight, but still,
Conor was talking a lot,
and I think he's close,
but no cigar.
That's not real Kung-fu,
because Randy Coutre couldn't see what it was worth,
and also Innosanto did his own thing from after Lee's death,
and for McGregor, Bruce Lee was practicing a tradition
not praising law of attraction, that's it.
Nothingness cannot be defined;
the softest thing cannot be snapped.
If nothing within you stays rigid,
outward things will disclose themselves.
Moving, be like water.
Still, be like a mirror.
Respond like an echo.
The art of Jeet-Kun-Do
is simply
to simplify.
Bruce Lee
saw the strings
between spirituality and
physical training. Hand
in hand understanding,
From being into non-being.
Into a soul absolutely free from
thoughts and emotions,
Even the tiger finds no room to insert
its fierce claws.
One and the same breeze passes
Over the pines on the mountain and the oak
tress in the valley;
And why do they give different notes?
No thinking, no reflecting,-
Perfect emptiness:
Yet therein something moves,
Following its own course.
The eye sees it,
But no hands can take hold of it –
The moon in the stream.
Clouds and mists,
they are midair transformations;
Above them eternally shine the sun and the moon.
Victory is for the one,
Even before the combat,
Who has no thought of himself,
Abiding in the no-mind-ness of Great Origins.
-A Taoist Priest
