Pretty hard to argue with Lee's conceptual views of street violence and the 'functionality' of TMA's toolbox in that context. Not that TMA's skills...conditioning...and individual techniques are not useful on the street, as he points out...
Listening to him, makes one wonder what one is really learning while attending many of our monthly workouts...regional workouts et.
What do we see there? It seems to be always the same ...along our traditional dojo workouts...
Nobody there really teaching the aspects of confrontations that Lee vocalizes... and how could they...could we...if we don't study them.
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Anyone who has been in a real blood-and-snot, violent confrontation will know what I am talking about. Thirty seconds on the street is worth three years in the dojo any day of the week. Multiply that by a lot and you, too, would have approached similar conclusions to my own and those of better men before me. Those conclusions are the result of a combination of active learning from my own experience, and from those who I have trained with and aspire to, as well as thousands of hours spent travelling, training, reading and studying - sorting the wheat from the chaff. And believe me when I say there is a serious amount of chaff within the martial arts world that is being passed off as effective and workable self-defence