Inside The Fighting Measure
Foreward
The JKD Filter
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High Performance Sparring
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The Natural Stance in Jeet Kune Do
A good friend of the Wednesday Night Group is Hock Hochheim. Hock has talked to us about what he calls “the myth of the duel”. What he means is that most people in martial arts train as if were still living in the age of dueling. The age of dueling was a time when two gentlemen would meet at a certain time and settle their differences with either a gun or sword. The closest thing to that we have today is the Boxing or MMA match, where two fighters would meet at a certain time with rules and a referee. When I was in high school in the 1950’s it was still common for two guys to meet at a park after school and have a fight. They would square off like two boxers and the fight was on. When one gave up the fight was over, and they shook hands and usually became friends. Sadly those days are long gone.