Bruce Lee's Unknown Teacher

JKD concepts is a scam. Dan Inosanto created it to elongate the process. To keep gullible students coming in and paying him money.

"I prefer fighting like a bear-cat."

- Someone probably.

Driscoll was a boxer who influenced Bruce in his writing extensively and he was indeed using simplicity in boxing to evolve JKD beyond a Wing Chun base…The question then becomes in JKD did Bruce ultimately come to see Wing Chun as a FUNDAMENT and boxing as a SUPPLEMENT ? Or did Bruce see things like Boxing and fencing as challenging the idea that Wing Chun was the base of JKD because these other tools gave his art more PRACTICAL EFFICIENCY because they were more simple and direct . And also they were more in line with the progressive weapons chart and its realism in applying weapon to target. Ted Wong argued that even if JKD started with Wing Chun as its base fundament we do not end up with this. We evolve beyond it by discarding it like an apple core.

Another boxing book that influenced Bruce’s thinking was Haislet’s book where Bruce would copy word for word Haislet’s passages while substituting his own single terms into the paragraphs….And also of course Jack Dempsey’s important book.

Whatever..... There would not be JKD without Bruce Lee. We would not be here now talking about this without Bruce Lee. It's all about Bruce Lee.

Very good points indeed!!! :)

Not buying it!

I thought you going talk his other wing chun teachers

Bruce Lee learned boxing from James Demile in the early 60’s.

How about that Ryan Garcia Haney fight?

Bruce slapped the shit out of him.

Wing Chun is terrible im glad he attempted to grow past its limits. There is a few things that work but its been tried im the UFC by Anderson Silva & he just got smacked in the face & didnt do any damage back. 😅

It’s nice to see someone talking sense I’ve watched the video with Jim Driscoll and you can see Bruce Lee doing that punch

Mr. Lee Jun Fan(Bruce Lee) was smart enough to take the great moves from the great fighters and put them all together to create a great system. 😏👍

Good video. Hope all is well man.

Lol

Interesting information I'd belive it

I SEE IT! great video 💪

This all sounds interesting, the sounds seems to have too much echo, editing it slightly might get a better quality explanation.

The real unknown teacher of Bruce Lee was his father's best friend living in Seattle Fook Yeung also friend of Yip Man. He did not want to be known as he didn't want to offend Yip. Bruce roomed with him on arrival to US. Fook was a red boat opera enforcer and played monkey king

Jack Dempsey also

You can definitely see jkd in the movements strikes and timing

I concur !

You can see boxing was totally different then, no ref, no 8 count when you get knocked down. This is a good comparison video. Ive just finished reading your book JKD in fighting where you talk about this in more detail

Lee was trained in boxing, between 1956 and 1958, by Brother Edward, coach of the St. Francis Xavier's College boxing team. Lee went on to win the Hong Kong Schools boxing tournament in 1958 while scoring knockdowns against the previous champion Gary Elms in the final. Bruce was a boxing enthusiast and a fan. of course he was going to study great boxers with great technique.

Thank you for keeping JKD alive and passing a proper appreciation of it on to the next generation.

I thought I may be wrong but didnt Lee study boxing and compete a little in Hong Kong in boxing. You sure see some boxing in his fights.

Bruce Lee learned from many great martial artists before him. He studied them all in his research. That's why he is so great.

Thank you for this fine presentation!!!