Transcending the Limits of Modern Martial Arts | It’s Time to Think Outside the Box
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2023
- In this video I talk about the mental limitations prevalent in the opinion of many modern martial arts practitioners, and how transcending these can have exponential benefits on our skill level.
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I am trying to remember a quote, might be from Mark Manson. It was something to the effect of "The new knowledge you seek is in a completely unrelated field." It was about learning "wide," not just deep in one area. The smartest/highest level people are able to build connections from other areas of knowledge and bring it in to their field. I've drawn from various sports, weight lifting, martial arts, physical therapy, yoga, and that's just for martial arts and physical training. In my work and life I read wide, what might be a common concept in one field might be completely foreign to another area. Working in journalism was awesome for getting to explore and draw connections.
I love this and it's absolutely true! Many of the greatest discoveries in certain fields came from people unrelated to them!
So true, even from areas of study as apparently unrelated as healthcare and cooking (the details of how, I leave as an exercise for the unremittingly curious). The study of the breath and its effects on vitality, perception, timing, sensitivity, mobility, and fast-twitch response is another salient example.
I think in the same way Bruce Lee broke fighting out of its separate silos of judo, karate, boxing, etc., modern movement culture is breaking human movement out of its separate silos of dancing, fighting, gymnastics, tricking, playing, working, etc... and it's a beautiful revolution to see.
I love Bruce Lee as much as anyone but he didn’t invent hybrid martial arts, he was just the most famous
@@WarriorEsoteric He certain ushered in the modern era of hybridized martial arts.
@@jamesmunroe6558I can agree with that, he was absolutely the most influential martial artist in history, that’s undisputed
@@WarriorEsotericControversial fact Bruce was actually against mixing JKD with other martial arts! Man it's sad how many people have fallen for the lies of Dana White & Inosanto! Here's the letter Bruce Lee wrote to Jerry Poteet after he tried to mix JKD with some other martial art!
'X' is Jeet Kune Do 'Y' is the style you will represent. To represent & teach 'Y' one should drill its members according to the preaching of 'Y'. This is the same with anyone who is qualified & has been approved to represent 'X'. To justify by interfusing 'X' & 'Y' is basically the denying of 'Y'....but still calling it 'Y'. A man as you put it, Is one who is able to stick to the road he has chosen. A garden of roses will yield roses, & a garden of violets will yield violets. - Bruce Lee [To Jerry Poteet]!
@@jamesmunroe6558What is JKD according to the Bruce Lee Foundation?
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JKD concet's secret!
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State of BL's martial art!
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How is JKD not a style?
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Misunderstanding BL's JKD quotes!
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You've captured my thoughts exactly. Styles like capoeira and long-fist kung fu develop extraordinary physical abilities.
💯 I'm trying to break the mould of this and inspire people to be less closeminded
I agree with this, be versatile and open minded with training 🙌
Ah yes this topic has been so interesting to me for years. I have been active all my life. I’ve done sports throughout the years in school. And I’d say the carry-over from that to martial arts is. I’m able to easily learn and copy movements and the biomechanics. It’s super interesting cause like you watched so much of the movement. you’re trying to do by analyzation and when you put it into action. At times subconsciously the body just automatically does it the movement you’ve been saturating your brain with. Cause one time at an indoor trampoline place. I did well "I" didn’t do it "it" did it itself (talking about the body). And I was so surprised I did a kip-up one of my teacher complimented on me using my back. To do the Kip-up and at that moment I understood what Bruce Lee meant when he said in enter the dragon “I do not hit it hits all by itself." (Got off track a little) but I was also thinking at one time maybe if I incorporate how ballerina spins around. To do the spinning kicks and stuff like movement in general they are like inseparable. They’re like intertwined I’m also a big advocate on not putting limits on yourself and not sticking to one style amazing video man great 👍🏽. (Currently I want to learn martial arts tricking/wushu & b-boy dance) those are the thing I want to learn but I want to focus on boxing and tkd style kicks right now
Really appreciate the way you think
Thank you!
TL;DR: I think that what’s behind this current narrow focus is a narrow understanding of what martial arts are for.
The goal of training has become so narrow. Sometimes people don’t even realize they are training for such a narrow goal. For example, the goal has become to be a cage fighter, even for people in their 40s or 50s that are never going to be in a cage fight. Martial arts can be about so much more than 1 vs 1 combat sports. The goals can include, but are not limited to, self-defense, health, community, strategy, philosophy, cultural understanding, and character development. Some of these bigger goals are not easily met through the narrowed lens of the current MMA community.
I missed this before, great perspective and I agree wholeheartedly
Your vids are so well thought out, and really make sense to me. Keep making them when you can but yes, really gets me thinkingvon a deeper level about what I need to do.
Thank you Mike, I really appreciate this comment. It's nice to know my works appreciated on more than a surface level
Dan Inosanto and others have stressed that when "absorbing what is useful and discarding the rest," one must really take the time to understand the full intention and context behind a technique or approach, and work with it for a while (not just giving up because it's initially uncomfortable or strange) in order to understand where it might be useful, rather than simply discarding it because it doesn't fit in with our preconceptions. Any technique or approach that truly breaks us out of our current limitations will be to some degree uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and/or even counterintuitive initially, *by definition*; otherwise, it would be too far inside our comfort zone to be truly transformative.
Conversely, ideas that immediately strike us as being workable need to be pressure-tested to - again - see if, where, and how they would really translate into effective application. Challenge everything!
Appreciate your perspective. Couldn't have put it better myself. Thanks for another great video Grant.
Beautiful video mate! Appreciate your work!
Nailed it on this one I believe
💯 Thanks brother
Great video.
Friendly reminder to be a jack-of-all-trades
While having a main focus.
@@Troglor048 exactly, well said
What @Troglor048 said! In fact I really DON'T advocate for being a jack of all trades actually. It can appear that way on one level, but in a higher way - it's about selecting skills that may not seem on the surface to be related, in order to develop the existing FOCUSSED skills 👍
great video
Absolute banger
each video is so insightful always simple and direct, at least for personaly you'll go down as one of the best martial artist in my book
Thank you very much!
Based on this video, build on the fundamentals and foundation of each art. But try to apply them at once with a main focus.
EXACTLY! Yes thanks for the comment
I use yoga as a lot of my cross training and it has allowed me to be more relaxed sometimes. Probably a little too relaxed in the ring, but I can also throw uppercuts from angles people don't expect
Yeah man it's about getting that balance. You see this with people who become 'too flexible' and they've gone too far in the mobility route, where their kicks become floppy and weak.
Have you read the book 'Wrath of the Dragon' by John Little? Here's an interesting quote by Bruce from that book.
Let us put it this way 99% percent of the whole business of oriental self defense is boloney. It's fancy jazz, It looks good but it doesn't work. - Bruce Lee [saint paul dispatch 1968]
Which one do you consider much harder
Tricking
Or
Breakdance
So many coaches r against spining kicks etc
Yes and the reason is because they aren't skilled enough at them to make them work and so it clouds their world view, because people are only able to believe in something through their own lens. In this case, it's limited.