Bruce contradicts himself a lot - elsewhere he says “a punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.” He also advises you to learn the form, and then forget the form.
Learning the form then forgetting the form is pretty normal in any discipline. First you learn how to do it, like how to punch, kick and block. Then you learn sequences and combinations. You learn these to perfection. When your body knows the moves you can start improvising and you need to forget the sequences and combinations in order to adapt.
Same goes for all art, applied science, most jobs, even social structures, economic models etc.
First you learn the basics, then you learn the complex rules, when you master then you can break the rules and improve upon it.
I sort of get what he was going for, but it’s also very Confucian and kind of nonsense. I think in some of the films you see him doing little bits of Jeet Kun Do form during downtime. Muscle memory is still memory, Bruce!
Bruce contradicts himself a lot - elsewhere he says “a punch is just a punch. A kick is just a kick.” He also advises you to learn the form, and then forget the form.
Learning the form then forgetting the form is pretty normal in any discipline. First you learn how to do it, like how to punch, kick and block. Then you learn sequences and combinations. You learn these to perfection. When your body knows the moves you can start improvising and you need to forget the sequences and combinations in order to adapt.
Same goes for all art, applied science, most jobs, even social structures, economic models etc. First you learn the basics, then you learn the complex rules, when you master then you can break the rules and improve upon it.
I sort of get what he was going for, but it’s also very Confucian and kind of nonsense. I think in some of the films you see him doing little bits of Jeet Kun Do form during downtime. Muscle memory is still memory, Bruce!