(stick flexing and rubbing)
(sticks tapping in musical rhythm)
- You know, baby...
This bamboo is longer,
more flexible, and very much alive.
And, when your flashy routine,
cannot keep up with the speed and elusiveness,
of this thing here,
all I can say, is, that you will be in deep trouble.
(sticks tapping in musical rhythm)
- That, you will have to find out.
- Ah!
(sticks whipping and cutting the air)
Ah!
(footsteps)
Hi-ya!
I'm telling you, it's difficult,
to have a rehearsed routine, to fit in with...
(stick whipping through the air)
Broken rhythm.
(static noise)
- Extremely advanced Jeet Kune Do training, broken rhythm.
Now, what you've just watch, is a scene from Game of Death.
I think it's the perfect metaphor,
what Bruce was trying to communicate to the world,
about his art.
It's a perfect metaphor for JKD, about the flexibility,
the unpredictability, the elusiveness,
and, the broken rhythm, of Jeet Kune Do.
(upbeat music)
You think of what Bruce does,
and, what separates him from other martial artists, is,
his ability to read the opponent,
and, also, to intercepting, before they even attack.
And, that requires broken rhythm.
As his scene, you can see him and Daniel Inosanto,
and, Daniel Inosanto, has a rhythm.
Boom, ta, ta, ta.
Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta.
A certain types of rhythm,
and Bruce, just breaks his rhythm,
from fast to slow, slow to fast,
and vary the tempo of it.
What I believe in, if you can beat someone's rhythm,
you can beat the guy.
It's very, very simple.
'Cause, what happens is, human beings,
we are creatures of habits.
We're also creatures of rhythm.
So, that's why we listen to music. (snapping fingers)
And, we, want to bob, and, right?
Ah, that's pretty cool, right?
When you can hear that.
That kind of music, that beat, right, and we're naturally.
Also, think about, when you're walking.
Imagine, when you're walking, we all have a rhythm, right?
We have a rhythm of, you're walking, you're just walking.
One, two, one, two, one, two, three, four, right?
You don't walk like...
One, one-two, two, three-four.
That becomes cha-cha, right?
That becomes (laughing) a dance.
You don't walk like that.
Or, you don't walk, like, okay, I walk,
and, suddenly, I walk slow, right?
Then you become like Michael Jackson.
That's not what I'm talking about either.
But, broken rhythm, let me just demonstrate,
through a very simple, kind of a,
a trapping, Filipino exercise.
It's a Filipino Martial Arts exercise, watch.
So, very simple, as we do a very simple flow drill, right?
(arms slapping when in contact)
Now, what I want you to do, is, I want you
to pay attention to the sound.
One-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three.
No, okay, now see that's off.
One again.
One--
- Sorry.
- One-two-three, one-two-three.
(arms slapping when in contact)
One-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three.
Now, so, you can hear the beat.
(hands clapping in rhythm)
Very normal, and we can do this all day long, right?
Boom-boom, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
What happens, is, broken rhythm,
is the half beat, in-between, as an example.
So, Shin, I want you to keep doing the same thing.
Don't vary it.
I'm gonna insert a half beat in there, as we flow.
Okay, so, try.
(hands clapping in rhythm)
So, from here, ta-ta-ta,
I see a kick there (hands clap), right?
Okay, again, don't stop, yeah.
Boom, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
Boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
So, from there, watch.
From here, as he do, I do half a beat,
and then, I go in, right, again, right?
I do half a beat, and then go back.
So, that's half a beat, that's broken rhythm.
As you have (laughing), have the, right?
You can see, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
Now, sometimes, you can also go from beat-beat-beat,
also, from fast, to slow, okay?
So, let me demonstrate now.
This is what I want you to do, Shin.
I want you, just do, like, park here, in the back.
I'm not gonna touch you.
So, I want you to see, as I make any sudden movement,
I want you to make a sound, like, hu-ugh.
- Mm.
- Try that.
Hu-ugh. - Hu-ugh.
- Louder.
- Hu-ugh. - Yeah, okay.
Any movement that I, I want you to just see it,
and then I want you to, okay, watch.
(exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- A little bit slow, try again.
(exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- Good, one more time.
(exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- One more time.
(exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- Could be a little bit faster, one more time.
(exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- One more time.
- Hu-ugh.
- Now, I'm gonna do the same thing.
Same thing, I want you to see any movement,
and I want you to, hu-ugh, like that.
And, I'm gonna touch his forehead.
Okay, when you see me touching your forehead,
you're gonna make a, hu-ugh, like that.
Okay, watch.
- Hu-ugh.
- (exhales) - Hu-ugh.
- Hu-ugh.
- What happened?
- Slow.
- I broke his rhythm.
Even though, my motion is slower,
by time I hit, hu-ugh, 'cause I broke his rhythm.
I've been training him to do one-two-three-four.
Suddenly, it's a slower movement, but he couldn't catch it.
That's broken rhythm.
And, that's why it's such a powerful thing.
And, your techniques, it is the most difficult to train,
as far as I'm concerned, in Jeet Kune Do.
Because it's not, it's against your human nature.
'Cause we want to practice with boom-boom-boom-boom-boom,
with a boom-boom-boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom-boom-boom.
But, you watch that scene, and what Bruce is very good at,
from total stillness, and he would explode, right?
From total stillness, boom, he would explode,
and then, he would move, and then, he would,
break the rhythm, and he would throw combinations.
And then, he would, backward, and then he would go fast,
and then, he would go slow,
and, makes him very, very unpredictable.
And, that's extremely difficult to do.
And, that's why, it's advanced JKD.
So, let me demonstrate, in another way.
(gloves hitting hands)
Don't need to hit hard, but, do full extension.
- Okay, one.
- Yeah, so, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
Boom-boom, I want to hear this (claps hands in rhythm).
(gloves hitting hands)
Jason, a bit slow.
A tiny, half-beat slow. - Yeah, all right.
- So, boom-boom-boom, yes.
(gloves hitting hands)
Good.
Now, what Jason and Drake is doing right now,
it's a simple, timing exercise, right?
You can, just hear the beat.
Boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom,
boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom.
That's a rhythm, boom-boom-boom.
So, again, broken rhythm.
That's the rhythm of three.
One-two-three, one-two-three.
And, that's how a lot of people train,
even in boxing, one-two-three, one-two-three,
and, one-two-three.
And, you need to train it that way, in the beginning.
As you get more intermediate, more the advanced,
now, you need to learn how to vary your rhythm.
So, let me demonstrate, okay?
So, you saw what Jason and Drake did,
which is the same rhythm.
So, now I'm gonna demonstrate, just, with broken rhythm,
what that kind of looks like.
Now, Shin, now, we're gonna do a very, very simple drill,
which is, simply, he would punch.
Right, I'll just parry.
Just, I gonna parry this, slow, so people can see.
So, simple, it parry, like that.
He's aiming, could be to my chin, could be to my face,
doesn't really matter.
If you throw the punch again.
(gloves hitting hands)
Right, I'm catching it, right?
Same thing, with I throw a punch, he would catch it.
Right, he would throw a punch.
(gloves hitting hands)
We only throw one punch.
(gloves hitting hands)
Now, we would do it, in turns.
So, he would, same thing.
So, he would throw, I would throw.
So, I'm not gonna throw two punches, right?
I'm not gonna vary the angle.
It just to demonstrate the rhythm.
So, he throws a punch.
(gloves hitting hands)
I would throw a punch.
You throw a punch.
Let's say, we do three.
Boom-boom-boom, again.
Boom-boom-boom, try again.
Boom-boom-boom, one more time.
Boom-boom-boom.
So, Boom-boom-boom, right?
Now, we gonna move around, but with broken rhythm.
Again, we can only punch one time, we're gonna take turns.
No change of angle, right, just the rhythm.
I want you to see the difference.
Okay, go ahead.
(breathing and punching)
(upbeat music)
Your turn.
- Oh.
(breathing and punching)
(upbeat music)
- Good, good.
You see, that's how it works.
Broken rhythm, you can see.
Go back to your same rhythm, boom-boom-boom.
Boom-boom-boom, try again.
Boom-boom-boom.
Suddenly, when you vary it, I don't know when he's coming.
He doesn't know when I'm going.
Again, boom, I just know when I'm coming.
Now, imagine, when you combine this with
different distance, different punches.
Or, maybe he throws two, one and two.
One more time, one and two.
It changes the game.
It changes how we do things,
and that's how JKD should be, right?
One more time.
Now go back to the same rhythm.
I wanna see a difference.
Same rhythm, boom-boom-boom, we do three.
Two-three, one more time.
Two-three, see how easy it is?
- Yeah.
- One, one, two, three, one more time.
One, two, three, one more time.
One, two, three.
Now, so, how do you train broken rhythm?
So, now, you get the concept.
Then, how do you train it, how do you put it into practice?
The easiest way, is, when you're training with any drills,
that you do, and you just change it up.
So, as simple as, let's go back to that drill.
As the, flow drill example, right?
Boom, boom-boom-boom, boom-boom-boom,
boom-boom-boom, you can hear. (hands clapping in rhythm)
Da-da-da, da-da-da, now let's speed it up a bit.
(hands slapping in combat)
So, we're changing rhythm, right?
Now, slow down.
Slow down.
Now, what I wanna do, is, I wanna do one slow.
You do one slow, and, then we do one fast.
And then, slow.
Come back.
And then, we do slow.
Then we do...
Slow.
And then...
Slow.
You see, that's how it works.
And, just as you change it,
okay, now we can do this side.
Try that, right?
So, boom-boom-boom.
Boom-boom, yes, boom-boom-boom.
And, boom-boom-boom.
Boom-boom-boom.
Now, boom-boom-boom.
Do it fast.
Good, good.
Slow.
Even slower.
See, you're training your nervous system,
for different tempo.
Now, I'm not gonna tell Shin, if I go fast or slow.
But, as I go fast, you go fast, I do slow, you do slow.
Okay, try that.
(hands slapping in combat)
I don't need to tell him, he just feel.
Yes.
Mm-hmm, slow.
Right.
(hands slapping in combat)
Now, also, as a partner, what we could do now,
we're feeding each other.
I'll do half-beat, in-between half slow,
and half fast, watch.
(hands slapping in combat)
Or, slow, and then, fast, can you feel?
Yes, then slow, and then do fast.
Yes, the whole thing slow.
Do the whole thing fast.
So, you see, how you vary that up?
Just fast, slow, slow, fast, fast, slow.
Any drill, any kicking drill, any punching drill.
You just insert different tempo and different rhythm,
and, it makes the whole thing much more difficult,
and, much more interesting.
And that's a broken rhythm.
And, there are so many drills.
I might show you other drills in the future,
but, for now, what I want you to do, is,
just to get the concept, when you train.
And, that's what makes Bruce Lee,
one of the greatest martial artists, of all time,
is, that broken rhythm.
It's not so much intercepting, people get the idea,
oh, Bruce is intercepting the technique.
They're focusing on intercepting the kick,
intercepting the punch, that's not what makes him good.
He is a master, at intercepting someone's rhythm,
someone's tempo.
He can read someone very, very quickly.
If you actually, listen to the interview,
that, other people had spar with him,
have, like, touch hand with him, every single interview,
that he's touch hand with somebody else,
it's always the same story.
They would say something along this line.
I try to attack Bruce.
Before I do anything, he comes in and shut everything down.
He just, like, shut me down.
Before I know it, his foot is in my face,
his hand is in my face, I'm on the ground, or something.
It's always like that.
Bruce, unlike his movie, doesn't bounce around too much.
Something happens, (hands clap) he intercepts.
He can read the guy's tempo, boom, it's finished.
That's how he fights.
That's actually how he trains.
If you read the Tao of Jeet Kune Do,
you read between the lines, and you can see.
That's why, broken rhythm,
is one of the most important concepts in JKD.
It's also one of the most difficult concept to understand,
and, to master.
So, I hope today, I give you, just a glimpse,
a taste, of what broken rhythm is about.
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