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- Bruce Lee's Five Ways of Attack:
Attack by Combination.
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In this video web series,
I'm gonna show you JKD's five ways of attack.
This is part four of the series,
Attack by Combination.
Now, Attack by Combination, ABC.
It's not like A, B, C; it's Attack by Combination.
Now what it means is,
once you've got your basics down,
you know how to do the singular angle attacks,
simple angle attack.
Straight lead, then hook punch,
and back flares, and the straight kick,
and lead kick, and side kick,
and the hook kick, and all these kicks.
You've got it down.
You practiced thousands and thousands of times.
Now, of course as Bruce Lee said,
"You think a fight is one kick, or one punch?"
Until you know how to put everything together,
you're not a good martial artist yet.
So how do you put everything together in combination?
Now in JKD we believe in your strong foot,
strong leg, lead leg, lead foot, lead foot forward,
putting your strong side, not like boxing put in the back.
We put in the front because we believe
we're subscribed to the principal of
longest weapon to the shortest target, right?
So if I am leading with my lead hand and lead foot,
let me give you some combination.
A simple combination could be as simple as a
shin kick from here,
where it looks something like this, right?
From here
and here to a punch.
So a kick
and then a punch like that.
Or a kick
to a straight lead like that.
So Drake, try it on me, so kick.
Take your time, yeah, and then
boom.
When you practice, again, take your time.
Don't need to just go,
"Hey, you know what? This is my..."
Make sure I get it right.
Boom,
and boom.
When you're practicing slow,
you can practice your accuracy.
So let's say you just take a simple shin kick
and side kick, low side kick for example.
If I wanna practice accuracy,
I wanna make sure I don't hit too high.
Although, I make sure I don't hit too low.
What breaks the knee is somewhere,
this little spot.
So when I'm practicing slow,
just hey, I'm just doing slow.
As a training partner, Drake can give me feedback.
Hey Drake, what do you feel, is it too high?
- Too high.
- Too high, right?
What about this?
- Too low.
So I'm here, okay, let me give you just tiny little push.
Do you feel that?
- Yes.
- Oh, okay I'm breaking okay, good.
Don't break your partner's knee,
you got no partner to train with.
But just practicing, okay, how do they feel?
Good?
- Good.
- And then, how does that feel?
Right, it's pretty accurate.
Do it slow again, do it slow.
Okay, now what about this?
Am I too far?
- Yes.
- Right? I'm off-balance.
Make sure, okay, from here.
Boom,
boom.
Right? One more time.
And boom,
and boom.
You don't need speed, it's accuracy.
Drake, do it again, do it to me.
Boom, yeah, and boom.
See, one more time.
Boom, see how this naturally opens up?
One more time.
So from here,
boom and boom, right there.
So that's Attack by Combination.
Another Attack by Combination
as simple as the straight blast, right?
So from here, let's say he gives me a little bit opening
just for practice purpose, training purpose.
I'm just doing a straight blast, right?
From here...
Attack by Combination.
More than one punch, more than one kick.
Boom, boom, boom.
All right?
One more time, from here...
Right from here, boom, boom, boom.
Drake, you try it on me.
I give him an opening.
Boom, boom, boom.
Okay, one more time.
Boom, boom, boom.
There's this little bit hesitation between.
Eliminate that.
Boom, boom, boom, yeah.
One more time.
Boom, boom, boom, right.
Also, you could practice as a partner
just touching his chest
for distance.
This is too far.
This is too close, right?
So as a training partner, boom, boom, boom, right?
Not to hurt my partner, I'm just kind of touching him.
Right?
So, like that.
He could feel, "Okay, this is correct."
Again, boom, boom, boom, right?
You try.
Boom, boom, boom, yeah.
Right, one more time.
Boom, boom, boom.
One more time.
Boom, boom, boom, right?
Now, you can also do it in terms of five.
One, two, three, four, five.
One, two, three, four, five, right?
One more time, one more time.
One, two, three, four, five.
Attack by Combination.
Now, let's vary that up.
One, two, three, I want you to hit not the groin.
The way out is the groin,
but we'll practice on the stomach.
So it's one, two, three, four, five, back fist.
One, two, three, four, five.
Yeah, one more time.
One, two, three, four, five.
Do it slow, do it slow.
Just get a one, two, three.
Right?
It flows.
So from here, one, two, three, four, five.
Make sure when this is hitting,
this is always protecting the self.
You're not like that.
Always here, right?
One more time.
One, two, three. Yeah.
So that's Attack by Combination.
As you get better, as this flows,
now you say, okay, how can I do it a little bit faster?
How can I do with better body mechanic?
How can I do with better distance?
How can I do with better timing, right?
How can I push the game a little bit faster?
How can I vary the tempo of it?
I might do one, two, three,
and then four, five.
You can see.
(clapping)
One, two, three, four, five.
How can I practice my penetration?
Is it correct, is it correct?
So as a partner, I can also give him
just a little bit pressure.
See how his head is going backwards?
And then he would react, and he will react.
One more time.
So boom, boom, boom, boom, and boom.
So I'm practicing that, right?
And then of course, you have your boxing.
Your boxing combination, which is let's say
a simple straight cross, uppercut and hook.
All right, so it's a boom, boom, boom, boom.
One more time, so boom, boom, boom, boom.
All right, try that.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
Yeah, one more time.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
So boom, boom,
boom, boom, yeah.
So you can have your combination as well.
Until you can put all these things together
and you never think about it,
with power and speed and accuracy,
you see how hard that is?
That's why I don't believe you can have
so many combinations.
I have maybe three or four, right?
And that's it, you don't try to think of,
"Okay, let me have 50 combinations
that I'm gonna hit this guy with."
You don't wanna do that.
Just a few combinations you practice again, again,
and you make it unstoppable.
You make it so good that he cannot block it.
Then you can vary the timing, vary the angle,
then you've got something
very, very--
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Now another combination that you could do
is also my sifu Ted Wong's favorite combination,
a very common combination that he uses
because JKD, we lead with the lead hand forward.
It's basically a straight lead, straight punch.
Lead with a hook punch, lead with a back fist.
Because most people usually expect a right left combo.
Right, in boxing, very common.
Very common, right?
But in this case if you lead with this, right,
it's like a snake, right?
Imagine a snake, and just bite the guy
from different angles, that's what this technique is.
It's straight, straight.
So straight lead, punch, straight punch,
a hook punch, and then a back fist.
Right, again, straight lead, hook punch, and a back fist.
Straight lead, hook punch, and a back fist.
So imagine this guy, he's like--
(punching noises)
You hit him three times.
He's like, "What the hell just happened?"
And also the timing of it, 'cause if he blocks,
let's say he blocks the first punch.
Right, he blocks the first punch.
(punching noises)
He doesn't expect that angle in different angles
and different speed at same time.
It's very very sneaky.
So, demonstrate for the camera.
Straight.
And make sure the footwork, you gotta move.
So if I deliver it in front of Drake,
if I don't move, that's not good.
I'm circling, so as I'm doing this punch
notice I'm throwing the hook punch
and I'm doing a back fist.
I'm circling.
One more time, so--
(punching noises)
See, I'm circling.
I'm circling around him.
I'm not going straight.
I'm not going straight 'cause this is in front of me.
I want to be doing this while we're doing this, right?
So I'm circling around him.
So straight punch, hook punch, and back fist.
Or you can vary it.
You can do straight punch, back fist, and hook punch, too.
Right, or you can do straight, you can hook,
you can hook again, you can do a back fist.
You can back fist and hook and back fist again.
You can back fist and straight and hook again.
It's this.
So on the bag you're just hitting it.
Different (punching noises) right?
And then, of course, boom boom boom, right here.
You can also do it across the body, right?
To the body.
It's limitless.
There are so many different combinations you can do.
What I suggest is you keep it simple.
Simplicity is the key.
There's genius in simplicity.
Keep it very very simple.
Pick two, three combinations, they're your mass to add.
When I train with Tad, he has a few combinations.
High low high, low high low,
left right, lead, side kick, straight lead, footwork.
That's about it.
But it's unstoppable.
Very fast, for someone at time at his age,
60 years old, very few people can stop him.
And that's what Kung Fu is about.
It's not about learning more techniques,
and more techniques, and more techniques,
and 50 different combinations.
I have only a few combinations.
Practice that again, and again, and again.
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Let me know what combinations that is your favorite,
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