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- Bruce Lee's JKD, Jeet Kune Do basics footwork part two.
Now, in the previous video we've taught you kind of the,
push shuffle, the basic kind of move forward and backward.
But, sometimes Shifu we don't just move forward,
and backward.
We want to move to the side to side.
- Correct.
- How would that apply?
- Lateral footwork, or if you're going side to side.
Is you're avoiding someone's oncoming attack.
If he was heading towards you,
you have to move away from it.
You can't stay in that line.
Now, that's also to find a opening.
You're not necessarily moving to the side,
just to move to the side.
You're moving--
- Because you want to go from point A to point B.
- So, if I was going to teach a beginner.
Again, you still have the lateral adjustment here,
with the feet.
You don't want to be in an L position.
Or flat footed or do this.
You want to still have that spring.
And the first thing I do, is okay,
I want you to do two steps.
So, break it up in half.
So, you go one,
two.
That's it.
And the next one,
we go one, two.
That way you get used to the motion.
You want this.
And you always want to have this other leg available.
Who's to say that you're not gonna use this leg when needed.
If you put this right behind you, you lost that, okay.
And that's the problem.
How do you move on a straight line?
Our body's don't work to that.
You know, because we have to be under our hips.
So, this is better.
And that way you're able to move,
with ease.
Now, the common mistake I see.
Is usually somebody goes here.
- Oh, yeah.
So they kind of false leg like that.
- Yeah, so it's a little off balance.
And that's not to say that, that could happen,
you could do that, just for out of relaxation.
Or if you're moving to the side.
But you wouldn't do that on a basis of you actually,
attacking the opponent.
So, the best thing to do is get used to making sure,
you maintain, this, okay.
Maintain this.
So, now that's two steps.
One.
Two.
- And you know you're doing it right when,
they say if I draw a line from here, to there,
this is a line streak line.
So, after Shifu moves to here.
The line should still be.
So, you wouldn't be after we move,
suddenly you're like this.
- Correct.
- Or suddenly when you move you like, now to wide open.
- Yes.
- So, the line should always, there.
So, kind of measure.
When I first practiced this,
I could actually use a measure tape,
where you have a center in the middle, right.
And I would have like a sea of them.
I would just make sure.
- And that's fine, yeah.
- Yeah, it takes a while, right.
It takes a while to do this, right.
- Yeah, and those lines will help you.
I mean if you need lines,
to help you make sure you're not overstepping.
Because sometimes you can overstep.
And then you're crossing.
Or if you go this way, you're doing this,
and then you feel off balance.
So, when you're doing this you shouldn't feel off balance.
Now, it may feel awkward in the very beginning.
Because if you're not used to dong this,
it's gonna feel awkward.
- Because we don't walk this way, right.
It's more difficult. - Exactly.
Everybody's used to standing normally, knees up.
If you don't have a solid foundation with your knees.
You know, I would suggest you keeping your knees,
bent for a while, just so you can get those quads to work.
- That's why kind of the Chinese, right.
- If they want to do this.
- Do a little bit of that.
Strengthen your muscle a little bit.
- Exactly.
But I mean if you, again bend at your knees slightly,
relaxing, being able to breathe and get the oxygen,
into your legs and muscles and things like that.
That way you're able to move with ease.
Otherwise, if you're too rigid.
- And at first when you're practicing, you'll feel the burn.
You'll feel the calves are burning,
you'll feel this is burning, your thigh is burning.
It's normal.
Because you're so tense up, right.
But once you develop the muscle.
You shouldn't feel like that.
- Correct.
So going back to the lateral footwork.
If I decided to move to my right, okay.
I have to move my right foot first,
and bring this one.
If I move to my left.
I move my left foot first,
then I bring this one.
- Right.
- Now, that's step number one.
Step number two is being able to do it all at once.
Just like we did on the shuffle.
Right, so what I have to do is push with this foot,
and lift--
- Pay attention to this foot here.
- Yes.
If I lift, excuse me, lift my front foot up,
It almost looks like it's doing two steps.
But you could see I'm gonna utilize push.
Now, the best way to describe it is that,
this one pulls in,
as soon as this lands.
Push with this one, there you are.
So, then you can start working on that,
speed or that pull, a little later.
Now, depending on the grips of the shoes, too.
You might end up getting some friction on the ground.
But you could do it with socks,
you could do it barefoot.
Prefer with shoes because that's what you're,
going to be in most of the time.
Do it with boot if you want.
- Try that first.
So, you're using your natural momentum, right.
Don't fight your own momentum,
where, okay I want to move fast,
but I'm gonna drag this along.
I want to move this and I want to drag this.
It's using your natural spring.
- Correct.
- And you see, it's much faster when you do that,
all the movement, right.
And then you can combine the front and the back,
and the side lateral movement as well.
So, again I'm gonna bring Jack back in here.
So, then we can again, correct him.
And to learn from that as well.
Now, sometimes people they see what Bruce Lee,
does in the movies.
And they think that's part of JKD.
And I think that's so much misinformation out there.
It's like maybe in the second movie, oh Bruce moves like
this way, I should move like that.
Or you know whatever,
you know, the game of the death.
And then that's how he moves.
That's not it.
It's like you watch a Jackie Chan movie,
jumps off a building, oh that's how he fights.
It makes no sense, right.
So, lets see the correct way of doing this.
- Okay, so just to keep the body down.
Not bouncing around.
Or moving your hands this way.
And in fact, you know, to get to there,
Okay nevermind.
- We'll cover that in another video.
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- So, at this rate.
What you want to be able to do,
is again keep your body down, keep your hands up.
Don't bounce around.
All you need to do is focus on,
your foot positioning.
So are your feet parallel.
Again, are they doing this.
Is it the heel to toe alignment.
I mean you got to look at that every single time.
- And it feels a bit awkward, right.
You can see, right.
You can feel that.
It takes a little bit of practice, for sure.
- So, if you have a mirror at home,
that's what I would suggest.
Get in front of the mirror,
make sure you are moving in the right position.
And make sure that, you know,
Your other foot is coming along with the right foot,
and so forth.
But here all you need to do is move to the right.
Right foot moves first.
That's it.
And that one leads.
The other way.
Good.
As long as you're going sideways.
The mistake again on these is,
not only could you be crossing over your own legs.
But you could be going sideways and then back.
It almost feels like a push shuffle.
It's the same thing.
You want to be able to go literally to the side.
Get used to that.
Side.
Okay.
Try it.
Go to your right.
Good.
Now, to your left.
Good.
That's better.
Now, your in this position.
Very good.
Do it again.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
Good.
Again,
to the right.
To the left.
To the right.
And to the left.
Good.
Now,
see how I'm announcing the number.
I'm going one.
Okay, one.
Two.
Remember what I said on the rhythm.
I'll go one.
There you go.
Two.
Okay, as long as it's to your left.
- And make sure when you're practicing,
you don't get in a bad habit,
with practicing lateral movement.
Don't go that way.
It will feel like you're trying to go that way.
We're trying to do this.
And of course later in the future.
We can move other directions.
But for now,
forward, backward, and side to side.
No cheating.
Oh maybe.
Because you'll feel like it's easier.
It will feel easier.
But you want to practice this.
- Don't make things easy for yourself.
It's gonna be tough first.
Then the easiness or the simplicity comes in later.
To the right.
Left.
Right.
Left.
Okay.
So, again.
I'm gonna get right in front of you,
and not interfere with camera angles.
Right.
Left.
Okay, it still feels like you're going back a little bit.
- Yeah, see how you go that and that.
Just like this.
- All to your right.
All to your left.
Much better.
Very good.
One.
Two.
Alright.
Stay there.
Ready?
Listen to the way I sound.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
Good.
As you can tell Jack has already utilized a little bit,
of the spring.
So, now what I want you to do is try to use a push,
with your left foot, you move it to your right.
Okay, use that to your advantage,
because it makes you move quicker.
- Now, it's easy because again Jack,
because he's got Thai boxing experience.
So, you can see it's very easy for him,
to get back to that stance.
Right where this should be more that.
Heels are up, right.
So, try to keep that stance.
And feel that.
- Try it.
One.
Two.
Good, so now you know where you need to push, right.
So when you move to your right, push with your left foot.
Okay, you're right foot should already hover on its own,
right now.
One.
Better.
Two.
Good, remember--
- So, this foot should also be kind of--
- No, that one's flat. - No, no, no, no.
- So if you move to you're right,
push.
With your left, push with the right foot, now.
Good.
So see when you move to your left,
you're pushing with your right foot.
When you move to your right,
you're pushing with your left foot.
- So, you'll feel the momentum.
It's that, right.
Form this side.
Right, this side.
It's this.
You push.
Like this, you won't see it,
I'm just kind of explaining the momentum, right.
If you're moving this way, it's that.
You don't want to literally step on it,
but it's what it feels like.
You're using the ground, right Shifu?
- Yes.
Alright, ready?
I'll say forward back,
right left.
Okay, ready.
Forward.
Back.
Forward.
Right.
Left.
Forward.
Back.
Forward.
Left.
Right.
Forward.
Back.
Right.
Left.
- Okay, good, good.
Now, Shifu also when we are practicing,
I think what you also taught me is,
you can bounce a little bit depending on the situation.
But as far as when you practice,
we kind of want to be still.
Like stationary still, and then,
so there's no cheating.
- Correct.
- Alright, you practice your move,
and then later on you can change the rhythm.
And the pace of it.
And you can move your hand and do a little bit of that.
But when you're learning it,
it's better not to develop those bad habits.
Because I went through that myself as well.
- You can explore,
and extend to a point where,
you know, I want to exaggerate whatever move it looks like.
Go ahead and do it,
but then again come back to the simplicity of things.
Because if I wanted to throw a punch this way.
And then all of the sudden I change it up.
That's the idea behind broken rhythm anyways.
So utilize in the mistakes.
So opponents can try to see the mistakes.
And you've got an efficient upper-hand there.
- Maybe I'll give you a bonus tip.
Before we wrap this up.
Shifu, why don't we want to bounce around?
Okay, because even boxing,
right, he's Thai boxing, the rhythm, right.
- Somebody can time you,
if you continue the same cadence.
If you're always bouncing,
and then all of the sudden you stop the bounce.
That's when you tag them.
So, yeah it's good to not bounce.
And you naturally do that, why?
It's because we're trying to breathe.
We're trying to bring that oxygen back.
- It's all rhythm, right.
- And it's just natural for us to just,
move that head around.
And just be like bouncing.
And that's why people bounce,
it's to maintain and continue.
Don't bounce.
Keep it still.
- Right.
That's why.
And think about it if you're in a self-defense situation,
the dumbest thing you can do is you warn the other guys,
I want to fight.
And the last thing you want is, hey you want to go?
You want to go, you want to go?
Let's go.
Like that, you know.
Versus, hey you from nothing.
And that's one thing I learned from Shifu.
When we hit the pad or different training drill,
from nothing,
to something.
And from nothing,
to something.
Most people don't train that.
Most people put up their hands.
So it's all a part of that.
We might cover that in a future video.
But for now, that's the basic footwork.
So in the previous video,
we showed you how to move forward, backward.
This will show you how to move side to side.
Combine them, different rhythm,
have a training partner, right.
They can clap.
They can do one, two, three, four.
Mix it up.
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