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Bruce Lee's JKD, Jeet Kune Do blocking techniques.
Now see why I almost find it funny when I say blocking
cause Jeet Kune Do's kind of like an assault
and an offensive art - Yeah.
- Right, it's not a philosophy.
We don't do a lot of blocking.
Not that blocking is bad - Correct.
- It's just the main philosophy of JKD
is to end a fight as quickly as possible
as direct as possible. - Correct.
- But in case, we still need to train how to defend
and we see that in other techniques.
So what are some of the blocking techniques in JKD?
- In blocking, and as you said,
it's an offensive art.
So you're hitting on every single motion.
In all actuality,
there is no blocking - Yeah.
- However, you change that method because a block
feels (loud smack) like rigid stop, right.
You're stopping some momentum with force.
Now we utilize force and use that against opponents,
so it's usually a parry is more effective
or divert the energy is how we would discuss it.
Divert the pressure.
So if there was a punch, as an example, you throw one punch.
We're not going here, right.
Or we're not going here.
Now a lot of different methods out there,
they talk about that's effective because
you're hitting pressure points - Yeah.
- That's very good, however, in a sense of what we're doing,
we're just trying to adapt staying fluid
and continue hitting.
So a great way to look at this is
if I did strike this way,
Dan has the opening right here.
He sees it, he's gonna fire right to the body.
Okay, in fact, you can keep it so smooth,
that for example, he throws that punch,
I block it, he hits right here, right up against my arm.
I'm sorry deflecting - Oh deflecting okay.
- Yeah, so you're deflecting on the inside.
- This way. - Yeah.
That's right there.
And all he did is adapt to it.
He just went around it - Without enough sticking,
if I hit and go here - Boom.
- [Dan] Right there.
- And it's right there, so you imagine when we're talking
about be water my friend.
You're always saying that at the end of your clips.
You're being like water.
You're going around that rock.
- You're flowing through, you're find cracks
(Dan breaths heavily through teeth)
You go in - Yeah and
And you're maintaining the focus point
by again, diverting the energy, he ends up getting hit.
Now I can do the same thing.
Let's say, I intended him to attack me.
- The second. - Right
cause if I throw a punch, he's responding
and I can do the exact same thing.
So we can look at it from both angles.
But if I was a bit slower and he has better sensitivity,
he finds it and I get hit.
So you can see how he just ends up hitting me.
You just hit, so as far as another defense,
or another diversion - See this angle.
Right. - Yeah.
So if you can see that, you throw the punch.
And this is my parry.
You don't wanna leave the perimeter of the body,
it's just right here, just enough, okay.
And if that's the case, I'm just parrying
and I can hit right back.
Now that's one, two motion.
What I don't want to do is be use to doing the parry.
Instead, I'd rather just hit.
- So hit at the first beat.
- Correct - Yeah, so we might
train like this, but really it's...
- Yeah, it's just straight on through.
So my block is actually the arm.
- Yep. - Yeah, it's the hit.
So it's right here.
So instead of me going one, two or one, two.
I'm going one.
- Right there. - Yeah.
Just one, boom
- And then see at this point hitting from the outside,
right - Yeah.
- Cutting in, then cutting in
Now see with the body mechanics, so this is important
cause this is a wing chun
structure, right - Yes.
- So this is elbow in.
So see if we do it wrong, what happens.
- I still get hit.
- You can see that, see if the elbow is up this way
like a typical jab then you get hit.
And that's also why we hit with
vertical fist, right. - Right.
- Or slightly turned this way.
- Yeah depends on who has the longer arm at that reach
because if Dan didn't have the longer arm,
I get hit, if I did, I might be lucky,
but Dan has a good base to where
he's just gonna move forward with that
and he's gonna step forward.
He's gonna dissipate this hand.
But if I wanted my structure to be good,
I control it on the way in.
- Yeah right there.
- Okay, if he threw a long punch and
I'm throwing a long punch, I can go right over it, okay.
But let's say you threw the rear punch.
Again, I'm doing the exact same thing, I'm punching.
My block is this sword, okay.
I'm going here, then cut.
He does the other hand, same thing.
Okay, now it depends on where you're going with this too.
I mean you can literally go on the top for leverage
or on the inside to deflect.
He throws another punch, same thing.
And he throws another punch, I can be on the outside.
So here's what I see is
you got two arms, you can hit on the inside,
you can hit on the outside - Yeah.
- Okay, on either angle and that's where you find it.
You just throw the punch here, here, here
or here - And you see what structure
here, the end when the punch is
coming forward - Right.
- You can see the camera.
The energy is getting deflected.
So it's not a, (Dan hit arm lightly) like that.
It's that.
And also common mistakes I see people make, sometimes
they're thinking about,
Oh I'm gonna deflect. - Right.
- No, you're thinking about hitting.
It happens to deflect.
You're not thinking of, I'm trying to do this,
I'm trying to do that.
No, no, it's still a hit. - Right.
- Very, very common mistake. - Yeah, so yeah,
the title may say blocking, but it's not blocking.
It's to introduce to you what Jeet Kune Do is about.
It's not to block,
it's to hit. - To hit.
Find an opening and just be like water.
So what about something on low end,
if someone like throws an upper cut or like...
- So depending on how, I mean - Like a low punch
- you're reaction is gonna determine
how that's going to deflect.
So if you threw that low punch,
I may deflect in here and just come right back and hit.
Now if I had a good base and I saw that coming,
you know, I could probably stop it
and still hit if he's hitting low.
I mean to do something like this is you're turning
a little bit more in basis of,
okay I'm gonna block the guy, okay,
or I'm going to meet with him.
But if you looked at it this way,
same time, okay. - There.
- That's how you would work on it.
This requires a little bit of the tools here.
And if you wanted to talk about four corners,
the wing chun structure
is here right. - Yeah.
- And they look at it from here and
they got the high gate, the low gate, front, and rear,
or as in Jeet Kune Do, it kind of blades.
Just a little different. - Yeah, yeah.
So when they're practicing at first,
what's the first step in terms of,
like if they're practicing with a partner
or even a wooden dummy, whatever it is.
Do they just practice this first to kind of get it down?
And then second stage,
you can learn how to... - Yeah, what I would recommend
is your partner can actually
feed the punches - Just say this is a
wooden dummy - Yeah, yeah,
I mean, you can literally start from here
and use this as a cross parry, right,
and to help you deflect on the inside.
You throw that one punch, I'm just gonna guide
it back this way and I hit
towards your nose. - And do it slow.
Do it slow, don't...
- Here. - Right.
- Here, this is a good way of you getting
use to using two hands at once, so that way...
- And this is the main hand.
This is the main hand that's
doing the reflecting, not this one.
This is just like a backup.
Very very critical.
Right, you can jut si vu right there.
- Okay. - Right.
- This is just a drill. - Yeah.
- Getting use to finding the deflection on the inside.
- Yeah, so I'm punching the center line.
You can see I'm punching the center line, right,
so as a training partner, I'm not trying to punch
on this side cause that'll be a bad partner, right.
I'm punching in the middle. - Right.
I'm punching in the middle.
I'm punching the middle, so your shifu here,
you're training partner has to deflect.
Right, has to deflect.
- This is the best way to start learning how
to deflect on the inside.
If he hits, I can off step that.
Okay, now, how often are you gonna find somebody
throwing the straight punch, not very often,
but it starts making you better.
It starts making you more edgy,
so if he did threw maybe a curve, you do the same thing,
just stepping off to the side
and just follow up with this one, okay.
So if he is good at throwing that punch, it's the same idea.
If he does a straight punch (hits arms lightly),
- It's just tight - This one works,
it's just much tighter - it's tight.
- Making it much more effective in the way you strike
on somebody throwing a punch. - Yeah.
- You find the opening from a distance.
You recognize those and you'll find it.
- Yeah, so there you go.
That's the Bruce Lee's JKD blocking techniques
or when the philosophies of blocking
and the defense and offense, so practice this,
but also understand why we do it a certain way.
It's always an attack.
Everything that we do.
We always try to find the opening,
because we don't want to drag on too long.
One, two, three.
The longer we drag on, the
more dangerous it is, right. - Right, right.
- The more risk that we take on.
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