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- How to intercept and attack in JKD.
Thank you, Shin.
Appreciate it, appreciate it.
So JKD, the way of the intercepting fist.
What does that mean
and how do you actually apply in combat?
Today I'm going to show you exactly how to do that.
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Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, the way of the intercepting fist.
That's where the name came about,
and now if you study Bruce or if you watch him
in the various movies, and that's what got me hooked.
The whole philosophy of JKD, in order to understand it,
you have to understand where they came from.
Now if you watch maybe the Birth of the Dragon,
or you know a little bit about the very famous
Wong Jack Man fight, before their fight,
Bruce was all Wing Chun,
very much used a range of principles,
strikes, blocks, the typical stance,
with a lot of attributes, meaning power, speed,
and timing.
It's not a typical Wing Chun,
it's like a modified Wing Chun.
Very, very effective.
After the Wong Jack Man fight, he changed into,
"You know what? That fight took too long."
And he was losing, and he wasn't as good,
and he thought to himself, "How come I couldn't
"end the fight in seconds?
"Why did it take so long?"
Even though he won it.
So he thought to himself, "What do I need to do?"
Now if you understand the Wing Chun principle,
Wing Chun very often, it's about hitting and defending
at the same time, so you have your Tan Sao,
you have your Pak Sao, Lap Sao, all the basic techniques.
Someone throws a strike, I cut, deflect, and defend
and attack at the same time.
And before we start, okay that's good, right?
That's already better than most martial philosophies,
because a lot of martial philosophies, what do they do?
You defend, and then you attack, right?
You defend, and you attack.
That's stage number one, second stage, kind of Wing Chun,
you, okay, to demonstrate very simply,
let's say he throws a hook punch, a typical,
it's not about the technique, I'm just trying to demonstrate
principle, so a typical is, I block, right?
I block, and then I would hit, right?
So that's a block, a hit, two beat.
Then Wing Chun is more like, you hit,
I block and hit at the same time.
So Bruce thought, "Is there a more efficient,
"more effective way to end a fight faster?"
Instead of me block and hit at the same time,
what if when he attacks, I just attack?
So I attack before I even defend, and that's how
he came about the concept of intercepting.
Instead of waiting for this guy to get this close,
why don't I just intercept his strike?
Because the psychology of this is this:
When he's thinking of attacking,
he's not thinking of defending.
Your mind cannot do two things at once.
So when he's thinking of hitting me,
he's not thinking of blocking.
So there's that window gap, and Bruce was so
freaking good at reading people.
He could see that split of microsecond,
that, "Oh, you lose focus.
"You want to hit me."
That intention, he could intercept.
So when it comes to intercepting a strike,
in JKD, an attack, there's four ways that you do it.
And we can go a lot deeper, but for now,
I just want to give you four simple concepts.
And again, these are principles,
these are not fucking techniques.
It's not about technique.
I can do the finger jab, I can do the punch,
I can do the jab, I can do the whole kick,
it doesn't matter, it's not about that.
It's about the principle.
So the very first way you can intercept someone
is you use the luxury of distance,
longest weapon against the nearest target,
which is intercept the leg.
Because for someone, an attacker, to touch me,
he has to come to me, right?
It doesn't matter, unless he's an alien or something
like that, he's got multiple legs and arms,
two legs, two arms.
So in order for him to attack me, he has to come to me,
and very often, if he's thinking of punch,
the leg is a good way to intercept someone.
In JKD, we usually like to do what we call
the side kick, or the low side kick to the shin, right?
Now the way you do it, so I will show Shin a bit.
Different ways you can do that, again, not about technique,
some cases we do what we call a stop kick.
That's it.
So he comes over, I just stop him.
I'm not trying to kick him, you see my body balance,
like that, I'm just trying to stop him.
I'm leaning a little bit of my weight on him, see that?
So I want to break his knee, right?
So it's more like that.
I'm exaggerating, it's more like that.
Why that is effective, is all the weight on him,
this is right there, right?
So that's a stop kick, or, sometimes
it can be more of a side kick instead of a stop kick.
It's more like a hit motion, a hit motion
directly to the knee.
Kneecap.
So it's more, if I'm not hitting Shin, it's more like
a stomp, more like a stomp.
So if I'm there, imagine you're stomping something.
Boom, right there, the knee.
So that's intercept the leg.
Second thing you can intercept is the body, right?
Big guy, open up, so I hit the body.
So maybe a front kick, maybe this is okay,
but if he's not wearing a groin protector,
I like this.
This, right there, like that.
You can do it with toe.
If you're wearing any kind of sports shoes or boot,
it's gonna be painful.
So you're going to intercept the body with this,
or it also can be with a side kick.
From there he comes, boom, right there, that's a body.
I'm intercepting with his body, or here.
Could also be here.
He comes over, it can also be there.
So body.
Third thing to intercept is the hand, right?
So let's say he throws a punch this way, go ahead.
Right there, cut.
One more time, slow.
From here, that's a cut, that's an interception.
So I'm not blocking and hitting.
Go ahead, hit.
Right there.
I'm doing that at the same time.
One more time.
It looks something like that.
So intercept the leg, the hand, the body.
The fourth way you do it, which is the level
that you want to get to, which Bruce is at,
is intercept his intention.
Not physical movement.
I'm reading his eyes, I'm reading his soul,
his emotion, that maybe he wants to attack.
Maybe he has intention of hurting me.
Or the people next to me, or my girlfriend, my wife.
That intention.
If you can read that, or even the slightest...
Let me show you.
So I'm looking at you.
You saw that?
Very micro movement.
That's getting a punch loaded up, ready to hit.
But it's very tiny, see it?
Same thing with the leg.
If I'm gonna kick you, watch.
You saw that?
This much.
Very micro.
It's from here, that's already getting load up.
And I'm going to fire kick.
But all I did is this.
See that?
That's the intention.
Or sometimes, look at eyebrow.
Or also my eyes opens up.
That's intention.
So you learn to read very, very micro movement,
which is very, very difficult to do.
Because you're learning to try to read the micro expression.
That's where you want to get to.
Intercept intention.
So, four ways to intercept an attack.
Intercept a leg, intercept body, intercept a hand,
intercept the intention.
Easier said than done.
Easier said than done, because what it requires you to do
is you have to have a very strong foundation.
In Bruce's case, Wing Chun foundation.
You need to be able to at first just block and hit,
and then be able to block and hit at the same time,
simultaneously, and then you'd be able to intercept
before you block.
So you've got to work through level one, level two,
level three, then you gotta work your reflexes,
you gotta be able to read, you gotta be able to judge
distance, you gotta be able to generate enough power,
you need to have no hesitation, you gotta learn
to turn on killer instinct in a very short period of time.
All that's happening within a split of a second.
Not so easy.
That's why it makes JKD so fucking difficult.
It is not a difficult art to understand.
"Oh, yeah, I get the way of intercepting fist."
You fucking do it.
Can you do it?
Can you do it again and again?
Can you do it without thinking?
With just feeling, with reading intention?
Can you do it with precise execution, target, power,
speed, and timing?
All of that.
That's why it's such a difficult art.
Me, I've been learning, I've been practicing.
I've only scratched the surface.
I could spend a hundred years learning this.
I won't even scratch the surface.
And that's why you need a lot of practice.
And through this process, through learning the art,
you learn something about yourself.
You learn to eliminate your own defect.
You have a deep understanding,
and you learn to be more humble.
Doesn't matter how good you get, you know what?
I could spend again, a hundred years, and wouldn't
have even scratched the surface.
It keeps you humble.
You have a more balanced view about life.
And that's why I teach martial arts in my channel,
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