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Originally Posted by fe4tw I'll correct you. Bruce Lee's JKD was to do ANYTHING that worked, ground, standup, whatever. Thai Boxing doesn't work ground from what I know. |
My point is that contact fighting was already around in a Martial Art. Karate and Kung-Fu did non-contact sparring. Lee was credited for creating a contact karate style basically. That wasn't anything new. World War 2 military trainers such as William Fairbairn, Rex Applegate and others devised close-quaters hand-to-hand fighting systems that used anything that worked.