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[sempaiman]

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.

[fe4tw]

Bruce was credited with creating JKD, an anti-style of fighting. I have no idea what you mean by saying he was credited for creating "a contact karate style basically", I've never heard about that. And it doesn't make any sense, because obviously contact fighting has existed for ages.

I have no clue about those WW2 people, so I can't comment on that.

[sempaiman]

Originally Posted by fe4tw

Bruce was credited with creating JKD, an anti-style of fighting. I have no idea what you mean by saying he was credited for creating "a contact karate style basically", I've never heard about that. And it doesn't make any sense, because obviously contact fighting has existed for ages.

I have no clue about those WW2 people, so I can't comment on that.

I go it now, "....using anti-style as a style; using no-way as a way,..."

You should look up those guys, you might find it interesting.

[TheTruth]

I remember my infamous battle with Cuadros about the "Bruce Lee argument". That was epic.