In this video, Dan Inosanto (Bruce Lee's personal student/ Martial Arts Legend) recalls what it was like to train with Bruce Lee and talks about some of Bruce Lee's concepts in Jeet-Kune-Do.
I really love listening to Dan Inosanto. Of all the people who knew and trained and worked with Bruce,nobody can give such an in depth account about Bruce like Dan. He is such an intelligent man concerning martial arts. And when he got to know Bruce, Dan was already proficient in several styles and competing with Kenpo karate. It's funny when many nowadays say about Bruce that he was Just a movie actor doing martial arts. When Bruce here never considered himself an actor but being himself in action as Dan said. The impact Bruce had on Dan is profound. I really liked Dan's performance in Game Of Death and felt he had potential to do more movies but clearly he had no such aspirations. His veracity about how intelligent and adept Bruce was as a martial artist and as a human being is truly inspiring
At a few seminars he was telling us how Bruce trained double leg take downs for hours, to work on his take down defense. Very interesting to hear this about someone we all think of as a striker
It never ceases to amaze me how many detractors Dan has from people who never actually was there with Bruce. .DAN WAS THERE...HE SHOULD KNOW MORE THAN THOSE WHO HAD LESS KNOWLEDGE OF MA WHO WERE EITHER THERE OR NOT ...
Bruce kept changing because he was also changing as a martial artist. He was finding better ways to do things while simultaneously discarding things that he deemed were in effective or didn't help him reach his goal.
He found more effective and streamlined methods. Why go in circles when you can just be direct. “People fail to realize Bruce moved beyond technique. Once you understand the goal is to hit primary targets in the shortest time possible. All the fluff can be cut away. So you don't have to learn new techniques. You find better safer direct and indirect ways to attack these points. The rest of your time is spent training your body to refine this process. Tommy has shown us the way. I want to do my best to display the art the way Bruce intended it to be.” - John Paul Daily JKD instructor.
