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Why was Bruce Lee so powerful in martial arts?

Wing Chun is the most systematic study of Bruce Lee, the most in-depth study, and affect his life boxing, plus the king of the hand talker known as sifu Wong Shun Kuk's point, mention and teach, and is the most beneficial martial arts. It can be said that the practical Wing Chun is the foundation of Bruce Lee's martial arts. Although Bruce Lee did not study Wing Chun for a very long time, only two or three years, compared to the study of Wing Chun for decades of brothers and sisters, can be said to be insignificant, but with Bruce Lee's understanding, the degree of hard work, the time spent and the degree of obsession with Wing Chun, he reached a state that is difficult to be compared with other people with ten years, twenty years, or even more time. In May 1959, Bruce Lee moved to the United States, away from his Sifu and brothers. In order to earn a living and continue to enrich and improve his martial arts, he set up a school to teach students, and went out to perform and demonstrate to promote Chinese martial arts. He has also made friends in the martial arts community and learned from them various martial arts such as Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Western Boxing, Western Sword, Jiu-Jitsu, Filipino Stick Fighting and other martial arts, as well as utilizing advanced and scientific physical training methods. By incorporating the best of the world's martial arts and utilizing advanced and scientific physical training methods, we have finally created the direct, fast, practical and effective Jeet Kune Do (JKD). He put forward the maxim "to have law without law, infinite for finite", and reached the state of Zen by the martial arts and became a generation of masters. Bruce Lee's creation of "Intercepting Fist Do" is based on the "Lawlessness as Lawfulness, Infinity as Finitude" as the boxing theory, these two sentences can be regarded as the core of Bruce Lee's martial arts thinking, but also the center of the idea of the Intercepting Fist Do. Bruce Lee's senior instructor, Wong Shun Kuk, considered these two phrases to be another interpretation of the Wing Chun doctrine of "using no moves to win". He said that some of the basic skills in Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do did not leave the realm of Wing Chun, but were merely an interpretation of it. For example, the Wing Chun inside the hand straight punch, if the two sides of the two hands in contact, when the other hand left, Wing Chun fighter's first reaction is: do not care about the other side of the intention of how the first time to go straight line to attack the other side, this point is not easy to do, so Wing Chun fighters to be diligent in practicing sticky hands. Bruce Lee's point of view is to seek to break through the limitations of the stance as the ultimate goal, even from a broad sense, including all techniques, forms and sects of the limitations, he is opposed to any form of set practice, that will only limit the individual martial arts play. Bruce Lee did not let up on his martial arts training and improvement during his studies at Edison Vocational and Technical School in Seattle, and he continued to use his spare time to teach himself traditional Chinese martial arts such as Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, Southern Shaolin Kung Fu, Praying Mantis Kung Fu, and Xingyi Kung Fu, while he was advancing to college in 1961. He often practiced with disciples who were skilled in other martial arts to learn and master new styles of kung fu, which he used to enrich his own fighting techniques. He also goes to Chinese bookstores to search for various old and new or classical philosophy books from the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among them, Mr. Cai Longyun's "Basic Training in Martial Arts" and Mr. Wan Lai Sheng's "Martial Arts Compendium" had a great influence on him. In particular, Mr. Wan Lai Sheng, who was known as "The Greatest Martial Artist", had the greatest influence on Bruce Lee in terms of martial arts thinking. The natural martial arts practiced by Mr. Wan Lai Sheng did not have any fixed stances, and relied on on-the-spot reaction to fight against the enemy. It was also a kind of martial arts that combined the strengths of many schools and had a unique style, which had a deep influence on Bruce Lee's creation and development of Jeet Kune Do. During this period, Bruce Lee collected Chinese books and "Introduction to Chinese Martial Arts", "Xingyiquan Secret", "Wudang Boxing Secret", "Karate", "Introduction to Karate", "Tao", "Martial Virtue Theory", "Taijiquan" and other schools of kung fu training guide books, as well as the English version of the "Boxing", "Principles of Fist Striking and Exercise", "Principles of Biomechanics" and other authoritative monographs on overseas martial arts and sports. Natural elegance. Intercepting Fist Do is also simple, powerful and full of ideas, so that when fighting, there are no shadows to be discerned, so that the opponent is caught off guard and falls to the ground in an instant. Kung Fu is a special skill, a subtle art, not a physical activity. It is a subtle art in which the mind and the skill must work together. The principles of Kung Fu cannot be learned, just like a science, which needs to be sought and obtained through empirical evidence. It must be left to nature, like a flower that blossoms from a mind free from feelings and desires. The core of the Kung Fu principle is the Tao - that is, the naturalness of the universe. Bruce Lee reflected on the need to abandon the traditional form of martial arts routines. Although he himself had learned a number of traditional martial arts routines, once he encountered a set of punches that he did not know, he was once again trapped in a state of confusion. He was looking for the ****iest, simplest and most powerful techniques that could be applied to any fight and win quickly. Under the influence of the new concept of time, he began to form a new concept of martial arts combat, which is the tenet of Jeet Kune Do: from the actual combat, efficiency, simplicity and practicality. He then took firm and decisive steps to reform and innovate. "Jeet Kune Do is a martial art without form, and there is no sect, but it conforms to any sect. Therefore, it embraces the fine techniques of other schools, applies to any technique, and can be used with all means at full strength to achieve its goal." Bruce Lee founded Jeet Kune Do on the principle of assimilating useful techniques and theories and adding his own specialties so as to enhance the ability to fight in real life, improve the level of actual combat, and move towards the line of learning by doing. Therefore, he dialectically accepted the merits and strengths of other kung fu styles and was the first to unlearn the constraints of general boxing. For example, when practicing the so-called "Free Fighting" in Karate, once you are close to the body and fight, you have to be on point, so that over time, you will form the bad habit of "leaving your hand" when you are actually fighting. This is not the case with the techniques created by Bruce Lee, which start fighting only when they are close to the body. Furthermore, while Judo and Aikido do not use leg strikes, Bruce Lee's technique (Jeet Kune Do) emphasizes both hands and feet, and can even use mouth bites. When it comes to using the feet, karate and Korean taekwondo advocate and encourage the use of the high leg for combat, the Interceptor is long in the upper, middle and lower can be effective kicks, especially on the shin, knee, thigh attacks, hit rate is higher and more lethal. In addition, Jeet Kune Do is also simple, direct, never fancy, it is only recognized as a kind of unarmed combat in hand-to-hand combat strive to spend the least effort to defeat the strong enemy fighting art. There is no specific horse stance or stance in Jeet Kune Do, but the more powerful and flexible side of the hands and feet are usually placed in front, so that the attacking hands and feet are closer to the opponent, so the attack hit rate is high. Bruce Lee didn't talk about horse stance and didn't have a set punch or kick pattern, so he didn't have the names of the moves like traditional martial arts. Thus, the Intercepting Fist Do claims to be "no type of form, no style of style", only to see how the opponent comes, and then how to strike back at the right time. Therefore, the principle of Jeet Kune Do is: "To make the law available by the lawless, and the infinite by the finite", or "to make the law available by the lawless, and the infinite by the finite". Jeet Kune Do does not advocate bullying, it sees fighting as an art, because Bruce Lee had read a lot of philosophical monographs, and by the deep influence of Western humanitarianism, therefore, Jeet Kune Do attaches great importance to the value of human beings, and advocates the refinement of martial arts skills, and in practice to comprehend the wonders of it, to give full play to the potential ability to improve the human being. In addition, it also views fighting as a demonstration of the value of one's martial arts skills and abilities, and does not place undue importance on winning or losing. At the same time, Jeet Kune Do also believes that "surprise (i.e., sudden attack) and kicks are powerful weapons of self-defense". From this, we can easily see that Jeet Kune Do is very different from any fancy kung fu, which has the characteristics of plain and simple, following the same law of combat ****. Its basis of combat is simple, clear, yet effective.