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Photo by Angelique Pearl Miranda, May 17, 2015

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Finished watching Jeet Kune Do from my second Bruce Lee DVD, narrated by Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Dan Inosanto, and Walt Missingham. It is a documentary on martial arts as self-expression. Felt like taking out my nunchaku but prevented myself from doing so. The documentary contains a lot of footage and photos I'd never seen before.

Here is a summary of the chapters:

--Chapter 1: In the Beginning
--Chapter 2: Towards Personal Liberation
--Chapter 3: Punching
--Chapter 4: Footwork
--Chapter 5: Kicking
--Chapter 6: Training. It is this chapter that contains passages on spirituality and the importance of cardio-vascular strength and knowledge of muscle memory.
--Chapter 7: Think on These Things

Jeet Kune Do has 32 sequences, but they are not shown here in detail.

Members of The 36 Wands: We should watch this together sometime. It contains a lot of applicable body movements for wand work.

Take the following lesson, for example, which could be directly applied to magic:

"The Three Factors in Attack:

"1. A fine sense of timing.
"2. A perfect judgment of distance.
"3. A correct application of cadence."

An interesting anecdote: In an interview, Dan Inosanto claims that when Bruce Lee was facing an enemy, he saw the enemy not from where he was standing but from high above and from different directions. An illustration of projection?




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