Jeet kune do which stands for: the art of intercepting the fist ,well what does it mean? Let's talk about the greatest martial artist and founder of all time bruce lee , with his philosophy studies he created a martial art that involves everything together which is:boxing ,wrestling, jiu-jitsu. Now why is he has a term of the " greatest martial artist ?there is a reason for that,he was able to do stuff that nobody has done before ,when he came to America in the age of 19 or 20 if im not mistaken and studied at the universityof Washington, without any fear in the first time he wanted to really show the Americans the Chinese martial arts , so what he did ?he went to the karate gym and fought the karate master overthere and beat him up , now ,can you imagine such a young man will go to a martial art gym to fight their master? The courage that he had , and he believed in everything he was doing, long story short he beat up all the Japanese people in California and whole America the whole masters, it happened that he lost twice to one master and came back and beat him up , he basically raised and made the Chinese people proud of who they are ,in America back then Chinese people were nobody ,bruce lee came and showed everyone what a a Chinese martial arts is all about, the way he developed jeet kune do is through learning other styles, boxing ,jiu-jitsu, judo , he was open minded about creating something unique so that people can use for self-defense, he was very known for his movement skills, he was very fast and almost nobody was able to defend his fists, now there was no Japanese or any other enemy that was able to defeat him and the reason why is beacause he really believed in his power and skills , I recommend you guys to watch the whole his history from the beginning to end in Netflix its 50 episodes if im not mistaken, you'll learn so much just from watching from the beginning to the end, the whole journey was just so incredible, you have to understand, he took a huge risk by fighting all the Japanese people that hate Chinese people and making fun of Chinese martial arts , he knew that the Americans needs something different , in order to succeed in life you have to put yourself in a situation where you have 2 options, whether you will get embarrassed dor your entire life or whether you will be beloved by everyone and successful, it's like you putting yourself in an mma fight with a guy who trained more than you or stronger than you , but if I would've told you that if you will win this guy in a fight then I'll give you a free rent gym and you'll be able to coach there all your students and basically make your own business, and you in the situation where are you broke with no money and no family, what would you do? Be scared and not achieving your goal as a successful instructor? Just beacause you getting scared of being embarrassed in front of your family, girlfriend, friends? Isn't the way it works in life ,believe me in any step in life that you wanna move on there will be a certain risk whether you wanna take it or not that's the way life works. Bruce lee after he became a champion he knew it would not be enough just to compete and show my style, he knew also that all the martial arts movies not seem so real in real life ,he said that I have to show to the Americans something different, and Hollywood did not accepted Chinese people, basically he got an offer to make the first movie big-boss in china and it became very successful, from there on fist of fury , Hollywood accepted him only after they saw that this guy is something completely different and they made the movie enter the dragon which became one of the best movies of whole time, for us it sounds like wow such a successful person ,but nobody understands the struggle that comes within it ,God gave us a talent or any hobby to show to the world, but we deciding if should we do this or not , bruce lee was able to prove to the Americans that with the power of jeet kune do you can attack someone before he attacks you ,beacsuse you basically know if he his going to kick or punch you ,jeet kune do spread in whole united states but only few people know how to really teach it , even bruce lee student said that there is bruce Lee's jeet kune do and jeet kune do itself, I mean you'll still learn the techniques from that for sure if you'll go to a jeet kune do gym ,I'm just saying that isn't like the way you think it supposed to be , bruce lee was unique and that's why jeet kune do is unique, guys whole you can learn from here is if you really feeling something within your heart that is missing and you can really show something do waste time just go and do it , if you believe that you can draw beautiful and you are in to Art then do something with that ,Don't make it as a hobby, any successful companies or businesses started from a hobby, mark Zuckerberg for example was a college student and was into computers so he developed something as well as Bill gates, unfortunately only when people feeling the pain and challenges in life then they thinking about taking an action and that's wrong, whether you want or no challenges will come to you and you have to face them , bruce lee wanted people do be able to express themselves through martial arts and not just be strong and waiting for someone to attack you on the street and be proud of yourself for defeating him , it's all about the mindset ,that's why there is many mma fighters for example but how many of them making it to the ufc? Beacause of the mindset period, expectations can be good only with the right goals and actions, ofcurse an expectation without a willing of achieve something great will go to a waste and can cause depression. Let's take Charles olivera a Brazilian ufc champion, he was known as a quitter in the ufc and always losses, I guess one day he woke up and said my style isn't wrong is the mindset and he was able to use his striking and jiu-jitsu in an amazing way.
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