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Bruce Lee's Birthday in Hongkong
Hi, is anyone in Hongkong on Bruce Lee's Birthday, this coming November 27th and would like to meet up? Doing something like dinner, talk movies, martial arts etc. and visit the Bruce Lee Statue at the waterfront.
Since a few people have mentioned learning how to kick from soccer and tackle from football, even use a sword from Tennis and how to fight with a stick from baseball, I been wondering on this.
Would Volleyball be the one regular sports that is the best non-martial arts way of learning how to hit effectively using non-punching arm striking like slaps and hammerfist?
I mean plenty of a variety of methods are used in hitting the volleyball like something resembling a double handed axe and backslaps. So I assumed Volleyball is the best non-fighting related method for learning how to strike with your arms thats not punching?
Over the past five years, I have been working in Thailand in the education system. I have been teaching English to preschool, elementary and university levels. A lot of the material is very old and a lot of the attitudes towards children are prehistoric.
In fact, it's actually near impossible now to pick up an old book from the 1980's and build a college course around it. Some teachers do this. There are a lot of senile teachers clinging on to their jobs. They can't use Zoom, they don't know how to use WhatsApp / line. They have ego problems. They casually turn up late and end the lesson early. Their English is worse than the student's. They need a team of people running behind them to help them.
I always wondered why some teachers (Thai teachers) just pick up a book and read from it. They never test the knowledge. The lesson is entirely passive. However, the American teachers build a course and use sections of existing material, ted talks, presentations, role plays, in-class activities, and so on.
There is a clear difference between lazy senile teachers of the past and modern teachers.
Bruce Lee was right. You can't just stick to one way. You will be aged, outdated, and overtaken by the rest of the world. Especially with younger learners. We have to understand them in order to move forward.
The very framework for writing a paper involves 'adding' to the pool of human knowledge. That's when you receive the title of Doctor.
Bruce Lee changed human combat forever. His philosophy, revolutionary ideas, and the level of detail and research in the Tao of Jeet Kune Do are deserving of a PhD.
If you spend any time in a profession you will realize the absolute genius in ''Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.''
After seeing this post I got curious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kravmaga/comments/7tydem/how_effective_are_soccer_kicks_in_streetfighting/
So did Bruce Lee play soccer as a child as was common among Chinese kids (esp considering he was into so many hobbies outside of martial arts like dancing)?
In addition, I recognize everything said by the OP of the linked post among Westerners and its getting so silly to the point of BS nonsense but I am curious what the Great Bruce said about soccer kicks in fighting? By soccer kick I don't just mean kicking an opponent on the ground but throwing any upwards vertical kick often similar looking to how soccer players kick against a standing opponent in particular one who's pumped up to fight and is in a prepared stance. What did Bruce say on this?
How did he see soccer drills as part of a wider martial arts training system?