Friday, November 17, 2006

Bruce Lee and the Dummy

Here is an article from kungfiMagazine.com


I include this because it enlightens us to alternative uses of the dummy and some innovative ways to use it and train. This is thinking outside the box stuff and if you're not used to this the nit will cause discomfort or fascination.


  • The dummy 'form' is split up into 'sets' of moves 1 to 12,  that can be juggled
  • The juggling of the 'sets' allows for more free-play of the moves vs application in a linear way. E.g. start at set 7 and then move to 2, rather than work from set 1 to 7.
  • The dummy can be used like a punch bag to practice angles, leverage, movement, accuracy


I would love to have seen a film of Bruce Lee on the Dummy it would be really enlightening indeed.
There are some videos - very rare - of the Bruce Lee Jun Fan sets - 10 sets of movements that look like modified Wing Chun. And then another 10 Jeet Kune Do sets that have moved away from Wing Chun-style and are more dynamic (by this I mean less upright structure and use of space to zone in and out and around the dummy is more varied).

I wonder why Inosanto hasn't published material on these sets and their use or a video on them ?

(I will review the tapes I have on these in another post- the are by a Spanish practitioner)

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=92

Worth reading.

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