Mastering JKD: The Non-Telegraphic Lead

[@danplasma]

Non Telegraphic lead is one of the TENNANTS of Jun Fan Chinese Boxing, Grandmaster would have been proud, RIP Bruce Lee

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@danplasma a very humble thank you for that! 🙏

[@steveholland6982]

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year Blessings from New Zealand.

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@steveholland6982 thanks, Steve. Merry Christmas right back at ya - and thanks as always for your amazing support too.

[@GeorgeMoon-p1t]

This is how jack Dempsey taught the lead jolt . What’s your thoughts on pak mei ? It looks similar to wing chun but they use a lot of different animal fists . I’m kind of skeptical about it but it would be wrong to criticise something I haven’t yet practiced

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@GeorgeMoon-p1t I agree with you that we need to exercise great caution and respect for other systems - especially when we don’t have first hand knowledge of them. In this case I haven’t any experience with a skilled practitioner, so I’ll just say that from what I’ve seen there are some general similarities but significant differences. As for Dempsey: absolutely right! Jack’s boxing manual (Championship Fighting, the Art of Aggressive Defense) was a Bruce Lee favorite and he even wrote Jack some fan mail. Thanks for watching!

[@danplasma]

@@JKDandWingChun hey Sifu, quick question pls Sir, isn’t there a serious violent beef and quarrel between Bak Mei and Wing Chun practitioners? Tyvm !

[@VikingMale]

@@danplasmanever heard of such a thing. Pak Mei was kicked out of the Shaolin temple because it was too violent.

[@GeorgeMoon-p1t]

@@JKDandWingChun if you look at Bruce’s Lee Tao of Jkd book expanded edition on page 42 and 43 there’s references to Hakka fist .

[@GeorgeMoon-p1t]

@@JKDandWingChun and does wing chun use strikes to the throat ?

[@mikeruddell6091]

Another great lesson. Thanks to your training, I got a "how did you do that"! He tries to counter, but I am never there until he misses and another jab is the way. Thanks for the great training Sifu.

[@tariqs4357]

Masterclass Sifu 👏🏼

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@tariqs4357 thanks a bunch for watching.

[@cesarjkd8379]

This was the cliff notes edition of the book "the Straight Lead" ! 😄

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@cesarjkd8379 Teri wrote a great book with that. We generally consider that required reading over here.

[@cesarjkd8379]

Yes! That book is in my collection. I guess it will be a while before we get 'the Rear Straight, the Shovel hook, etc' 😀

[@theajbible]

So simple yet so hard!

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@theajbible amen to that. Simple never means easy.

[@nmr20067]

Didn’t Bruce basically do the non telegraphed lead in Enter the Dragon when he punched O’Hara? I know it was just a movie but it seemed so.. because it just happened really fast out of nowhere. And I know Bruce said he wouldn’t do most of the things he didn’t his movies in real life. But some things he did do.

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@nmr20067 that was a sort of version of it (highly technical language there lol). He definitely showed the speed and power of closing the gap with non-telegraphic technique off the bridge trap, that’s for sure! So, yeah, though it wasn’t exactly as we generally practice and apply it for self-defense, it was a very nice example of its effectiveness. Great input…and thanks for watching too!

[@nmr20067]

@ Got it. Thanks for the explanation!

[@Rafal-w6z]

I watched two "smart guys" today who ranked about 20 different martial arts by their effectiveness in self-defense on the street. According to them, the top were grappling martial arts like wrestling, BJJ, and variations of judo. At the bottom were striking arts, and at the very bottom, aikido and wing tsun, which they claimed are equally useless on the street! What do you think about that? In my opinion, if you end up fighting on the ground in a street fight, you're already done for, but apparently, these "experts" know better...

[@JKDandWingChun]

@@Rafal-w6z Great input and question. I’d say that we all have a bias and need to be careful. Reality always has the last word. That said, we believe that striking skill and footwork are the primary skills considering that we aren’t guaranteed a one-on-one. An extra opponent seriously complicates grappling as one’s primary self-defense system. It can be done, but it’s wrought with peril. But, and this is a point a lot of people miss (including Wing Chun fighters) is that the clinch is also necessary. Too many modern Wing Chun schools have a traditionalist approach. They ignore what a drill like Chi-sao is supposed to develop, so they focus on the drill, not the skill. In reality, the best BJJ schools don’t focus on competition, but street defense. Notice that those schools work on deescalation, positioning, tying guys up and smothering punches, and then taking the enemy down. It’s the focus of the training. We think that Wing Chun does that - but better! - if it’s trained properly. Wing Chun schools need to break out of the chi-sao bubble and train to apply our close-quarter tool kit against modern fighters from a clinch. All that said, I agree that in the main modern BJJ and MMA schools produce better fighters than most Wing Chun schools. But this is because of the training focus within those schools. Like I said, a lot of BJJ is way too focused on competition and that’s dangerous for self-defense. Likewise, Wing Chun schools are focusing on tradition and “pure Wing Chun” rather than application. They mistake the forms and drills for application in fighting. Anyway, we should do a video on this! LOL. Thanks again and hope this loooong answer helped.

[@michaelgussnig1426]

this is not a falling step !!!!! you just jumping forward ! and buy the way you are completly open for counters

[@JanPetrasek-kd3to]

Well, in reality, JKD lead punch look like that m.kzbin.infopC4Mls4XF9U (its me)

[@Shadowrulzalways]

That’s not how it works. You have to step forward while striking simultaneously.

[@JanPetrasek-kd3to]

@@Shadowrulzalways step or no stepping.. its fast as hell and if I step its even faster. The key is to lean sideway as strike. Two principles of JKD which almost every youtuber who make videos about JKD forgetting: 1. Fight sideways 2. Fight as fast as possible. I get used to it that almost everyone do JKD in bad way to the way, that I can even appreciate bad techniques, like in this video. His straight punch is good, but he doesnt do side stance.