Sifu Davis,I would like your opinion about something that i've heard some year back.I think that it was 1997 or 98 during the Bruce/Brandon Lee Seminar in Torrance Ca. Sifu Pete Jacobs took to the floor and he said " Instead of me getting up and teach you any Wing Chun or JKD related things,I'm going to teach you what Bruce was doing when i knew him."
I been wondering every since that day.Do you believe that there is a separation between JKD and Bruce Lee? In other words to what he taught the Masses in classroom and when he worked out with Dan Inosanto,Ted Wong,Steve Golden,Jerry Poteet and Pete Jacobs.(I know that there were a couple more guys.)I know that you have trained with various guys who have trained with Sigung Lee and Have you ever thought that there was more to what was being given? Mike Sheng

Hello Mike!

I have found from my training experiences with the various original Bruce Lee students that while the core elements that he taught them are the same, the area of specialization with each one seems to have been different! Bruce Lee was known to look at the student's strong points and focus on getting them very good in those areas. This gave him worthy training partners to work with for development of different skills that he wanted to improve himself. It is a well known fact that Bruce Lee did not like teaching that much, but instead preferred training himself and developing his own attributes and skills. Using his students as "guinea pigs" he was able to improve his own skills by making them better at certain things. Also, some things that he taught were his own innovations (not from Wing Chun or any other art known at the time), and different students were better suited for these things based on their own natural attributes and physical abilities/characteristics. Several of Bruce Lee's original students have shown me things that I have ONLY learned from them and seen NONE of the others do! This is where the statement made by Pete Jacobs comes from!

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Sifu Lamar M. Davis II
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Thank you,Sifu Davis that really clears up a lot in my own training. Mike Sheng