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Indeed, Tai Chi, Wing Chun, JKD, Taekwondo, all these things can be useful for flexibility, fitness and such. However, it would be very foolish to rely on Wing Chun, JKD or Taekwondo techniques you have learnt to defend yourself against a knife attack, because you will most likely end up very dead. Equally, in a fight with a real fighter you will also end up badly injured, as Xu Xiaodong has shown with the various Kung Fu masters he demolished in under 2 minutes. So when people say that Wing Chun, Kung Fu, JKD, Taekwondo and such are useless in a real fight, that is not just idle talk. It's reality.

That's exactly what Xu Xiadong is doing, and he is the one kicking the a$$es of all these Kung Fu masters. So....that's already been done. See here:

I have actually fought a Pencak Silat master, I mean sparring, not for real obviously, and was very impressed. Indeed it seems like one of the more effective marital arts.

You must admit it is quite remarkable that we have celebrated a man as a the epitomy of martial arts who was a "pretend" fighter, an actor, who never competed in competitive fights in a serious way. Whereas thousands of men have come before him and after him, who have competed in real competitive fights and never reached the mythical status of Bruce Lee. What caused that difference? Only one thing, the fact that Bruce Lee was the first film star to use martial arts and kids looked at the silver screen and believed Bruce Lee was really fighting on screen. When in fact that was make belief. In that sense Bruce Lee was a fraud. In another sense, we now know that Wing Chun and all Chinese Kung Fu is a useless in a real fight. And of course JKD is largely based on Wing Chun. So JKD too is a fraud. Well, not so much a fraud, Bruce Lee really tried his best, he could sense old Kung Fu was ineffectual and tried to incorporate boxing, but due to his massive inexperience with real fighting he actually believed things like low kicks are ineffectual (see Tao of Jeet Kune Do) when in fact they are highly effectual. So yes, Bruce Lee was a bit of a fraud. Even if he was very fit, fast and studied a great number of mostly Chinese martial arts. He studied the wrong martial arts, never engaged in competitive fighting and hence came to completely wrong conclusions like low kicks are ineffectual. If anyone wanted to come up with the ultimate fighting system today, knowing what we know empirically with MMA today, they would stay completely clear of Wing Chun, which forms the basis of JKD. They would stay clear of Tai Chi, Taekwondo and Kung Fu altogether. Rather they would focus on wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai and boxing. If Bruce Lee had focused on those martial arts to build his JKD it would be worth something. But then he was not a real fighter and could not have known what we know today. The people Bruce Lee trained of course would never have outed him, because they knew even less than he did, they were mostly clueless actors. What they learned however was largely useless in a real fight. Because JKD is useless in a real fight, as is Wing Chun. As a trained MMA fighter there is no doubt that Xu Xiaodong would pulverize Bruce Lee in less than 2 minutes. Why do we know this? Because if you look at the video of Xu Xiaodong you see how he usess maximum aggression to rush these legendary Kung Fu masters, who are only used to compliant pupils carefully jabbing at them in a non-aggressive way. Much like Bruce Lee was. There is no real sparring in Wing Chun where a trujly aggressive non-compliant opponent rushes at you, like Xu Xiaodong does. This is why these Kung Fu masters lose so badly, they are not used to this, to real fighting.

Yes, I do agree, whilst my experience has been slightly different and I've had to fight before, you are of course right, in our modern age the risk of a real fight is minimal and extremely low. Then again the risk of open heart surgery is very low, but I still have medical insurance, the risk of hurricane damange is low, but I still had the house insured (and thank God because a hurricane did happen). Ultimately, I would not want to come up against an Andrew Tate figure in a night club and find that they can threaten you, I think it is better to have the skill to deal with agression if it ever were to come up. I have a big knife next to my bed as well, btw, just in case someone breaks in. A wise precaution.

There is Tai Chi and Taekwondo in Jeet Kune Do "As an eclectic martial art, it relies on a fighting style heavily influenced by Wing Chun, Tai Chi, taekwondo, boxing, fencing and jujutsu." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do Bruce Lee learnt Taekwondo techniques from hoongoo Rhee, who taught him the side kick in detail. He also learned aspects of Taekwondo from Chuck Norris, who was a Taekwondo instructor. Bruce Lee used Taekwondo techniques, like high kicks and spinning kicks, as building blocks for, Jeet Kune Do. Bruce's own father Lee Hoi Chuen.taught Tai Chi and passed on the fundamentals to Bruce Lee. Towards the end of his life Bruce Lee also studied Tai chi with with Liang Zi Peng. Here's video of Bruce Lee demonstrating his Tai Chi moves. In fact Jesse Glover, whom you mentioned earlier has said that Bruce Lee was more obsessed with learning Tai Chi than learning Wing Chun, though it is the case that there are less Tai Chi elements in JKD than Wing Chun: If you're still stuck in the "nucleus" then Carruthers obviously didn't teach you very well. Here is a quote from Bruce Lee himself on how the nucleus is only the first stage, and has to be overcome in JKD: "Now there are three stages in the cultivation of Jeet Kune Do, each of them interrelated. The first stage is “sticking to the nucleus”; the second stage, “liberation from the nucleus”; the third stage, “returning to the original freedom.” https://jkdwednite.com/stages-in-the-cultivation-of-jeet-kune-do/ Either way it doesn't matter. Wing Chun is just as discredited as all forms of Kung Fu are, including Tai Chi. Taekwondo is equally discredited in that it is useless in a real fight.

True story, once the missus and I went crazy shopping at a sex shop in Vienna. Her whole suitcase was full with sex toys, whips, handcuffs and other paraphernalia. The Viennese lady at the x-ray had a good laugh and waved us through knowingly. Of course this flight was Vienna to London. If you do that in Thailand you'd probably go to jail now.

Of course not, I never said it was. In fact I gave Bruce Lee credit for recognising that his old traditional Kung Fu was ineffective and for trying to incoporate boxing and other styles into JKD. However, JKD relies heavily on Wing Chun, Tai Chi and Taekwondo, all of which have been greatly discredited as ineffectual martial arts. As has JKD.

I am sure you do, and you are clearly a very smart individual. However "never" is a strong word, fights are rare, but you could be in a situation when a fight is inevitable. It is very rare, but it could happen.

We have some evidence for that, after Masvidal lost against Colby, he was so pissed he ambushed Colby outside the ring when he was leaving a restaurant. He punched pieces of Colby's teeth out and Colby claimed he had some brain damange, but Masvidal never grappled him. I suppose grappling can only end in a gentle submission in the ring, in real life grappling would end in a broken arm, and nobody wants that really.

Well, because Jesse Glover was black. George Foreman too could punch hard until he hit 45 years old, after that it was over even for the great George Foreman who looked a poor shadow of a boxer against Axel Schulz. After 45 I don't think even a black guy with world titles, recognised as the hardest puncher in boxing had it in him to win a boxing match. Carruthers, who never was any kind of competitive boxer is, what, 66? Maybe you can get some influencer to fight him for kicks and giggles. But he would lose.

Bit like the US and UK when they stole and copied the German's jet engine engineers and designs. The Germans of course having been the ones who produced the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft to fly, the The He 178. That was the real breakthrough. All that went before was just foreplay.

Trump secures $600 billion investment commitment from Saudi Arabia https://www.newsweek.com/donal-trump-administration-news-middle-east-live-updates-2071496 600 billion! That's 50% more than China makes off of the US in exports. How does Trump pull these deals off???

In the end if two men meet outside any ring there are no rules. Everything would count.

I hope you mean Sugar Ray Robinson, who was the best boxer of all time. There is no way that Bruce Lee could develop the same force of punching power as Sugar Ray Robinson or most other top level boxers. Bruce Lee just didn't have the mass, being a small and light person. There are many MMA fighters who did well just using striking power, punching power. Dos Santos comes to mind. But boxers have far greater punching power, witness for instance the supposed heaviest hitter Francis Ngannou. It was close, but he was outpunched by the real boxers. Now Ngannou is not a great grappler, but could he have taken Tyson using grappling and kicking? It's an interesting question, but boxers have too much to lose to go into MMA that way.

That's what I want, white powdery sand and clear water! Thanks!

I thought that road up from Surat Thani maybe some nice beaches there. But so far neither Phuket, nor Hua Hin nor Pattaya are really up to par.

Don't forget to hold his walking cane, don't let him fall down! He's quite old.

No. Bruce Lee himself acknowledged that Ali would beat him in a fight, citing the size and reach differences. In a hypothetical fight, Muhammad Ali would likely win against Bruce Lee. Ali's size, weight, and professional boxing experience would be significant advantages. Lee, while a skilled martial artist and physically fit, had limited experience against professional fighters, and his size and reach disadvantage would make it difficult to land effective strikes on Ali. Ali was a heavyweight champion, significantly larger and heavier than Lee. This would give Ali a significant advantage in terms of reach, power, and overall physicality. Ali was a highly experienced professional boxer, having fought and won against some of the greatest fighters in history. Lee, while a skilled martial artist, had limited experience in high-level competition and did not engage in professional fights.

The beach looks so nice in pics, but when you go to swim there dark murky water and coarse sand. Still looking for a good beach in Thailand.

Oh looks like he's already winning the trade war. Maybe follow the news.

Trump actually doesn't, he asked Scott Bessent, an elite hedge fund manager to join his economics team. He asked Elon Musk, an elite business man to trim the government. He doesn't have that Khmer Rouge or Maoist hatred of the elite as a whole, he just doesn't like some of them, others he quite likes. Well, the thing with convictions, you know some people were convinced spaceships were going to come and abduct them. But I fail to see any meat on the bones, even after reading that article full of hot air.

Of course, otherwise 57 million people will die in the next 8 weeks. World will end soon.

Can we have the estimates of Prof Neil Ferguson and his team how many billions of people will die in Thailand in the next 2 months? So useful the last time.

Unlike many other countries, including the US and France, the UK has no parliamentary oversight of its elite special forces regiments. Strategic responsibility for their actions falls ultimately to the prime minister, along with the defence secretary and head of special forces. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3j5gxgz0do That sounds bad, but the Ministry of Defence has a good record of putting armed forces operatives on trial in such cases. The truth will come out. Not least because for once journalists are not busy lying but doing their job. Once again one has to applaud the British media.