“In order to taste my cup of water, you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.”
Bruce Lee crafted that quote as a guide for other martial artists who were seeking the truth about what works in a real fight. Throughout his life, he constantly searched for the most effective techniques, tactics and strategies known to man. As he succinctly put in it his book Tao of Jeet Kune Do, “Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.”
For Lee, the purpose of his research was twofold: to add to his personal combat repertoire and to further his development of what would eventually emerge as jeet kune do.
CQC sambo instructor Phillip Duncan Jr. is assisted by professional Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter Louie Cerqua.
This take-it-from-anyplace approach set the martial arts world abuzz in the 1960s and ’70s — and again in the early ’90s when a man who had trained in an obscure art called Brazilian jiu-jitsu triumphed over all comers in a no-holds-barred contest: the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship. BJJ emerged from the shadows, and many of us assimilated its lessons into our personal self-defense systems.
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