Photo by IAMA Day 2 Legends Camp. Today we share something Guro Inosanto spoke about in regard to JKD and Sigung Bruce Lee. There is a saying that goes something like: if you steal from one person you're a plagiarist, if you steal from 100 and nobody can tell, you're a genius. Bruce Lee was the genius. I just want to evaluate that really quick. There are publications that state that Bruce Lee only took from 3 arts in his creation of JKD. Now 3 arts may be the truth of some practitioners experience and I'm not about to call their experience wrong but let's think about the genius from the above statement. 3 sources would simply make him a plagiarist and there aren't any JKD practitioners who would call him that. Taking the time to look at Sigung's history and also to pass through Jun Fan Institute ever changing curriculums through the period after Jeet Kune Do was coined as what Sigung was doing (that is the LA period for those not fine tuned to the timeline), it's clear there are more than 3 elements. Sigung stressed it was necessary for each individual to do their own research and create and that such individual creativity was more important than any style. If we think about how we research and create an academic paper at the university level, many sources are required and the paper is not just a plain collection of quotations from sources. Instead we synthesize the information researched that supports our thesis, ad our thoughts, and come to a conclusion. In other words, we absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add specifically what is our own. An interesting piece of related trivia that Guro Inosanto related today acknowledging some of the controversy around his choosen path after Sigung's passing: " My interest in Silat comes from Bruce Lee. He bought me my first book on the subject." #trainingwiththelegends #IAMA #jeetkunedo #daninosanto #martialartslifestyle #MALMAG