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At times you may be discouraged, as others on the quick and easy road seem to pass you by. You may be tempted to follow the crowd. To this, I offer the following from Jack Dempsey:
Let me emphasize again that you will feel very awkward when you first try the moves in long-range punching. I stress that awkwardness for two reasons: (1) so that you won’t figure you’re a hopeless palooka, and (2) so that you’ll pay no attention to wisecracks of friends or sideline experts who watch your early flounderings. Remember: He laughs last who hits hardest.7
In the seventeenth-century martial arts classic The Unfettered Mind —a book, by the way, that resides in Bruce Lee’s personal library—Takuan Soho had a similar message:
If you follow the present day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.8
So with these words in mind, let’s begin our exploration of the Jeet Kune Do straight lead.
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1 Bruce Lee, ed. John Little, Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee’s Commentaries on the Martial Way (Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 1997), p. 21.