Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art

Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by roel_v on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:21AM (#27770542)

"Bruce Lee's movie fighting style" then, which has little to do with his proper fight training, like Jean Claude van Damme's fight choreography has little to do with his fighting background.

Apart from that, I do take issue with the for some reason increasingly popular notion of Bruce Lee's fighthing being some sort of proto-MMA. MMA is not just taking something from various sources and calling it "<first name>-fu" or "<first name> tang doo". The essence of (old school) MMA/Vale Tudo is about finding out what works and what doesn't through literal trial by combat, it's not about the mix and match aspect.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by VortexDream on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:03PM (#27773823)

So, exactly what Bruce Lee did. Read his books. He talks about how he was disappointed with traditional martial arts and how he was always interested in finding the most effective techniques and ideas.

I honestly don't understand why you're so eager to criticize what he did when you don't seem to know much about what he actually did and what his thoughts were about martial arts.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by roel_v on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:44AM (#27781365)

Please show me the full contact fights Bruce Lee was in.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by dhimes on Thursday July 08, 2021 @08:30AM (#27771071)

That essence is what Bruce Lee espoused as well, from what I've read. Apparently that's what got him into trouble with the traditional "elder" practitioners.

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