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i'm taking western boxing/sparring with the big 'ol gloves to improve my striking, reflexes, timing, and fitness. i feel like all the techniques i've learned are essentially incomplete until i've been able to use them versus someone trained in boxing, and i feel like i can't really understand boxing until i do it myself.
i'd say i was influenced by bruce lee's fascination and incorporation of it, but that would be an oversimplification of what i've always known to be true... typical eastern martial arts are more often than not too rigid and stylized. real delivery of combat prowess doesn't require mimicry of animal stances or forms. they're like scaffolds for true combative understanding - only by learning why their rules exist can you understand when they do not apply and when to dissolve them. i feel like i've reached a particular stage where i'm ready to immerse myself in something less like a philosophy school and more like a fight. where better to apply the philosophies of combat?
boxing is one of the purest forms of sportsmanlike combat that I know of. far moreso than the current MMA culture. it's not perfect and is incredibly handicapping by its very nature (gloved hands, no kicks, strikes above belt) but the focus on fundamentals and the culture of precise and sustained movement are unmatched. it's not a bro culture and it's not an academic culture. it's a fighter culture. it's something my training has been lacking.
sage because... well... i want to express and cultivate my own jeet kune do and it feels weird talking about my current path in a thread like this.
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