2023-07-05 Wed 12:09 <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uk1lzkH-e4U?start=360" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> > It's a combination of both. Here is the natural instinct, and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. If you have one to the extreme you will be very unscientific. If you ahve another to the extreme you become all of a sudddn a mechanical man, no longer a human being. So it a successful combination of both. So therefore it is not pure naturalness or unnaturalness. The idea is unnnaturalness, or natural naturalness. > [[Ref. Bruce Lee 1971 - Interview on the Pierre Burton Show]], at about 6:00 > I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such thing as like the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting or whatever way of fighting. Because unless human being have three arms and four legs — [then] we will have a different form of fighting. But basically we have only two hands and two feet. So styles tend to not only separate man, because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have "style" you just say, **"Well here I am as a human being. How can I express myself, totally and completely?"** > > Now, that way, you won't create a style. Because style is a crystallization. That way it's a process of continuing growth. > [[Ref. Bruce Lee 1971 - Interview on the Pierre Burton Show]] around 7:20 ^bac2e7 > Man, listen, you see. To me, ultimately martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do. It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool, and all that. Or I can make all kinds of phony things, blinded by it, or I can show you some really fancy movement. But to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, to express myself honestly — that, my friend, is — heh — very hard to do. > > And you have to train. You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it it's there. When you want to move you're moving. And when you move you're determined to move. Not anything less than that. If I want to punch I'm gonna do it man. So that is the type of thing you have to train yourself into it. To be come one with the — you think — *snap* — and it is. > [[Ref. Bruce Lee 1971 - Interview on the Pierre Burton Show]] at about 12:00 > Well, you see, the title of that particular episode of Longstreet is called "The Way of the Intercepting Fist". Now I think the successful ingredient in it was because I was being Bruce Lee. Myself. Just express myself, like I say, honestly express myself at that time. > [[Ref. Bruce Lee 1971 - Interview on the Pierre Burton Show]] at around 15:00 > Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow. Or it can crash. [[Be water, my friend]]. > [[Ref. Bruce Lee 1971 - Interview on the Pierre Burton Show]] at around 15:40, recalling his lines from the episode https://youtu.be/2qvYa5t-JUc?t=400