Month: November 2019

Birthday !

27 November, 201927 November, 2019 · Leave a comment ·

Bruce Lee would have turned 79 today .

There are always some discussions about who knows better or more about him but I think that no matter what, Bruce Lee is a name you cannot forget, so let be those who only know the actor and still adore him for that.

The most important is that he is not forgotten, remember that we are 46 years after his death!

He left a mark on different kind of people , those who know the most about his art or the man that he was in life and those who know most about his movies and his appearances on screen.

I am part of the JKD world and very happy for it, but I started as a Bruce Lee- the actor fan and most of my family and friends from France only know him for that.

Bruce Lee was more than one man, he was also an actor and he worked very hard to get there and be recognized for it.

I do not judge people not knowing about JKD, I am always happy when someone asks me what kind of martial art I do and when I answer JKD, most don´t know what it is but as soon as I say “ the art of Bruce Lee” all people, and I mean ALL people , younger or older respond : ” OH wow !”. That does not only make me proud of what I do, that makes me happy that people still know and still are impressed by Bruce 🙂

I really hope there will be an event next year for the 80th birthday in San Francisco, we were there 9 years ago for the 70^th, I would love to go back 🙂 I miss SF and this time I hope at least one word comes out of my mouth if I get the chance to meet Linda again 🙂

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Better than Myself

19 November, 201919 November, 2019 · Leave a comment ·

Courtesy of Lamar Davis who posted this on his Facebook:

“Fitness is not about being better than someone else

It is about being better than you used to be”

That made me react on a few things

The other day someone asked me why I had makeup on, and if it was because I wanted to look better than other women.

I never even thought about this in that way , and NO , while putting makeup on in the morning , I don´t think about other women, all I think about is to do something about my face so I don´t scare myself in the mirror, it is about me and nobody else.

I can relate this to what actually happened to JKD Sweden and this is the reason why we don´t post anything anymore on social medias.

First, a quite huge argument began some years ago with some of our JKD fellows in the States, Instructors argued among themselves basically on who was better than the other one, then we were attacked by their students who verbally trashed our training and thought they were entitled to criticize us and our videos , instructors also attacked our students verbally and last, Mikael was stabbed in the back ( figure of speech) by a so called friend instructor.

I am not reviving any old feelings here, I am just saying that comparing ourselves to other people will lead to this behavior, people want to be better than others instead of focusing on their training and on what we can bring to each other.

There will not be any more videos or posts on how we train, JKD Sweden will not show what we do, we are training all by ourselves and we don´t need to prove anything to anyone.

What is important to me is my progression, my journey and my experiences , meeting people who do their thing, better or not it does not matter, when I look at other groups training I am happy they are keeping JKD alive, I have no opinion on what they do right or wrong.

JKD made me better than I used to be a a person and as a student, I don´t put myself on a piedestal and pretend I earned any status, I certainly don´t but I am happy about my progression and there is a long way ahead, , I accept it.

Now I know I will probably get my ass kicked the day I meet the grandmaster in heaven! but I still have some time to improve 🙂

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Bruce and Jackie Chan (right) on the set of Enter the Dragon.

TED WONG

5 November, 20196 November, 2019 · Leave a comment ·

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I remember the first time I met Ted Wong was in 2004 during a seminar that Stefan Nikander arranged in Nynäshamn, Sweden.

2 days of the hardest training I had done so far in my life, after the first day I thought I would not be able to get out of the bed !

I remember being very impressed and blown away by the fact that I was meeting him and by the man that he was.

He was incredibly kind , strong and in control of himself, I was telling myself all the time, “I can´t believe I am here ! “

Not only was that day a turning point in my life, it was one of the best days ever. I felt very honoured and blessed .

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With Ted Wong Nynäshamn 2004

I have written before about that day so I won´t do it again, but that is when I met Mikael for the first time. After that I became Mikael´s private student and we created JKD SWEDEN

A lot of things happenned after that, more seminars, meeting Allen Joe, (<3 ) and later we started traveling to San francisco.

We´ve met amazing people during seminars and our travels, Jeff and Julie Chinn took us everywhere in SF, Allen and Annie welcomed us in their home, I had the incredible honour of meeting Linda Lee Cadwell at Bruce Lee´s 70^th birthday on SF in 2010

And so on…

With Linda Lee Cadwell, San francisco 2010

These are some of the incredible things that happenned to me following the day I met Ted Wong, and on top of it JKD changed me as a person to a better one.

I wish I could have told Ted about the impact he had but I assume he knew, because I am far from being the only one he did that to !

Ted left us in 2010, when we arrived in SF for Bruce´s 70^th Birthday party we could not find Ted and we talked to Allen who told us he was in the hospital .

Stefan joined him in 2011, then Allen in 2018 and Annie in 2019 .

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Seminar in Nynäshamn 2009

Heaven took them all but I am sure they are reunited with Bruce now

May they all rest in peace .

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