Have anybody read "Jeet Kune Do: The Arsenal of Self-Expression" by Teri Tom? It is wonderful and it is in colour. She teaches the bruce lee hook kick. pinklady:heart:
That's a spinning hook kick, below is a hook kick, but I'm still not clear how it differentiates between a 'Bruce Lee Hook kick' and a regular old hook kick? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuk13QRwsA&t=3m0s Travess
Apparently Bruce Lee called that the reverse hook kick. A hook kick was a roundhouse kick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xhyc-iJ5xc
A rose by any other name Great, now I'm gonna have to buy the book, or forever be uninformed... Touche! Travess
The way round you said it makes more sense to me. A hook kick should... hook. I'm guessing it's not a whole book on one kick?! Pinklady6000's book review kind of made it sound that way.
Bruce called the round kick the hook kick because it follows the same line as the hook punch - what everyone calls a hook kick Bruce called a sweep kick
I can certainly understand his logic - Never thought about it from that perspective before... The same Kick, done at a lower level, either to the back or the front of the legs, could potentially be considered a sweep - Slightly similar to an O' Soto Gari (outer reaping sweep/throw) and it is definitely delivered with a sweeping action - Consider me enlightened. There was never any real danger of that Travess
I can see that, except the elbow is positioned to actually hook with a hook punch, while it doesn't with a roundhouse. It would make more sense to change the name of the hook punch to the round punch... Not a fan of the "formaldehyde" approach to JKD then?
It's the arc of the attack, not the structure - akin to angles in FMA No, and I am even less of a fan of Teri Tom
Wow - I was just reading about this in the latest issue of Black Belt (couple of big articles on JKD)... I hadn't heard the usage of 'hook kick' for a kick thrown like a hook punch (I use the term 'roundhouse')... makes sense
I use the terms almost interchangably unless I am teaching Jun Fan Gung Fu specifically in a class in which case i use the "official" terms