Page 85 - Latter Stage Jeet Kune Do for Beginners

If you take any ten beginners and attempt to teach
them striking and defense simultaneously, more
than half of them will concentrate on defense instead
of striking.

That's a natural inclination, for it's only human that
a fellow doesn't like to get hit in the face-or in the
body either, for that matter.

It follows that more than half the beginners will
consider it more important to protect their own noses
than to concentrate on learning how to belt the other
guy in the nose. They'll develop 'defense complexes'
that will stick with them. Fellows with defense
complexes rarely develop into good punchers and
kickers.

After you've had six weeks or two months of
preliminary, informal training-while learning
punching, kicking and defense, and practicing them
in sparring-you might adopt a gymnasium schedule
like this:

Shadow-Boxing two rounds
Sparring three rounds
Heavy Bag two rounds
Light Bag three rounds
Footwork two or three rounds
Calisthenics two rounds
Take one minute rest between rounds.

If you have engaged in a particularly violent sparring
session or in a bruising fight, you can prevent
soreness in muscles and bruises by taking an Epsom
salts bath at home. Fill a bathtub nearly to the top
with very warm water, and pour in five pounds of
Epsom salts. Lie in the tub half an hour. Then go to
bed.

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