Enter the interception
Most martial artists - in fact most people - alive today know of Bruce Lee. And many of will know what he called his personal martial arts system: Jeet Kune Do - the Way of the Intercepting Fist Okay - so what did he mean by that? Lee goes some small way to explaining his system in this (famous) episode of Longstreet (set to start at the correct point): But I suspect that you, like me, are left with a sense of dissatisfaction after watching this. What does "interception" mean in this context? Does he mean "stopping"? Or does he mean "preventing" by some other means? And what exactly is he "intercepting"? Is he intercepting a particular attack (ie. an aggressive movement)? Is he intercepting some physical cue of the attacker's intention ? Or is he intercepting the attacker generally (assuming "interception" has any meaning in such a context)? All of this serves to present a kind of "apparent paradox...