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Originally posted by punkworld
Royce Gracie.
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Not a fight at all, Bruce was also an avid ground fighter also but would never have allowed the signiture leg shot of the Gracies. Bruce had develpoed a step kick from cat stance that was difficult to penetrate. Cat stance unlike horse has a 20/80 weight distribution that allows weight to be shifted between the rear and front leg quickly, you truly never know how much weight is on an opponents front or back leg in this stance and Bruce had a shifting derivitive of the stance because he believed that a stance was stagnant and allowed for holes to be exploited. Unlike the fighters who the Gracies have beaten in the octagon Bruce did not at all believe in a fixed stance and threw away any type of Horse or POWER stance as his first improvement of his art, even so much that he eliminated the 1 inch and 3 inch punch from his real world strikes because they relied on it for the spring effect minutely. Ss you see all fighters who fell to Gracian Ju Jitsu use a derivitive of horse stance because they are fighting using mostly upper body strength except for the Kick boxers but their cat stance is to rigid and allows for the leg shot, also very few of them were true ground fighters/shoot wrestlers in the beginning which Bruce was.
The step kick is simple and so effective it is taught in most military classes across the world (very minimal and most effective areas of hand to hand are taught here). With Bruce's speed and shifting cat stance I do not believe the Gracies would have known when it was and was not safe to shoot for the legs for the take down and you know they were not trying to go toe to toe with anyone especially someone like Bruce, I have seen the step kick used against the leg shot effectively time and time again by people much slower than Bruce. Remember this system of fighting was pioneered by a man who studies all other forms of fighting, removed what he thought was ineffective then took away more and more just to have the most complete and seemless way of fighting. If your form has any history that could have been learned and exploited it would have been.