Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 616 - 260 Scholar’s Perspective [Part 2]

Chapter 616: Chapter 260 Scholar’s Perspective [Part 2]

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Jeet Kune Do was not a mature martial art. Its creator passed away suddenly before he could perfect it.

Earlier on, Bruce Lee had felt that Jeet Kune Do was not mature, which was why he forbade disciples from opening schools and teaching under the name "Jeet Kune Do." This command was not lifted before his sudden death. After his death, many of his sect members and disciples attempted to simplify and create based on what Jeet Kune Do already had, while others tried to establish rules to promote commercialization.

Some simply left the circle, adhering to Bruce Lee’s command, only incorporating the philosophy of Jeet Kune Do into other martial arts they practiced, and opened martial arts schools without using the name Jeet Kune Do.

When Lu Xuanyu arrived in Seattle, that martial arts school was already quite rundown.

"Can a community or sect really form spontaneously?" Lu Xuanyu asked. "Can it be successful without a leader?"

"It should be a natural process. Just like we said earlier, a village competes with a neighboring village for water, manure, and land, and naturally becomes a collective," Chen Feng realized Lu Xuanyu’s point a little later and said. "However, if it’s modern society... With a well-known trademark, the interests involved are huge, and it might be more difficult?"

Lu Xuanyu put his hands behind his head: "Thinking about having to deal with such complex issues to promote a boxing technique... Then, in the view of other researchers, could the disciples of Jeet Kune Do be considered, uh, a ’community’?"

Chen Feng rubbed his nose: "Hiss... I can only consider myself an amateur, not someone who specializes in this. Don’t forget, our project today is to study the human brain through your brain. And such a question... perhaps only the judgment of history will tell."

"History, huh..." Lu Xuanyu mused, "I’ve never thought about these issues... How do you academic types even think."

"I guess it’s just different personal interests," Chen Feng shrugged: "Some people practice martial arts for health and fitness, some are simply interested in the technique of fighting, finding joy in mastering each move. Others enjoy the physical collision that comes with combat fighting. My peers and I like to ponder; it’s our way of understanding martial arts. There’s no high or low in these directions, it’s all personal."

"So, in your view, what exactly constitutes ’a martial art’? What is the relationship between ’technique’ and ’community’?"

Chen Feng stroked his chin: "Different people practicing the same martial art might have personal styles, but there definitely exists characteristics that allow outsiders to easily identify the origin of their boxing technique. They will create new techniques and absorb some experiences from other sects, but mostly everything stays within a framework. It’s difficult to say that these few moves of a disciple belong to this type of boxing technique, but those do not. Technique is generally diffused within a community, it exists on the group level. And because of this, researching the ’organizational form’ is part of contemplating martial arts."

"Moreover, the boundaries and kinship between communities are not necessarily as people generally think. A weapon... take the Liuhe Spear as an example, sects like Red Fist, Baji Fist, Liuhe Fist, and Xingyi Fist all practice it. It’s a technique, and then different groups practice it, and these groups will begin to differentiate and interact as they practice."

"These techniques are like ’advantageous genes,’ naturally expanding. Their expansion is a tensor, maintaining the most in their own generation within the community, but off-diagonal elements are not zero. After several generations, the latest martial arts will inevitably possess ’genes’ from other places, and some techniques become difficult to claim as ’unique.’

"That’s a bit like the parallel transfer of genetic information in microorganisms, with a real taste of evolution. Evolution itself takes the population as the unit. Without environmental selective pressure, evolution will go in various different directions. The process of biological evolution is not to seek the strongest, but to occupy the most suitable ecological niche. Perhaps martial arts are similar."

"The rules of modern competition would be a kind of ’selective pressure.’ If we compare it to the natural world, could it lead to the ecological niche of ’top predators’? Occupying the most comfortable ecological niche? But in major extinctions, the top predators are often the first to disappear. Could it be the same with modern competition? It relies heavily on modern transportation, media, and so on..."

Chen became more excited as he talked, gesticulating with his hands and occasionally flipping through some documents to illustrate his points.

Lu Xuanyu wiped his face: "How do you people’s brains even work..."

Lu Xuanyu had never considered these issues in this way.

Chen Feng was enjoying the conversation, but he didn’t notice that a girl’s expression was growing worse behind him.

The girl named Emilia, was Chen Feng’s student and also his first disciple. Emilia was from Central Asia, her homeland a small country called "Asadistan." Allegedly, when she first came to the Republic, the international situation and the geopolitical dynamics of Central Asia were still very tense. If she didn’t learn up to a certain level, there was always the risk of returning to her country and becoming a junior officer in the government, military, or something else. (In such countries, undergraduates seem to be generally regarded as reserve officers.) Her urgency to "achieve results" surpassed even her own tutor’s.

Even though the times of being pursued by the "abyss" had ended with Xiang Shan’s rise, this girl still maintained her old style.

She impolitely shook Chen Feng’s shoulder: "Teacher, stop chatting! The scheduled time is almost upon us! The volunteer should be in a calm and focused state to avoid interference! And you are getting more and more engaged in the conversation!"

"Is there no law anymore." Chen sighed: "Sometimes I feel like you are my boss. It’s just a little time, talking about a personal hobby..."

"If Mr. Lu sees a simple shape later, but his mind is pondering combat fighting techniques, you’ll be the one to blame," she said.

Chen Feng shrugged regretfully: "We’ll have to continue this topic another time... Ah, I may have spoken too excitedly, a bit too much like a pedantic intellectual..."

"Not at all," Lu Xuanyu said. "I’m very happy talking about martial arts with you."

Lu Xuanyu had never viewed martial arts from this angle. But what Chen Feng said vaguely corroborated his years of wandering the Jianghu and witnessing various martial arts across regions, the more he thought about it, the more it seemed right.

Several months later, Lu Xuanyu confirmed that Chen’s swordsmanship was decent for an "amateur/hobbyist," but just decent.

But he still held the same respect for these amateurs/hobbyists.

He gained a perspective he had never had before.

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