While many (every) high level players will school me in every regard of KI and “prove” how their methodical ways are why they are the best, I do believe it’s the very thing that makes them so good that also is holding them back!
Nearly all (but not all) tech scientists and engineers of the metagame would have us believe in falling back on KI’s past 2 games of “complete health draining unblockables” and their solution to keeping them out is to concentrate on the Neutral aspects.
Many will claim they’re not BUT if they weren’t, why the search for the perfect tech and counter matchup play? Why such little faith in the Combo-Counter Breaker system if they want to win beating their opponent and don’t care which character is the best?
Swordsman09 and C88 Pink Diamond are two very special active KI players. They don’t care about how to play fighting games when playing KI, they play their character in KI.
YES, we’ve watched them get downloaded and/or not know specific matchups as well as they could… But we see them getting better like Saiyans every tournament. We’ve seen them burst in ability in seemingly Super Saiyan ways and work wonders with just pixels of health.
It’s only a matter of time before they play certain counter-picking players enough that they will have finally downloaded the matchup specifics and will KI the hell out of their competition.
YES, the Breaker System is risky… It ensures a nearly consistent RPS element that is the basis for all FG’s in the first place. Opening up and taking health only matters if you confirm… You choose to confirm at your will.
There’s a ton of rewarding things to learn and it’s not that anyone can break a combo, it’s that not everyone can counter a breaker consistently, not everyone can recover from a break consistently… Those that can do either/both in great consistency and still win are the better players.
But you really don’t have to know the super tech… You just need to know your opponent. You need to play them often.
… As much praise as Bruce Lee gets from many in the FGC, many forget his philosophy on form and using specific moves too often. KI tries to give a mouthful of his philosophy in a gaming environment, many try to conform it… But he’s a nonconformist!!!
[quote]Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
[/quote]
[quote]Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water
in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.[/quote]
And most importantly summing it all up:
[quote]The Three Stages of Cultivation — The first is the primitive stage. It is a stage of original ignorance in which a person knows nothing about the art of combat. In a fight, he simply blocks and strikes instinctively without a concern for what is right and wrong. Of course, he may not be so-called scientific, but,
nevertheless, being himself, his attacks or defenses are fluid.
The second stage — the stage of sophistication, or mechanical stage — begins when a person starts his training. He is taught the different ways of blocking, striking, kicking, standing, breathing, and thinking — unquestionably, he has gained the scientific knowledge of combat, but unfortunately his original self and sense of freedom are lost, and his action no longer flows by itself. His mind tends to freeze at different movements for calculations and analysis, and even worse, he might be called “intellectually bound” and maintain himself outside of the actual reality.
The third stage — the stage of artlessness, or spontaneous stage — occurs when, after years of serious and hard practice, the student realizes that after all, gung fu is nothing special. And instead of trying to impose on his mind, he adjusts himself to his opponent like water pressing on an earthen wall. It flows through the slightest crack. There is nothing to try to do but try to be purposeless and formless, like water. All of his classical techniques and standard styles are minimized, if not wiped out, and nothingness prevails. He is no longer confined.[/quote]
Sure, I’m saying these words and I cannot prove them through combat to many I feel they would help… I never claimed my Jeet Kune Do was stronger, merely that I believe in it.
(Of course, Bruce does fear the man that has practiced 1 kick 1000 times… So what does he know? 
)
