The leg obstruction is one of the least known of the JKD techniques, but at the same time the Wednesday Night Group considers it one of the most valuable techniques in our self-defense arsenal. I think that the reason we consider it so valuable is that it was one the main techniques that Bob Bremer stressed so much every Wed in my garage. Bob worked with us so much on it that most of us could do it without thinking. It has become an automation reaction to any hand attack. It is now so automatic that most of us can do it against a surprise attack and without thought.“ We don ' t hit. It hits”, but to learn to really make it work in a real life situation you need to do two things:
1. You need to understand the value of the leg obstruction for both attacking and defending against an attack. Unless he understands the value of it, the student will not spend the massive amount of time working on it to really make it work in a real time situation.
2. Once the student understands how useful the leg obstruction really is, he will need to spend countless hours working on it. I think a lot of JKDers never really“ got” it because they found it so awkward to do at first. Believe me it takes a lot of work to do it correctly. Besides having your shoulders square, you also should have your foot as horizontal as possible. While a lot of my students can do this, as hard as I try, I can never get my foot completely horizontal. My hip doesn ' t seem to work that way.