OT: What OTHER hobbies does everyone have...other than MA?

[wushu chik]

I only ask because I wonder these things....call me strange!

~Wen~

[red_fists]

Hi Wushu-Chick.

1.) Motorbikes
2.) Model Building (Garage Kits)
Figure & Robot Kits/plenty of Bike Models
3.) Japanese Study
4.) Web-Page creation and related topics
(linked to my Job)

Seeya.

[Former castleva]

Caring/keeping animals:rodents (mostly hamsters,gerbils...) DOGS
Hanging out at kungfumagazine:D
Watching White Fang tv-series
Watching some movies
Thinking about MA
Acting (Hoping to become an actor someday)

Btw:you are strange.
A good topic

[Nichiren]

Reading books!

[jon]

There are things other than kung fu???

Seriously most of the other stuff i like doing revolves around the girl im dating.
We go out to movies, sit in the botanical gardens, visit art gallerys. Go for walks along Sydneys various beaches, Ive even been sitting down in nice resturants and ordering real meals instead of fast food. We also sit and have coffee and listen to jazz and stuff like that.
Normaly i wouldnt have a bar of a lot of this stuff but when im with her - everything seems enjoyable.
Im just hoping we dont break, we are only just fresh and if she go's im back to being a loner again:(

I used to love playing computer games but i then worked in them and that basicaly ruined my interest.
Still ive had a little fun with Ghost Recon which is the only game ive enjoyed in the last 18 months.
I also like film and tacky dance music plus going out with my friends.

[Ka]

Rock Climbing
change your life man, I swear it
Bushwalking/just generally getting out in the green
Fittness/endurance events,brings out the hardcore side of bushwalking in me
Travell when I can afford it

[Kristoffer]

Making music.. playing guitar (both).
Singing in church
fighting in church :D
hanging out with my pals and my girl.
Watching movies
Listening to music.
Talk trash here
painting
writing

..but KF is the biggest hobby !!

[Tae Li]

reading
university
radio broadcaster
jet li
chinese boys
jet li
dancing
dancing
dancing
jet li
discovering every possible thing about the chinese culture
driving a wrx turbo limited editon (not yet- few weeks)
jet li
jet li
talking on the phone
movies
hanging out
laughing hysterically in public
jet li
flirting with buys then breaking their hearts (hahaha-evil laugh)
jet li.

[Kristoffer]

Chinese girls r hilarious :D
"laughing hysterically in public"
- that describes just about every asian girl that I know LOL

[Daredevil]

Heya,

martial arts and mental cultivation
snowboarding (too little of that these days)
tournament paintball
clubbing
asian cultural/historical/religious study

Uhh. I guess a lot of other stuff, too, but it waxes and wanes.

[shaolinboxer]

Reading
Dancing
Hiking
Cooking!
Writing
Goin to the movies (nothing like have 2 times square mega plexes as you neighborhood theater)
Gaming

[ewallace]

Cars/Drag Racing
Not Jet Li
Softball
KFO
Not Jet Li
Not Jet Li
Socially Responsible Alcohol Consumption
Making sweet love to my fine woman
Not Jet Li
Acting like a kid when playing with my daughter

[Felipe Bido]

- Reading
- Drawing
- Yoga
- Reading (again, of course)
- Photography
- 3D Designs in Bryce
- Dancing
- Watching movies
- Sparring with my 8-year old nephew

[myosimka]

Reading
Skydiving

[Skarbromantis]

Making beats (music)
Kung fu movies
Chinese antiques
Books

[HopGar]

1) Reading
2) Drawing
3) Acting - hopin to do this for a living
4) Sports - Baseball, Biking (too little of that these days), Rollerblading
5) Wasting time on the net
6) Playing my bro's N64 without asking him first

Unfortunately, school and work makes most of this difficult to do.

[apoweyn]

hmm...

reading (lovecraft, machen, that sort of stuff)
movies (same sort of thing plus john woo, jet li, etc.
gaming
paintball
computer games


i'm a hopeless, hopeless geek.


stuart b.

[Merryprankster]

Cooking.
Playing ZAngband.
Sometimes I read.
I also go to movies when my gf forces me too.

[Sho]

- Hong Kong movies
- Jet Li -related
- Calligraphy & Drawing
- Study Buddhism & Taoism
- PC Games
- KFO Forum :)

[respectmankind]

Philosophy
Religious study
Writing
Weight Training
Video Games
Stupid '*******' type stuff.

[Qi dup]

Playing guitar
Physical training
Trying to not think about my ex
Reading
Watching movies
Hockey
Snowboarding
Building jumps
My Motorcycle (only get to drive it like 4 months out of the year)
Capoeria pretty soon
Trying to not think about my ex
Living Forever


All normal stuff

[JasBourne]

...besides kungfu, huh... let's see here...

painting
working my business
rollerskating
dancing
outings with my family
long-distance driving
learning new stuff
tons other interesting things that I rarely have time to do
and of course, what I do EVERY night:
plan to take over the world.


:D

[Chris McKinley]

Energy medicine including TCM, healing qigong, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Thought Field Therapy, Celtic Weave, Reflexology, Kundalini, Tantra, etc.

Trauma neutralization methods including TCM, TFT, NLP, EMDR, Ericksonian hypnosis

Exercise/Nutrition Physiology
playing guitar (classical, flamenco, heavy metal, rock, jazz, blues, bluegrass)
Anthropology
Theoretical Physics
Medieval History
Egyptology
Eschatology
Applied Psychology
Personality Profiling
Computer Generated Graphics

main career interest: Neurophysiology

(hmm...I think I need a vacation)

[Mutant]

Kung Fu (seems to be taking over my other hobbies again)

Mountaineering and Rock Climbing; for a while was my #1 hobby, havent been climbing much lately, too busy with other stuff...Have a winter hike planned for 3 wks from now, White Mtns (NH), summit of Mt Lafayette, then across Franconia Ridge 'knife edge' (was almost blown off of it 2 winters ago in blizzard), over to Mt Lincoln, Mt Haystack, then back down Falling Water trail (info for local peeps who may know this hike :))

Snowboarding (yeah baby!)

Thinking about women (won't get to nasty here ;) )

Mountain Biking

Motorcycles (mostly into sportbikes, got the need for speed)

Sailing

Travel

Writing and reading books (not enough of this lately)

Listening to music

Architecture

Hanging with friends (beer often involved)

Hanging out with my girlfriend :p

[Robbie]

Genealogy
Reading
thinking 'dam how does everyone else have so much free time'

[Kumkuat]

rock climbing
video gaming
coding (programming)
ping ponging

[Budokan]

Budokan's hobbies:
--reading (mostly SF)
--writing
--chess (my favorite openings are the Guico Piano and Ruy Lopez)
--astronomy
--baseball (go Cubs!)
--cooking (mostly BBQ and Italian, some French and Down Home Southern)
--fishing (catfishing only, preferred bait is shrimp)
--watching old movies (Casablanca is my favorite) and MA movies

Budokan's Likes and Dislikes: I like rainy afternoons and warm Beagle puppies. I dislike phony people, stupid people and hypocrites--which is 90-percent of the general population. I also think I'm usually much more intelligent and have more of my original teeth than most people I meet. Since I live down here in the South it's often a safe bet I'm right.

Shall we list our Playmate Stats next...?

I was somewhat surprised to see how many people actually listed reading as one of their hobbies. Reading has always been somewhat of an eclectic activity but yet a lot of us who are interested in MA seem to read quite a bit. I wonder why that is?

[ewallace]

--baseball (go Cubs!)
We are now mortal enemies. It's all about the Sox baby!

[Budokan]

Yer right. We must now throw down for WAR!:D

[ewallace]

Just don't get my hopes up....before the play-offs that is :D

[Arhat of Fury]

HHHmMMM....

Reading(zen buddhism, war strategies, Philosiphy)
Philosiphizing
Gambling:confused:
Dancing/clubbing
Basketball
weightlifting
snowboarding
river rafting/camping
conciously always improving:D

[Mantis_Hand]

Originally posted by ewallace

We are now mortal enemies. It's all about the Sox baby! Red Sox > White Sox :D

My interests are pretty obscure:

Music is a pretty ambiguous description of my interest, but it's one of the cores of my being. I'm huge on all kinds of rock. From punk rock and hardcore to old school country. I have a small but growing collection of vinyl (do not ever collect this stuff if you want to build a sizable bank account). I even took a part time job in a record store despite my 9-5 gig just so I could surround myself with music and get a nice discount on purchases :) I could talk your ear off for hours on just about every genre.

I used to be a big PC and Console gamer but it seems like time is becoming scarce and I just don't have the opportunities to play anymore. But I still find time every now and then. Grand Theft Auto rules you!

I've been writing fiction since I was in the seventh grade and thanks to some genuinely encouraging teachers, my abilities have grown. I'm working on a series of short fictions in a single continuity based around my turbulent teenage years in the punk rock scene that are being fitted for web publishing (I've designed a site to host them, just haven't uploaded it all yet).

I used to be big into web design, but then I got a job doing it and the fun was taken right out of it. I still try to build my own sites every now and then. I recently started picking at the PHP language, which rocks, but I haven't had much time to really dive into it.

Movies play about as big a role in my life as music does. I'm all up in the low brow, sleazy exploitation stuff that started with a juvenile interest in horror movies. I have a massive collection of bootleg and import videos of horror movies you never knew existed and would probably turn your stomach no matter how hardcore you think you are. The horror turned to Hong Kong action (which ultimately fueled my desire to learn kung fu), from there to 60s drive-in features. Despite the fact that I like a lot of trashy movies, I also have a deep appreciation for the finer movies made and I scour the internet looking for All Region DVDs of foreign movies that will never make it to American soil.

I also read A LOT. I tend to read a lot of nonfiction mostly because I find truth to be stranger than fiction, to coin a term. some of my favorite authors are in the sci fi genre but a lot of them tend to also be associated with music to some degree. I like Henry Rollins, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, Umberto Ecco, Nancy Collins, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Rushkoff and Tolkien. I could probably rattle off names for hours, though.

[ewallace]

Red Sox > White Sox
I would have to interperate that as Red Sox get EATEN UP by the White Sox! :p

[Mantis_Hand]

Originally posted by ewallace

I would have to interperate that as Red Sox get EATEN UP by the White Sox! :p ho ho ho! we'll see this season! Think of it in programmer-speak and it's Red Sox [are greater than] White Sox ;)

[norther practitioner]

skiing, mountain biking, skiing, hiking, reading, dancing (clubbing). We plan on hiking a few 14,000' peeks this summer (elbert, longs, maybe something down in the Sangre de Cristos). Other than that, I don't have much time.

[ewallace]

I got your programmer speak.


if (BS_Red_Sox >= CH_White_Sox) {
writeln("My ass is bright green");
} else {
/*
There is no else in above statement.
*/
}
:rolleyes:

[Prairie]

Here's a few things that occupy my time depending on the time of year:

french language study
mandarin language study
blues/rock guitar
hiking/camping
bicycling

Bye for Now

A couple of you mentioned rock climbing. One of these months I'm going to try that.

[Royal Dragon]

I like to hike and camp, as close to caveman style as possible. All my camping gear fits into a small (3 day) pack, yet I can stay out indefinately if I want.

I want to get back into practicing wilderness survival skills again. Whe I last left off, my sister was teaching me to identify wild edible plants, a skill that extends my outdoor vacations considerably as I don't have to pack as much food and can go longer. I need a major refesher though as I have not had time for that stuff in a few years.

Yup, I'm a real "Walk out into the mountains with just a big Knife" type. Well, I'm still in the "Wann'a be" stage, but I'll get there!!! :D


When I was younger, I was obsesssd with developing the skills to do all those crazy stunts you see on TV show like "Dukes of Hazzard". I got prettty damm good too, including mastering the flying 360 on wet pavement. (That's where your going about 40 MPH and put the car into a full 360 degree spin and straighten out and continue on like nothing happened WILE staying completely in your own lane). I never got good a t doing it on dry pavement, and I only did once right, on accident ( trying something else) Speed to do it on "dry" is in excess of 60 MPH, and you need a seriously powerful motor to maintain wheel spin AND forward drive through the intitation of the spin. A manual trans helps too to disconnect the power from the wheels at the correct moment as you spin the steering wheel hard in the other direction for the second 180 degrees of the spin.

I tried jumping cars for a wile, but after a few runs and ruined suspensions, bent frames and an acidental total (car pichted forward, and the tailcame up on me in the air because I was still accelerating off the ramp instead of coasting off it) I dropped that persuit as it is too expensive without a landing ramp, and I was just useing a really steep rail road crossing as my take off ramp with no landing ramp on the other side.


I like to hike when I can't camp out, swim in rivers and climb. I want to learn to climb right as in the past all I did was free climb. Ever free climb sandstone? WOW that's hard. I never went too high. I'm sure I would have broken something if i slipped, but the only really high sandstone climbs I did were pretty easy. The hard risky ones I stayed relatively close to the ground, so If I fell I only risked a bad break, and risk of death minimal.

Anyway, now I just sit online and read the Kung Fu forums :D

RD

[Shaolindynasty]

"Yup, I'm a real "Walk out into the mountains with just a big Knife" type. Well, I'm still in the "Wann'a be" stage, but I'll get there!!!"

Me to, hey maybe this summer we should do a kungfu campout for a weekend. Training at the kankakee river state park rules. There is allot of cool training we could do in rock creek. Old school stuff.

I also like video games, used to big into fighting games but for some strange reason I always secretly liked action games better.

Comics, this is one left from my child hood. For awhile I didn't read comics but in the past year I am getting back into it. Mostly Spiderman and other mrvel heros(except the over rated x men)

My biggest talent next to kungfu would have to be art. I like pencil but my real area to shine is colored pencil stuff. I can blend colored pencils so they look like what most people do digital. Nobody ever taught me how to do it, it kinda just happened one day while I was fooling around. I won't tell though because it's my secret.

I like philosophy. Especially when I look at modern figures and see how their beliefs matched Taoism. Like Tupac but that takes along explination. It's fun to do though, you learn allot about people and how most all belief systems are essentially the same. Even if the person is considered a "thug".

I mostly think, talk and practice kungfu though.

[wushu chik]

Originally posted by JasBourne

and of course, what I do EVERY night:
plan to take over the world.


:D

Hey Jas...looks like we have the SAME hobby!!!

Actually I was REALLY surprised to see how many people answered this.
Mine are:
My Kids
My Car (I will be racing it soon enough!)
Reading
Movies
Russell Wong
Jet Li (He's Mine Tae Li)
Hanging out with you guys here!!!
And of course, doing whatever else I want to do!:D

Thanks for all the answers!!!

~Wen~

[wushu chik]

And just for the record....it's the YANKEES~ ALL THE WAY BABY!!!

WOO HOO

~Wen~

[ewallace]

What kind of car wushu?

[wushu chik]

90 honda accord......but it's soooooo sweet

just got it, and am having a blast with it!

~Wen~

[ewallace]

What are you going to race with that? Please tell me you don't have a big **** can on that thing :)

Can't say ****.

I mean a big kazoo.

[wushu chik]

I don't have anything on it yet..just got it...but i am going to soon!
And for your information, with the right engine and all, i could make that car fast as h3ll!

~Wen~

[ewallace]

And for your information, with the right engine and all, i could make that car fast as h3ll!
Don't get me started on that one.

I am sure you are smart enough, but please don't ever race with kids in the car. Some guy was test-driving a mudstain(mustang) right up the road from my parents home. He had his son with him and somehow crashed. The guy driving died and his son was transferred to the burn unit in Galveston Texas, and I think he may have died too. Very sad. Of course with a honda you can't go too fast so you shouldn't worry about that! :)
- Just a friendly wise crack from a fellow racer :D

[Aquaines]

wing chun
rap
break dance
talk to girls
free style
drive around;)

[Black Jack]

Collecting old horror/sci-fi movies and posters
Writing
Euro-American History with a focus on war/combatives
Reading...Reading...Reading-a lot of horror and non-fiction
Parapsychology
Archaeology-with a focus on the non-mainstream topics
Fortean Studies
Cryptozoology
Knifes
Weightlifting
50's Americana
Irish Music/Irish Lore
Playing with my dogs
Stalking down and capturing KFO memebers to put in my naked underground zoo.

[DelicateSound]

Delicate's Interests:

- Music/Guitar. Mainly rock/progressive/blues. It IS my life.
- Kung Fu. Obviously. And other MA's.
- Travelling. Be it hiking up Snowdon, skating around Waikiki Beach or harassing Utah Mormons - I love it.
- Reading. Mainly philosophy. But I like quirky sh!t. Orwell is a big influence on my thinking.
- Socialising. There are some great bars around here. How can I not sample the wares [peers over beergut!]
- Learning. I love it, be it my A-levels, or other sh!t. It's what keeps me going.
- Logic. Chess, WaiChi, outsmarting the cat in the race for the offcuts of Sunday roast Turkey......
- Films. Good films. I'm talking "Apocalypse Now" over "Three Kings", "Nosferatu" over "From Hell" and "The Shining" over "The Mummy". Mainly horror. It taps into primal emotions.


Other crazy sh!t Delicate likes to do:

- Generally d!cking around with phone salespeople.
- Stealing street furniture in a drunken blur.
- Filming parties in a drunken blur.
- Harrassing OAP's in a drunken blur.
- Trashing southern B+B's in a drunken blur.
- Ruining A-level field trips due to drunken blur.


There is more - but it's too personal/injokey/twisted.

[ewallace]

Apocalypse Now
Probably my favorite war movie.

[Chang Style Novice]

Art - making it, looking at it, studying it. Current favorites are Alberto Giacometti, Pat Stier, Lygia Clark,.

Music - listening to it, studying it. Current favorites, include Matthew Shipp, Charles Mingus, Django Reinhardt, Dungeon Family, Joi, and Control Machete.

Cinema - Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah.

Literature - Pynchon, Kureshi, Powers, Cheever, Chandler.

Comics - Jim Woodring, Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbe, Peter Bagge, R. Crumb, Dan Clowes.

Nature - hiking, camping, wildlife photography, birdwatching.

Chicks.

Beer.

That oughtta be enough for now.

[prana]

Just sitting and breathing beautiful air...
Bouldering...sometimes climbing. (Only sport I do now)
Driving my car (Wushu Chik, I will take u and your VTEC, Tae Li WRX, aiks ! don't matter, the race is on !)
Expending "Qi" on KFO.

[KC Elbows]

Hobbies I've just got no free moments to do
As long as I'm trapped in this naked underground zoo.:eek:

[Merryprankster]

Living the life of a warrior-poet.
Meditating.
Cultivating warrior spirit.
Spirituality via MA
Wearing Hakama and "kung fu slippers" everywhere I go

[norther practitioner]

OH, forgot one
collecting Kung Fu movies.
Got rid of a few a few years back but I still have around 70 or so.

[Braden]

Academia: Philosophy, particularly metaphysics (especially early neoplatonism) and philosophy of mind (especially consciousness and the mind/body problem). Physics, when it pretends to be metaphysics (especially Bohmian quantum mechanics). Religion, particularly mysticism (especially Christian gnosticism and taoist internal alchemy). Neuroanatomy, physiology, chemistry, biology - only as much as I need for everything else. Cognitive science, especially issues related to consciousness (implicit processes, state-dependant processes, levels of consciousness, generation of qualia, attribution of sense of self, theory of mind) and the breakdown thereof (particularly delusions of all sorts), and the methods of neuropsychology and cognitive psychology.

Music: listening and making of all sorts. I play my Gibson Les Paul mostly, with a ridiculous library of effect boxes, but also occasionally find myself singing, playing piano (not keyboard!), and making wierd noises on my computer.

Also paintball, rockclimbing, clubbing (not seals), and writing computer games.

And craving Boo Berry. Oh you delicious ghost. Come back to me.

[red_fists]

Hi.

I forgot to add reading.

Less now than in my younger days.

Mostly Terry Pratchet, true SF, Fantasy, Tolkien, selected Horror(Clive Barker, Lovecraft, etc.) older Detective stories, Sax Rohmer, Edgar Wallace, etc.

A 40 minute commute on train helps.

:cool: :cool: :cool:

[Sam Wiley]

Boo Berry rules.:D

I play bass (Cort Curbow 5 string and Dean Rhapsody 8 string), read (mostly horror fiction, but also religious works sometimes), write (horror), paint (watercolor and oil). I'm also a home brewer (favorites include Irish Stouts and Cherry Wheats among beers, but my all time favorite alcoholic drink is mead). And that's about it, I guess, besides the internal arts.

[Braden]

Wow, so many Lovecraft fans. He's one of my favorite fiction authors. No one describes demons the way Lovecraft does. So evocative rather than descriptive. Even Clive Barker's wierdness pales in comparison.

[red_fists]

Braden.

I use to do a spot of RPGing , favorite was:
" Call of Cthuhlu" 1890 settings.

Hehehe.

[kungfu cowboy]

In no particular order:

playing bass (gotsta be funky!)
yoga
lifting
reading
yodeling
movies
cooking
eating
close-up magic (although not for a while)
video games
hanging with my best gal

[kungfu cowboy]

Oh yeah, I nearly forgot one: aging. And it just gets better with age.

[old jong]

Playing jazz guitar
Astronomy.
Motorcycle riding.
This forum is some kind of a hobby.
Watching T.V. (Not very often)

[djh]

Reading
Surfing
Drawing
Cooking
Going to the pub with mates

Anyone else here surf? :cool:

[KungFuGuy!]

I can't believe how many people listed MA. That's against the rules!
For me, it's:
Hockey
Snowboarding
Curling
Computer games
Painting
Masturbating. Yeah, that's right. You all do it, I'm just the only one with enough balls to admit it :D

[Budokan]

[Budokan, sitting naked and chained in the underground zoo]

Wow, you mean I'm going to have company soon?

[Sam Wiley]

Up until now, I always thought Lovecraft's work was Unspeakable...but apparently Braden was not phased by Eldritch horrors rising from the nighted gulf like everyone else whose tongues were torn from their mouths by the night gaunts.

I used to like Barker, but his recent stuff is pretty silly, I think. He's gone more into fantasy than horror. Stephen King's recent stuff is still scary, but only because it's so bad as well. I am beginning to think that the two of them are a fantasy novelist and a serious writer masquerading as horror writers. Oh, the humanity!

I've really gotten into jazz lately, myself. I heard this one song called Guinevere that is just awesome. Blue in Green is pretty good, too. I always said that I wanted to be a rock solid bassist when I first began playing, with more emphasis on the "rock" part of it. But these guys are solid, and I like that better. I've even decided that one of these days I'm going to go to school to learn to play that well, I just can't decide which school.

Hey, does anyone here play a Chapman Stick?

[Black Jack]

(Black Jack, sitting out front of Budokans house in a pink mary kay cadillac, the passenger seat cluttered with silver duck tape, peanut butter, viagra, 200,000 volt tazer, and a life-like john holmes *****.)

Alright smart ass.......well see. :mad:

[rubthebuddha]

-my girlfriend. wendy can vouch for me on this. :)

- reading (edward rutherford's "sarum" right now, and i have a new copy of shogun to wear out when that's done)

-general fitness

-cooking (especially greek food, being greek and all). methinks avgolemono soup is my favorite for cooking right now.

-eating said avgolemono soup

-spending time with either my roomies here in 'ham or family and best friend in olympia

-driving