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Hey Hey Hey, Kris i like the idea but please dont ruin my thread with pornography!!!!!!:eek: DONT EVEN GO THERE!
YES about the Jet Li and Jacki Chan combo, apprently as evident from various sources this year Mr Cham and Li are going to get together and do a gig, that is as far as th info goes for the moment but as soon as i hear anything new, rest assured it will be on this thread.:D
please no porn ok? ;)
its bad for the soul.... lol/
Jon, I wish you would have told me earlier!!!!!, but my friends are taking me to one of their places for a vidoe night and lots of funny goss! ****, i would have really liked to join you and shell, but maybe you two should just catch up anyway:D
you better give me extra notice next time!!!!! il visit soon anyways.
by the way Jon, about the green eyed monster....well, what can i say, but Great minds think alike;)
Tae Li;)
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ask me who managed to find, in a used book shop, a program from the beijing wushu team's performance for president nixon.
now ask me who's picture appears in the inside cover (as a kid, mind you).
if i ever get the opportunity to hit jet li up for his autograph, i'm so getting THAT signed.
stuart 'fanboy' b.
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wow! really?? talk about good luck!!! youll be surprised at the stuf you find in old book stores. my local lib. is having a sale, i think i better go and have a browse just in case i get lucky like you.
Wanna be my new bestfriend???:D
lol.
Tae Li
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Hey apo,
I think I have seen that book....is it the one with a pic of Jet in what looks like a drunken pose on the ground in his yellow and black wushu suit as seen in one of those documentary DVD's I have?
So, I will be sort of drifting for the next few days. I'm fighting off a rotten cold. Sore throat, slight cough....but don't worry, kids! Still going to take a shot at training tonight. :D Now, let's see if I can remember the gist of my last interrupted post.
Fist of Legend: Personally, I don't remember any of the "nose thumbing and waazzaaa"s. Maybe I missed something? Hard to imagine though since I have an entirely unedited copy of FOL, including the infamous (and often unknown) opium smoking scene. I think FOL ranks among Jet's top ten, and judging from things I have read, I'm in good company. Supposedly, many top kungfu masters in China were praising the movie and Yuen Woo-Ping for the realism in the fight scenes. They probably were not referring to the wirework, but oh well. Sidebar: I don't mind wirework....so there.
Kids from Shaolin was a good movie for what it was...simple with a shoestring budget. But I think that added a certain amount of grittiness to the film that added to the atmosphere.
Thanks again for all the Zhang San-Feng info....I posted what I had heard knowing full well that there were dissenting views. If only Chinese martial research wasn't so....daunting.
Well, that's it for now. Oh and thanks again for the FOUR special mentions (three from Tae Li and one from wushu chik). Glad to know I'm in such demand! HA HA!! :cool:
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HMMMMM...Opium smoking scene huh?? I want a copy!
And, you know I give you special mention because I love you...NOW SEND ME MY SHIRT!!
~Wen~
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NO SHIRT FOR YOU! You may now call me Shirt Nazi.
I told you once, I'll tell you again. You want my shirt, we must fight. Tables, Ladders and Chairs allowed!
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So what's the latest? no more debates about our fav Li flicks or what???
So did anyone alse happen to pick up a copy of blitz mag and read the interview with Jet about The oNe???
It was really good, but quite similar to the one in Kung fu mag.....
Great pics as well, im just looking for space to put up the poster of Li Lian.
hmm, what else??
Prana...u know the Yin Yang symbol.....i have goten quite a bit of info about it of the Jet Li site but do you have an exact definition? Jet tends to refer to it strictly as balance and stuff in terms of philolosphy, but what are other interpretations of it especialy in terms of religion???
Tae Li
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Well big bro..I will say this...you are WAY more convincing than that moron on Seinfeld!! ANYWAYS...It will happen....chairs, ladders etc........I WILL BE VICTORIOUS!!!!
~Wen~
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Yin-Yang symbol. I am not true to Chinese Philosophy but generally, in all white there exists some black and in all black there exists white. Everything is in equilibrium. Just like how I am a dumb nut and someone else has stolen my neurons etc. These two fishes symbolises life and all.
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Wow, i guess people really love Jet Li. A whole 190 post about em'
All i gotta say is...........................JACKIE CHAN RULES KUNG FU FLIX..................AAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA :D
Seriously, i like Jet too, but Jackies the man, you know your big when you have your own Cartoon. .
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yin and yang
the yin yang is meant to represent balance, but also constant change. extreme yang becomes yin, extreme yin becomes yang. in bruce lee's jeet kune do symbol, he has arrows around the outside which represent this movement. there is always a little yin in the yang and vice versa. the eight trigrams which surround the yin yang in the bagua logo and the korean flag represent this change as well, and they are sometimes used in hexagrams as well (two trigrams put together). broken lines are yin, and unbroken lines represent yang.
in most chinese fields (medicine, philosophy, religion?, etc.) the yin and yang is the basic concept with most everything in creation being considered one or the other (but always with the implication of its opposite).
the yin yang is also known as the tai ji (supreme ultimate) map with the "s" shape being some sort of "perfect" shape.
here are some quotes from Yang Li's "Book of Changes and Traditional Chinese Medicine":
"'Tai' represents supreme, inexhaustible. Taiji means infinite, including endless time and limitless space. 'Limitless refers to the original chaotic Qi in the universe with no direction, no shape, and no limit, which is 'Dao generates one.' It represents no only the infinity of macrocosm, but also the microcosm itself." p. 71
"The Map of the Grand Terminus from infinite to supreme ultimate, is the basis of the theory of the occurrence of the universe in Book of Changes. . . Taiji (the Grand Terminus), therefore, refers to the idea that the universe is infinite and limitless." p. 71
sidenote: the map of the grand terminus is just a circle
"Yin and Yang were not isolated , or separated, but wre instead combined each other [sic]." p. 72
"Not using straight lines symbolizes that Yin and Yang are relative, not absolute though they each take one half. . . they restrain and depend on each other." p. 73-74
"As for the black eye and the white eye, representing extreme Yin and extreme Yang, they symbolize that Yin in its extreme gives rise to Yang and Yang in its extreme gives rise to Yin, Yin and Yang can be transformed." p. 74
"The curved area between the combination of Yin and Yang represents the growth and decline of Yin and Yang as gradual rather than sudden." p. 74
the book describes each in more detail, but i'm worried about copyright infringement as it is. personally, i don't agree with all of it, because i believe in the One who is unchanging (no, not gabe yulaw). but it does seem to explain a lot of the created order. my jury is still out on the whole matter, but this is the theory behind it anyway. the author of this book won "the World Golden Prize of Taiji and Science (Medicine) 1993." according to a plate at the front of the book "All those who explore society and nature by Taiji principles and have uniquie opinions can be awarded the prize."
Wang Si Zhong
(sorry about the length of the post, it was hard enough to edit it down to this...)
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While I hope and pray for the continued success of my favorite martial arts actors, I do have to add something as far as "You know your big when you have your own cartoon"...remember Gary Coleman and Mr. T? :p
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Prana and Wanhsizhong...thanz both for some explanation.:)
But when Jet speaks of it on his site, he mainly refers to it as the idea of balance and perhaps as you mentioned Wanhsizhong, of constant change.
So why dont you agree with it Wnagsizhing? my thoughts are that not everything is equal or binary. Not everything that appears as 'black' (metaphor) also appear as 'white' but differently. hat mean is not everything has a vice versa, but im sure the whole yin yang things goes alot deeper than simple counter opposites.
I actually didnt realise that its defintion had such depth in meaning, but clearly eceryone follows its basic root concept and then attach personal symbols. Thats what i think anyway. So it goes more philosophy then religion?
Leo: i love Jack's cartoon, dont watch all the time but only when i was up early enough for work, just to hear him speak at the end. But Jet Li is simply tooo special. And everyone knows it, cos this thred is stil going. Touch wood.
:D
We need a Jet Li biography then cartoon...yes, a biography must come first.
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sorry, i must be dislexic!!! i kep writing peoples name backwards!! sorry, but i type too fast for my own sight to catch up with.
Tae Li;)
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Yes, a Jet bio would be awesome!
I would gladly kill all of you to be Jet's ghost writer, but since Jet is such a gentle guy we know I'll never have to do that...so how can we get this going? Somehow, I don't think an e-mail to his website will do it. :cool: