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and addictive!

24 on part one so far...but my genius has never been in doubt.

Oooh, yes. I know a lot of these. I don't know how useful they will be to any given person, I guess one has to just experiment and find the ones that click for them.

Some of the meditations I've...

I am presently browsing book seven of the shaolin collection, when I happen upon this in a section entitled "Rare Animal Styles:"

Fetus Style (Tai Xing)

an excerpt:
"Qigong places high regard...

Ray, could you elaborate on this?

I seriously wish you would try this at my school.


My apologies to the forum for baiting this troll, but the mental image I have while considering the above scenario is priceless.

what a great metaphor.


I am reminded of Chuang Tzu (Thomas Merton translation)

When an archer is shooting for nothing
He has all his skill.
If he shoots for a brass buckle
He is already...

I suppose Westerners really do expect belts. In school I strived for grades and diplomas. I always studied hard with the immediate goal of doing well on the next test. The end result, luckily, was...

how much nun could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nun?

We start the staff and the chucks at the same time, roughly when you reach yellow sash. I am about halfway through the staff form at this point. I believe that Sifu only recently started teaching...

Okay, to answer the above (and thank you, all, for sharing your experiences):

1. monkey jacks -- squat on floor, jump into air, bring knees to chest while aloft, land, squat again. Possibly what...

Ahoy. Tonight I just tested for orange sash. (I passed.) At my school the rank order is No rank-->white-->yellow-->orange for beginners, green-->blue-->purple for intermediate students, and...

was The Beastmaster. ever.

Master Splinter

I also got D8--deep dark and cynical.


so...we should divide into teams based on this quiz, and play Trivial Pursuit. Or thumb-wrestle.

Red rover, red rover, send D10 right over.

GDA: this is possibly the most classic example of "relapse behavior" there is. Thinking that due to a semi-lengthy period of abstinence from drug or alcohol, that "one won't hurt" and "I won't be...

really appreciate this, guys. I'm writing it all down. I'll ask my sifu if the sparring is one-hit or continuous tonight. Certainly, I'll report back after the tournament to tell you how it went. ...

CF: lol and thanks. I'll make sure to know which way the judges are sitting. Good tip.

Also--this is a karate-school hosted tournament, so my school is likely to be the only kung fu school...

I'm pretty sure it's the game of tag: one-hit.

In class we've done some one-hit sparring, but mostly continuous.

Is there anything you know now that you wish you could have communicated to...

oh, sorry.

Forms and point-sparring. As yet, not advanced enough to have learned a weapons form.

Just tested for yellow sash on Saturday.

Hey guys. I'm about to compete in my very first martial arts tournament, April 2nd, and I must say--I'm terrified.

Any tips from old pros who can remember being new to tournaments would be...

Well, work has been slow today, so I too have fallen into the black hole that is the satellites.

Then I removed the "satellites.html" bit from the url and went through ALL of the physics...

sigh. I would argue if I could.

So Gene, if name rectification is in order, will we all be posting to the Wu Shu Magazine forum soon?

Didn't mean to hijack your party, Gene. But enjoy the cake.