Willow Sword,
I continue to be surprised by your experience in Texas. All that I can say is, my experience in Tennessee has been very different.
The very fact that you were teaching--and...
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Willow Sword,
I continue to be surprised by your experience in Texas. All that I can say is, my experience in Tennessee has been very different.
The very fact that you were teaching--and...
MK, you say "probably destroyed"....?
When you have to qualify your opinion with words like "probably" your argument flies out the window. Probability has nothing to do with it.
What YOU think...
Stylistic variation is more the rule than the exception, even within the same lineage.
Take Yang style T’ai Chi for example. Cheng Man Ching made changes to the form and his students represent an...
So what have we learned so far, kids?
Gene wants to mess with our colons and MK is too pretty to get drafted...?
The SD teachers I know are exceptional martial artists.
MCTH,Masterkiller, and Judge,
It's a mystery, but my experience has been different. Application of techniques from the forms is constantly taught and emphasized...go figure.
There IS quite a...
Good point, judge.
We can all benefit from more practice.
We should also recognize there will always be considerable diversity in skill levels all across the board.
For example, at the SD...
It may be difficult for younger martial artists to realize this, but in the sixties, when Grandmaster Sin first came to the U.S., most Americans were very unfamiliar with martial arts names. The...
Yes, Judge Penn, I was there Saturday, though I did not compete.
The black belt fighting was really fun to watch..really good sportsmanship, too, from what I saw.
Like Judge Penn, I also study with Mullins Shaolin Kung-fu in Tennessee.
Master Mullins, with over 30 years of experience, is an exceptional martial artist and teacher. Both his sons are also...