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Originally posted by BAI HE
This isn't actually a love in but...
The fact remains is that many people are happy and fulfilled studying with Mr. Painter. He charges nominal fees and has done a lot for the arts in general. If you don't like his stuff? Don't study with him. It's that easy.
Truly.
Originally posted by BAI HE
This isn't actually a love in but...
I am now rather convined that he knows what he knows. This guy Frank Li taught him the arts. Maybe at the time he learned them, all the **** (lineage, branch, etc.) was not so important.
Maybe these individuals were just looking to carve out a life here in the US.The fact remains is that many people are happy and fulfilled studying with Mr. Painter. He charges nominal fees and has done a lot for the arts in general. If you don't like his stuff? Don't study with him. It's that easy.
Hey Bai He,
That pretty much sums it up for me as well. I was fricking hard to convince about anything but when a dude comes outta the dark like that takes on three guys puts em down and helps me cuff a forth then freaking disappears into the dark again well I gotta know who this dude is. No he does’t prowl the streets, least I don’t think so, looking for guys to whip up on, the incident happened on a side street near his home at about 0100 hrs. He said he was doing his meditation exercise and heard the rukus and came down the alley saw me getting the stuffin beat outta me by four guys and just chipped in to help. It took me two weeks to find him again, he was training at 0001 in a park cross from his house with a huge ass Ba Gua sabre and so I got with him and I ain’t been sorry since.
I don’t care if smoke the bear taught him. I have seen lots of other styles and systems and this one does it for me. To each his own and that I think is his attitude also. One thing that is certain about training in Nine Dragon Bagua Zhang the way Shifu Painter has structured it. It is practical, it is clearly laid out and while it contains countless layers of nuance it is simple to follow. I used it summ in my law enforcement work although I never was part of his American Rangers group because the really got into it national like and I got out of law enforcement before 9-11 but I have used what I learned and am learning in civilian life in dealing with both mental and physical conflicts and it has served me extremely well. The qi gong part of the system is really cool and you get a great feeling from it right away plus I almost never get sick anymore.
One of the things Mr. Painter insists on in the martial art training of Nine Dragon is that in terms of it being a fighting method you gotta be able to test the structure and power of every single posture and movement that is be able to make it generate power from structure and the mind together or it ain’t worth a hill a beans. His art is structured so it leads you through things from one step to the next. For example in the student manual they publish is says that in Nine Dragon Bagua Zhang we first sit then stand then shift then walk and then circle and finally apply the methods. Applications come in stages starting with simple up to complex and there is lots of training of both internal and external energies using the body and also equipment. It is a really well designed method. I think if you meet him and talk to him you will understand a lot more than just typin in the dark. I gotta thank you for sayin it straight and being upfront .
Chaz W.
Going in circles can take ya straight through life.
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