Is Shaolin-Do for real?

[Mega-Foot]

Lukas is great he performing Quantum Mechanic equations and his little sister Madelyn is doing some Geometry pretty good for 2,5 years and 5 months KC

QUantum Mechanic equations won't do him any good if he doesn't understand his Lorentz, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, or even Calculus (such as Newtonian physics is vital to understanding how Quantum Theory interacts with the universe).

At 5 years of age, I wonder if perhaps you're cramming a little too much into his head. I guarantee he cannot understand what he's learning. People who study this for a living, and teach it, and write the books you read about it--even they don't understand it.

You're better off teaching him elementary biology. Quantum mechanics is far too abstruse to begin with. STart with the large things, then move on down the scale to the microscopic and subatomic.

[Judge Pen]

Lukas is great he performing Quantum Mechanic equations and his little sister Madelyn is doing some Geometry pretty good for 2,5 years and 5 months KC

That's not bad. Autumn is training for her first triathalon. We are also encouraging her to take that full ride to Juilliard to hone her opera skills.

[kwaichang]

No more rice crispies I am out of rice crispies. KC

[tattooedmonk]

And I thought those of us who practiced SD got a lot of $h!T!! ( reference to USSD). How are all of you doing??

[SenseiShellie]

And I thought those of us who practiced SD got a lot of $h!T!! ( reference to USSD). How are all of you doing??

LOL. Go into a USSD regional meeting and they are talking Shiznit about you guys...

[sk girl]

LOL. Go into a USSD regional meeting and they are talking Shiznit about you guys...

Yep they say you guys are crap. That's not what I am saying. I saw you guys do some demos at a park once cool stuff.
Your instructors were nice to. I was wearing my ussd GI at the time.

[DPL]

This is my first post on this forum and will likely run a little long, so please bear with me. If someone else has posted something like this before, please accept my apologies for the redundancy.

I stopped reading the forum about three years ago and just started browsing it again a few weeks ago. I've gotten a lot of good knowledge from the forum and have read some extremely interesting and entertaining posts. It's a valuable resource for anyone looking to broaden their MA knowledge base.

But after three years away, I'm amazed at the amount of time that's still spent talking about whose style is worth a sh!t and whose lineage is true or not.

The curious part about this to me, and the point of this post, is that so much of this type of discussion is clearly impossible to resolve. Nobody has the answers.

If you're arguing about whose style is effective, you can't tell that from internet discussions or videos of forms. I would argue it's also difficult to tell from videos of fights, as even in UFC or Pride I've seen fighters who I thought had no chance against their opponent based on previous bouts, who won convincing victories. The only way to tell is to meet, and even then all you can really tell is how good someone is compared to you ON THAT DAY.

And if you're arguing about lineage then you're on a long, lonely quest for THE TRUTH and best of luck to you in reaching the end of that path. Watch out for monsters.

One of the reasons I stopped reading the forums in the first place was that I just got tired of trying to find the good information hidden amongst all the accusations, innuendo, threats, and judgements. Which is sad because, again, I think there's some very good knowledge and some very knowledgeable people to be found here.

So I've got a suggestion:

How about a forum titled P!ss!ng Contests or something like that where anyone who wants to have those discussions can Internet-fight to their heart's content? And anytime a thread starts to degenerate into a flame war, it just gets sent to that forum? That way those of us who are not really interested in either p!ss!ing or in having to smell the p!ss of others can just enjoy the good aspects of the forum.

Just a little something to consider...

About me: I currently study Shaolin-Do under the Mullins family in Tennessee. I started out in an American karate school, moved to a traditional Okinawan Shorin-Ryu school under a student of Doug Perry of Hendersonville, NC and ran across Shaolin-Do accidentally when a new school was started at my gym. I started taking SD 'on the side' while still working on my karate, but eventually dropped the karate to focus full-time on SD. I've been in SD now about 10 years.

[MasterKiller]

How about a forum titled P!ss!ng Contests or something like that where anyone who wants to have those discussions can Internet-fight to their heart's content? And anytime a thread starts to degenerate into a flame war, it just gets sent to that forum? That way those of us who are not really interested in either p!ss!ing or in having to smell the p!ss of others can just enjoy the good aspects of the forum.

Or we could just start a forum for whiners and move posts like this into it.

[DPL]

Or we could just start a forum for whiners and move posts like this into it.

So that's one vote for more sniping and bickering... anyone else?

[Lamassu]

So that's one vote for more sniping and bickering... anyone else?

Oo, me! me!

Seriously, though I like your suggestion, but I don't think it would be feasible, especially since 9 times out of 10 these threads lead to p!ssing contests anyway, and moving them about amongst the multiple forums would become a full time job. The only way a thread will not degenerate to cok swinging, is if the topic is so obscure that no one that isn't familiar with it can rightly form an opinion, much less bicker about why their's is better, and if those involved in the actual topic just ignore the asinine posts that slip in every now and just stay on topic.

Of course with a thread titled like this one 'Is Shaolin-Do for real?', what it actually says is 'p!$$ and moan here'.

[NastyHaggis]

Hey DPL, check your private messages.

[Kung Pao]

You know, I don't really remeber much of my SD mantis (1 form--only remember a couple movements), but this reminds me of it.

Don't know if it's a simlar form. Thought it was intresting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1sORstDpY

[kwaichang]

Wow Kung Pao what did you learn no mantis in SD even looks like that at all KC

[dougadam]

You know, I don't really remeber much of my SD mantis (1 form--only remember a couple movements), but this reminds me of it.

Don't know if it's a simlar form. Thought it was intresting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1sORstDpY

Interesting video, it appears to be a soft style.

[Golden Tiger]

I agree KW. I noticed no similarities in the form either.