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  1. #46
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drake View Post
    Ever notice it's only westerners who talk about this **** like it's a magical transformation of light and soul?

    Talk about escapism by *******izing someone else's culture...
    It's not just westerners. CYMAC? Any number of Asian MA instructors who moved West and exploited it? Kung fu Movies? The Boxers? It's kind of a tradition, someone more educated could go on about this, but "we didn't start the fire."

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShaolinDan View Post
    It's not just westerners. CYMAC? Any number of Asian MA instructors who moved West and exploited it? Kung fu Movies? The Boxers? It's kind of a tradition, someone more educated could go on about this, but "we didn't start the fire."
    Ohhhhh yeah.... forgot all about that dude...
    The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
    ~ Mark Twain

    Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
    ~ Joe Lewis

    A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
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    I will say just this:
    No MA that I know that is a verifiable fighter, ever speaks of internals or "hard and soft".
    Ever.
    Psalms 144:1
    Praise be my Lord my Rock,
    He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShaolinDan View Post
    It's not just westerners. CYMAC? Any number of Asian MA instructors who moved West and exploited it? Kung fu Movies? The Boxers? It's kind of a tradition, someone more educated could go on about this, but "we didn't start the fire."
    i dont remember any mystical qi in kung fu movies. i remember a lot of hard tough external training. lifting weights, hitting bags, sparring, etc.
    Last edited by bawang; 04-13-2012 at 06:05 AM.

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