God knifefighter you are bitter little man but you still love me dont you? kisses
Last edited by EarthDragon; 09-29-2010 at 05:57 PM.
KUNG FU USA
www.eightstepkungfu.com
Teaching traditional Ba Bu Tang Lang (Eight Step Praying Mantis)
Jin Gon Tzu Li Gung (Medical) Qigong
Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."
taking the metaphorical "hammer" to him aren't you knifefighter. haha
Originally posted by BawangOriginally posted by Bawangi had an old taichi lady talk smack behind my back. i mean comon man, come on. if it was 200 years ago,, mebbe i wouldve smacked her and took all her monehs.i am manly and strong. do not insult me cracker.
I met angelo dundee while working on a movie a few years back.
He trained Muhammad Ali. He was a little round guy. BUt a great trainer, obviously.
People can have all the bravado and spunk they like. they're also entitled to say what they like and even believe what they like (even when they don't really believe it, but feel they have to lol).
What I know for sure is that I find practicing Kung Fu to be deeply satisfying to myself and I am happy I've managed to integrate the practice and all that is in it.
I had my stage where I could actively fight and recover well. I'm glad I have an art form that doesn't dead end there and goes beyond to integrate a new path. It's interesting and never ending it seems.
All along the way you'll encounter people and all of them are different. Some think they know the way, others think you know the way, and so on. Ultimately it can only come down to what it is that you enjoy in your framework of life that you build for yourself.
I like that Shaolin Kung Fu is a system and a practice that can be integrated into your whole life or only a little if you like. I'm sure that there are other full life long practices that are similar in other arts that follow a similar path.
Why do so many asian martial arts follow a structured path of martiality, medicine and meditation?
New martial arts and combat sports aren't really as mixed as people would like to think they are. Most decent kung fu students will elarn a thing or two about taking care of someone who is injured in a very for real sense. some go on to learn loads about medicine and healing arts, others also practice more esoteric arts related to mental cultivation and so on.
where is this in mma practitioners or in the sport? It is only there if that is what is brought into it.
for many it ends at merely fighting, and that's a lot of fun and you learn a lot from it, but you cannot physically fight for your whole life nor can you do it at a competitive level for a very long time. Any career you think you might have will be short, barring outliers, but 10 or so years down the road and you're done.
If you are not iceman or couture quality vegas style fighters, then forget it. You other 600,000 guys out there busting it up, will wind up with nothing more than memories of days that used to be.
Kung fu guys will be doing qigong, drinking tea and reading mma rants on forums. lol
Kung Fu is good for you.
excellent post David J. well said
KUNG FU USA
www.eightstepkungfu.com
Teaching traditional Ba Bu Tang Lang (Eight Step Praying Mantis)
Jin Gon Tzu Li Gung (Medical) Qigong
Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."
let me affirm Rik's comments - I unexpectedly had some free time this afternoon, so I stopped in to see his new diggs; in a word, outstanding! TT has put together a space that, IMPO, combines the best of old and new; and talk about location, LOCATION, LOCATION - indeed, he will have to try very hard and use ALL of his grumpy old sifu schtick to alienate people and drive them away! and I am happy because now I can refer people to him without worrying that they need to drive through several gang territories in order to get to the school...
Yeah, that old school was right in the center hub, between the MS-13, and the Bloods and Crips. There is still a bullethole in the window.
I would hear gunshots and think,"Boy, it's a little early for Chinese New Year..."
It started to strike a bit too close to home when they started running stories on 1010wins and eyewitness news, rather than the local papers, and closing down schools in the projects. The guy who was shot in the last drive-by was one of my student's cousin.
My enrollment started a quick decline-I got out of there just in time.
Instead of bodegas, gangs and-crack hoes, I am now in the land of Starbucks, Little League and MILFS!
"My Gung-Fu may not be Your Gung-Fu.
Gwok-Si, Gwok-Faht"
"I will not be part of the generation
that killed Kung-Fu."
....step.
lol, like who? You? Are you saying that you train in teh same way a competitive fighter trains? Or some other imaginary "thousands" of other guys.
take a look aroud the gyms in your neighbourhood. Who's in there?
I think you throw around "clueless" so much it gets all over you.
Kung Fu is good for you.
My point is, that you rarely see men beyond 55 (really lets say beyond 40 here) doing any sort of exercise that would be considered to a standard of a competitive fighter regimen.
I think a lot of guys play at it a couple of times a week, but let me posit this, what exactly is the purpose of training as a competitive fighter, if you don't fight competitively?
That's like training to fly to the moon and you're not a member of nasa.
Do you still compete?
Kung Fu is good for you.
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Not impossible. Just harder.
I grew up in the Mexican ghetto but live in the land of Starbucks now.
There weren't any soccer moms chauffeuring kids to games or milfs cheering their kids at swim meets where I grew up. Kids had good reason and incentive to be able to fight. One of my old instructors yelled at us kids for getting blood all over the mats and not cleaning up after we sparred.
Nowadays, kung fu is 3rd, 4th, or 5th on the list after baseball, soccer, track, and water polo. Everybody is so PC and civilized in the land of Starbucks. Kids aren't pulling knives on each other at school, and their priorities are different.
A big name Eagle Claw guy was telling me about his experience growing up in the ghetto. He and his friends were part of a Chinese gang. In addition to doing their gang stuff, they took it upon themselves to protect the nerdy asian kids from being victimized by the black gangs.