Speak for yourself.
I learned the old way and teach under the Journeyman/Apprentice model. On any given day I may be asked about one or more of these things:
- Nutrition
- Meditation
- Use of herbal formulas
- Different methods for different body types
- Fighting
- Self control, mindset and ethics
- Physiology
- Recovery and treatment of injury as well as injury prevention
- History as relates to our system and material
- etc.
-Golden Arms-
My Mom even calls me Sifu.....
actually, no. It's, Mister Sifu.
"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.
Suk and bak are aunt and uncle.
Its still a pretense. You can call yourself what you want but the amount of weight given to every Tom , dic and harry with a school is a burden. Some of these guys act like they are kwan kune or something.
Last edited by Lebaufist; 11-29-2012 at 05:32 PM.
Just stumbled onto this..."pure Germanic English" essay on atomic theory :
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fro...0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ
Just a bit of the opening:
From the Vsauce on English (really worth watching. I'm totally addicted to Vsauce these days )The following item shows what English would look like if it
were purged of its non-Germanic words, and used German-style
compounds instead of borrowings to express new concepts.
This recently appeared in the Conlang mailing list.
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Here is Poul Anderson's essay "Uncleftish Beholding" ("Atomic
Theory"), reprinted from the revised edition appearing in his
collection _All One Universe_.
For most of its being, mankind did not know what things are made
of, but could only guess. With the growth of worldken, we began
to learn, and today we have a beholding of stuff and work that
watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life.
The underlying kinds of stuff are the *firststuffs*, which link
together in sundry ways to give rise to the rest. Formerly we
knew of ninety-two firststuffs, from waterstuff, the lightest and
barest, to ymirstuff, the heaviest. Now we have made more, such
as aegirstuff and helstuff....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atI-JPGcF-k
aka: Bailewen - 白乐文
Me using Baji in a match
Me performing Dabaji and taking silver at a national comp in China (Got gold medals too but no video)
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