Originally Posted by GeneChing
Did his name happen to be SIN THE?
Did his name happen to be SIN THE?
Grand Pooba
Gene, the "get a real job hippie!" was something my dad would say to me when I was young, (**cough**) younger. Yeah, I was a long hair, living at home, peacenik punk rocker back in the day.
Did you find out how he cashed in on the 70's martial arts craze?
I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows
The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.
Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.
DM
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Kung Fu Hustle...
Have anyone here seen Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow yet?
If you have seen it and you find there are tears behind the laughters than I congratulate you on your Kung Fu journey for you have come a long way. Pretty much everything about Kung Fu culture is covered in the movie. At the very core it talks about the sad reality of Jiang Hu (the floating world of lakes and river) or more precisely the every changing and unforgiving reality of being one amongst the grass root level. It doesn't matter how powerful and how talented you are; Father Time is going to give you a time's up. Newer, faster and better (technology created illusions) will swallow you up. That's the reality that Kung Fu is really facing.
Watch it and you will see the what Kung Fu has always been about.
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All I wanted was a Pepsi
Just a lil tidbit of info...did you know that Warren Buffett still does his own taxes? My little W2 and a couple 1099s are a pain in the butt.
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You are more likely to fall down the stairs and break your neck if you live in a house with stairs. You are more likely to be in a car accident if you drive to work. You are more likely to be kicked in the nuts or punched in the nose if you practicing the martial arts. - Judge Pen
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I'll see your couple of 1099s and raise you a Schedule C and a Schedule E.
...I've only met one MA school owner that didn't have another job... Apparently Gene is running with a much better crowd than I am.
All I wanted was a Pepsi
You have to fill out a schedule C as well as a 1040 SE if you do 1099 work.
Your intelligence is surpassed only by your ignorance.
You are more likely to fall down the stairs and break your neck if you live in a house with stairs. You are more likely to be in a car accident if you drive to work. You are more likely to be kicked in the nuts or punched in the nose if you practicing the martial arts. - Judge Pen
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The crowd I run with is a bunch of hummer-less hippies apparently.
I have met plenty of people who are full-time professional martial artists. I've been full-time for nearly twenty years now and part time since the mid eighties. Still no hummer. Not that I could afford the gas anyway, especially nowadays. For every one of us that is full time, there are no doubt hundreds of part-timers. It's tough to make a living in the martial arts. There's not a lot of market for it. You have to create your own market. I think that's why so many practitioners make such a big deal out of lineage. You don't have to create as much of a market if you got lineage - you can just rely on your master's market. But that only works for the short term.
This is why the notion of martial arts always being about money is kind of funny to me. Sure, there's a few people who make a lot of money, but most of us don't. And as professional sports go, we're way down in the ghetto. Maybe that's why we complain about money so. We're poor and hungry, by comparison.
That GM wasn't Sin The, BTW. And his 'secret' is pretty well known to any one in the business - use a large franchise base and teach high end private lessons.
Gene Ching
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All I wanted was a Pepsi
Good teachers are like good ethnic food. You have to find a hole-in-the-wall type joint to get the good stuff.
Your intelligence is surpassed only by your ignorance.
You are more likely to fall down the stairs and break your neck if you live in a house with stairs. You are more likely to be in a car accident if you drive to work. You are more likely to be kicked in the nuts or punched in the nose if you practicing the martial arts. - Judge Pen
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Would this gradmaster's name start with "W"?
Right Hand Man
That's too bad...I think everyone should get a hummerThe crowd I run with is a bunch of hummer-less hippies apparently.
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D@mn straight, you can find it in one of those big fancy places, but then you have to deal with all of the up tight arse snobs. Dives have the best service.
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Grand Pooba
Was it my old GM, Fred Willari? http://www.villari.com/Would this gradmaster's name start with "W"?
I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows
The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.
Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.
DM
People love Iron Crotch. They can't get enough Iron Crotch. We all ride the Iron Crotch for the exposure. Gene
Find the safety flaw in the training. Rory Miller.
Moo Moo
In the old time;
You may learn how to fight, if the teacher decided to take you in. You do not pay the money. The teacher paid your living, food and housing.
Job market:
A. Biu Jiu armed escort. You escort the shipments.
B. Body guards: you teach the family of the rich and protect them and their assets.
C. The police and the army: you have to complete the exam and defeat a lot of the people. The best ones go to the palace and then imperial guards, regular army and the police.
D. You are part of a gang in the Jiang Hu or 江湖．
E. You are bandits on the mountains or 山贼.
On and on.
Nowadays, there is this thing called guns.
Keeper of Useless Facts
I have known people who had ADD as well as Bipolarism who were able to ween themselves off the drugs after a few years of good theropy and MA studies... My kid brother is one. My father is another. I have a niece who has managed to drop her dependance on ritlin from 350mg/daily to 200.
Just because most people don't/won't put forth the effort doesn't meen the determined can't. Nor does it meen they didn't have the problem to begin with.
The Unspeakable
That was quite probably the most amusing way I have ever seen someone call someone else an @55hole without using the word itself.
But I always thought it was "blathering".
Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song...
Geoff
-A hundred enemies, a hundred cups of wine. Infinite enemies, infinite wine.-
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