battousai16

i hate it when that happens!

nope. i just stood in it. you'd think being a korean stylist would have given me better balance, but no, i still suck. second day i worked on shifting my feet around while in the very awkward stance and punching (i still can't get the hang of punching to the same spot with every punch... or keeping my elbows in), and started siu lim tao, which i'm having trouble memorizing. i think i got the first half down relatively acceptable. how important is dummy training? my instructor has one, but he dosen't carry it around for obvious reasons, and we learn out of a school gym. it seems as though, with the exception of conditioning, there's nothing you could do with that that you couldn't do with a partner, but... y'know, as i know next to nothing about wing chun and what not...

a lady friend of mine bought me a bunch of stars and knifes and what not. but i've never really trained with them, and i feel good if i can just get them to stick in the wood. and now there are holes all over the walls of my room...

thank you kindly

one of the more interesting things about the wong fei hung movies i've seen, i think, is that the same song travels through them. the magnificent butcher, once upon a time in china, drunken master... though i don't think in drunken master 2, now that i think of it... anywho, there's another one that i can't think of off hand... anywho, i found it interesting that he has his own kind of theme song.

benny "the jet" urquidez was in another jackie chan movie called "dragons forever" in america. yuen biao is better in that movie than he is in wheeles on meals, IMO.

perhaps a tanto? i wouldn't know, i've never used one.

i mostly like them because of there versatility. also, they can be very pretty, or very fierce looking, or something in between? i really like the staff a great deal. i like that you can keep your distance or you can move in close. i like that you can grapple with them. i like the fact that they're so dangerous despite the fact that it's essentially a stick

perhaps because you weren't taught to use them? i dunno, i always thought that the additional weight in a throwing knife would put more drive into it, thus making it more effective than a star. but i've never had formal training with them either. so... are throwing knives typically $60? that sounds awfully high...

and don't take any wooden nickles! good lord, up until now, i'd only heard my god father say that. i thought it was just a geeky thing he said. where does that come from? does anybody know? at any rate, best of luck to you, rotten head... well that dosen't sound very nice, does it?

male: Tom Cruise. i don't care if he is old! he's still sexy! female: i dunno her name, but the girl who played the lead singer in josie and the * cats. the blonde girl in bend it like beckham was pretty too.

ha, i used to watch walker texas ranger too. i was a huge chuck norris fan, and i loved that show. i'm just kind of embarassed now... what an awful show...

interesting you bring that up, wap, as myamoto musashi, the kensai himself, was defeated by a master of the staff... though i think it was a jo... still. interesting that said, i've always been a staff man, myself. people tell me i'm better with the sword, but i just don't like it as much.

with only one wing chun class all i can say is go with an open mind. the style was completely different than anything i'd ever done before; it was very awkward. be sure to visit both schools, though, and inquire about free trial classes. it's the only way to really figure out which one is right for you best of luck

Oh well, we can be pitiful at it together... rock on; pitiful kung fu fighters unite!

you can read about it in the 4 page wing chun thread over in chinese styles. the short of it is i'm pitiful at it, but it was still great fun

yeah, the legal system takes care of street fights, murder, domestic abuse, robbery, fraud, etc. all the time. walking out of your dojo/dojang/kwoon/club or what have you in your uniform is like walking out with a big red bulls eye on your face and a kick me sign on your back. even if it's just verbal abuse, you're realy asking for it.

well, i sort of learned how to punch. i only just barely got the hang of it, i'm still trying to work out old habits. i learned a stance with a long name that sounded like it started with a "Y" sound that i knew at the time, but can't for the life of me remember now. a also touched on a one legged stance. some pushing stuff where i tried to keep my balance. i'm sure you've done it, where someone pushes you so you drop your stance and push up and in? at least that's how i was doing it. then we did something where are partner punched and we kind of shot our hands forward in a wedge, which he turned into a block/punch combination, and he explained it in basic concepts. then we chatted for awhile.

i just got back from my first wing chun class today, and i gotta' say, i'm the single worst WC practioner ever. hands down. everything about it is just so bloody different from everything else i've ever done. crazy.

^see, that's what i was thinking^. the first 300 miles or so might work out ok, but good lord, you're gonna' be so sore after that... no matter what kind of shape you're in...

interesting. i'd still feel weird about it. i think i'd pull back all my punches in fear of a tennis elbow sort of thing.

isn't there risk to that? i was under the impression that if you use weight, you should move slower or risk injury. i don't use weights myself, it's just what i've heard.

well, though it's nice to know you have 4,000 techniques and 108 weapons in your styles arsenal, it's also a pain, because you only ever get a firm grasp over a few hundred. out of the 108 weapons, i've only seen about 14 of them. and although there's so much in striking, joint locks, grappling, weapons, internal energy and what not, you kind of end up with a "jack of all trades, master of none" or "really good at one thing, competent with the others". also, the only way to learn it is through the academy, which is just so expensive... but the students all tend to be happy, and it's nice to know i'm in such a well rounded art. though the history is very sketchy, it's also neat that at any given time there are so many instructors around who specialize in different things, so someone's always there to help you. there's very little to complain about with yang tai chi. and my first wing chun class is tonight. we'll see how that goes.

^and that could very well be true^. i'm not really a big fan of the belt system my self, it's kind of emptied my pockets, and now i have a bunch of colored strips of cloth laying around that i have no idea what to do with. i think there could be truth in the whole "this represents this" thing until you get to "camouflage" belts and the like. or perhaps i'm just giving all of those instructors the benefit of the doubt. it dosen't matter so much as long as i continue to dig learning with them.

i can't imagine anyone giving you more or less respect based entirely on your weapon of choice. i just think it's generally accepted that it's more difficult to learn some weapons than others. that said, i really only had experience with so many weapons, and they've all had there hurdles.