Drunken Monkey

well, any beer was considered tame. when we partied, we tended to stick with the spirits. i onced turned up at a big food bash once with practically everything needed for a full bar set-up and some extras that i made up before hand; jellies, maserated fruits, syrups....... they weren't quite expecting that when i said i could sort out the drinks. vodka is my spirit of choice. (and nothing beats a paradise martini for getting the girls all giggly). going to moskba was heaven. there were brands of vodka that worked out cheaper than evian. didn't risk it though. stuck to good old stoli cos its was only US$7 a bottle.

y'know, in my immediate group at uni, stella wasn't classed as a beer. it's down to me saying i was going to be on soft drinks for the night..... then asking for a stella juice....

.....and this is where i shut up.....

what's the difference between the guy you call shifu and the guy you call teacher? what is the relation between them? who teaches you? who teaches him?

school closing up? where-abouts are you? i mean, what time is it there?

i'll be the little chinese guy looking really scared and lost.... er, what should i wear? just normal casual loose clothing? i mean, i don't have any sort of training outfit. and er, if i bring a friend for some company, would she have to pay as an attendee and participate, or is there an option for her to just be an observer/guest?

i'm thinking you don't get it. we're talking about long fist, more commonly known as cheung kuen, sometimes refered to as long distance bridge fighting (not the same as long distance fighting). not all northern styles are a form of cheung kuen. not all long distance bridge users are cheung kuen. your style is something that you call 'long quan pai'. or dragon style. your 'long quan pai' isn't what we are specifically talking about.

nope. you say that YOUR style deals with a little more range. you are talking about YOUR style. not long fist.

just wanted to bring this back to the front to remind people about it..... as it stands, i think i'll be there on saturday.

they are films. they are not real. i have never known a jkd guy that jumps around. they tend to be pretty much like any other guy from any other style. moving freely does not mean jumping around. move when you need to. don't move when you don't need to.

i am not a she. anyway. my point was, if you are a beginner (to the class), with dubious background, with an attitude problem and i was asked to pair with you to show you forms, something you don't seem to want to do, then that is a waste of my time. i would be hard on you to do things properly because i would like to think that i'm not wasting my time. should i be more patient? maybe. but if you aren't giving me everything you've got, then it is kinda my job to get you to give me everything you've got. if i don't, then it would be me who is wasting your time. would it be better if i was all nice and soft and say things like 'yes, that's good.....' when it isn't? in any case. the guy who posted this hasn't been back for ages. looks like this is something else he can't stick at for long.....

you don't jump around in jkd. if you're talking about bruce lee doing jkd by jumping around, then you've not seen him doing jkd....

"So I asked my teacher if theres a name called Sifu" this line bothers me some what. i find it hard to believe that the person teaching you couldn't answer this question.... anyway. yes. it's all the same. just a regional variation of how it is read and pronounced. the characters involved are the same.

distance doesn't really come into it. a good shaolin longfist guy can close the gap and attack you at elbow range. a good wing chun guy can close a 6-8 fot gap attacking at the same time. after all, to hit someone, you have to be at a certain distance anyway........ the name 'long fist' comes from and refers to the way the classical forms are done i.e long and continuous and from where everything comes from. the use of the word 'long' also refers to the chinese river of the same name which is long and continuous and where everything (life....) comes from. technique/method wise, it's more about how you do things. the older styles tend to be classed as long fist styles because they have as their basis (before you get into more in-depth ideas) are all pretty physical, featureing large movements to gain momentum/power/effectiveness. the 'short' fist (short bridge) uses body structures more and relies less on large physical movements. again, in both ways, there are exceptions. as i mentioned, in long fist, you tend to learn large movements before learning the closer short bridge methods. in short, long fist just refers to the type/style, not range or something similar.

....depends. i know of one hung gar school that teaches a five animals set, as well as the five separate animal styles as individual styles, as it were. on the same lines, among the list of shaolin styles/forms, there exists the separate animal forms as well as a collected five animals form. in these cases, the five animals form isn't strictly the same as the five separate animals forms. (mainly because of concept and executions of concepts) as it was the the way with 'old school' training, if you couldn't do the movements, you were 'forced' by whatever means, normally painful ones, to do them. so really, in that sense, you weren't limited to what you can or cannot do as whatever body type you have, you were conditioned to be able to do the movements required. in any case, in the case of the shaolin five animals style, you would've had done the 'tung gi gung' beforehand anyway, so you would've been able to do what was required before you would've started to learn animal styles. if you go a little more in depth with regards to movements, there are some instances where as long as the principles are intact, it doesn't really matter if the moves aren't 'perfect' (as long as the motionmovement is...... if that makes any sense at all.....) um, think of it this way. in wing chun, in most cases, in application, the motions/movements are not the same as done in the form BUT the way you do them are.

they're all wrong. there is only ONE way of spelling that term and that is 功夫 everything else is only trying to replicate the sound of the chinese. not proper spellings.

just popping in to tell everyone to go and find a copy of Keane's album. it's called "Hopes and Fears". "bedshaped" (track 12) is one of the best things i heard in quite a while.

so you're now saying that they weren't your words? fine. whatever. i was willing to give you a chance but i know now that i really am wasting my time.

Poorly from what other people with common English that's when you explain to them that it is a system. like the one you see in dictionaries (no idea what it's called- the phonetics thing). it is like a language but not really. if you are asked, the simplest way to correct them is to show them the characters. you can then even explain why the characters mean what they do. assuming you know chinese and chinese etymology that is.... anyway. from what you are saying here. does that mean that the next time you do this i can happily ignore it?

is that why you don't answer questions on the forum? cos you get them wrong? i wish that wonderful "buddha, punshiment, whatever" thing you had in that thread wasnt deleted. i would like to have shown it to my friends.

this is what bugs me. i have time and time again explained this situation to you. the simple answer is that they are not the same words/characters. the way they are written using the roman alphabet are not the real words. they are just an attempt to write the sound. therefore, it might be spelt the same when using roman characters, they are not the same words/characters in chinese. is that hard to understand? and this is a common situation? i have to say that you are the first/only person i have ever come acoss that has posed this to me. the bggest problem in this immediate situation is that you are starting with the romanised form. you can't see the orignal word/character, not can you hear it. if you could, you would see that nothing to ask/discuss. again, there is only one way of spelling these things and that is in chinese.

for someone who has 30+ years of martial arts experience, as well as exposure to the chinese language and culture, i would've expected a different answer that's all. as for whether or not you want to contine answering, that is up to you. i'm not sure why you're asking that. nothing's stopped you from posting everywhere else, has it?

They don't "write it like it sounds" per a common English pronunciation makes no difference. within the system that it is used, it is a constant. if the reader doesn't know the words anyway, it doesn't make a difference if he misreads it or not. it's still gong to be meaningless. if he does know it, he most likely knows enough about the language to not confuse one word for another because well, he can probably read the sentence as a whole. you said yourself that you are talking about single word sounds. i am saying that the debate regarding single word sounds is pointless because you don't encounter them singularly. do you know what pin-yin means?

don't be such a child. how many times have you done it compared to him? and in what kind of time period?

so there is no other reason for the choice of crane? and no other reason for it being female?