Drunken Monkey

well, i was talking in the context of the discussion. not many people make fight scenes as good as the hong kong crews... just cos jackie chan doesn't use "look at me i'm unbeatable, no one can touch me style martial arts" in his films does not mean he is a bad martial artist. the fact that he can do the things in his films and make them look normal, easy, controlled, improvised is a testament to his skill.

i meant keep your weight on the heels of your feet. that lines up you ankle and your knees and will help your base. balance is a totally different matter.

seven star (gwa bo), is a type of stance... kung fu does not require you to wear a uniform per se but some schools/sifus will want you to. and don't ask about applications/street combat/competition because what you do with what you learn is up to you.

hey, shorin ryuu did you say taht your avatar was the name of your style in kanji? as in, it means shorin ryuu. well just like to point out that the kanji, if read in chinese, is shaolin (small/little forest).

but even when steven seagal was "good" he was still much worse than jackie chan ever will be... the zero gravity team have a little video called "us vs hk" look for it. (i'll try to find the site, or if someone else knows it, post it here) it kinda shows the differences between how an american martial arts scene is done and how a hk martial arts scene is done... well, all in good humour of course, but if you see it, you will know what i mean.

sport just means competiton. therefore all martial arts can be sports. now in a sport/competition, there are rules to make things fair/safe for everyone. it goes on that some rules mean that some aspects/techniques of an art are no longer useful, hence they are omitted from the competition training. however, that does not mean that sport is not an/the art and it doesn't not mean that one or the other is better... they are just different. and one thing that's been bugging me for a bit now. why can't a sport (martial art) be a proper martial art? why do people HAVE to differentiate it from non-sport martial arts? 100metre sprint, 1200 metre run. both are running, just done differently to achieve different goals.

like i say, find out about what you are talking about before tapping them keys....

i think the dojo/gwoon/training hall is one of the few places that you will find muslims, christians, jews, buddhists, hindus together and willing to call each other brother.

it costs even just to see your gp?

they have a greatest hits album? anything new on it cos well, i have all the old albums anyway...

ahhh, but technically, you don't have the right to get angry if you get a speeding/parking ticket... the rules are there. you know what they are and yet you still went over that limit/parked where you shouldn't.

have you notived the amount of "pointless" posts that wrestlingdude has posted recently...? d'ya think he's trying to up his ranking? or am i being too cynical again...?

..probably... if you look at wing chun guys, we will more often than not, face you in a left stance...

"why, it's a hole in space of course!!!" "um, what IS space...?" "absolutely nothing sir!" "sooooo, it's a hole in nothing?" "ummmmm......."

um, a black hole is black because it's gravity is so gret that (nearly) nothing can escape, hence not even light (as cybren said, it is bent backwards). it is not a hole (so no hole into another universe fantasies for you young man...) aside note: are you aware that if you do the maths as presented in the bible and other religious texts, the earth is only about 4000 years old... anyway, i don't really care what you believe. what i don't like here is a blatant ignorance of the science that he doesn't believe. that probably doesn't sound right. the point is, if he understood it and doesn't believe, then that's his choice BUT at least find out the details because right now, you are just talking crap. the thing that you do not believe isn't even what you are talking about. it's like me saying that i don't believe in god because god can't cook (or, in terms we can all understand, i think wing chun is crap because it doesn't teach hand skills...). you can only discuss a subject if you KNOW the subject.

...to train the weaker side twice as much.

and more stable. after all, if you cannot stand up, how can you hit? good base = good kicks+good punches. never skimp out on the basics like stance training. it's why the kung fu guys spend so long just sitting in stance before learning forms.

it is THE radiohead album. not all songs are great but the whole album just gels together perfectly. you can tell where muse got their original inspiration from...

at a time when there was no television and radio was a luxury. makes it all the more piognant...

dumb kids who boast too much...

um, not really. it takes upon the existence of a singularity and it "expoded". this in turn caused the matter/anti-matter struggle. this was followed by things settling down. matter collected. clouds formed. stars formed. planets formed. things grew. we know these things happen. we are observing planets form and stars die. the creation of things such as anti-matter, z particles etc can be observed in a particle accelerator (which essentially are creating mini "big bangs") the only mysterious thing is the whole question of life. as for a god creating the universe, well, there's even less evidence of that isn't there...

you'll find that if you concerntrate on keeping your heels on the floor as opposed to the balls of your feet, you will feel more grounded.

little boy are you talking about the shio nage and taisabaki?

hey, have you seen the pan nam wing chun dummy form? it is very very different to the yip man forms.

well being a wing chun guy i am bound by my honour to ignore choy li fut!!! hehe, only kidding mate... to be honest i totally forgot. sorry about that.