The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[ChristineM]

The female origin is not historically provable, it is at best an origin story. Bruce Lee trained under Ip Man, however he was mostly taught by one of Ip Man's senior students. He also only learned Sil Lum Tao. However the rest is right. I trained Wing Chun for a little while and am currently considering going back. Trained under a student of Ip Ching and also trained in the Ip Man > Leung Sheung line.

I trained myself in yoga an pilates, do they count?

Also i learned a little goshinkwai/krav maga just to be able to look after myself if needed.

 

[Stonetree]

The female origin is not historically provable, it is at best an origin story. Bruce Lee trained under Ip Man, however he was mostly taught by one of Ip Man's senior students. He also only learned Sil Lum Tao. However the rest is right. I trained Wing Chun for a little while and am currently considering going back. Trained under a student of Ip Ching and also trained in the Ip Man > Leung Sheung line.

In the WC school I attended, progress was intentionally slow. And 'Funny Money' was a common practice. We moved to a new 'game' of hands once a month only when Sifu approved. So it could take years to become what was called a 'Big Brother' at our school.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

A young @sun rise feel'n his oats...

 

[Stonetree]

For the sake of common knowledge, going to a gym to box doesn't make anyone Mike Tyson. Studying WC doesn't make someone Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a very good dancer. He also seemed to be exceptionally strong for a thin man. I believe he was an amazing athlete. Videos of truly advanced WC practitioners show how smooth and seemingly simple they move...WC practice gives you an advantage simply because so many so called fighters use a circular motion(rotate shoulders) as they punch while WC teaches direct straight punches that can land very fast and they originate within a practitioners 'gate'(your gate is an imaginary rectangle where your vitals are contained)....@Wu Wei is a better communicator than I and I hope he would continue giving some information for members...

 

[ChristineM]

For the sake of common knowledge, going to a gym to box doesn't make anyone Mike Tyson. Studying WC doesn't make someone Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee was a very good dancer. He also seemed to be exceptionally strong for a thin man. I believe he was an amazing athlete. Videos of truly advanced WC practitioners show how smooth and seemingly simple they move...WC practice gives you an advantage simply because so many so called fighters use a circular motion(rotate shoulders) as they punch while WC teaches direct straight punches that can land very fast and they originate within a practitioners 'gate'(your gate is an imaginary rectangle where your vitals are contained)....@Wu Wei is a better communicator than I and I hope he would continue giving some information for members...

Going straight in, actual target about 3 to 6 inches behind the visual target is far more devastating than going around the houses.

 

[Revoltingest]

Sideshow Bob?

 

[Stonetree]

Going straight in, actual target about 3 to 6 inches behind the visual target is far more devastating than going around the houses.

MI-6.....?

 

[ChristineM]

MI-6.....?

SAS.

 

[Stonetree]

Sideshow Bob?

I'm not a fan of snakes, as I understand it, the poison that snakes evolved actually was from their toxic stomach enzymes.

 

[Wu Wei]

I trained myself in yoga an pilates, do they count?

Also i learned a little goshinkwai/krav maga just to be able to look after myself if needed.

No on the yoga Pilates, yes on the krav maga

 

[Wu Wei]

In the WC school I attended, progress was intentionally slow. And 'Funny Money' was a common practice. We moved to a new 'game' of hands once a month only when Sifu approved. So it could take years to become what was called a 'Big Brother' at our school.

Sounds like a good school I've been training Chinese martial arts for 30 years and martial arts for 50 years. Wing Chun was only about a year, then did a little Jeet Kune Do, until age, infirmity and injury...oh and an MD...shut it down. These days I'm mostly a traditional Yang Taijiquan guy (with martial arts intact). But I am considering a return to Wing Chun

 

[sun rise]

My defensive martial art practice this morning is taking boxes of my wife's detritus to GoodWill before I get verbally kicked for not fulfilling a promise.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[sun rise]

I'm clearly cursed.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[sun rise]

It's shocking that it's lunch time.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's shocking that it's lunch time.

 

[Wu Wei]

I'm thinking a crackers and peanut butter snack

 

[Brickjectivity]

I like Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Reboot, and I'm an old fan of the cartoon. It is sad that season 2 is cancelled.