Share your thoughts concerning the fighting arts...

POSTED BY: chrisisall
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CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:37 PM

Not to sound all Bruce Lee about it, but my take is that most martial arts are about conditioning. Getting muscles & reflexes tuned up through rote repetition. That all good & well, but any art needs to be distilled to it's most basic straight line & tightest circular motions to be effective in actual combat. Fluidity is the key- hard & soft poles within single movements.
Hey, I loves me my Wing Chun & Tai Chi, but in many instances, Drunken Boxing can combine both art's basic movements into a sort of usable nonsense.
The real answer is to not be bound by any particular martial dogma. Threads to all; cemented to none.

Okay, enough stream of MY thought, any others have any martial meditations?

The battle Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:02 PM

Meditation, ironic that you'd use that word...

What I know doesn't really constitute any particular form, being mostly of the too-bye-forr and krow-barr variety, but the one thing that gives me the edge despite being old and battered, although you've got a decade on me by a nudge, since the big four-O is creepin up on me shortly...

Is that when it comes to cases I reach a strange form of detached serenity, where time spins a little different, and every single motion however miniscule around me is magnified and highlighted the moment it begins - which from an internal standpoint means I have "all the time in the world" to make crisis level decisions, and from an external one it looks very fast and damn near precognitive.

While still very, very fast with my hands, the rest of me can't keep up though, and I am gettin too physically broken to play any more, blah.

But then I was too broken to walk once too, guess I have to wait once again for technology to catch up, eh ?

-F

CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Is that when it comes to cases I reach a strange form of detached serenity, where time spins a little different, and every single motion however miniscule around me is magnified and highlighted the moment it begins

Heh heh, he said "serenity"...

Sorry,

yeah, I know that timeless feeling, when neurons fire so fast the world slows...

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

CHRISISALL

Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:31 PM

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
guess I have to wait once again for technology to catch up, eh ?

They're workin' on it.
Truth is, were I needing one, I'd make my own. I'm a do-it-yourselfer. I'd be all weld-y & latex-y n' s**t.

Check this little quacker:

http://pulse2.com/2009/07/13/betty-is-the-first-gosling-to-get-a-bioni
c-leg/
Real trouble is (as always) money.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

HAKEN

Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:53 PM

Going to hijack the topic a bit and point out that Ip Man 2 is currently in production. Ip Man 2 continues where Ip Man one left off and takes place in Hong Kong, where Ip Man opens a school to teach Wing Chun and eventually a young Bruce Lee.

If you haven't seen Ip Man, I highly recommend it. It's one of the better martial arts movie in recent years.

Here are some production clips.

Sorry, no translation.

NCBROWNCOAT

Friday, March 12, 2010 12:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Not to sound all Bruce Lee about it, but my take is that most martial arts are about conditioning. Getting muscles & reflexes tuned up through rote repetition. That all good & well, but any art needs to be distilled to it's most basic straight line & tightest circular motions to be effective in actual combat. Fluidity is the key- hard & soft poles within single movements.
Hey, I loves me my Wing Chun & Tai Chi, but in many instances, Drunken Boxing can combine both art's basic movements into a sort of usable nonsense.
The real answer is to not be bound by any particular martial dogma. Threads to all; cemented to none.

Okay, enough stream of MY thought, any others have any martial meditations?

The battle Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

Dear daughter took Tae Kwon Do as a little tyke in NY state (and made it almost to red belt) and then Karate when we moved here, to a small town in eastern NC.

She has high functioning autistic tendencies (Asparger's Syndrome) and loved the ritual and calming effect of martial arts.

After hearing her observations, she liked Tae Kwon Do better and would like to continue it as a now young adult but TKD is only available many miles away (one disadvantage of a small town).

The stylistic differences were too jarring to her and she only lasted about a year in Karate.

We would both like to try Tai Chi and have tried to do it using a book and DVD but with little success.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

CHRISISALL

Friday, March 12, 2010 1:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:

If you haven't seen Ip Man, I highly recommend it.

It's on order. Waiting with baited Chi.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

CHRISISALL

Friday, March 12, 2010 1:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:

The stylistic differences were too jarring to her and she only lasted about a year in Karate.

Once a style is embraced fully, it's hard to change. Like eating margarine when you're used to real butter.
Drive as far as you have to for TKD- that's my advice.
I had a lot of fun in that style, btw.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

CHRISISALL

Friday, March 12, 2010 1:22 AM

Also, I have a book on Wing Chun by Ip Man. *ETA: I mean Ip Chun*
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0877287961?ie=UTF8&tag=samkwowinchu
-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0877287961

Very not bad.

The laughing Chrisisall

"I only do it to to remind you that I'm right and that deep down, you know I'm right, you want me to be right, you need me to be right." - The Imperial Hero Strikes Back, 2010

HAKEN

Friday, March 12, 2010 2:23 AM

A slight clarification. Ip Chun is Ip Man's eldest son.

Concerning martial arts, I believe that regardless of style, they are all great because they instill a code of conduct and discipline that practitioners can live by. One may never use the combat skills in real life, but the ideology is constant and pervasive and teaches one how to live a just life.

My daughter used to be somewhat of a wild child before she joined TKD, it really helped her focus more in school. Step out of line in TKD class and it's 20 sit ups and 20 push ups. This was when she was 6. She learned very quickly to listen after that.

I wish they could do that sort of thing in the public school system. Some of the kids I see in my daughter's school really need discipline that apparently they are not getting at home or school.

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