ANY BROWNCOATS KNOW KUNG FU?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, July 10, 2005 17:15
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Iron Monkey is cute 'n all, but if you want to see real action check out the last fight in Defiance with Jan-Michael Vincent or Benny the Jet vs. Jackie Chan in Wheels On Meals, or the underground battle with the guards in Enter the Dragon.
Flipping around is pretty, but simply hitting the opponant is what counts.
Chrisisall
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Training does have a downside, Needleseye, my stepson who was at the time 22 (and bigger than me) got into a yelling thing with me (he was yellin', I was not) and started cursing in front of my 3 year old, I told him to stop the cussin' is all and he began to raise his hand toward my face. My training snapped on and I did a classic Wing Chun "press down" to the hand followed by the straight punch to his jaw. Able to pull it at the last second so as not to KO him, but I still split his lip a little. Turns out he was just gonna point at me as he yelled, guess he shouldn't have been that close. Being the sport he was, he later forgave me (he did, however, stop the cussin' real quick-like, and my 3 year old thought we were play fightin', as we sometimes did).
And ABSOLUTLY DO NOT poke me in the ribs from behind, one of my co-workers discovered that, but his arm's okay now.
Chrisisall
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Hey, Browncoat1, how was your experience with Jeet Kune Do?
I went to 2 different schools, one tried to get you to develope your skills so that you could explore yourself, your strengths, and weaknesses you needed to work on, and the other seemed determined to mold everyone into little "Bruces", with fixed ways like a gosple or something (" no, your feet are an inch too far apart", I kept hearing).
Guess which school I stayed with longer.
Bravo for the not-getting-anyone-seriously-hurt part.
Chrisisall
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Hi Chrisisall
Nice thread :)
Well two years ago I started Tai Chi, there's not much else around my way (I live in the country) However the upside is that by sheer coincidence a field very near where I live (3miles or so) hosts an annual meet-up of all Tai Chi schools and pupils for the whole of Europe!
So last year I was practicing with people from all over Europe. It was great! Basically they all stay in tents and camper vans for a week just to exchange views opinions methods etc. But because Europe is so multi cultural I was meeting people from China, Singapore, Australia Canada and the US. It was really cool.
Oh and er I've never had any scrap with anyone - even at school. For some reason school bullies always kinda like me so I never got pounded. They just left me alone.
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Imearly, a technical question, please. Did you break the arm with a straight or a twisting move?
-Just call it my need to know.
And thanks for the picture, really adds to your story to see where it happened.
Chrisisall
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Dude, bullies at my school were the reason
I got into martial arts! I used to get picked on 'cause I was a little tall for my age so it looked like they were beating on a bigger kid, but I didn't weigh anything...then I saw a flick called Enter the Dragon and thought "hey, that guy's skinny like me but he takes no s*@t!"
Never got into a fight I lost after that, but my best encounters were ones that ended up with no blows needing to be exchanged.
BTW the fight scenes in the tv show Kung Fu were Tai-Chi based (mainly) so you're into a good art!
My best friend is a Tai-Chi teacher and we mix it up every time we get together. He cannot be thrown or tripped (I can, however, tag him with the old Drunken Boxing back of the wrist from time to time, ha ha).
He travels all over to Tai-Chi meets like you described, he's going to the UK later this month, I believe.
Maybe you'll see 'im?
Chrisisall
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Yeah - I think had I been confronted I would have taken the initiative and made sure I could defend myself also. Thing is I'm small and I was small as a kid, usually smaller than all the other kids, so really there was/is no prize in knocking me down :)
That said I am quite agile still even at my age, and I wanted to keep that for as long as possible and I remember ringing up Martial arts schools looking for the correct discipline. Eventaully I saw a National Geographics programme about Tai Chi. They had this 76 year old Chinese monk with Pilot shades on, challenging young students to try and knock him down. Yeah they couldn't! And he moved like a squirrel - quick and nimble! Now one could even grab his arm and he moved around so speedily it just mesmerized me. Figured that was for me.
By the way I have that David Carradines DVD of Tai Chi. It's OK.
Cheers
TheSomnambulist
P.S. Hey maybe I'll bump into your friend. Is he going to Kent do you know?
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Imearly, a technical question, please. Did you break the arm with a straight or a twisting move?
-Just call it my need to know.
And thanks for the picture, really adds to your story to see where it happened.
Chrisisall
It was a 'desmontável parte traseira' Reverse takedown.
He attacked my chest with the shank from his right hand, I covered with my left hand 'which was cut', I then wrapped my left hand around his wrist, slid my right arm over his right arm, and hooked around. I then fell back onto his bunk and the pressure of the fall snapped his elbow.
It wasn't one of those grotesque elbow breaks, his arm looked normal, but it ballooned up later.
Hard to describe, I hope you can visualize.
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Just talked to him, no, he won't be in Kent, was meaning to ask where it is he's going to, but he hit me with too many Galactica questions!!!
He's all like " Why is it shown in England before it's shown here?! F@*@#n' Sci-Fi Channel!" and more. No Browncoat there. He says he's sure Serenity'll be good, but blagh blagh. Dumass.
He'll pay in September. I'll use Drunken Boxing on him!
And what do you mean "at your age", sonny?
I got comic books oldern' you (not many, but I got 'em).
Avoid rather than check.
Check rather than hurt.
Hurt rather than maim.
Maim rather than kill; for all life is sacred, nor can any be replaced.
Always liked that.
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Good description, I can see it.
Just thought of a good one-
While goofin' around with my stepson,
we were wrestlin' and such when he used his weight to pull me down to a crouching position, spun 'round behind me grabbing both my ankles and yankin' to slam me face down on the carpet. But as he pulled I had a notion, what if I just use his pullin' at my ankles to continue into a roll? I did just that and was he surprised to see me on my feet all immediate-like.
I said "What? you never did that on your wrestling team?". But truth was, I'd never done it or even thought about it before. Just a natural movement based on my other trainin', I guess.
There is a reason I named my son after Jackie Chan....
Chrisisall
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