Gene is correct.
Be humble. Don’t show off, don’t wear your club Tshirt in public. Don’t talk about kungfu with anybody that doesn’t need to know.
If your ‘friends’ make fun of you just play along. Do your best Bruce Lee imitation but act like you don’t know anytihing.
Tell them you’ve quit kungfu and taken swimming lessons instead but keep practising quietly.
Sooner or later they’ll move on to more important topics to talk abouut, like girls.
girls
that’s the real reason to train. chicks dig it. 
Originally posted by sticky fingers
[B]Gene is correct.
Be humble. Don’t show off, don’t wear your club Tshirt in public. Don’t talk about kungfu with anybody that doesn’t need to know.
If your ‘friends’ make fun of you just play along. Do your best Bruce Lee imitation but act like you don’t know anytihing.
Tell them you’ve quit kungfu and taken swimming lessons instead but keep practising quietly.
Sooner or later they’ll move on to more important topics to talk abouut, like girls. [/B]
ahhh, so that’s the greatness of Bruce Lee?
hahahaha :rolleyes:
Re: americans think kung fu sucks
Originally posted by drayconn
Im a blond haired white average american child with his fair share of problems. So are all my friends, cept I goto kung fu 9 hours a week. All my friends thing kung fu is “stupid” (nice way of putting it) and they make fun of me for it. I really hate the fact that they think they could beat me up because they think kung fu doesnt really teach you anything. I really want to show them whats what (again nice way of putting it) but my schools creed number 5 is use kung fu only for good, and I dont feel like being the better man, any ideas?
You shouldn’t have let them know. But try this, **** one of them and wait for one of them to do the first move and beat the ****ing hell out of them just enough to make them look stupid. Why? because they are not worth to be your friends. Also don’t let your school know. It is good way of training too you know? After that just say sorry and tell them you just get fed up. Its cool 
sigh
Originally posted by Friendless Tool
violence is wrong. unless someone is trying to rape my girlfriend or soemthing. then id kill him. :mad:
And your from Texas? 
unfortunatly, yes. I hate texas though. If you think Bush is bad, trying living in his home state. There isnt even a point of voting this election cause bush is gonna win texas anyway. so much for a democracy.
more importantly, dont think that everyone in or from texas is a redneck conservative christian. Ill admit there are ALOT of them here. But there are some very cool people here too.
Originally posted by Friendless Tool
unfortunatly, yes. I hate texas though.
more importantly, dont think that everyone in or from texas is a redneck conservative christian. Ill admit there are ALOT of them here. But there are some very cool people here too.
So, you hate all conservative Christians?
I dont hate them, I just dissagree with them…strongly.
Originally posted by Friendless Tool
[B]unfortunatly, yes. I hate texas though. If you think Bush is bad, trying living in his home state. There isnt even a point of voting this election cause bush is gonna win texas anyway. so much for a democracy.
more importantly, dont think that everyone in or from texas is a redneck conservative christian. Ill admit there are ALOT of them here. But there are some very cool people here too. [/B]
Oh, you just surpised me by saying violence is wrong and that you were from Texas.
If you pay attention and do what your Sifu says, you’ll get kungfu skill, and you will know for yourself, the reality of kung fu. Then it won’t matter when someone says something ignorant. You’ll know better from experience. It also builds strength effectively, in different ways.
My friends know i do kung fu but outside of this forum I don’t like to reveal it. My first martial arts teacher always said, “Karate is my secret.” Kung Fu is a most powerful secret to have.
Your friends may be trying to draw you into fighting or revealing kung fu moves to them. Did you think of that. In our school the rules specifically prohibit us from demonstraing moves or applications to no-students, & even students at a more basic level of study.
Keep training
Oh yeah:
If you step it up to 21 hours training a week you’ll have them eating their words much sooner 
friend in martial arts. B_d
In our school the rules specifically prohibit us from demonstraing moves or applications to no-students, & even students at a more basic level of study.
A lot of schools do this so that the students are not exposed to other methods, normally its out of fear that they will lose a student because soemone comes along and critisizes the style.
revealing kung fu moves to them.
If you have an instructor telling you that he teaches you secret moves that no one else has, then you should find a new instructor. He is misleading you, and taking advantage of you, there are no secrets.
:rolleyes:
It is better to learn from the mistakes of others, true
<haw, haw!>
Other reasons for non disclosure type rules:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: A non-MAer who tries to demonstrate ’ martial arts move that someone showed him once or twice is likely to be seriously pummelled, more so than if they hadn’t tried to make any pretense of skill. cough[yourpost]. oh excuse me!
Sifu makes his living…teaching kung fu. Showing other people kungfu moves = taking work away from Sifu.
** See drayconn, even within kung fu, everyone acts like each other’s kung fu sucks. Stick with it anyway.
“All my friends thing kung fu is “stupid” (nice way of putting it) and they make fun of me for it. I really hate the fact that they think they could beat me up because they think kung fu doesnt really teach you anything. I really want to show them whats what (again nice way of putting it)”
Friends like yours tease. Not much else to do besides tease your friends. And if you ever do get a life, your friends can sometimes be the ones who keep you down with taunts to fill your self doubt. This way they don’t lose a hanging-out-with-because-we-don’t-have-anything-important-in life-to-be-a-part-of buddy.
There was a reality show called Survivor. The people who were apparently tough competition got ganded-up on in secret and those trying to lead got voted out in at least some instances. Being strong can be helpful. Showing how strong you are is like playing high stakes Texas hold 'um (Poker) with your cards, faces, showing. And some will back down or back off. But at least some will press you because they Know what your cards are.
Originally posted by Dark Knight
[B]A lot of schools do this so that the students are not exposed to other methods, normally its out of fear that they will lose a student because soemone comes along and critisizes the style.
If you have an instructor telling you that he teaches you secret moves that no one else has, then you should find a new instructor. He is misleading you, and taking advantage of you, there are no secrets. [/B]
“Seldom used, rarely shown” is the old saying.
My Sifu told me that one.
Yet don’t you think if you demostart a few moves that would better your sifus business?
It is my experience that folks who are *not martial artists will feel compelled to challenge you. If you demonstrate a wrist leverage, and they don’t cooperate, do you:
A. Give up and let them think it doesn’t work?
B. Apply it anyway, with force, and break your brother-in-law’s wrist?
This is not a question of taking sifu’s business away from him. The odds of any random aquaintance being a potential student of any sifu is pretty slim.
The secret of all the arts I’ve studied has been the training. “Kung Fu” after all, means “mastery thru hard work”. There are secret techniques, but I don’t think I’ve been shown any. Maybe I can’t be trusted with 'em 
But demonstrating techniques can lead to hard feelings, injuries, criminal charges and law suits on one hand, or folks thinking your art is ineffective on the other.
I’m not a kid anymore, and if I meet another martial artist, I can usually show him how I might try to handle a situation without any hard feelings or injuries. A karate man asked how my kung fu might block a kick. I told him to throw a side kick at me; I swept and scooped his foot and pushed just a little on his chest to unbalance, then dropped his leg. An onlooker remarked that my kung fu was “better”, and I quickly pointed out that I knew what the attack was going to be, he didn’t throw it full power, and he didn’t try to counter my counter. The karateka’s curiosity was satisfied and he was not insulted. No problem.
But the potential for trouble is there, and when teachers advise against it or forbid it I doubt they are worried about lost business.
Word!
I thought it was werid too that it would decrease Sifu’s biz.
I’m all for the play fighting angle.
I am a bit overweight. I used to be REALLY overweight, that is why I started doing Kung Fu in the first place.
About a year back, I began to get confident in my abilities and started talking to my friends about Kung Fu a lot. A few of them had a “yeah right fat ass” attitude about what I was saying. So I said, “well, you want to play fight?” It didn’t take very long before my friends started taking my Kung Fu seriously and I never hurt one of them. Seriously, the concept of “play” within Martial Arts does not violate the tenent of using Kung Fu “only for good” while still giving you a method of protecting the reputation of the martial art.
Just don’t go too far and accidentally hurt someone you care about.
This is what i did…
I told a friend at school i studied kung fu.
he seemed interested..
so i told him..
“Hey why dont you join?”
now we train togeather every monday and thursday.
No problem…
now once a guy did tell me that kung fu was bull****..
this guy also happens to snort cocaine…
so i told him… well i rather waste my time with kung fu then be a worthless cokehead…
he shut up…
if your peers are being b-a-st-ard’s about you training..
all the more to be an even wittier b-a-s-ta-rd back.