Ok here’s the basic tactic to get more students and put this guy out. Buy a PA system and set it up out side for your “Grand Opening” event. As unbearable as it may be you need to go and blast the grateful dead and phish from your school. you will be like the pied piper leading thte hippies out of the cosmic shi center. then you need to entice the new students with a free hacky sack or frisbee for signing a contract. of course you need to hose them off before they step in the door bc you dont want your new school to smell like patchouli and a$$. then while they are all in your school lock the doors and leave. (hopefully you wont come back to them handling their big dippers). go to this guys school and release your trained bears on him. bc bears are godless killing machines (and we all know you have them). then go back to your school and start teaching the new students very old MA.
yep, that’s them.
this area is just rife with liberals and hippies and the heterodyning effect is just insane at times.
I’ve only met one tai chi guy that wasn’t blowing smoke out his ass or think he was the next Immortal.
GDA, sorry, I deleted the email alredy…but, you can get the drift from the website.
FTR, when these guys first popped up, I posted a serious inquiry into their ‘master’ to see if he was perhaps some ‘hidden’ treasure. but no one had heard of him.
who know, maybe he does know how to commune with the big digger…
but, I doubt it…my master told me I was the only one he had taught that secret to…
Well, to paraphrase a movie I once saw, “you can not truly know a hippie until you have slapped him.” If you slapped TaiChi Bob, then I would bet he would let you know more about him pretty quickly. 
Dun know about the people discussed.
Eight brocade or Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong for health and fitness is popular since the Song Dynasty.
There are plenty of books, and video info and even seminars.
Even Shaolin monks are doing eight brocade every morning.
May be a trip to Wu Dang mountain in China?
My point is to include some basic Qi Gong in your class, too.
Greetings..
Well, to paraphrase a movie I once saw, “you can not truly know a hippie until you have slapped him.” If you slapped TaiChi Bob, then I would bet he would let you know more about him pretty quickly.
LOL.. well, i hope i don’t give anyone a reason to slap me.. an unprovoked attempted slap would lead to an interesting conversation verbal and/or physical.. but.. most of us are beyond that level of testing..
I take no offense at being categorized as a “hippy”, only at the prejudice it carries.. i share the same distaste for frauds and BS artists, but.. i know they cross all philosophical lines, not predominately “hippies”.. unfortunately, the '60’s were way too good to many back then, they are as gullible as as Chung Moo Do students or Falun Gong zombies.. WAIT!! dang it, those are Hippies, too.. You know, a good hippy is hard to find, nowdays..
Now, i may be liberal, but.. i’m a militant Liberal, the worst kind.. I buy into the fool’s belief that this great nation was actually founded on a great principle, the inalienable right to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.. and, about that, i am militant.. this nation was once trusted as a beacon of truth and justice and prosperity.. now, we’re not much different than others.. except we hold the trump card, power.. we’ve imported poverty and sold “truth” to the highest bidder.. and, Justice will soon be a publicly traded commodity, how much can you afford..
OOps, sorry, got a little wound up there.. This station will now return to its regularly scheduled programming.. Namaste, and.. Be well…
Oso, the ‘hook’ for your new ad is good, and i think the best thing about it is, those few lines are simple and direct, but also convey a lot of meaning, and they are truisms, so the whole thing forms into a strong and concise idea, it states exactly what you offer with out a lot of bs’ing around. That stands up pretty well alongside the likes of big dipper ceremony seminars etc.
also there is a possibility that the markets don’t overlap…new-age religious escapism vs. time honored self defense CMA. There might be some crosstalk there but i think a lot of the people who set out to find an external MA school will gravitate to a more traditional curriculum than will wind up with the qi cultivators.
**disclaimer: i enjoy chi kung and believe in its benefits. But for fighting, best to go to kung fu school. Start external and later phase into internal, just like Shaolin. Chi kung is good for some things, and martial arts & martial chi kung are good for something else. they both have their purpose. So i am asking in advance, don’t flame me for ‘siding’ with Oso here ** sighh lawyer-fu. not that it would be the end of the world.
**** dirty hippies.
I need one of those “I Kill Baby Seals” T-Shirts to flaunt next time I’m over in hippieville, NC.
A few years ago me and a friend were in Nashville to drink some pints on bonnaroo music fest weekend accidently, which of course draws hippies that can’t stand death metal. We were walking down Market Street towards Broadway when this UNSHAVED, UNSHOWERED hippie chick with flowers in her hair stopped us. Now, at this point we had a few good pints of various stout/porter and were having a grand time. She said something about taking a magazine and I responded, “sure, whatever”. Grabbed it and walked on. She stopped me and said, “that will be $3 dollars”. I prompted handed it back to her and muttered something about hippie propaganda while she said, “but we’re here to save the world this week!”. Immediately my beer ladened mind said, “so you here to save the world?!?!” and walked off as my pal muttered something
about GD hippies.
Atleast I’ve not run into a camp of them out in the woods yet while I’ve been hiking. Thank GOD!
-Will
I need one of those “I Kill Baby Seals” T-Shirts to flaunt next time I’m over in hippieville, NC.
here you go … dont click if you dont like dead baby jokes. seriously
If you do keep a small group with no affiliation. Less hassles make it fun. To bad I found that out the hard way.
Just look at the website pic.
The Gong behind the buddha? there is a bodisava’s, too? The figurette’s are too small to ID. but
The god of longevity with white beard. the god of fortune/happiness and the god of salary/officialdom.
Fu Lu So?
What a big bag of weird mixer’s on the table?
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I know it is popular to burn incenses, too.
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But these are merely forms and the original meanings are lost.
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Most important of all, if the Qi gong is not done right, it may cause internal injury and even “permanent” damage to your body.
New age is all right.
Shamanism is all right.
But take parts of old age ways and repackage and resale as “New” age.
some of meanings are lost in the way.
Using Wushu/Kung Fu to attract people to watch women soccer game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epr0uW0QMVg&mode=related&search=
actually please buy addidas.
GDA.
Got your message. Do not use a club to hit a frozen baby seal/sea lion etc.
we do…I’ve had a version of 8 Brocade and some other things that I’ve done.
K.Brazier has taught me (and others of us) Yi Jin Jing which we now do every night during the warm up section of my class.
FTR, I don’t HATE hippies/hippys ( 
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Not enough ‘rational hippies’ to go around.
ok…I can barely type tonight thanks to a very long and fruitful training weekend in Nashville with K. Brazier and the Nashville Pong Lai peeps…see youins t’merow…
amen to that…