Well do you? I can see both good and bad with this. The good is that it might promote inquiries and new students–cheap advertisement. The bad is that it might start trouble with tough guys. What do you think?
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I think it depends about the trouble starting trouble part.I only wore my school logo in public once.It was like the last day in 11th grade.I saw a couple of other people bringing they’re kung fu log’s too I decided to do it.This is my senior year and I might do it again for my last day in high school.
No one noticed except the people who read Chinese and just jumped a little and looked at my shirt.
“Always be ready”
“right, that’s it!you’ve insulted me, and you’ve insulted the shaolin temple!”-Fish of Furry
No. I don’t even wear a school logo in my dojo. Painting yourself up like a Nascar isn’t being true to the traditional MA of being humble, IMO.
K. Mark Hoover
Only once in a lone while.
My sifu had all of us put on a demo at a local college and I was wearing my black T shirt with the class logo on the front and a white dragon on the back.
After the demo was over 2 other students and I went to get a bite to eat at a local bar and we had no problems.But I don’t wear the shirt other than that because I don’t want to come off as Mr.Tough Kung Fu Guy. But it’s to bad because it’s really a cool shirt.I like it.
Honest Neutral Clarity
i have sometimes and it’s gotten mixed results. i’ve had people come up and ask me about the school i’m a student of like they were thinking of joining (none have ever come to the school though), and i’ve had tough guys say, “so, you take kung fu? can you fight? do you think you could kick my ass?” my response is always to look at them and say, “wow, against you, i’d have to use my best technique…my running step. i’d run if i had to fight you!” which usually gets laughs from the people around us (his friends, my friends) and that pretty much diffuses the situations. it’s never escaltated beyond that.
i agree with budokan about being a nascar. it seems that more and more, advertising is all over the clothes being worn by many. even kung fu school shirts. i’ve approached my teacher about making a very simple shirt with just the school logo on the left breast and that’s it. are shirts are kind of simple to begin with, but i like plainess…the type of shirt that doesn’t stand out. but it’s getting to the point where a plain shirt WILL stand out!
‘either you like reincarnation or the smell of carnations’
if i see anyone wearing a bruce lee, or a ma school shirt out in public, i IMMEDIATELY think they are a twat, and want to stab them in their eyes.
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All i wanted was some RICE CAKES! Now? WE MUST BATTLE.
I wear my normal cloths to class…so I dont have uniform…
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Unfortunately Tai Chi People’s T-shirt is a nasty yellow color with a butt-ugly design. I really gotta talk to Shifu about letting me do something better for him.
Uh, so, “no.”
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No, but I do train in public areas, like parks, and the outside of fitness center in my apt. complex. It gets mixed results.
"Just because I joke around sometimes doesn’t mean I’m serious about kung-fu.
" - nightair
Of course, wearing a tai chi t-shirt in public doesn’t exactly make you out to be a fierce, tiger-testicle eating, badass either. Neither does doing tai chi forms in public. So, maybe that’s not the best example.
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[This message was edited by Chang Style Novice on 11-25-01 at 03:17 PM.]
shirts
I wear my schools shirt anywhere, school, the mall, outside, wherever.
Some people will ask some will not but I have had no problems with anyone because of it.
school shirts not a problem
Never have had any troubles with people, neither have my students.
A T shirt
Regardless of whats on it a Tshirt is just a Shirt
It is just a T shirt, however, I think he’s wondering if anyone has worn one and while wearing it, some guy came up and was like, “Oh you take X style, let’s see how good it works”
"Just because I joke around sometimes doesn’t mean I’m serious about kung-fu.
" - nightair
the kind of tough guy who would start trouble over your shirt needs to get his ass kicked
hell… thats reason i where my kung fu uniform in public
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you’d be surprised. I had a guy challenge me while some friends and I were training in the University gym. Actually, his challenge was to any of us, but I was elected to fight him.
"Just because I joke around sometimes doesn’t mean I’m serious about kung-fu.
" - nightair
What’s wrong with wearing your school’s emblem? You people really are psycho sometimes.
I have a sweater/pants outfit that I use when I’m jogging and I wear the pants working out.
Canadian badass -
Good point. That’s why I wear a cowboy hat, poncho, crossed ammunition belts, and a six-shooter in public. I also tend to say things like “There are two kinds of men in this world…” and smoke handrolled cigarettes.
Hey, this IS Texas, ya know.
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geez chang!
dont give these people the wrong idea aubout our fair state. We are a civilived and cultured people. And anyway most of us are armed with automatics and/or shotguns :D.
heh we once went to the olive garden after a test with most of us in “uniform” and the server said he would clallenge any of us before getting our order. Almost half the table stood up.
The hard part is finding a Mexican poncho with a yin-yangs and trigrams pattern.
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