Cool clips keep them coming
Still to come: Lowlights! A certified mullet performing a form. Me losing a match. Me competing in pushhands.
Seriously there are a few more good clips. How you doing on space, GDA? We have to give you guys a peek at the mullet at least…
Problems?
Try this. Download Windows Media Player 9 - it’s free. Right click to Save the movies to your desktop. Watch and enjoy. They will stream but you have to have a fast connection. I have a LAN/T1 connection and parts of the tai chi hippie clip didn’t play smoothly the first time. Also, use ALT + 2 or 3 to change the size of the video.
Thanks for hosting GDA!!
-Shadowboxer
The clips are fine for me now. I’m an idiot. My speakers had gone on the blink and I didn’t realize it. All’s well.
fine on space … i just ask that everyone saves them if they want to watch more than once so the bandwidth nazi’s put an axe through this whole operation 
GDA - I just sent you 15 more clips. Not all of them are that interesting - do what you want with them. You should definitely put up the remaining fights and my Chum Kil form. Also one of the mullet’s forms and the wushu-refugee from Dragonball-Z that does that slapping all over the body form. The WC vs. Mantis sparring is a long wait for the action at the end - probably not worth most people’s trouble to download, depending on the connection.
not a problem fajing … i just saw them and im gonna put them up a couple at a time to try and spread the bandwidth usage out a little.
ill put up a couple more tonight and then the rest over friday and saturday.
you da man
are these from andrew lee’s tourney last year?
nice, thanks for offering them up, that in itself takes guts here:)
A- holy shiat, your sifu can certainly hit.
B- just a comparison and open for discussion: the level of sparring on the clips in your school is what I would call anything up to about 25%. I break sparring down by quarters:
light/touch
25%
50%
75%
controlled full.
as soon as I get a video capture card I’ll have some more stuff up as well.
thanks again, fa_jing
ha … i had a link to a 5th fight that didn’t exist.
ill put the rest up over tomorrow and saturday.
Guts nothing. I know I was doing decently for an intermediate student with 3 years of moderately dedicated study, and some ancient TKD. I’m not sure what it looks like to others but I know that it’s fine.
As far as the sparring - well some was down at the 25% range, we had a stomach taps drill in one of the tapes too. Sifu has to stay around that range so that he doesn’t hurt us - as long as we cooperate by not going crazy on him. You can also learn alot at that intensity - it’s still above touch sparring as you said. But we turn things up from time to time.
OTOH in the “sparring clip” you may not realize it but my Sifu rung my bell twice - once with the round kick at 3:35 into the clip and once with the backfist at 4:06 (after the low wing block of my sidekick). I went home all giddy that night. It’s funny that you mention percentages, because his comment to me afterwards was “yeah and that wasn’t even full force”
I rang Alex’s bell a little with the last of the punches at 2:30. He bench presses 300 pounds with a torn pec - he’s no slouch and once he gave me a slight concussion with a right hook. He’s the one that picked me up in the tournament clip.
My sifu has let me know that his jaw was hurting all week from a shot I gave him.
But regardless of whether or not it made it to the tape, me and Alex would go up to 80%, and Sifu would go up to about 60%. I mean after some sparring rounds, any one of the 3 of us might be stuck to the ground exhausted. In fact that was in some of the footage but ShadowBoxer didn’t include it in these clips. I’ve seen my sifu go up to 8 rounds of sparring with us, 4 each. Believe me we get into survival mode, but only when exhausted. After we improved in ability he had to cut it down to 3 rounds each.
7*- yes most of the fight clips are from Andrew Lee’s tournament, except for 2. There was footage that didn’t make it to the clips of your old sifu doing a double broadsword form and of his brother TKO-ing 2 fighters. Ask ShadowBoxer if he’ll make a clip for you of this.
fa_jing, you seem to have taken my comments the wrong way.
I was only looking for discussion on sparring levels, I didn’t criticize anything on the tapes at all.
thanks for offering us a look at your training.
have a good day.
For y’allsis info: my sifu was 42 years old when these clips were shot. He teaches on a private/semi-private basis only. contact me if you want info fajingk@yahoo.com
Not too many people from Chicago on this board though. I think people here know me already.
It’s a shame but his knowledge is going to waste - he’s only had a few serious students. I haven’t been able to train in a year, first due to injury and now due to financial and time concerns. If I finally get a new job, which is what I need, it very well could take me out of Chicago.
I’d love to help him open his own school but we both have our day jobs and family, and no investment capital.
Originally posted by Oso
[B]fa_jing, you seem to have taken my comments the wrong way.
I was only looking for discussion on sparring levels, I didn’t criticize anything on the tapes at all.
thanks for offering us a look at your training.
have a good day. [/B]
Nah, I didn’t take it the wrong way at all. I’m just responding to what you said. I take it to mean that you have been in schools that spar just as hard or harder. Which I would fully expect, since as everyone knows on this board, THAT’s how you Train!! My sifu has told us that in the South Side Karate schools, in the Muy Thai schools, “all those guys do is fight. They love to fight.”
And we as martial artists need to be have an answer to that in our training.
The “guts” comment means don’t hold back y’all, post your stuff!
no worries, I welcome all comments
I would only point out that the following is well-known to me and thus redundant and unnecessary:
“Hands up Elbows down Eyes wide open!!!”
Hmm…
I thought I made a clip of 7*'s sifu using the 2 tiger hook swords or something. Did I capture the wrong clip?
7* do you know the performer in “Double swords.wmv” ?
No man, that’s not his sifu. African-american guy doing a broadsword form, not Asian-american guy doing double hook swords form. It’s my fault I said double swords.