Besides actively teaching in a club or kwoon, what is it that you do to perpetuate the arts as you have learned them?
I personally keep a kwoon and invite other martial artists to come, exchange and train with our small group. It’s fairly straightforward and open. This is the vehicle by which I share and explore martial arts with friends and soon to be friends.
Also, I spend time on these forums and when not distracted by or playing with the trolls, I try to give as clear answers as I can in regards to my own understanding of the arts.
challenge people’s views, upset them, rattle their cages, turn convention upside down, harass them, demand they prove their theories, point out the ilogic in their contentions, demand evidence, take their gods off their pedastals, kill the Buddha, the walrus is dead, you know, that sort of stuff
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;992628]challenge people’s views, upset them, rattle their cages, turn convention upside down, harass them, demand they prove their theories, point out the ilogic in their contentions, demand evidence, take their gods off their pedastals, kill the Buddha, the walrus is dead, you know, that sort of stuff[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;992603]Besides actively teaching in a club or kwoon, what is it that you do to perpetuate the arts as you have learned them?
I personally keep a kwoon and invite other martial artists to come, exchange and train with our small group. It’s fairly straightforward and open. This is the vehicle by which I share and explore martial arts with friends and soon to be friends.
Also, I spend time on these forums and when not distracted by or playing with the trolls, I try to give as clear answers as I can in regards to my own understanding of the arts.
What do you do? :)[/QUOTE]
yi zi jue or one word secret.
So I was practicing several styles of CMA at Taipei Youth Park in the late 1970s.
several kids approached me and seemed much interested in whatever I was doing
I was doing several things. How do I instill something in their minds? they may remember for life
one word secret.
Ba Ji is about ding. (pushing) I ding where ever your arms are out of the way–
Ba Gua is about chuan. (piercing) I chuan your forearm.—
Tai Chi is about chan. (entanglement or silk reeling) I chan your forearm, your body–
Mantis is about gou (hooking). I hook your forearm, I hook your leg—
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They have absolutely no ideas what I was talking. But they take home a word for each style. They would know what I mean in years to come, if they have a chance to study and practice any of the style I mentioned–
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Let the audience take home or learn one idea at a time.
I like to think that people I train with can see my love and passion for the martial arts and maybe be infected by it. I encourage all those around me to train in martial arts and to better themselves. This includes seasoned martial artists: why not expand and learn BJJ or Thai boxing or whatever…seeking constant improvement and refinement.
I guess I don’t spread an artform, more just encourage others to participate and grow.
Well, as my father learned it before me, he taught me, I have taught my son, and he his son. That is 4 generations of Hung Fa. Always taught the same as it was learned, and only to family, and if not just family, never outside the Chinese race. Never taught to those that would mongralize it and corrupt it beyond all recognition. I have only taught it to a small hand full of Chinese American people, and they promised the same. That is what I have done for my art.
[QUOTE=Lee Chiang Po;993035]Well, as my father learned it before me, he taught me, I have taught my son, and he his son. That is 4 generations of Hung Fa. Always taught the same as it was learned, and only to family, and if not just family, never outside the Chinese race. Never taught to those that would mongralize it and corrupt it beyond all recognition. I have only taught it to a small hand full of Chinese American people, and they promised the same. That is what I have done for my art.[/QUOTE]
Race is a theoretically bankrupt concept…perhaps you should read modern genetic theory outside of Victorian England.
[QUOTE=Lee Chiang Po;993035]Well, as my father learned it before me, he taught me, I have taught my son, and he his son. That is 4 generations of Hung Fa. Always taught the same as it was learned, and only to family, and if not just family, never outside the Chinese race. Never taught to those that would mongralize it and corrupt it beyond all recognition. I have only taught it to a small hand full of Chinese American people, and they promised the same. That is what I have done for my art.[/QUOTE]
True, it is not what some of you would have done, but how is it failure? I kept a promise, and I did not allow it to die with me. I feel I have done my part to extend it into the future. I might not have spread it far and wide, but how is that to equate to success?
[QUOTE=Lee Chiang Po;993206]True, it is not what some of you would have done, but how is it failure? I kept a promise, and I did not allow it to die with me. I feel I have done my part to extend it into the future. I might not have spread it far and wide, but how is that to equate to success?[/QUOTE]
The father cannot teach the son. Too much is bound up, forgiven, moderated and essentially lost. Pride and prejudice are not the hallmarks of a good teacher.
I understand about mongeralisation of TCMA, but Chinese are as guilty of it as round eyes. By all accounts I’ve heard, TCMA is stronger in the west now than in the east.
The same rules apply, 1 in 10 will try to learn, of those 1 in 10 will be able to learn, of those 1 in 10 will learn the complete style, of those, 1 in 10 will be able to teach, of those 1 in 10 will be a good teacher.
I’ve seen firsthand how your philosophy failed, several times - I don’t know you, perhaps you have managed to circumvent these pitfalls, but I doubt it.
