[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1250409]If you don’t think old, you are always young.
Last week when I walked on the beach with my dog, I saw a guy was training on the beach. I walked toward him and asked if he wants to be my training/wrestling/sparring partner. We were supposed to meet on Monday 6pm in the park. About 2pm, he called me and told me that he is a Karate instructor. If I want to train with him. I would have to pay for his instruction time. At my Medicare age, I’m 15 years older than him. If he still think that I’m just a young guy and looking for some Karate instruction, I must still have my young look. That made me feel really good.[/QUOTE]
YKW,
It sounds like he never intended to train with you, but probably thought he simply roped in a new student at the beach. Either that, or maybe he wasn’t confident enough that he could hold his own if he trained with you(?).
I always get mistaken for about 15 or more years younger than I am. Then again, people mistook me for a minor when I was in my early 30s. It’s a good feeling.
It sounds like he never intended to train with you, but probably thought he simply roped in a new student at the beach. Either that, or maybe he wasn’t confident enough that he could hold his own if he trained with you(?).
I always get mistaken for about 15 or more years younger than I am. Then again, people mistook me for a minor when I was in my early 30s. It’s a good feeling.[/QUOTE]
I didn’t say who trains with whom but just be a training/wrestling/sparring partner. I made it clear to him that he could pick up a technique that he wants to train and I would be his dummy. I then pick up a technique that I like to train and he would be my dummy. After we have known each other better and build some trust between us, we could start some wrestling and even sparring after that.
This just remind me when I was young, I tried to build up a fighting club. I had found 3 guys. One day we visited the 4th guy, the guy kept saying, “What do you want from me?” I said, “We don’t want anything from you. We just invite you to join in our fighting club.”
[QUOTE=Jimbo;1250427]YKW,
I always get mistaken for about 15 or more years younger than I am. Then again, people mistook me for a minor when I was in my early 30s. It’s a good feeling.[/QUOTE]
I’m 39 and a girl invited me last week to her “Yoga Hoes, Workout Bros” college party. I thought it was pretty funny. Granted I do like seeing hot college girls in yoga pants and sports bras, but there’s no way in h3ll I’d go.
[QUOTE=xiao yao;1250407]can you read chinese? i you walk down nan da jie theres signs for english school posted up everywhere, they are all desperate for teachers[/QUOTE]
i can’t read or speak chinese…i can sometimes understand a few (spoken) words :o
been observing a few classes in kai fa qu and i’m hoping they will take me…didn’t realize next week was a festival until today so might not hear back for abit :rolleyes:
hows it going downtown ?
[QUOTE=MightyB;1250467] but there’s no way in h3ll I’d go.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Biyn Jiu;1250347]Tainan, If you stop eating and sleeping you can finish quicker and we will be able to read your book that much sooner. I will be anxiously awaiting your completion. Please keep us updated.[/QUOTE]
I am on book four of san guo yan yi about 1800 pages into it so far. A Chinese novel from the early Ming. Praying Mantis references two characters that are in this book.
After having read this book I will probably come to the conclusion that Praying Mantis reference to these two characters, Zhang Liao and Zi Long, were not from San Guo Yan Yi but were from some-now obscure-play of the mid-Ming dynasty.
I have a collection of over 4,000 pages of plays from late Yuan to early-mid Ming with the scripts of all the remaining plays. All written in a combination of classical -songs and poems- and vernacular Chinese-dialogue.
I still will have to comb through this to find Zhang Liao and Zi Long.
now i will sound harsh but is lineage really that important? :p[/QUOTE]
It just depends on your goals.
If you want to be able to defend yourself. Nope!
If you want to win forms tournaments or cage matches. Nope!
If you want to represent your particular family’s lineage as an instructor. Maybe!
Lineage is kind of a funny thing. It means very little outside of your own particular family. It may even mean little outside of your own school.
When someone walks into most schools, they will be judged more on ability than lineage. I know several people with impeccable lineage who can’t fight worth a ****. I also know several people with questionable or no lineage who are awesome fighters and/or teachers.
So, lineage only means as much as the value you and your immediate peers place upon it.
Let me tell you a little “secret” which most people who have been around a while already know. Most Chinese instructors only pretend to respect others of their own family outside their own school. They bicker within their own family and believe that only they have the true teachings. In fact, I can’t think of one famous Chinese shifu that I have not heard dirt about by another famous Chinese shifu.
Is it any wonder that non-Asians often act so contentious?
Actually, I think lineage is important. Bagchun mentioned in his lineage that he comes through Jiang Hua Long. That means technique wise I probably have more in common with him than I do a Seven Star person etc.
Also from looking at lineage you can see if somebodys teacher is good or not, or their teachers teacher.
The problem is when lineage becomes more important than skill…
[QUOTE=mooyingmantis;1251477]It just depends on your goals.
If you want to be able to defend yourself. Nope!
If you want to win forms tournaments or cage matches. Nope!
If you want to represent your particular family’s lineage as an instructor. Maybe!
Lineage is kind of a funny thing. It means very little outside of your own particular family. It may even mean little outside of your own school.
When someone walks into most schools, they will be judged more on ability than lineage. I know several people with impeccable lineage who can’t fight worth a ****. I also know several people with questionable or no lineage who are awesome fighters and/or teachers.
So, lineage only means as much as the value you and your immediate peers place upon it.
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boom! i think you read my mind
[QUOTE=xiao yao;1251485]
Also from looking at lineage you can see if somebodys teacher is good or not, or their teachers teacher.
The problem is when lineage becomes more important than skill…[/QUOTE]
that’s the thing i don’t like about it :o to me it only matters if i think my teacher is good, i don’t care about his teacher or teachers teacher…
if his teacher was bad maybe he learned more from it
lol
