Kung Fu Online , Mouth Boxing and Consumer Culture.....

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Seems like this forum promotes too much talking about MA’s and detracts from peoples training.

There is no “secret” to good Kung Fu.

I don’t care how big your MA video collection is.

I don’t care how many books by Yang Jwing Ming or Mantak Chia or the ilk sit on your shelf at home.

I don’t care how many Jackie Chan movies you own.

I don’t care if you’ve got every shiny weapon ever invented and every training implement Martial arts mart never dreamed of.

I don’t care if you believe in “chi” or if you practice “external” or “internal arts.”

I don’t care how many trophies you’ve got or how many forms you know.

I don’t care if you’ve memorized every acupuncture on the human body backwards and forwards. And can give an hour long lecture on jing, shen, chi, li, chow mein and egg foo yuck.

I don’t care if your Chinese or White or Black or Green.

I don’t care if you speak Mandarin or Cantonese or Candarin or Mantonese.

I don’t care if you shave your head and wear a buddhist monks robe or wear a Turban and a pink and white polk-a-dot moo moo.

I don’t care if your a Buddhist, a Christian, Muslim or Wiccan.

I really don’t even care who your teacher is or how “pure” your lineage is. Because it doesn’t tell me anything about you or how hard you worked.

The bottom line is can you apply your art. Do you put in hard work and effort everytime you train? Did you spend the long, dull tedious hours perfecting your art? Can you fight and win?

Everything else is superficial.

Ahhh…I feel much better now.

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Da.mn dude
Who $hit in you cornflakes this morning? :confused:

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Well, it is a forum - a place for discussion and exchange of ideas.

You can’t be training every spare second of your life, you need to do other things. And training isn’t always a physical thing :slight_smile:

Besides, I am doing this at work while my software is running a test in the background :slight_smile:

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If your not interested in any of those things i donno how the hell you managed to do over 1000 posts on a msg board, that’s a whole lot of talking for someone who doesnt care.

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hey Fu-Pow

i hope you were in horse stance when you wrote that!

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For someone who doesn’t care, you are pretty up to date with all the topics that are being discussed. Maybe you should have been training instead of lurking :smiley:

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Hey, it is good to let that frustration out from time to time! Very liberating and usefull to see the simple reality of things instead of complicating things and forgetting what is the goal of what we do!
Hey…I feel good myself now! :wink:

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Re: Kung Fu Online , Mouth Boxing and Consumer Culture…

Originally posted by Fu-Pow
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The bottom line is can you apply your art. Do you put in hard work and effort everytime you train? Did you spend the long, dull tedious hours perfecting your art? Can you fight and win?

Everything else is superficial.

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Well, by that definition Mike Tyson represents the pinnacle of martial arts. Personally, I’ll add in some of the “superficial” stuff for myself.

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I’m on Tiger-Leapards Ignore list~ so, won’t mind since doesn’t care

I Can. Thanks, to those books on my proverbial shelf. And those videos in my proverbial collection. And I don’t need to believe in Chi for it to be real or work.

Nice that you feel better.

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That was quite possibly the most dumba$$ post I’ve ever seen on this board! From someone with so many posts to his name as well.

Fu-Pow, I hereby award you the highly coveted Hypocrite Dumba$$ Of The Board gold medal. Wear it with pride. I’m sure someone else will be entitled to it within a week! :wink:

Fish Of Fury! Where you been man, I’ve missed your weird mind!

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Fu-

We all rant from time to time… no worries mate!

Now, GO TRAIN!!! :slight_smile:

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how come everyone is so defensive?

the post about bs’ing on here detracting from training was a little off key, but i thought the rest was amusing and fairly accurate.

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GDA

This is how a bunch of Symptomatic paranoïdal schiso/maniaco/bipolar chiblastingjerks internet keyboard warriors react…Sometimes!..:wink:

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Re: Kung Fu Online , Mouth Boxing and Consumer Culture…

Originally posted by Fu-Pow

I don’t care if you’ve memorized every acupuncture on the human body backwards and forwards. And can give an hour long lecture on jing, shen, chi, li, chow mein and egg foo yuck.

I wish I knew every acupuncture point on the whole body. that could come in handy. I like to learn real things every now and then. It would be hard to draw a line between good ‘martial art’ and good ‘martial knowledge.’ But I see where you are coming from with some of those things.

I have Three of Dr. Yangs books:)

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I like fu pow.

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whatever fattie.

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Originally posted by Sharky
I like fu pow.

Well, fu(king marry him then!

:wink:

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lol herb

Fupow im feeling you on that, see the thing is, all these lil trinket’s in our kuen’s, is the culture but the problem is, none of us grew up in turn of the century chinese opera, dropped bombs in world war two, then started teaching, especially the internal stylist’s, they pick it up in college, in high school maybe play some tennis, whereas the guys who made these arts, achieved more bodycontrol, from thier crazy gymnastic’s, wich led to capable acts of harsh/compressed power, it’s like you aint got enough calcium to have a bone to pick with me, to do your move’s you ain’t got the muscle’s.
So don’t hate the player hate the game
don’t worry be happy
final cliche
fahgedaboutit"like mickey blueeye’s"
express yourself
get your own **** and be a better man, stop biting off my zigga’s
just do it

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rubthefupow.

except the part about ripping on this forum. if you don’t like it, why are you here?

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sharky is correct.