Nah Rad, I still visit here some. 99% of the time though I just browse and try to pick up something either helpful or entertaining. I do scan other boards though, from jma to mixed martial arts.
Originally posted by Shaolin-Do
His hair is kinda dirty blonde, Im pretty sure that is who you are talking about. Drunken boxing is his favorite thing to do… Ive heard about how the other schools are ran and it apalls me… Our school is most definately not ran how Ive heard of most other SD going…
I don’t know how any other schools are run. Ours is taught twice a week from a YMCA. It’s sort of loose. Sifu is big on making the art your own. Finding stuff that works for you and experimenting. He even gives us assignments to find applications for moves in forms, we bring them in then everybody discusses them and we try them out, fine tune it, make it work for THAT application.
Everybody there, including sifu, is just there after work. He’s open to changes, admits that he’s still figuring out the best way to teach the class, he asks for suggestions often, tries to find out what we think is working and what isn’t. So I couldn’t tell you specifics on how it’s run. It’s just always adapting and changing.
So, I would say that ours is more of a community, with a community leader, than a class.
take mine with a grain of salt:
my experience with SD is based on TWO students I sparred with, not much by any means.
They were only beginners with maybe a year of experience. Both seemed to rely on natural instincts whenever I prevented them from doing one of their techniques, but again they were beginners.
One of them, though, was pulling all of this animal **** , saying “I’ll fly over you” then did this ‘crane hop’. Thinking he was delusional, I stepped out of the way, then he thought he employed it successfully. Every punch toward his face I pulled a bit, but he would make like he could have stopped them.
-oh yeah, this was in high school, so pride was running high-
I also remember him saying Sin The could beat down Mike Tyson.
The other guy was all right, and sincerely wanted to learn martial arts, and wasn’t to crazy about ‘we have it all’ like the other guy.
about its credibility, doesn’t the name Shaolin-Do just bug the hell out of you? they should just change it to chuan or tao.
eulerfan: hope you are enjoying your new training and things - i remember the threads on finding you a new sifu a while ago 
dawood
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Mmmmmusst …not…resssssponnnd to oooo thiss…threeaddd. Mussst:confused: reeesiiissssssst…
muussstttt resissssttt. errrrrrrrrrghhhh.:o
get yer posts in while they’re hot!
Okay, okay…
I don’t really acknowledge all the **** about Shaolin-Do being close to the monk’s art and such… however I will say this:
Naming your system “Shaolin-Do” acknowledges the philisophical roots of most Asian martial arts. I appreciate that. However, using the good name of Shaolin and concocting a bunch of BS to make one’s self look more impressive and to effectively “market” the school misses the point of traditional arts.
The hollow drum beats the loudest…
However, I will also add this to the fire:
just about anything if practiced earnestly and with regularity can become a true master’s art. Therefore, I cannot rightfully dis the students practice. The master of 900 forms on the other hand…:rolleyes:
Actually, there is a school/section of the country going by “Shaolin-Tao”. They wear the traditional outfits too.
I had heard that when the fellow teaching it asked if he could do it GM Sin was like: “Well…I suppose you could, but it wouldn’t make me happy…” -Note, this is usually all it takes.
The instructor was already on his way out the door…“Gee, thanks grand master Sin! See ya later!!”
It’s created quite the stir among the SD rank and file “traditionalists”. heh
Yep, there is (or was anyway) a huge rift between the SDA and the schools under the Soards. I had been told they add things to forms, like entire sections, to make them flashier. And the whole thing about the tablet at the Shaolin temple ****ed off the SDA too, from what I understand. I think they tried to reconcile things, but I would imagine it’s largely superficial. I think it says a lot that the pictures of the Soards still aren’t up on the SDA site, but who knows. Other schools even in the SDA are using the traditional Chinese uniforms, and using more traditional Chinese terms such as kung fu, sash instead of belt, form instead of kata etc. Like was said before, they wore gis back in Indonesia, except for the teachers. I imagine it was for rather innocent purposes because who would they really be fooling if the instructors were in traditional garb while the students wore gis and belts? Not sure why anyone would worry too much about it now, but it appears some do.
Originally posted by dezhen2001
[B]eulerfan: hope you are enjoying your new training and things - i remember the threads on finding you a new sifu a while ago
dawood [/B]
Yeah, I found one school KC was familiar with and he said that sifu was the shznit. But, I have to wait for my membership at the other gym to end.
However, soon after finding that school, I met and fell in love with a guy. We met at something completely unrelated to kung-fu. But he’s a maist and trains at that very school. So, I do believe that I will end up there.
Funny how things work out.
Lol… and the SDers slowly make their way out of the woodwork…
As for the class being ran more like a community, thats how it is here too… I view the kwoon as a big family… Everyone there is very friendly, granted the few hotheads that everyone has… Our sifu tends to do the same thing, leaving applications to figure on our own here or there, or testing us to come up with new ones…
For all the sh1t that can be said about Shaolin-Do, it’s still not as bad as NAMAT.
Sin The’ can swim with his chest muscles. 'Nuff said.
Sin The can shuffle a deck of cards with his traps. Nuff said.
Originally posted by Shaolin-Do
Lol… and the SDers slowly make their way out of the woodwork…
As for the class being ran more like a community, thats how it is here too… I view the kwoon as a big family… Everyone there is very friendly, granted the few hotheads that everyone has… Our sifu tends to do the same thing, leaving applications to figure on our own here or there, or testing us to come up with new ones…
Yeah, it’s nice like that, isn’t it? I noticed at the tourney that that feeling of community extends to other schools, as well. For people who aren’t training two or three hours a day or trying to be the best of the best, people who want something that will help them be a better person but still have families and jobs and such, it’s really nice.
I imagine this is Sifu Joe’s doing. We all have an open invitation to train at his school if we’re ever in Austin for vacation or what have you. I think he’s fostered that in his students and they bring it to their new schools. Like, the most important thing is not the art, it’s the people doing the art. He’s a good guy.
I’ve been off this board for a while. Didn’t come back until last week. Sorry if you felt like the only one for a while. You seem to have the same attitude about it as I do. I’ve had people here telling me how it’s not real kung-fu.
I say, “Okay, but, this is what I pay and this is what I get from it. I think it’s a good deal and well worth it. Real kung-fu or not.”
“But it’s not real kung-fu.”
“That’s okay. I don’t mind.”
“Oh, and another fake think about SD…”
“Okay, I think this is your issue.”
But most people here are of the mindset, “Hey, if you like it and you are actually training reasonbly hard that’s all there is to it. Go get em.”
Originally posted by KC Elbows
Sin The can shuffle a deck of cards with his traps. Nuff said.
I’ve heard that he can set a broken leg with his nostril.
I heard he can lift heavy weights with his wang! Oh, wait, that’s master Tu.
I heard he claimed to be them one and only holder of ancient knowledge from shaolin.
I heard that he can lay a tile floor with nothing more than his ulula and his glottis. 'Nuff said.
I heard that, this one time, at band camp…
This is going a little too far.
lol…
Nah… didnt care that I was “only one”
I already knew there were a few on here…
I came on with the name Shaolin-Do intentionally… People on the JKD forum told me people here would try to tell me its kempo.
I dont care. I know its kung fu. this is just the internet, where a 95 lb pimple faced 13 year old can be the 195 lb 6’ man hes always wanted to be, just with a click of the mouse and a few strokes of the keys. I can dismiss things just as fast as I read them. If you dont believe me, just read the pot and kung fu thread. ;p