[QUOTE=SoCo KungFu;1016721]People are becoming fed up with the BS being fed by TCMA. It’s losing popularity. New prospects are looking elsewhere. Those lost threads you mention where in most times the same few topics being asked by those now missing new prospects. It’s only natural that in the drag that is afflicting the TCMA’s that a forum dedicated to TCMA would also suffer.[/QUOTE]
No matter how you disguise a diamond, even by covering it in $4!7, people will always value the diamond once it is discovered, because it’s value is within it’s innate properties.
Therefore, no matter how many retards bring “kung fu” in to the media limelight, or local MA spotlight, real gong fu will always be an amazing thing, a real diamond and something that the honest and hard-working person can eventually obtain.
The flaming should offer us a critical perspective, and we should be grateful.
MMA is real, and it is functional and it is high caliber. Our own kung fu should always be at least at that level of practicality and conditioning.
If you spend 3 to 10 years digging in a pile of shit, thinking you will find a diamond, only to find out you were just digging in a pile of shit, well, what do you think about that huh
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;1016734]If you spend 3 to 10 years digging in a pile of shit, thinking you will find a diamond, only to find out you were just digging in a pile of shit, well, what do you think about that huh[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=lkfmdc;1016734]If you spend 3 to 10 years digging in a pile of shit, thinking you will find a diamond, only to find out you were just digging in a pile of shit, well, what do you think about that huh[/QUOTE]
I spent 10 years, and I found a diamond, I’m just not sure how to polish it yet. I’m also not sure where you are coming from.
If you need inspiration, I’m not your man. I’m a simple person, that knows this one thing, that gong fu can be applied to many, many things fruitfully. It also has nothing to do with spirituality (wu shu, but lets not get lost in semantics), it is simply an examination of how we can generate physical force and apply that force to injure others or move our body through space. It is built on how those who came before us perceived the world, but it is open ended.
If boxing has good ideas, learning them and implementing them is part of Shaolin gong fu. The same goes for anything else.
What is important, is the “spirit” or the sense of it all. Practical and superior, that is Shaolin.
The day you find out that most people are more interesting in boxing, MT, and BJJ than your TCMA opinion. The day you realize that you and those people may have generation gap. You are as stupid as trying to “use your hot face to touch someone’s cold ass”.
'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. 'Ello, Miss?
FORUM: What do you mean “miss”?
I’m sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
FORUM: We’re closin’ for lunch.
Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this forum what I logged on to not half an hour ago.
FORUM; Oh yes, the, uh, …What’s,uh…What’s wrong with it?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. 'E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!
FORUM: No, no, 'e’s uh,…it’s resting.
This forum is no more! It has ceased to be! it’s expired and gone to meet 'is maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, rests in peace! kicked the bucket, et al
hoe i can stop takdown wit wing chun??? is ther hidden teknique in chum kiu orr biu jee?? shud i change my sstyle 2 choi lee foot i herd theyr deadly
also any1 kno how to defeet boxing? shud i use bong sao or lap sao??? thx
[QUOTE=bawang;1016812]hoe i can stop takdown wit wing chun?[/QUOTE]
This is how most discussion will end.
A: I need help in …
B: You may try … and …
C: What make you think that you are qualified to give A any suggestion?
B: What make you think that you are qualified to ask me not to give A my suggestion?
C: You are %$&# and *%&# …
B: If you dare to come … I’ll …
C: :mad: :mad: :mad:
B: :mad: :mad: :mad:
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1016851]This is how most discussion will end.
A: I need help in …
B: You may try … and …
C: What make you think that you are qualified to give A any suggestion?
B: What make you think that you are qualified to ask me not to give A my suggestion?
C: You are %$&# and *%&# …
B: If you dare to come … I’ll …
C: :mad: :mad: :mad:
B: :mad: :mad: :mad:[/QUOTE]
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THAT would be why i don’t come here much anymore.
[QUOTE=Drake;1016877]The internetz are bad for kung fu discipline.[/QUOTE]not really… it’s the same argument about how guns kill people and pencils mispelling words.
[QUOTE=Drake;1016877]Maybe some of us got tired of talking about training and are actually out there doing it?
The internetz are bad for kung fu discipline.[/QUOTE]
lol, and that would be…?
Internet is just another thing. It doesn’t interfere with my training schedule at all. It just wastes my time otherwise quite frequently, but it is also a boon in many respects including acquiring knowledge in regards to training and to kung fu in particular.
Granted, there are many trolls that you will encounter in these places. As is clearly demonstrated even in this thread.
But my discipline is not effected by using the internet or this forum. I’ve met some good guys whoa re a pleasure to train with through the internet. Guys I would’ve never had the pleasure of meeting and training with if not for this very thing that you would blame for taking your training time from you or something.
Maybe there is…No wait, I know for sure there is a crap load of misconception about what Kung Fu is for one thing and what training effectively is for another.
Not to mention all the various modalities of training and reasons for doing same.
Not everyone trains in esoteric martial arts to become the street fighter/cage fighter maniac some here would have you believe they are.
When I was boxing, most of the people at the club weren’t there to box, they were there because it was their preferred fitness method.
At several kung fu clubs I’ve been to, the majority there is there for that fitness as well.
there will always be one guy or a small pocket who train for fighting and usually those people will find the training to suit them as they progress through their understanding of martial arts.
People on the extreme ends really aren’t worth paying too much attention to, but they do have their points as well.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1016917]Granted, there are many trolls that you will encounter in these places. As is clearly demonstrated even in this thread. [/QUOTE]
+1, Even if you have no intention to attack anybody, you will still get attack. When someone attacks you personally, there is nothing that you can do on internet no matter what style that you train. It’s very sad indeed.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1016927]+1 It’s very sad indeed.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but not a good reason to despair about it.
smack em if you want and move on.
keep posting relevant stuff and discussing in threads of interest whilst rejecting the trolls.
It’s all in how YOU see things and has really very little to do with anyone else and their attitudes or opinions. I imagine that you would already “get” this and judging by your posts, I think you do.
But lets face it, there are a lot of people here who probably aren’t clear on simple table manners and so, we are going to have to swim around those dudes too.
That’s internet forums for ya! 98% coal 1% gold 1% diamonds
I think the creation of the separate OT forum is killing this forum. The fun of this board is the nutty characters who populate it. Nutjobs are all part of the KFM online experience.
[QUOTE=MightyB;1017069]I think the creation of the separate OT forum is killing this forum. The fun of this board is the nutty characters who populate it. Nutjobs are all part of the KFM online experience.[/QUOTE]
yeah, well I like having the OT forum because it keeps the nutjobs in nutjob corner for the most part.
there’s nothing wrong with the forum otherwise. still gets’ posted to daily, still has topical and relevant stuff and all the right wing diatribes and left wing retorts about american politics and conspiracy theories can stay in the taint section with only minor troll spillage now and then.
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