Your bios were made available by choice. I choose not to reveal mine. Honestly I do not care about any of your bios so I am baffled as to why you care about mine.
I have a novel idea. Stop asking me about my bio. You wanted to sell books, dvds, be a world famous teacher, etc so you put up your bio. I undersand that you are trying to guage my level of knowledge so you can bring me down when you do not agree with me. Forget it. You only get access to my opinions and occasionally bad spelling.
[QUOTE=MysteriousPower;1016147]That entire paragraph brought up another good point. This uprooting only really happens during contrived drills like chi sao. No one gets uprooted during sparring, only hit.[/QUOTE]
Um… Uprooting can happen in sparring but it also depends on who are you sparring with and with what type of equipment you are wearing. Are you sparring with someone with equal skills? If so then I would assume that both of you know enough to stay rooted on the ground. If that is the case then yes it’s hard to uproot that person. If you are sparring with someone with less skills then you, sure you can uproot them.
Are you both wearing boxing gloves, if so then yes it’s also hard to uproot someone using that. For me, uprooting someone is done when I am using MMA glove or no gloves and doing a palm strike with my body behind the strike.
If you look at my video that I have poster on youtube a while back, I was doing “gwoh Sau” with my SiHing. Please note it was just Gwoh Sau" and you can see clearly that couple times I was uprooted.
In Sparring if we are both using MMA gloves, can he do that to me, sure he can. For him to uproot me is at the same time to control my actions. Learning how to hit someone is easy, learning how to control is the other level.
However the main thing is to be able to experience the effect of uprooting someone either in the giving or the receiving end. No typing on a forum board will be able to show you that particular effect.
[QUOTE=MysteriousPower;1016527]Your bios were made available by choice. I choose not to reveal mine. Honestly I do not care about any of your bios so I am baffled as to why you care about mine.
I have a novel idea. Stop asking me about my bio. You wanted to sell books, dvds, be a world famous teacher, etc so you put up your bio. I undersand that you are trying to guage my level of knowledge so you can bring me down when you do not agree with me. Forget it. You only get access to my opinions and occasionally bad spelling.
Can we all let it go now?[/QUOTE]
I’ve been on MA forums for a bit, I was even an admin on the infamous Bullshido for awhile and all the time I have never had issues with telling anyone who I was or under whom I trained, why would I?
When people ask me it is usually to gauge my experience and to weight what I post accordingly, just as you don’t take the advice of a 1 year med student at the same level as a doctor of 20 years, it is the same in the MA.
To see it right off the bat as"
I undersand that you are trying to guage my level of knowledge so you can bring me down when you do not agree with me"
sounds, well, paranoid and rather disturbing way to go through life.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1016545]just as you don’t take the advice of a 1 year med student at the same level as a doctor of 20 years, it is the same in the MA.[/QUOTE]
I disagree with this. Just because someone has clocked in more years doesn’t mean it was time well spent. I’ve seen guys who have wasted their entire youth with a fraudulent teachers and schools and have nothing to show for it.
I would rather have one year of quality training that 20 years of crap.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;1016545]I’ve been on MA forums for a bit, I was even an admin on the infamous Bullshido for awhile and all the time I have never had issues with telling anyone who I was or under whom I trained, why would I?
When people ask me it is usually to gauge my experience and to weight what I post accordingly, just as you don’t take the advice of a 1 year med student at the same level as a doctor of 20 years, it is the same in the MA.
To see it right off the bat as" sounds, well, paranoid and rather disturbing way to go through life.[/QUOTE]
The last sentence of your post was unnecessary. You made a judement on me and you do not know anything about me. Imagine the ammo you would have if you knew other stuff! Your comment just proved my point. I did not give you what you wanted so you got all whiny and made a negative remark about my life. Nice job.
The current president of the US had less than one years experience as a politician and the majority of he country felt he was a better candidate than John Mcain.
There is a wing chun lesson to be learned in all of this. These gentleman are trying to get a sEnse of who I am or otherwise they do not know whether to agree with me or not. This is similar to wc needing to have a bridge or in T’s words be a connected fighter. Without a bridge it is just “sloppy kickboxing”.
I am providing no bridge for them and because of that they feel deficient.
[QUOTE=MysteriousPower;1016588]The current president of the US had less than one years experience as a politician and the majority of he country felt he was a better candidate than John Mcain.
There is a wing chun lesson to be learned in all of this. These gentleman are trying to get a sEnse of who I am or otherwise they do not know whether to agree with me or not. This is similar to wc needing to have a bridge or in T’s words be a connected fighter. Without a bridge it is just “sloppy kickboxing”.
I am providing no bridge for them and because of that they feel deficient.
Everyone, cheer up. It is Howdy Doody Time.[/QUOTE]
***THIS is an interesting post. While I am always inclined to want to know someone’s credentials based upon their experience and their schooling…this point that Mysterious raises about “providing no bridge” is very thought provoking.
[QUOTE=MysteriousPower;1016588]The current president of the US had less than one years experience as a politician and the majority of he country felt he was a better candidate than John Mcain.
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McCain had one serious drawback..
You betcha!
As far as identification goes.. No, it shouldn’t matter “who you are” but more what you have to say… Trolls often will not ID themselves (although most here do) and this could be seen as cowardly..
Many folks like to pigeon hole folks and/or use ad hominem attacks and will use your info against you…
The issue should be the issue, not the person.. I don’t care how many “years of experience” someone has if they say something I don’t agree with, I still won’t agree unless they can make the case for it.
I’m with you, Goju. I love older women(have dated 2 in my life). The great thing about older women is that they have already been divoreced and are over that whole, “I want to have a family and go to church on Sunday daydream”, they have money and aren’t aren’t cheap like younger women, and they can actually cook. Much of what I just mentioned was true for only one of the women(the other one expected me to buy her everything) so my generalizations are based on 50%. The key for the good one was that she had been divorced already. The biggest advantage to dating older women is that they’re easier to approach because a younger guy flies under the radar and they don’t know, or don’t care, that you’re hitting on them until sexy time is happening.
Sarah Palin is hot as hell. And the point MP was trying to make was the Obama was masslively inexperienced and people still felt he was better than Mcain cause they were mad at Bush. So the fact that Obama was elected proves that credentials don’t mean sh!t and the only thing that matters is how people feel about a person.
[QUOTE=goju;1016583]I disagree with this. Just because someone has clocked in more years doesn’t mean it was time well spent. I’ve seen guys who have wasted their entire youth with a fraudulent teachers and schools and have nothing to show for it.
I would rather have one year of quality training that 20 years of crap.;)[/QUOTE]
Look at T as an example. He admittedly spent 17 years learning WCK and after that amount of time, still felt he needed to look somewhere else because he realized he hadn’t learned anything. Time spent sometimes doesn’t mean anything. And after getting 100 hours of what he calls ‘good instruction’ is still all over the yard at times. :o
If Mysterious wants to remain just that and still post here, I see no problem with it. Badgering him 3 times in a row demanding he prove his credentials and knowledge otherwise he’s labeled as a troll is a bit much, 'specially from someone of such ‘high standing and experiencs’ as R.Chu. :rolleyes:
Mysterious’s posts should, and IMO do, speak for themselves. A person’s knowledge is based on the present - what they say and do - not where they’ve been. Robert shouldn’t have to reminded of that by me..
