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Post by Lone Crane on Mar 16, 2015 5:49:00 GMT
Glad to be back here!!! Phew....I went back home for holiday, then go back to China. Then I got ill!!! I got stomach flu. It was so horrible. I gained 4 kgs when I got back home, and I shredded 1 kg after I got back, and this stomach flu caused me loose another 4 kg. Trust me, stomach flu is horrible. I vomited and could not eat anything. Glad that I survived! I miss you all guys! Hope you had a great Chinese new year. New year already...let's make our forum merrier! Welcome back! At least you lost the weight you gained. Not a very pleasant way to do it, though.
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Post by yenchin on Mar 16, 2015 13:14:16 GMT
Stomach flu? Had that a couple of times before...big OUCH! Glad to hear that you're ok!
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Post by siuyiu on Mar 17, 2015 4:09:56 GMT
@andrea Admin glad to hear you're feeling better!
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Post by chefying on Mar 20, 2015 2:04:28 GMT
Sigh, my backup computer just died. I think I had it for about 5 - 7 years. Time for a new computer. Sigh...
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Post by yenchin on Mar 22, 2015 1:56:55 GMT
Met an 80 year old guy at the park who looked like he was still about 60.
When he knew that I practiced Ba Gua, he was "yeah, so do I..." And began demonstrating some insane Qin Na and speed on me. There was this part where he demonstrated how Ba Gua handles a grab on the collar. Before I fell to the ground I was tossed and twisted and I estimated 5 or 6 times he could strike me on some vital point. Before that he demonstrated how hard he could poke as well as how tight he could grab into sinews, not to mention his insane speed combined with unorthodox angles of striking.
According to this old guy (I didn't quite catch his words...he was speaking in Taiwanese and very fast) it seemed that we were from the same system of Ba Gua but different since the 3rd Generation. I guess that made him kind of my Master Uncle (師伯) or maybe Great Master Uncle (師伯祖)? (Technically speaking I'm not a disciple and my Ba Gua Master is formally my teacher, but hey, I'm a Wuxia fan.)
My Ba Gua master is 60 years old and had practiced for like 30 years. This old guy said he has been practicing for 50 years. So far from what I learned from my master was similar to what the old guy was doing but in a more gentle manner. I assume that after 20 years my master could also be at this level.
With the rise of MMA and a lot of myths debunked there has been a great questioning of traditional Chinese Martial Arts. From what I see, the training of MMA can effictively produce a good, well rounded fighter on the right side of the curve. However, to reach the far right somehow one might need to have some faith in the traditional ways, which unfortunately a lot of the know-how has been lost through time and become "outdated ineffective methods" resulting in the facts becoming unreachable myths.
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Post by chefying on Mar 23, 2015 14:50:11 GMT
yenchin, I think much have to do with physical practice, i.e. hard sparring, no holds barred. I feel wushu had headed that way, it is "wu" "shu", the emphasis being on shu, an art form. This emphasis seems to have allowed the fighting skills to lose its fire.
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Post by chefying on Mar 23, 2015 14:51:59 GMT
I am quite pleased today. As I said, my old (spare) computer died on me.
At the suggestion of my brother, I tried changing the power cord, but to no avail. Another suggestion of his was to change the power supply box, and that worked! Now the old (spare) computer is running again!
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Post by chefying on Mar 26, 2015 14:39:56 GMT
I decided to upgrade my desktop. I already have a spare power supply, motherboard and desktop casing lying around in the house, so I thought I would buy an appropriate CPU, RAM and Hard Disk Drive to make a new computer.
All that I did, and I started to install Windows on my HDD. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to wipe out my Data partition along the way. Now all my data is gone.
I am frantically trying to recover whatever info I can from the Data partition, and try to retrieve my data from my backup. Sigh, all the notes I have written for the board is now totally gone.
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Post by siuyiu on Apr 5, 2015 7:11:48 GMT
since i'd posted about another of the band's songs in this thread recently, thought i'd just keep everything in the same place. yet another cover for Beyond's 海闊天空 (which i'd personally translate as Infinite Horizon, though that's not the typical english title that i've seen on YT). for the non-canto speakers: the accent is off, but the vocal quality is fantastic:
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Post by caiyi on Apr 5, 2015 12:41:03 GMT
Watching LOCH (Hu Ge version). Someone in spcnet really said it right. The 7 Freaks really is not suitable teachers for Guo Jing. Too many different skill taught to him at the same time. It made him confused. If taught one skill at a time, he will be able to learn and excel in it. Look at his archery skill. The best in the tribe. He's not bright, but, did have martial art talent.
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Post by caiyi on Apr 5, 2015 12:43:33 GMT
New job, mixed feelings. 1. Past 3 years was crap (based on some skills) 2. Past 3 years I've probably accumulated at least some level of professional knowledge to impress naive young people who've graduated from university/master's program recently. 3. Decent company, wrong choice of job position, wrong location (1 hr drive, not considering traffic jams means limited quality time!) 4. Crossing fingers on another job I've applied. What is your job position? I remember you used to be a game designer, or is that Yufeng?
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2015 13:36:38 GMT
Met an 80 year old guy at the park who looked like he was still about 60. When he knew that I practiced Ba Gua, he was "yeah, so do I..." And began demonstrating some insane Qin Na and speed on me. There was this part where he demonstrated how Ba Gua handles a grab on the collar. Before I fell to the ground I was tossed and twisted and I estimated 5 or 6 times he could strike me on some vital point. Before that he demonstrated how hard he could poke as well as how tight he could grab into sinews, not to mention his insane speed combined with unorthodox angles of striking. According to this old guy (I didn't quite catch his words...he was speaking in Taiwanese and very fast) it seemed that we were from the same system of Ba Gua but different since the 3rd Generation. I guess that made him kind of my Master Uncle (師伯) or maybe Great Master Uncle (師伯祖)? (Technically speaking I'm not a disciple and my Ba Gua Master is formally my teacher, but hey, I'm a Wuxia fan.) My Ba Gua master is 60 years old and had practiced for like 30 years. This old guy said he has been practicing for 50 years. So far from what I learned from my master was similar to what the old guy was doing but in a more gentle manner. I assume that after 20 years my master could also be at this level. WOW!!! Awesome!!! geez, sounds like you've met a great master uncle I can imagine how you lost for words when an old man spoke in a fast dialect. With the rise of MMA and a lot of myths debunked there has been a great questioning of traditional Chinese Martial Arts. From what I see, the training of MMA can effictively produce a good, well rounded fighter on the right side of the curve. However, to reach the far right somehow one might need to have some faith in the traditional ways, which unfortunately a lot of the know-how has been lost through time and become "outdated ineffective methods" resulting in the facts becoming unreachable myths. As someone who is having an MMA training now, I would say that MMA is focus more on 外功, and focus on hard or yang techniques, while the Chinese Martial Arts focus on 内功, balance between yin and yang, cultivate inner strength as well as outer strength. It is such a pity that not a lot of peoples teach this way anymore. I think that China, Taiwan, and HK, should promote more on wushu, wingchun, bagua, etc and make it popular. To be honest, I think that MMA is more like a street fighting art. it combines all martial arts, no beautiful things in MMA.
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Post by yenchin on Apr 8, 2015 23:19:52 GMT
New job, mixed feelings. 1. Past 3 years was crap (based on some skills) 2. Past 3 years I've probably accumulated at least some level of professional knowledge to impress naive young people who've graduated from university/master's program recently. 3. Decent company, wrong choice of job position, wrong location (1 hr drive, not considering traffic jams means limited quality time!) 4. Crossing fingers on another job I've applied. What is your job position? I remember you used to be a game designer, or is that Yufeng? I wish I was and still am No, my job has been related to the health industry, previously I was trading drugs, now I'm reviewing medical device documents. Between that I was going to sell some molecular biology material but it didn't work out as my post described.
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Post by yenchin on Apr 9, 2015 0:04:11 GMT
As someone who is having an MMA training now, I would say that MMA is focus more on 外功, and focus on hard or yang techniques, while the Chinese Martial Arts focus on 内功, balance between yin and yang, cultivate inner strength as well as outer strength. It is such a pity that not a lot of peoples teach this way anymore. I think that China, Taiwan, and HK, should promote more on wushu, wingchun, bagua, etc and make it popular. To be honest, I think that MMA is more like a street fighting art. it combines all martial arts, no beautiful things in MMA. If the traditional-ers can't keep up their game I guess everything that it stands for has to begin from scratch again. Western science has confirmed some mechanics of what I understand is an early type of Fa-Jin (發勁, a term of the special internal force that has kind of been overused in Chinese traditional-ers), so maybe eventually MMA will evolve into something similar? Also some people are testing traditional techniques in the rings.
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Post by Lone Crane on Apr 9, 2015 2:16:30 GMT
Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to defend Chinese martial arts from its detractors once you have seen one of the most famous fights:
Whenever you see an expert demonstrate their art, it always looks so good, you can see where their power comes from, but here we see what happens when two masters fight: all form goes out the window. They're just flailing at each other wildly. Can you imagine someone like Mike Tyson fighting one of these guys? It would be a massacre. Honestly, I think any decent amateur boxer or MMA fighter would lay either of these guys out in no time. Obviously I love wuxia, and so like Chinese martial arts, but it's too bad the fighting from film doesn't translate to real life. Watching that video makes me feel embarrassed for Chinese martial arts. And these aren't two scrubs fighting, but two supposed masters. Apparently both received more students after this fight, though. This was also the fight that led to the start of wuxia in Hong Kong, with Liang Yusheng's first novel.
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