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Q: What have you seen of Chinese martial arts in public?
Seen some pretty cool stuff over the years: a guy outside a bar twirling nunchuks faster than i've ever seen, some fella practising some serious kung fu in his lunch break on a building site, and most impressively an old guy who looked about 60, standing in a squat position in the park suddenly performing three perfect forward somersaults in quick succession.
What about yourself?
I once drank 12 pints of Guinness without throwing up, I don't know if that counts as Kung Fu, but it sure as hell impressed me!
mArtiAn:
Hmmm, drunken master, eh? I too have studied the finger, hand, palm, elbow, bottoms up, down the throat, chat up an ugly bird, stagger off drunk and fall into a bush on the way home technique. Most impressive indeeed.
giadrosich:
I think that's called Guinness Fu. I love Guinness, being as I'm partial to liquid tree bark!
You watch too many 'somersault' movies, and then posting blatant lies on the tread.
When Chinese person look 60 years old by Caucasian eyes, he or she is at least 15 years older.
Would you mind, and read one more time your Q, please?
Now as you can see, our replies to your 'waste disposal' post are plentiful. It is not too difficult to recognize mentally challenged person.
mArtiAn:
What the hell is a somersault movie, Diksnif? I'm not a liar. The guy looked 60. Yes, you're right, some people do come across as mentally challenged.
Createach:
Everyone is a liar to him......you got some issues dude.........Trust issues ma?!!!!!.....someone cheated on you ma?!!!!!............Ni hao ma?!!!!!
i saw some people fighting on the street.....looked like pussy fight...no idea if they were using martial arts
Almost every single day. I too saw an older guy in a horse stance, who suddenly did a backflip. In the early morning, I mostly see older people doing different kinds of Matrial Arts. Tai qi, Kung Fu, Tai Qi with a sword, etc.
In the afternoon, before dinner, that is when I see the younger guys practicing the "faster" martial arts, like Kung Fu, Taekwondo, nunchucks, staff (though the staff is not quite so common) and other kids practicing "Hip-hop" as well (with the same seriousness and dedication as those practicing martial arts).
GuilinRaf:
Want to add:
My first semester here in China, I came to class and my students were all excited and "noisy". When I came in, the call to me to "have a look". Well, there was this one student of mine, she was always very quiet, very shy, but would always smile, cover her mouth and laugh ever single time she had to talk in class. They asked her to show me, but at first she did not want to, she kept of laughing and covering her face en embarrassment. Eventually she relented:
A basketball was placed on the desk in front of her. She placed her open palm about one or two inches away from the ball. She would concentrate for a moment and then, with a flip of her hand, the palm struck the ball and it just shot out fast and hard, as if it had been kicked! naturally, I had to try, and my pathetic attempt just make the ball roll halfway forward once, and then roll back and fall on my lap.
Two things I learned on this day: a) the "One inch punch" is real and b) just because a girl is chunky, shy and giggly does not mean that she may or may not be proficient in Kung Fu or some other related art.
Her dad, had studied in the Shaolin Temple before getting married and taught her what he knew.
I think the marital arts should be kept to the bedroom and not displayed in public.
mArtiAn:
Nothing wrong with displaying them in public from time to time. You can see me in the park most mornings swinging my staff. Sets me up for the day.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Swinging your staff eh? I'd be careful some of them may sue!
mArtiAn:
Well a girl called Sue swore she'd sue if she saw, and sure enough she saw from the see-saw (yeh, ok, that sounds bad, I think i'm gonna quit there before someone sues).
GuilinRaf:
I think you are confusing "Martial Arts" with "Marital Arts..."
