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| Peterson | Feb 03 2006 - 09 33 PM |
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Gentlemen: I wholeheartedly recommend Falun Dafa. "I had been teaching Taichi and studying various Qigong practices for more than 40 years when I started looking into Falun Dafa. I now tell ALL my students to practice Falun Dafa." - Mr. Da Liu, age 95, Taichi master who first introduced Taichi to north America, and author of several books on longevity and health. http://faluncanada.net/eng/intro.html |
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| Vándorló | Jan 17 2006 - 08 07 PM |
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Off topic follow on: Yep, you seemed a little possessed for a moment there. Interesting stuff though. Ran into one of my Senseis over the New Year and he was encouraging me to return (it's been 5 years). I made a series of excuses, but he told me he had a student return after 20 years, another after kemotherapy. I've got no excuse apart from the unpredicability of work and location. Still, Sensei did say that the best days are gone. These days half the stuff we use to do is illegal or litigiously dangerous. Ah, for the old times... I couldn't find anything in the Caboodle directory under martial arts or related stuff, perhaps you should submit some. Any pointers appreciated. |
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| Duncan | Jan 16 2006 - 09 20 PM |
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Off-topic reply: Xingyi in Budapest? Well, I could tell you a few stories there. :-) There is no traditional Xingyi in Budapest, though I did find a modern Wushu place on Viktor Hugo utca... but competition/modern material is really not for me. My background is in Wing Chun, which I studied like a man-gone-mad for four years. Then decided internal arts were what I was really looking for. I trained a little Xingyi in the UK (had to dig around there too for someone with real knowledge) and return whenever I can for private lessons etc. My training now is the Xingyi Qigong, dantien rotation work, isolated drills for various Xingyi powers (spine, spiral, ribcage etc) and a great deal of standing work and then five element fist work. This in itself is enough to keep me training 5 hours a day, seven days a week... for years - but of course I don't have that sort of time ;-) The energy work is vital, but sore point in my training is a lack of Xingyi guys to work with. As a traditional system it's all about power and putting it into the opponent. But hope is on the horizon. I know a guy here in BP who competed in Kempo (combat - not forms) and is a nasty fighter. So I'm hoping he and I can work together for some sparring etc. Are you training anything now? I've never seen Monkey KF, but one of the 12 XY animals is Monkey and uses lots of fast slapping and catching motions. Very destructive. I should add, the animals in XY don't mimic the animals themselves (directly). More about strategy/tactics etc. All animals are simply different ways of expressing the five fists/five elements. But I'll stop typing now as I could go on until December and you're probably not 'that' interested. :-) |
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| Vándorló | Jan 16 2006 - 08 49 PM |
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Off topic post: Duncan, I've never studied Xíngyiquán, but it's a really interesting art form. I did follow Monkey Kung Fu for a few years, whilst the opportunity presented itself, before settling on something less esoteric (trans. difficult) and impractical (trans. violent). I'd be interested to know where you can study Xíngyiquán in Budapest. p.s. The forum doesn't seem to be able to handle the Pinyin character for ì (an 'i' with a backward sloping grave accent, used to represent the fourth tone in Mandarin/Putonghua), but I'm guessing that's probably not going to be a problem for most people. Just thought that the encoding might not be set to UTF-8? |
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| Duncan | Jan 16 2006 - 07 52 PM |
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Like it very much, Erik - good job. Is there any possible way to change the order of posts made? The only forums I use are Chinese Arts forums (if there's anyone else here who trains Xingyi - shout!), and all of these have the first post of a thread at the top and responses then placed below. Maybe it's just me, but I find it easier to read down rather than scroll down and then have to scroll back up. Tiny issue, I know. :-) Ps. I like the colour. Pps. If it already exists, ignore me, but is there an email notification system for when a thread you are active in gets feedback? Useful for when you're busy and can't keep returning to check. |
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