I am... wrote:Great videos. I look forward to the day where we stop applying the western term "master" to people however. Most NFL or Olympic level athletes are not referred to as masters, something to think about?
A journeyman is an individual who has completed an apprenticeship and is fully educated in a trade or craft, but not yet a master.
A master craftsman or master tradesman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster, German: Meister) was a member of a guild. In the European guild system, only masters and journeymen were allowed to be members of the guild.
While guilds as such do not exist, many trades continue the apprentice-journeyman-master model. Carpenters, electricians, pipefitters and plumbers are notable examples. Even in academia, the tradition survives, with elementary, middle and high school completing general education; with post secondary degrees awarded in the Associates, Bachelor and Master levels; and PhD students as apprentices, post-docs and associate professors as journeymen and full professors as masters.
Many martial arts instructors these days adopt professional titles, such as master or grandmaster, to improve their credibility or solely to impress their students. Some even invent titles to make themselves appear more accomplished than their competition, or even their own teachers.
However, legitimate martial arts titles have nothing to do with self-promotion. Instead, such titles should be the result of a lifetime spent promoting your system and students.
In China, all martial art instructiors are called sifu or shifu in Mandarin. Some Northern Chinese call their teacher by the term laoshi or losi in Cantonese. Many third-generation students call their teacher's teacher si-gung or tai-laoshi. The fourth-generation students often refer to the first-generation teacher as tai-sigung or si tai gung.
jonathan.bluestein wrote:In the near future I shall publish a very long and thorough article about this art, with many pictures and videos. It will appear on my friend Rick's excellent blog:
http://cookdingskitchen.blogspot.com
chenyaolong wrote:I don't think they are related. That Qigong system consists of mostly standing postures, and 3 moving forms (sun, moon and heaven), where you step in the pattern of those Chinese characters while doing breathing excercises.
chenyaolong wrote: I stopped training it because it was very time consuming and was full of esoteric stuff ie: if you open your Buddha eye you will be able to see peoples internal organs and auras
chenyaolong wrote:Yes, breaking is a big part of it, the Buddha Eye stuff is regarded as advanced/secret/inner door whatever you wanna call it. It is the same style as in the video, it was quite big in the early 90s in Shandong during the Qigong fad that gave birth to Falun Gong etc. It sort of waned out of popularity after the banning of Falun Gong as people didn't wanna associate themselves with esoteric practices.
I initially trained it as it was offered as an optional extra class at a kung fu school I was at during my early days in China. Initially I enjoyed it, the meditation was nice, and breaking things was fun, but once it got into the esoteric stuff I said goodbye.
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