the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

grzegorz wrote:Damn I wish my Chinese was better. The translation is not great but whatever...although I am sure I am missing out in the exchange of words.

What do you do when someone half your age and twice your size walks into your class to challenge you for insulting their teacher?

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johnwang wrote:
Every CMA instructor need to train a group of "biting dogs". If you have not trained any old students who can protect the honor of your school, it will be your problem.

A: I want to fight you.
B: Before you can fight me, you will need to fight my number 10 student. After than, you will need to fight my number 9 student, after that, ...

there was a famous martial artist traveling from the south of China to the north, knocking on all the doors of different schools challenging and defeating each one.
And one day he knocked on the Yang family door.

When the students heard who it was, everyone looked at each other, wondering who was going to go out.
Nobody went out. Nobody was willing to go out.

This looked bad for Yang Chengfu, because if he then did not go out when a challenge was issued, it would be worse.

It was at this moment that Zhang Qinlin, of all the students, stepped forward and said he would go out.
The other students felt a sigh of relief, and thought that if Zhang lost or did poorly then it was his own business.

Who was this person? His name was Wan Mou2, and he was renowned for his speed. When Zhang Qinlin came out the door and not Yang Chengfu, who he really wanted,

Wan said: What are you coming out for? I called on your teacher to come out. At the very least one of the senior students should come out. Zhang said: It is not necessary. You are not even up to their level of gongfu.

The implication was that Zhang's was just a very average kind of gongfu, and if Wan could beat Zhang, then a more senior student would come out. So Wan realized there was no way around this. He looked at Zhang Qinlin and saw that he wasn't very tall (about my height or a little taller), not fat but wide and thick, with big hands and feet, and wondered:

how could his hands and feet be so big? Because Wan had already defeated all the major schools in the south, he didn't think he would have any trouble in the north either

. What do you do when someone twice your size walks into your class to challenge you ?

. there was a famous martial artist traveling from the south of China to the north, knocking on all the doors of different schools challenging and defeating each one.
And one day he knocked on the Yang family door.

When the students heard who it was, everyone looked at each other, wondering who was going to go out.
Nobody went out. Nobody was willing to go out.

This looked bad for Yang Chengfu, because if he then did not go out when a challenge was issued, it would be worse.

johnwang wrote:The teacher can set up a challenge rule that's suitable for his style.

Brendan Lai:

- I will throw just 1 punch. If you can block it, you win, otherwise you lose.

David C. K. Lin:

- I will try to take you down 3 times, if you can stand on your feet for more than 3 seconds in any of my 3 attacks, you win, otherwise, you lose.

Trick wrote:But if challenger answer saying “no tricks, we free fight, but it’s ok we can use gloves for your safety” does the teacher still considered as winner?

Trick wrote:I’ve only witnessed two challenges from visitors to boxing and kickboxing gyms. Seem to be another attitude in those “western” pugilistic traditions, the challengers just ask to spar the best one(s) present at the gym and not challenge the coach/teacher.

That challenger must have been huge