Quigga wrote:Sometimes saying sorry is the quickest and easiest way to end a quarrel
I'm Canadian so I already apologize all the time.
Quigga wrote:Sometimes saying sorry is the quickest and easiest way to end a quarrel
Sea.Wolf.Forge wrote:Quigga wrote:Sometimes saying sorry is the quickest and easiest way to end a quarrel
I'm Canadian so I already apologize all the time.
origami_itto wrote:Sea.Wolf.Forge wrote:Quigga wrote:Sometimes saying sorry is the quickest and easiest way to end a quarrel
I'm Canadian so I already apologize all the time.
Quigga wrote:I'd rather give my mom a hug
Doc Stier wrote:Dammit! You kids better start getting along here, or else you can march straight to your rooms until you decide to stay on topic. LOL
Appledog wrote:If at 40, 50 or 60 you find yourself in a position where you have studied a lot of different martial arts but you haven't yet reached your goals.. start over.
Pick an art, go in at the ground level, and just do it. Focus on an art and develop it to a high level before moving on to something else. Give it at least 10 years.
I see a lot of irrational impudence on this thread. No, you do not know better than people who have practiced more and harder and better than you for longer periods of time who may even have actually been in real fights before (just maybe!)
I recommend Judo or Tai Chi, with the caveat that you need to go to a school that does some kind of randori.
Your personal experiences until this point are only weighing you down. You have to go through the system, and 'eat bitter' so to speak inside that system or you will never really get anywhere. And always remember, no matter how far you get, no matter what you learn about physical combat, it is only ever about your morals and what kind of person you are.
In any case I hope you keep posting updates here because I would like to see how this works out, whether or not you take my advice.
To be authentic is to be the author of oneself
“Mike Staples“
Michael Staples - Ep 147 - whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #140:
Sea.Wolf.Forge wrote:Hi Appledog, welcome to the show. Please understand, I made this thread as a person who has, to my thinking, done just that, repeatedly. I have no issues with my ability as a martial artist - I am an objectively talented fighter. This thread is intended to be about asking how or if others have looked back on decades of training that they've done and deciding what was worth keeping "in the bank" and what was discarded.
That the focus has shifted to me and what I've done or are perceived to have done in error is more a reflection on individuals taking umbrage at not having been knelt and scraped before when they tried to play wise-master-on-the-mount.
windwalker wrote:To be authentic is to be the author of oneself
“Mike Staples“
Authenticity
Some thoughts
A very deep question in part answered by ones practice provided its based on being authentic.
The constant search in finding a true teacher teaching “authentic” taiji as practiced by past masters.
Much time is spent in finding teachers each claiming to have an “authentic” practice.
One might ask what this authenticity is based on.
I have come to understand that this can only come from ones self.
In reaching this understanding I have concluded what I now practice can no longer be considered taiji as it is commonly
known and thought of coming from a distinct family practice or known historical style that most recognize as taiji.
What is called taiji in this day and age, I often wonder would it be called so by the past masters who founded the art.
What would be their perspectives of today’s practices.
I wonder why so many look for the hidden master, secret teachings or practices that no one else knows,
what is it they’re really looking for or expect to find?
Does it really matter?
For me it no longer matters.
Not a comment on present day masters or practices,
Only noting changes I’ve gone though in my own work.
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