Trick wrote:pingguogou marched away ?
Appledog wrote:Re: marching and several other recent threads, I'm not sure if I am surprised at how things turned out here in the end, but I am a bit deflated I guess.
Appledog wrote:Trick wrote:pingguogou marched away ?
I'm very busy at work, and trying to deal with some internal injuries on top is difficult.
Re: marching and several other recent threads, I'm not sure if I am surprised at how things turned out here in the end, but I am a bit deflated I guess.
I'm just so busy. It's a blessing and a curse. We will see what happens in next summer but it might take an additional year.
origami_itto wrote:What are you looking for? The idea that we're studying battlefield arts is pretty laughable. Wishful thinking and larping, really.
Battlefield arts are combatives, direct and practical.
Trick wrote:By the way - how did you get a position as a PE teacher teaching GongFu ? i guess you have a teacher certificate from Taiwan kuoshu association ?
Appledog wrote:origami_itto wrote:What are you looking for? The idea that we're studying battlefield arts is pretty laughable. Wishful thinking and larping, really.
Battlefield arts are combatives, direct and practical.
Lol, now I just feel more deflatedTrick wrote:By the way - how did you get a position as a PE teacher teaching GongFu ? i guess you have a teacher certificate from Taiwan kuoshu association ?
I don't think that makes sense. But interestingly the Taiwan Kuoshu organization is essentially the continuance of the Nanjing Central Guoshu Institute.
Also, I am not (by a lot) the only foreigner who happens to be teaching kungfu in a taiwan highschool. There are several, which I admit is odd, but makes a sort of sense when you think about it that there should be some. I met two at a teacher's conference just last month. I also met a guy while I was in Toronto who had taught in the miaoli kungfu highschool. Interesting stuff. In my case though it is not as interesting as it sounds. On average we do about 10 minutes of qigong at the end of the class. It might be more later but we have other stuff to teach too and most of the students are just interested in basketball anyways
Also I don't think I will ask to teach like this next year (or even next semester if I can get out of it). It is not as glamorous and exciting as I expected it to be (we don't have an indoor practice space and I get too hot easily).
windwalker wrote:and yet some call what they practice "martial art" is it..
Bao wrote:windwalker wrote:and yet some call what they practice "martial art" is it..
How something is developed and comes to be is often something different from the original source. A military origin for the battlefield, partially or all, doesn't mean that the modern popularized art is a battlefield art.
origami_itto wrote:Does martial mean combative mean battlefield mean self defense mean MMA mean kickboxing mean boxing mean grappling mean kendo mean marksmanship mean chess?
Does martial mean military? Does wu shu imply war? Does kung fu require the battlefield?
Steve James wrote:Ah, that's the thing, how does one turn what one's doing into "art." Yep, almost anyone can be a painter, but there won't be many Michelangelos.
Now, we can say that not many people raised their martial art to the level of BL's.
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