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| I got my ass kicked by a 73-year old man; And I learned about fighting vocabulary | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 9 2009, 03:57 AM (488 Views) | |
| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 03:57 AM Post #1 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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There are about 20 students in my Wing Chun class, and on a given night I'd say we get anywhere from 4 to 8 showing up. Most are either college students or hourly workers so the attendance is pretty sporadic. It was a big travel day yesterday for most, so I was actually the only one there. If that wasn't cool enough, 40 minutes into class, this old guy walks in. He seemed pretty darn old indeed, has a cane with him, and spoke almost no English whatsoever; it was like something out of a kung fu movie. It turns out that the man is my Sigung; teacher's teacher. After some introductions and my teacher translating, my Sigung tells me he wants to practice. (He said it with a smile on his face. Dude has a wicked looking smile.) You know, it's not that he was all too quick for his age. Nor was he overly strong (although he wasn't feeble, either.) But he seemed fast as lightning because whenever I would even decide to move, he knew exactly what I was going to do, he picked the exact technique to answer with and he executed it flawlessly. I spent a lot of time on my behind. (And oh yeah, his eyes were closed almost the entire time; he'd just open them to see when I was on the ground.) So he then starts to talk about fighting vocabulary. "When you're talking, you pick words to use, and then you put those words together to form sentences, and those sentences represent ideas," he said. "Wing Chun is no different. It has a vocabulary. Once you learn how to 'say' the techniques correctly, you have to learn to use them correctly, in a 'sentence' so that you can express yourself." He went real slow with me for the next hour or so, letting me feel out the right thing to do when he'd attack. I got things right more often than not, but it was still a little rusty. Then all at once he goes apesh!t on me and throws about 8 punches at me for real. Stopped them all! I was very surprised but he just laughed. "Good conversation!" he said. Then he waved and left. Very cool guy. |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 9 2009, 04:12 AM Post #2 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Cool story, Karate Kid. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 04:15 AM Post #3 |
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Yeah man, it was very movie-like. 'Cept I got no steadily progressing, 80s-music-themed montage so I guess I'll just have to keep practicing.
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| John D'Oh | Apr 9 2009, 04:29 AM Post #4 |
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MAMIL
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Whacks on..... |
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| Frank_W | Apr 9 2009, 04:42 AM Post #5 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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That's an awesome story!! I was sparring with my Sensei before class, one day. He was kind of a roundish, chubby-lookin' fellow, and I was lean and tough, so I figured if I couldn't take him from the outside, (he was whippin' my ass and laughing at the same time....) I would rush him and take him on the inside. I ran into him. It was like hitting a wall and the next thing I knew, I was on my ass on the floor and he was still laughing. ![]() The lesson for that day, I think, was entitled, Humility.
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| PattyP | Apr 9 2009, 04:47 AM Post #6 |
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Senior Carp
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Sounds very cool, Aqua. What you and Frank said is a perfect example of NOT judging a book by its cover. |
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| blondie | Apr 9 2009, 05:26 AM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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Hey that's way cool. Meeting, learning from someone so wise. I'd fee so honored if that happened with me.
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 05:38 AM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeah, I definitely did. I tried to remember all the stuff he went over with me; some of it I didn't understand yet but I tried to store it for later. And honestly, I thought about you during the lesson, too, and about your hesitancy to start trying something similar out. I thought heck, if this guy can still do all this, Katie would have no problems getting into it. |
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| blondie | Apr 9 2009, 05:47 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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Funny .. that thought crossed my mind as I read your post. I'm sure this experience will stay with you for life Aqua. Perhaps you needed this experience in your life ? |
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| Horace | Apr 9 2009, 05:49 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Haha, that's great Aqua.
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| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 9 2009, 05:53 AM Post #11 |
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"Good conversation." Awesome. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 06:20 AM Post #12 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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As far as the classes go in general, that's absolutely true, for a whole lot of reasons. But I had a particularly crappy day yesterday; a lot of bad stuff went down. The timing of things seems like a little more than coincidence, but even if it was simply that, I'll gladly take it. |
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| Optimistic | Apr 9 2009, 06:36 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I don't use this phrase much, if at all, but that one-on-one session. . . what a gift.
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Phlebas | Apr 9 2009, 07:05 AM Post #14 |
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Bull-Carp
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That's a great experience. Hope he comes by your school again. |
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| blondie | Apr 9 2009, 08:08 AM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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I deleted 'casue I see you answered my question. My mistake. |
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| Larry | Apr 9 2009, 09:17 AM Post #16 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I had a guy tell me he was going to kick my ass with his karate once. hehe.... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 09:25 AM Post #17 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Methinks that if he knew any karate at all, he'd have just kicked your ass instead of talking about it.
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| Larry | Apr 9 2009, 09:55 AM Post #18 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Oh, I've had several try that one... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 9 2009, 10:46 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's super cool, Aqua. Being able to sense what an opponent is going to do and automatically counter-act it is one of those things that takes years of practice; it's great that the man has teh mad skillz at 73! I hurt my hand a bit breaking boards in Monday's class; I hit it wrong and bruised my knuckles a bit... was stiff all day Tuesday, but it's 100% now... just in time for tonight's class! Also working on my side kicks; not as easy as front kicks. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 11:01 AM Post #20 |
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Easy on the knuckles, d00d! Glad you're still able to keep goin'! Side kicks aren't as easy but man, they hit like a truck. Kicks are something I really sucked at when I started, so I built them into my daily workout routine. I'm pretty comfortable with them now and I can get some darn good torque going behind them. Roundhouses were my big problem but now that I can do 'em, they're great fun. I just need to work on my flexibility some (it's not bad but it could be better).
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| blondie | Apr 9 2009, 11:46 AM Post #21 |
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Bull-Carp
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What's a roundhouse? |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 9 2009, 12:49 PM Post #22 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Aqua, this story is so cool, but also so rife with comedic potential, I don't know which way to go... |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 9 2009, 01:59 PM Post #23 |
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Basically it's something like this. Ours looks a little different since we stress different things than the Japanese guys but this is the basic principle: the leg uses side torque generation rather than coming straight at you. |
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| CTPianotech | Apr 9 2009, 04:12 PM Post #24 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wing Chun tonight. Seriously though, cool story.
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| Jolly | Apr 9 2009, 05:25 PM Post #25 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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There are a lot of good fighting techniques. A master of his technique is always dangerous. Had a good friend of mine who was a Golden Gloves champ take up karate. He was doing ok, and then they put him up as one of the two guys another guy had to whip in order to get his black belt. Yep, you guessed it...he reverted to form, hit the black belt seeker with a nice jab followed by a right cross. Broke the guy's zygomatic arch. Personally, I'd like to learn krav maga... |
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Kicks are something I really sucked at when I started, so I built them into my daily workout routine. I'm pretty comfortable with them now and I can get some darn good torque going behind them. Roundhouses were my big problem but now that I can do 'em, they're great fun. I just need to work on my flexibility some (it's not bad but it could be better).


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