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Aqua; Awesome Wing Chun movie
Topic Started: Jul 23 2009, 10:42 AM (79 Views)
Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend "Ip Man", a semi-biographical film about Yip Man, the legendary Wing Chun master and teacher of Bruce Lee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_(film)

It's worth hunting down. Some of the best martial arts filming and choreography I've ever seen. Donnie Yen is fantastic in the title role.
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
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Yes indeed. :smile: I've seen it. Was given to me by my sifu; he wanted everyone in the class to watch it.

"Because it's educational?" Someone asked. He said, "no, because it is awesome!" :lol: :lol:

They're making a sequel, and yep you guessed it, it's going to be about Bruce Lee, among other things.

Now, they took liberties with the Wing Chun system in the movie. They prettied it up a fair amount because we don't use those nice big, sweeping circular movements. But yeah, that's more or less how it looks.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Just for funsies, here's the man himself, doing Siu Lim Tau. Our class follows his lineage, so this is the exact same form we follow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmxMLp8TXno&feature=related

P.S. Guess who that was at 0:21 and 1:07. :smile:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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