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Jan
19
2014

Kung fu pro-tips

  • block the other person's weapon (even if it is a fan) with your weapon (which may also be a fan), not with your hand.  Especially if the other person's fan has metal ribs
  • when lion dance training after taking such an injury, don't lift the head when you have to hold the mouth shut
  • when walking through door frames, make sure you fit through the doorframe.  Do not get distracted by small dogs attempting to run outside, and definitely do not clock the alleged "funny" bone on the doorframe to the point where you lose all feeling in your hand for a little while (preceded and followed by HOLEY SHEET THAT HURTS), especially if it's the arm with the hand that doesn't have aforementioned wrist injury on it

Not that this has ever happened to me, definitely not in the last week, because who would be so dumb.

Oct
19
2011

Everybody was kung fu fighting

Good thing I'm not trying for ranking in keywords to position myself as an expert on anything, as this would drown in a search :)

I've been wanting to get back into training for A Very Long Time (tm), so have been poking around for a kung fu school.  There's some wing chun and other styles floating around the place, but in the end I admitted to myself that what I really wanted was Choy Lay Fut.

I found one with the help of Dogpile.

I'm in my second week training chi kung and tai chi on the weekends and one class on kung fu during the week.

It's awesome.

It's perfect.