Test your might.

[davywavy]

It seems to be Smacking Term at Ninja High, and boy, you should see my bruises.

It's not just bruises. I spent Sunday doing an afternoon-long Tai Chi Seminar with Master Wang (with a name like that, I suppose you have to become a Kung Fu master), 3 times successive all China Forms, Push Hands and Sword champion and acknowledged as one of the seven world masters of the form.
I was sore in the morning. By George, yes. I still am.*
And then there's the Kickboxing, which seems to have taken more of a Muay Thai bent recently. Not much of a change, except I seem to get punched in the face more often and my shins are a single livid bruise pretty much all the time.

So there's the question - as I'm getting punched a lot, should I quit Ninja High or should I just sell tickets and ask people to form an orderly queue?

^{*I broke his record, so he broke me.}

Comments

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The line is "You broke my record - now I break you!" from Jean Claude van Damme's "Bloodsport". A true guilty pleasure of a film.

You got the DVD - goodo, I wasn't sure you had. And yes, Master Wang is quite remarkable. There's some excerpts from his sword form DVD on his website too, which are equally impressive

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I remember.

Yes, I did, thank you! It should have gone out in one of my "thank you for bday presents" posts.
Very impressive. Some of it looks more like kung fu because of the speed.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You may have posted it on a day I didn't read Lj...

And as for Tai Chi - to quote Dork Tower(ish):
"If you play this at double speed..."
"Wow, he's going all Matrix on that guy!"

One thing I like about Ninja Master is that he's very big on the martial aspects of Tai Chi, so he demonstrate how what you're doing can be used to hurt people.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* I noticed that when I watched the Shaolin Monks last year. The principles of movement, balance and so forth are very similar or even identical.
It wasn't Dork Tower but I can't remember what it was. I do know the cartoon you're referring to, though.

Exactly the opposite of our form, then, which has all martial aspects removed. Suits me fine, though. It's enough that I don't hurt myself while doing it. ;o)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

What form do you do? I'm not sure that it's actually possible to remove the martial aspects of a martial art - you just don't tell people what they are, surely? ("This bit involves pulling someone's arms and legs off, but don't tell the students that")
I find being able to visualise the purpose of a move helps get the form right.
Shaolin was a development of the Tai Chi old form, IIRC.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Our form is based on long Yang.

Well, no, but we don't practise martial applications.
We do a form of Push Hands but as a control/sensing exercise rather than with the intention of throwing the other off balance.
The names of the moves still have approprioate names, although most seem to involve hurting animals, especially tigers. ;o)