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

[(Anonymous)]

Donkey punched?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Donkey death-touched, more like.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

sell tickets, you may as well make some cash out of it

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't quit; it's all body conditioning, no?

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

yoga would involve fewer bruises

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Is this the guy on the DVD? It's the wrong style for me but boy is he impressive.
What was the record you broke? Times of crashing to the floor without being touched? ;o)

I'd sell tickets. ;oþ

[fried-chicken.livejournal.com]

But less of a chance to sell tickets.

[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

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I dunno

intricate yoga poses are worth paying money to see. Some of them are obviously painful as well, so you get your blood thirsty audience but not the bruises afterwards.

[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)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Our form of Tai Chi doesn't involve bruises, either.

[student-heaven.livejournal.com]

Don't give up! I used to do kickboxing and spent every Sunday getting kicked in the stomach by my brother. But it was worth it - now I can do impressive-looking crescent kicks and the like. Everyone's scared of me*

*lie

[gwaunquest.livejournal.com]

Can of blue spray paint for the few areas not bruised, shave head apart from a small ponytail on the crown, pair of baggy trousers and you're set up for panto.