Glorified Kickboxing – The Truth (an eyewitness account) People such as myself who practice a variety of martial arts, especially non-traditional arts such as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, are often showered with insults by ignorant and misinformed Kung Fu purists, who refer to us as Glorified Kickboxers. Well, you lot, suck on this … After many months of searching…
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How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun
In response to some unoriginal and repetitive posts from Wing Chun-converted-to-MMA zealots on another forum: How to succeed at 21st Century Wing Chun YOUR AIM Too many delusional losers – who we on the 21st Century Wing Chun Internet Jury (21CWCIJ) call Clueless Theoreticians (CTs) – believe the end game of training is to learn…
Superluminal
“So, what epic words of wisdom do you have for me this month?’ I asked. “Grandmaster” Keith Hamster’s frenzied chomping on the mountain of crispy skin chicken and rice before him slowed marginally. “I don’t think much of that tone.” As usual, I had to fight off the cognitive dissonance of this fat, bearded middle-aged…
The Perils of Wing Chun History
(I published this first on the KFO forum in response to a particularly vituperative and ridiculous Wing Chun history argument). Wing Chun history was driving me way past the Outer Limits of sanity. I was arguing with people I’d never met over the internet. I know I know, winning an argument on the internet is…
Bil Jee
Jee Sim was relaxing in a hammock below deck after a hard day’s cooking, drilling the crew of the Red Junks in Wing Chun, and inciting anti-Qing sentiment amongst the port workers. The sacking of the Shaolin Temple remained the focus of his thoughts. As it always did, even after so many months. The heat,…