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Joe Hillshoist wrote:Wow, happy birthday.
You old(er) bastard.
nathan28 wrote:OP ED, that invisibility sigil a couple pages back, either it kind of sucks or i should have known better, but you yourself said you got pulled over twice
OP ED wrote:nathan28 wrote:OP ED, that invisibility sigil a couple pages back, either it kind of sucks or i should have known better, but you yourself said you got pulled over twice
did i?
(i do not think i did)
i only remember even seeing one cop, and he didn't seem to notice me.
of course, i only ever intended for it to be used the one time. and i don't swear by them. their functioning is coincidental, it is said, and it is best if you don't ever notice them working.
certainly i would not suggest anyone attaching themselves to my karma and expecting it to function for them the way it does for me.
What is, after all, the basic principle of combat science? Different people have different answers to this question, but studying boxing routines, forms of movements, fixed techniques, and training hits and beats, all fall into the category of superficial, and although the boxing routines and forms of movements have been popular already for a long time, they are, indeed, extremely harmful to the people.
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One should know that the original ‘Xingyi’ completely lacked the training method of the twelve forms, but the whole body was meant to express the essence of all these twelve forms. It did not have the theory of the mutual promotion and restraint of the five elements, there were just the five elements representing five kinds of forces. It did not have any fixed techniques, boxing routines or forms of movements either. I remember well the words of my late teacher about the five elements: Metal means the strength contained in the bones and the muscles, the mind being firm like iron or stone, being able to cut gold and steel. Wood has the meaning of the bending but rooted posture of a tree.
Water means force like the waves of the vast sea, lively like a dragon or a snake, when used, it is able to pervade everything. Fire means strength being like gunpowder, fists being like bullets shot out, having the strength to burn the opponent’s body by the first touch. Earth means exerting strength heavy, deep, solid, and perfectly round, the qi being strong, having the force of oneness with heaven and earth. This is the syncretism of the five elements. It has nothing to do with one technique overcoming another technique as the modern people claim. If one first sees with the eyes, then thinks of it again in the mind, and then launches the counter-attack towards the enemy, it is very seldom that one will not get beaten up.
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