Disturbingly accurate...

How to make a darth_boot
Ingredients:

5 parts intelligence

5 parts courage

5 parts ego
Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add lustfulness to taste! Do not overindulge!

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Yup, I’m up to about 107% of my former power. For those of you keeping track of my LJ, that means I have 3% of my “old self” left to recoup. I’ve faced the fact that the last 3% may not come for years, if at all. That’s fine. As it stands, there are things that I can do now (in regard to fighting/performing/Kung Fu) that I could not have done years ( Read more... )

"You feel the Force, but you can't control it." --- Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Read more... )

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MORE WING CHUN SLANG

BURNOUT - 1. A state of being, in which one or more of a Kung Fu student’s muscles simply refuses to perform good technique, as a result of fatigue. 2. A good time to take a break, lest you train your body to perform half-assed technique.
(Ex: Student: Oh! Tan sao burnout! My shoulder is gone. Break time!)

FIST-IGATE - 1. To ( Read more... )

It was quite the Kung Fu and “Hey, I wasn’t expecting that” weekend. Saturday, Owen gave my Sidai (and fellow class clown) Art and I some horse stance/forward energy concepts to incorporate into our workout. Gotta love how Wing Chun exercises never get old ... just more intense and in-depth. My horse stance was exceptional on Saturday, better than ( Read more... )

As predicted in the last entry, the muscle failure thing worked. My horse stance now resembles a warhorse, more than a Pegasus. Now, when I get hit, I don’t go flying. (Get it, Pegasus - flying horse? Ooh, tough crowd!) Anyway, everything feels better and more stable today than when I started yesterday’s insane workout. Fists are a little weird, ( Read more... )

"Oh, my heavy, heavy aching legs ( Read more... )

Friday night, my Kung Fu nephew Andrew and I worked out and talked at length about Wing Chun. It has something of an odd history, as martial sciences go. Most martial arts are developed over years and years, refining movements, perfecting techniques and ideas and then adding things to round out the discipline ( Read more... )

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