http://x-dazzler.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] x-dazzler.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] x_staff2004-10-07 05:15 am
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All right, I'm not doing this on my own so put on your thinking caps!

I'm looking up a Tai Chi school in the area, maybe even trying to find my old sifu so I can get around to trying to pass my student-teacher test. Also, I'll be taking out some of the kids interested in Tai Chi to regular classes with me, since there's no way I can work around teaching them myself if we're doing this long term. I'm Not Allowed. Yet.

Still, either way, I've got that lot covered.

But.

I'm sure there are others among the kids who might not mind taking up a particular Martial Art that isn't related to the self-defense classes we teach as part of the curriculum or Tai Chi.

So - any suggestions as to a form of Martial Art which might suit one student better than another? Cause while I'm at it I can do a blitz and find out about schools in the area that teach those too and suggest that to the kids. Or we can arrange something here at the school for them.

Well? As Aurora might say, chop chop people!


Edit : ...I'm just going to find a nice wall to beat my head on now. Yep.

Re: We've got a lot of folks...

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
... Shit, for a minute there, I thought *I* wrote that comment.

Gah.

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
I've been grading Arabic tests. I'm a little cranky.

But my point stands. Lots of folks want to do pretty forms and look good while they do it. Real fighting is never pretty. It's ugly, and people get hurt.

Salaam,
Haroun

Re: Gah.

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't say I had a -problem- with what you said, did I?

I pretty much agree. There's some value to the pretty crap, but when it comes down to it, Triple Nuclear Tiger Style Wu Shu Thai Do is just hitting someone in the head with a fancy name.

Don't get me started

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
"If done right, is no defense!"

And there is some value to the pretty crap - there can actually be half-decent moves dug out from around all the frou-frou nonsense.

I spent about a year or so with an ex-Israeli grunt learning everything I could. Invaluable experience. Absolutely invaluable. Weren't you a leatherneck, Cain, for a while there?

Salaam,
Haroun


Re: Don't get me started

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, don't the Israeli's have some art of their own now? Jew fu, or whatever it is?

I made that joke. Once.

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Then he went all intifidah on my ass. I think I was still limping two days later, and my legs are artificial!

It's called Krav Maga. And my friend thought it was a good place to start, but still a little too sissy for his tastes.

His words, not mine. I decided that I wanted to use my skills to immobilize and contain situations, not to just get out there and cripple people.

Salaam,
Haroun

Re: I made that joke. Once.

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

Near as I can tell, its pretty damn brutal. Never did learn more than basic Marine hand to hand myself, but there's a lot of nasty shit you can do to a body with a bayonet.

Re: Gah.

[identity profile] x-kylun.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
The fancy names can also be misleading, at times; for example, one of the first techniques I learned was "en'tnala", which simply means "to strike the head" in one of the early dialects of the ritual language.

Re: Gah.

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
.. So why not just call it "To strike the head" in whatever language you were talking in?

Re: Gah.

[identity profile] x-kylun.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
When the technique was invented, that is precisely what they did. Continuing to use the old name is simply a matter of respect toward the inventors.

Re: Gah.

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
Seems like its a waste of time to have to re-learn how to say "Kick someone's ass" in ancient mandarian when I can just as easily say it in English.

Re: We've got a lot of folks...

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm the big red-haired one, he's the dark skinned bald one with the plastic butt.

And besides...

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm far more handsome.

Salaam,
Haroun

Re: And besides...

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Still got a butt made of plasic there, plastic britches.

Re: Actually...

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
I won't make any jokes about what plasticbutt's got on his head. Don't rightly feel like bringing down jihad on my ass.

Re: ...

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All I have to say is...

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
ALLAH AKBAR!

Salaam,
Haroun

Re: All I have to say is...

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
All I gotta say, is hope you like raisins.

Heretic.

[identity profile] x-jetstream.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
And I am just _waiting_ for the administrative beatdown for filling the Staff journal with all this silliness.

Haroun

Re: Heretic.

[identity profile] x-juggernaut.livejournal.com 2004-10-07 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
You can get all the beatdown you want. I own half the house. What're they gonna do, fire me?

Nah.

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Re: AAH!

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Re: AAH!

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Re: Nah.

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