Earl Grey

There's a training technique where we use cat stance and empty stance for a special kind of Zhan Zhuang, which when done long enough, makes you springy like Bruce Lee, powers your kicks, and improves your balance greatly. When combined with foot work and Bagua circle walking, it makes dodging and flowing a lot more natural. I'm not at that point yet as I don't have many training partners these days with my teachers out of town and other students now doing online work, but this is where shadow boxing really is crucial for when training, and I can't emphasize enough how important shadow boxing is across styles, whether they are internal or external.

In Liuhebafa and Bagua, at least how I learned, you can step both toe first or heel first, depending on the technique. Also, as I learned a special kind of Yang under Glenn and Eric, there is likely some differences between the Temple style that dwai does.

It's a very natural movement once you get it, so it's no surprise it looks common to what you learned in Aikido, and your own natural instinct as a martial artist. In my own experience when I used to train in Silat and Eskrima, there would be a few extra beats like a quick strike to the bicep, then one to the face. And what you describe as alternate to what is in 0:26 is a rotation kind of movement I've seen used before during one of our applications, particularly when looking for control. I see it a lot in Wing Chun actually.

And to the surprise of no one: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-test-antibody-kit-uk-china-nhs-matt-hancock-a9449816.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe9yq/the-chinese-government-has-convinced-its-citizens-that-the-us-army-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan How depressing that the CCP's lies continue, right @Walker? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8843dz/heres-how-china-is-rewriting-the-history-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-to-make-itself-the-hero

China's trolls dominate the social media dialogues and zeitgeist: https://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2020/04/02/chinese-virus-conspiracy-theories-picked-up-by-thai-media/ https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/via-local-commie-underlings-beijing-officially-disapproves/news-story/491b415795fbbdc526d33d5b569134a4?nk=0a245a8c9b5472b683be4575380e6116-1586229021 And Boris Yeltsin Johnson has moved to the ICU...https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52192604

Somehow, we get the feeling you don't know Chinese history or Confucianism at all, or Neo Confucianism for that matter.

This is reinforced in Geert Hofstede's book Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Very good anthropological study and essential reading for managers and those working in fields that require engaging other people, especially from different culture groups (i.e. everyone).

It's happening: death not from coronavirus, but the government. It's also bullshit given it's a similar setup and too convenient to have a 63 year-old threatening everyone with a scythe that brave policemen do their job to protect others...(Sarcasm in case nobody caught that). https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/man-shot-dead-philippines-flouting-coronavirus-rules-200405072915819.html Scare tactics too: https://www.rappler.com/nation/257130-police-storm-community-kitchens-tear-down-protest-posters-quezon-city-april-6-2020 People are saying they aren't going to take it on social media though: https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/257149-student-publications-raise-hell-after-ue-campus-journalist-forced-apology And to the surprise of no one, the lockdown is going to extend to April 30. https://www.rappler.com/nation/257192-duterte-inclined-extend-luzon-lockdown-until-april-30-2020

Don't worry about speaking Engrish--I learned it first as "guitar" rather than pipa, but quickly figured out it's the same thing when someone said pipa and showed me the stance in person. He called it pipa, I called it guitar, we did the same thing, but then the way I learned how to use it rather than how to call it showed that semantics meant nothing if my skill was already better. And it was way better because he was a guy who thought he knew more from reading a $3 book in Cantonese from S.F. Chinatown than I did with formal instruction, and the results with application, sensing hands, and fighting were as expected.

Yeah, just a necessary repost for others who don't see it, especially those seeing this in web searches.

He's making up his own crap like he does with everything else.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52184497 Air BnB hosts are defying lockdown laws with lockdown retreats...

This is your favorite toy, isn't it? You love playing with this and others right now. Has more to do with the fact that you did not answer any questions asked directly and instead kept misdirecting. Not winning. Your false dichotomies and loaded questions indicate otherwise. Translation: "I am trying to sound way more important than I actually am in spite of how invested I was in this derailment that I myself started." Somehow, I question the sincerity of this statement.

Speaking for yourself, aren't you? More like your sense of self-importance is being threatened by people who actually know what they're talking about versus your conjecture. Oh right, try to use my history of blowing up as a means to discredit anything I say. Just because I'm the messenger doesn't change the facts. You seem to think I am getting inflamed by your views. I'm actually more amused and laughing aloud, giggling and making my pets look at me keenly. I only giggle aloud this much when reading things like A Confederacy of Dunces or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I should be saying this to you given how you're twisting this to suit your view that you're receiving disrespect. No disrespect here, just bemusement given you're not responding to anything actually being said. No you didn't. You focused on creating false dichotomies. I wonder if you know what those are. You did say a few platitudes already. You did because you haven't directly answered anything. I gave examples of countries affected by debt diplomacy and you said that that's just how things are. Show me where I took offense because nothing I felt in this exchange shows I took offense, I even showed you there was a good long list both China and the US have for their atrocities--but what I said was that it wasn't the point. Do you have comprehension issues when it comes to rhetoric? I know you enjoy literature as much as I do, but none of what you are saying sounds remotely close to anything I said with all the projections and conjecture you're making. Then you should stop alleging that it is. Emotional? Playful, yes, but emotional? Nah. You were the one who was bemused by my calling Walker someone who embodies a heroic spirit. And I've simply responded. Ergo, a dialogue, yes? Except you keep moving the goal posts. You don't have to accept a Razzie Award to be a recipient of it, but you will be remembered for being the winner.

Um, no. There weren't any platitudes on his part, and this is what I could see even without my prior respect for Walker. You, however, did bring up platitudes, and your openness for questioning were full of loaded assumptions because you set the parameters with false dichotomies. What did not sit well with him (and me too) is that you are insisting that you were acting with decorum, fairness, and impartiality. This is not the case and you are doing a very good job at denying it. Right, a "lofty mind" is someone who sees things as you do, which is stonewalling facts and using misdirection and the same logical fallacies quoted again and again even after they've been pointed out. Yawn. You are. Except you keep pressing the matter and ignoring direct questions or facts cited. Your position is about as clear Helen Keller's eyesight. Snarky remarks come because you've been dancing around the issue instead of getting to the point. That's because you've got your feet planted firmly in the ground and we're showing you the logical fallacies and facts so you can get out of the quicksand, but you insist it's a good place to see all perspectives more clearly. And yet your'e still here... And it also depends on who is ignoring them too. I never took offense to it. I disagreed with it. How you made this logical leap is baffling. What, I have to be offended in order to disagree? Hilarious. Makes me wonder if you're a part of the younger generation. It had about as much substance in it as the Pope has. Your feeble attempts to insult are almost as amusing as what you see as insults and disrespect towards you. Reminds me of those wonderful self-professed proponents of Confucianism who don't like being challenged or questioned for their authority as elders as they cite filial piety, but have never read the Analects or the fine part that discusses how it is the moral obligation of children to correct their parents when they stray from the path of virtue, in other words, questioning them when appropriate is just as Confucian. Or perhaps more simply, your ethical code works until someone shows you that they know more about what code you based yours on and so you change it to suit your views, then when someone says it's no longer part of that original code, you then say that their understanding is wrong because your view of the code is more correct. And it goes beyond ethical codes: you can cite facts that are unrelated to an argument because you think you'll win the original argument with those facts. Then, when someone shows they know just as much about that new argument and brings it back to support the original argument, those people are disrespectful and they don't understand the facts you've cited. Lame.

Some thoughts: In the beginning, he sounds more like he is talking about Buddhism than Taoism. Later on, when saying Taoists believe we should let things be and not interfere with nature, but Dan's desire to save the fly from the spider's web is simply him following his own nature belies the notion he believes it's Dan's nature. Dan is struggling with what to do--that does not appear to be his nature, he is grappling with what he should do or what he will do. As he goes into Jainism, saving the rat is probably a bad example to use to illustrate the difference between Jainism and Taoism because it becomes a grey versus gray argument as it's not that simple to discuss how to alleviate suffering--a quick death to alleviate suffering or if beheading it is adding suffering. In terms of morality, I tend to go by what is right rather than what is popular. I listen, but I also don't let people convert me to their dogma, such as fundamentalist vegans or social justice warriors. If anything, they lose credibility when they take an Inquisition-style approach guilt-tripping people rather than recognizing complexities. So I listen. I consider. I don't necessarily agree. The coronavirus thread I just posted in moments ago actually just had this play out and I and another member share a very common value that we'd rather be seen as assholes rather than be seen as polite or agreeable when it comes to doing what is right. My own training also makes me act on autopilot as well--I've jumped in when I've seen pickpockets, scammers, and bullies without thinking--it just happens without me considering anything.

I mentioned facts about China's debt diplomacy. You posted videos from Kishore and then made false equivalences and misdirections. Now you're putting more words in my mouth. Non causa pro causa, plurium interrogatorium, non sequitur, cum hoc ergo propter hoc...IGNORATIO ELENCHI.

Woman: "Look at the atrocities going on in Timor-Leste and what has happened to Indonesia under Suharto! Man: "So what? Look at what America does in Latin America. Look at what Japan did in WWII. You can't talk about that without making comparisons." Woman: "THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!" Man: "Oh, of course it does, you can't have a rational conversation or fair one because you're targeting Indonesia unfairly. They've done a lot of good too, you know. You're just following the narrative against them. You aren't even mentioning what is wrong with Nixon." Woman: ...

Way to show that not only are you not familiar with RAW and his writings, but trying to use my own signature against me is an exercise in futility, given that I can see how others see the world, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with them.