BaguaKicksAss

Step 1: decide who's boss, you or them. Pick yourself obviously. Step 2: tell them how things are going to be . Step 3: repeat. Sep 4: (if the above doesn't work, and even if it does) connect really strongly with the divine, then repeat.

It does sometimes .

Done . I changed the name on your PPF as well.

Tell them to fuck off.

That is so well put, and definitely true. Thank you for adding to the discussion .

Then you need BAGUA! lololol

That's exactly what it feels like to me sometimes. I also sometimes worry when folks do it too much, as I've seen the fallout from this over the years with some folks.

:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: YaMu is prob thinking the same thing right now about your post .

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Oh that can be done quite easily .

All done . Just let me know if you run into any trouble with it, or would perhaps like some super awesome sub forums for it!

Sock puppets we can merge together if that is what you guys mean?

Yes. I'm happy PPFs are not googleable. Hmmm, a thread where one has who can post in it control over it being googleable, hmmmmm.... I'm a bit wary of that aspect. Why is everyone so biased against PPFs anyways? So what if they aren't googleable, are folks using TTBs for promo / google ranking or something?

Hmmm good point . I feel sort of silly for not realizing this one! Not like I ever wanted to master running for example, nor photography, nor writing, nor..... I fortunately picked the right ones at the time when I tried certain ones out for health. I started with qigong, then my teacher told me to come to her taichi classes, but then! I saw she had SWORD classes!!! She was nice, she let me in because I was so enthusiastic (we both knew I wasn't ready). Though a couple of years later she asked someone how I was doing and was happy I'd finally picked one particular path. The Bagua definitely helped health 1000 fold better than the qigong and taichi I had previously learned. Though with each of the above I could tell within a month that they all worked, which was pretty cool. As in worked far far better than just physical exercise. I personally think one's health gets better faster sticking with one at a time though, even if the time is only a few months until you find a better one . Unless you luck out and choose a good one right off. Though I fully get this.. I some pretty extreme health challenges when I started Bagua... so of *course* I still trained with my old Taichi teacher for the first 3 months while starting up with a traditional Bagua teacher. Was that good enough? Well yes of course, but at the time I wasn't sure, so I also trained with another Bagua teacher who knew some different stuff and some qigong lol. It was at least both Bagua. Things did work far better when I just focused on one set of practices from one teacher solely though. One of my teachers did advise me that it is best to choose one teacher and one path, even if not him. He was right... I finally listened later lol. Merged by folks who mastered each one half decently before adding another.. but yes... it does contain quite a bit. The fun fighting stuff, the awesome qigong and channel stuff, healing stuff, power training, some neigong and so on and so forth... I think most traditional internal martial arts taught by traditional teachers do have all that as well though. Well that and I'm just as bad as everyone else, there was that MoPai experiment I tried . &*#@$% curiosity . It was really funny when after I ran into some trouble TG told me "it isn't good to mix it with other systems". Yeah that's only something I have been telling magic students for 20 years... duh! ROFL That sounds like it works, and that they are different enough as well. Also works with the time frames of regular life. My main gripe was say a bit of Flying Pheonix one day, mudras the next day, some Bagua the day after, some taichi the next, then a little random qigong system the next... all cycled through at random.... So again, good points everyone about one thing for say fighting, and another for qigong, for example... well unless you are lucky enough and both are included all in one place. Though really, I think that if you want to get to the depth of a particular system, get the closed door stuff, and learn what it is really about, you do need to stick with it for quite a number of years and not just dabble with it and others. I feel you have to put a certain amount of focus and effort into a system for it to open up further for you. Playing the devil's advocate... I do have a Bagua friend who feels that one should "steal the art" where they can, train with more than one person if you can (if they are good) and not mention any side training to each one. He's quite good at what he does. He's been at it all for over 10 years though.

There's also the there are only so many hours in the day aspect... Good points about training different things which are completely different from each other... I don't see my jewelry making training interfering with my Bagua .

Hmmm? That sounds like the is it possible to delete an account question? What is the difference?

I thought.... I would never see the words "mensa" and "fox news" in the same paragraph, ever! lol Though with mensa to get in, it only shows ability to be good at passing iq tests; it does not show common sense, thinking for oneself, or deductive reasoning (beyond putting some blocks together).

I lived for a year in a part of the USA where the KKK was still alive and well, this is nothing.

I have noticed I can eat 4x as much when I train. I figured out why... Some qigong, and some Bagua, takes as much effort, calories, work, food, nutrients as running. When I took up marathon running I did a LOT of research into replenishing the body properly, which recovery stuff to take and so forth. I found through trying different things out, that the qigong and Bagua took just as much! Most people don't exercise much, those that do need more food. As long as you aren't gaining more weight (in the wrong places) than you desire, all is good in my opinion. Also, veggies aren't very filling, most people eat bread or pasta which is very filling (but not very healthy), and looks like they are eating less.

Because people troll, then ask for their account to be deleted, then come back under a "new" name and re-troll. Nice passive agressive new username .

How I understand it is.... Thunder_Gooch starts a Mo Pai is awesome, dissenters eff off thread... someone posts some crap. TG says hey stop posting in this thread thanks. The person stops. Then if 3 people post crap, or the first person does again (or even their first post) all get moved to another thread. No one owns that new thread....

One Mo Pai thread where people can't trash talk it, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. Now 20 said threads, well that might be pushing it a tiny bit .

Uhm no, I had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with that clinical study. *My* study most obviously would have been more about which facial attributes, while practicing Baguazhang, make men the most attractive. My extensive research and findings conclude that it is a low stance, good use of the ldt, good twisting inwards, and the more torquing the better... Though I do feel that much further study, as well as field research, is needed. . PS, I went to the *other* local university.

My method, watch all the vids, and read the preview on all the books you are interested in. Go by intuition on which resonates with you best . This is even more fun in an in person bookstore! (how that got into PM instead of in the thread I"m not so sure?? I've even been getting enough sleep lately lol)