tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21709749647961925972011-04-22T03:57:23.017+10:00Kung Fu in practice, seeking perfection through learning.a Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171662677281950211noreply@blogger.comBlogger1111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170974964796192597.post-2566584708193893162008-08-21T23:25:00.003+10:002008-08-21T23:48:42.246+10:00

Currently one of my Chinese teacher, is... not Chinese, I don't have a problem with that as such. What I do have a problem with is that she isn't familiar with the Chinese that I have been taught by people in china. For example every week we have to hand in a small homework exercise, some translation, using some words in a sentence etc. My first week I had everything checked/ corrected by a

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I have now remembered how to get into this account, so I can again regail every one (who still does/did care) with... stuff I already know someone will (it is the internet afterall).I am still teaching, I don't know how much of that I want to include, but I believe that this could be a good medｉum for my tea stuff, as well as really cool stuf that I learn while teaching. Some will only be in

a Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171662677281950211noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170974964796192597.post-63746508425599771072008-08-17T10:44:00.003+10:002008-08-17T10:50:57.013+10:00

哦，　我进来了，密好真的记起来了，我回来了！～

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After over 6 years I have officially finished working for the ANU College of Law. It is amazing how scary that is. It has been a good job with reasonable pay for many years, and now it is no more. I am onto bigger and better things though, better pay closer to home, overseas travel. It should be good times for both Kung Fu Fist and Tea!

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When you're giving a Kung Fu demonstration your mind is somewhat occupied. So when you see your sisters who live in 12000 km away standing in front of you it makes for a great amount of confusion. It turns out they were down visiting their father (not mine). If he lived less than 400km away this would have made perfect sense I am sure. I gave up trying to understand this and instead spent some

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What fun that was, two full demonstrations 2hrs apart. It was a long day but a good result. I think that very few people were able to see the errors that were made and even less were able to say exactly what was done wrong. We seemed to pull about 100 more people together than any of the other displays for the day so that must be a good sign.I've been told that I will be getting copies of

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Not happy. Two Chinese exams down and both had major errors! Though I did do lots of study and I have learned a lot from it I do wish that I was able to get it right at the time. The good part is that the total of the two exams are only 2o% of my final mark so I still can get an HD! Condolences:Oral;I did well in my questions though I wasn't able to follow my notes due to lack of full "rehersal"

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What a movie! It was great I loved it. The only thing that might have made it better was if it showed the last scene first. It was a death scene (I don't think I am letting any cats out of the bag so say that she dies in the end) If it was first one line would have made the movie a little more coherent. The style of the movie had you skipping from one event in her life to another with dates

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Many moons ago I told my students about a tournament that was being held last weekend. Unfortunately for me some remembered and wanted to enter! My rotten luck!I don't know why, perhaps to satisfy my own standards for the competition or at least know how the event was going, but having students in the comp made it necessary for me to judge.It wasn't a bad competition but I did have to spend a

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It may have been noted that I haven't been updating very much lately, this roughly coincides with starting back at uni, taking over my bosses job while she prepares to go to America and taking over my teachers classes while he goes over to America with his second senior student, sister and my boss (all the same person). This was complicated when I was sparing/fighting her in preparation for

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Principle,If you know the attack you can make the defense fit.Exercise,Work on defense, understand defense then see how long it takes you to work out application to any attack. Speed up the process of thought/learn what doesn't work and don't do it, build up useful reaction speed.If you're out there and read this before next class, remind me so I can test principle... Should be interesting...

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Say after me, "isn't it interesting how this month misses the days 9-13, those days do usually appear in this month, must be some kind of leap year type of thing..."Isn't it wonderful how time flies when you are so busy you can't blink.星期六的课Looking at using obstacles to redirect momentum. E.g. using a tree to turn on pursuers without having to about face. The fun part was watching the attackers

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As a rule my Saturday classes are an informal event. No uniform is needed no sash (of rank) required, they are as informal as you can get. This doesn't mean that you should turn up in clothes you don't want to get dirty!! In the students own defense "my other jeans were is the wash". However this aside it was a great class, we worked on getting hit from behind (among other things) the exercise

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This is a post that I have been thinking about for a while now. It is an experiment that I have been doing on what tea's work best in my Gong Fu class.There are three teas on the table for consideration at the moment; Pu Er Cha, Tie Guan Yin and Long Jing. All of them are great teas that I can get in reasonable quantities, practically free. They are my payment for my Gong Fu Cha demonstrations

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I was looking to cover some basics this lesson, but for random reasons I only had 3 students. So I did some other stuff. I looked at movement interpretation. I took a move out of a form and told those who were there to give it meanings beyond its appearance. Once they had made a couple of different combinations I showed them some other strikes and techniques and then got them to practice

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This lesson I introduced some old techniques. The class that I attended the Thursday before showed me (again) a different way to appraise someone's balance and take it. What they do is look at the place on the ground that the balance is over then not letting them shift their feet, put their balance on the same spot. This means that the other person can't stand. It was a good lesson and

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This is an interesting youtube that I happened across looking for Pai video's. For those not interested in martial arts it might still be interesting but what I like the most is the attitude of those in the center. They are so relaxed it is great.!

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Having just posted my first written filk song (yesterday), I thought I might explain it a little for those who weren't there. The organiser of the event is a ninjitsu (bujinkan) teacher and he had several of his students helping him. Some of whome were at times given to me to help with different tasks, I was also told there would be ninjas available somewhere when needed for what ever. Being

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On the first day of Winterfest the shidoshi gave to me a ninja in an oak treeOn the second day of Winterfest the shidoshi gave to me two tents a raisingand a ninja in an oak treeOn the third Day of Winterfest the shidoshi gave to me three bows and arrows,two tents a raising,and a ninja in an oak tree.On the fourth day of Winterfest the shidoshi gave to me four cans of COKE!three bows and arrows,

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I have a very good friend Sir Angus McBane, (or something like that) who was planning, when last I spoke to him to run the greatest medieval event that these lands had ever seen. This was several months ago. So the 3 days before the event, I finally get in contact with Angus, it is still going ahead. So I make plans Wednesday night to get into my car and drive up to Sydney after class and do what

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This lesson is a blur, I can't remember what I taught as I drove to Sydney afterwards... It was a long night. Will post on Sydney soon!

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This lesson we practiced the technique that I learned the day before, I also worked on a defense, the only one that I could find was an application of the first form that we learn, stepping in and bring arms down to open for an attack. (won't work unless you know what I am talking about.)This is all I can remember from this lesson without digging out notes or attendance lists...

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After Sunday training, which was working on a nice technique for opening up a guard and then some form work, I managed to catch up with M at the Pen. It is good to know bar people... I also happened to come across my SCA household, Quinteria, (ender long story here about what Quinteria is within the bla, bla who really wants to know). So needless to say, my friends in garb were surprised to see

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Saturday night was Styley's wine and cheese night and what a night it was. There was a heap of people there (for the space) which was great! Lots of whine and cheese and even a 4 shiraz tasting comp, aim, guessing the price order of four bottles of wine. We were told that the prices were about $5, $10, $15 and $20. It was an interesting result, all but one put the most expensive wine as the

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This lesson was preceded by gong into town to buy mu Chinese tutor soccer boots! At the request of his uncle, we were going into town to buy soccer boots and clothes with $100. It didn't make too much sense to either of us as I have posted under the title Soccer all the times that he has played in the last ten years! If you check the logs his boots haven't caused any problems at all! Anyway we

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Friday night I took out two of my tutors. One of the BeiJing JingCha and my Engineering student tutor. It was an interesting dinner. We went to Lisboa in Woden, it was interesting to see two Chinese people eat dips and bread. Not the normal fare on the mainland of China! I decided to order the dips because after 10 minutes of explanation I couldn't get across exactly what hummus was. They

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Thursday night I found myself at a loss. I had three and a half hours till the start of class and I didn't want to go home and waste a heap of petrol. So I ended up going to see Hou at the Cha Guan. It was good, though as seems to be usual he was on his way out. This time he was going to the Asian Book-room to serve tea at a book reading of the Monkey King. (the text that became a tv series

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Suprise!On arriving at training I was greeted by a very familiar face, 阿蛇 was standing at the gate to welcome me. He is my senior student that I haven't seen in a while because of life issues that kept him away and then he suffered an attack of cognitive dissentience that made training impossible for him to continue until his circumstances changed. I don't know if they have yet changed enough

a Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171662677281950211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170974964796192597.post-91277471131826358002007-06-20T23:39:00.001+10:002007-06-21T00:53:32.151+10:00

I have recently started listening to a lot of Ben Kweller, and I came across this clip about 5 minutes ago.When was the last time you saw a performer walking through an audience because there wasn't a sufficient stage?

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The majority of this course was devoted to course revision. Went over forms and pressure points that were discussed and put some of them into practice.

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Think I went well, will find out after exam release date... Will post again then! (on this topic).

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After Saturday night I had two engagements, one dinner with a friend I met through gongfu another for movies, and pool with a friend from the Wig. Dinner was home made chicken curry with roti. It was great, the chicken was firm but tender and the sauce was great as usual. This meal was in part to make up for asking if I had any plans on Friday and not giving me any responses to my suggestions

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Bai Long day course,Was a good course. It had some good techniques and some new methods of getting to pressure points that I liked, learned two new forms Hung 1 and Hung 2 and had a great time. One of my followers on the path of Gong Fu Cha brought along a set and we partook in some quite enjoyable Tie Guan Yin at the lunch time break (for me between grading one of my students and cutting sticks

a Shihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171662677281950211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170974964796192597.post-34555038128630206122007-06-18T15:31:00.002+10:002008-08-19T00:35:59.986+10:00

These classes were basics classes, aimed at getting a couple of people ready to grade, at the course the next day. For methods etc, see previous lessons.Basics are so much fun!

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Friday night, no real plans... I have run out of white tea I'll stop at the Canberra center and cruse around and see what pick up at the tea shop (not the one I usually go to as it was out of bai cha also at last check).Well I went to Dendy and checked out what movies were playing, did this and that finally decided to go by the tea shop...While closely examining some yixing tea pots I heard a

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This event was going to start at7:30 ish, so I decided to turn up at about 8, I had some things to do and wanted to also eat etc and relax on my own as I had not been alone for a while. I sad down and went over some characters etc and then... again... this time I couldn't stand, I was stuck in my seat... Not...Happy!!!I kind of fell onto the table and then used my arms to straighten, as at this

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The event of the year if you are my of my Father's generation. On the Queen's Birthday long weekend my Uncle holds a golf tournament on his farm. It is a good day though usually miserable weather. I have been mostly absent for the last 10 years for one reason or another. Last year was the first time I had been back and for that matter seen most of my Fathers side of the family for about 10

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Getting back to my weekend posts!Saturday class has been posted, what was not mentioned is that from there I went home and about 30 minutes of cleaning and packing I was off and en route to LongZaiXia's house. I had 4 swords, one walking stick, three bottles of single malt whiskey's and a Chinese chess set.So I went helped with some house work (hanging a cabinet and sanding a door frame),

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Had a wonderfull night last Friday. Finished work then rode* over to Styley and Geekman's as I haven't seen them in a while Styley having been in NZ for weeks. Catch up was good, a lot has happened since I saw them last and home baked lazania was great. After dinner we wondered off to the shops to buy filling for muffins or "muff'n stuffin' " as I now like to call it. DEM' WAS GOOD! I don't know

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Even though I only taught the technique to one student this lesson was about how to through "broom" sweeps. These techniques are quite effective and fun to use however it is very easy to fall on your butt and get pounded even if you take the balance of your opponent! Because of this the techniques I taught were aimed at being able to defend yourself while you are falling on your butt and using

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Form focus lesson.This lesson I picked apart the way people were doing certain techniques in the beginning forms. I didn't go into great detail about why I wanted them to work on the moves that I was correcting beyond that they were doing them wrong. I gave them the corrections and set them to repetition drills working on the problem moves. This might seem like a less productive way for

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Thanks NJ!I can't believe that I didn't notice these earlier, but to be honest I haven't looked back over what I have written for a while and not in detail since I posted it.So to add the corrections.我今年我是二十五岁。我想我应该生大学。 现在我在(because it shuld come before the location)国立大学学习。我(still need the 学?)的 专业汉语。我有四位老师。我还有三个中国朋友。他们帮助我学习汉语。 他们跟我学习英国。我也教他们功夫茶。 他们都很景气我懂功夫茶。他们都来自 中国北方，不懂功夫茶。

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The main aim of this class was to build sensitivity in peoples arms. However I started with a great exercise called 1000 punches. This is where you punch as fast as you can for 1 minute, then take a minute break, then punch again for 1 minute then rest for another minute... Do this 5 times. When I do this, I use a set of four punches to count as one, head head, body body, for example would be

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Appreciation, a state of happiness. I have been thinking lately, have had lots of reasons to think. I have recently decided that in order to be content you need to be able to appreciate anything, and everything. If you can do this then you can find value in any situation and effectively never be disappointed. There is not limit to this theory, even if you disagree with something if you can see

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Today's lesson was another basics lesson. I taught a Shotokan 8 directional punching drill, and went through the finer points of it, and then went onto forms. With warm-ups that was all I taught. It was a good lesson, great detail was discovered. Such as how the forms teach you how to balance your movement in order to apply techniques in different directions. Also, how when you let hard

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Corrected version of exercise, I have been given these corrections by word only not on the page so I don't know if they are all in how they should be.我今年十二十五岁。我想我应该生大学。现在我国立大学在学习。我的是专业汉语。我有四位老师。我还有三个中国朋友。他们帮助我学习汉语。他们还跟我学习英语。 我也教他们功夫茶。他们都很景气我懂共复查。他们都是从中国北房，不懂共复查。

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Next week I have decided to go to knightsbridge, for the funk night. If I am in the mood I am in tonight I think I will dance a hole in the floor... solo! Last week there were two people dancing, or one dancing and one taking up more floor space than allowed, next week I think I will try to get a dance atmosphere by dragging along some dancers. I wish me luck!再见！

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Study is frutile while listing to the White Stripes. Frutile being the unlikely combination of fruitful and futile. While I go get up and dance I am going back and forth between the table and the dictionary. I am practicing my 100 word composition for my final exam on the 19th. I decided to leave the bag with my study stuff at work over the weekend as I wanted to free my mind from the guilt that

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A couple of things to go into this post, one birthday, one death, one year in Australia.In order of appearance.一姐 turned 17 on the 23rd, there was a party which was great while was there, but apparently turned bad some time after I left.上星期三 白天龙 passed away. I like to mark this occasion as it reminds the students of where the style has come from and makes them think about what it means to be a

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Today's lesson started with me trying to cancel it from the beginning. The student who wanted me to start the classes was running a BBQ. He has only turned up to two of the classes I have run FOR HIM on Saturdays but there have been excusable reasons, I guess, if you count getting shingles that left him looking like an aborigine in police custody and a couple of other things. Because of the

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Just to see who actually reads this. Feel free to comment on what I put down here, grammar corrections, "Bullshit"titles to things that I say, I like to be questioned on what I say and I appreciate being corrected on what I write when I make mistakes. There are a couple of reasons that I started this blog, they are, getting better at composition as 今年我开生大学 and I want to test my ideas on a

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I love this site, I haven't read it too much and though I disagree with some of what they say, I love it! That they are saying it is good enough for me, I don't care if they drink good tea from mugs/normal cups, that they know another way is good enough for me, I know my choices are best only for me. I have not looked too heard but this is the first sight I have found a site that is also about

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I didn't get my quota for May yet, onlt 28 out of 31! I am very dissapointed. So probably is 小猫，but I guess we will just all have to cope. Not wanting to stay home last night, after training I went out to Knightsbridge for their funk night. It was great, their DJ was mixing live and it was great to watch him start from backing track right through to a really complex compisition that had about

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Had an interesting day today. My boss was moving a bookshelf when a bookshelf next to her had an extension fall off and hit her on the head leaving her with a 6cm gash above her left ear. This meant that I spent most of the day filling out forms and collating reports from the people there as to what happened for our records. Also I had to wait around for the OHS unit to come and assess the

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Class went well, taught the intended lesson of head moving and followed it up with movement reading techniques examining peoples balance before they move. It went well, I also looked at peoples balance when they attack from various styles. 白 龍 has a desire for balance to be centered. This means that when we take a stance we aim to have our head straight. Other styles tend to have the head held in

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I have had some changes in my life recently that have given be cause to think about anything but what is going on. So among other things I have been thinking about gong fu. Last night I was thinking about the starting of movement. In order to move your body forward, you need to create an imbalance that directs your body forward then maintain that motion while regaining your balance. So, what

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Basics, everything is taught in basics. Well it should be, otherwise the basics don't cover what is needed to understand the rest of the art. Tonight I went through the four hard style blocks. We use Shotokan style basic blocks, they're simple and effective, and the motor skills can be used to do so many things. It is amazing how many things can be done with one set of movements. What looks

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This week was the first week when I felt comfortable with kicking. So I taught ways to use kicks to improve your strength and balance, and or understanding of how to adjust the direction of oncoming attacks.The introduction exercise to this was to have one person kick in any fashion possible and to block it by putting a leg in the way of the foot or some other part of the leg as it came forward,

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I want to put in a couple of references to Bai Long Quan, my gong fu style. The full history is a little blurred, but the most accurate information is here. A summary is that it is a longer range style of gong fu that becomes closer as you learn more. There is a focus in the branch that I belong to on the external aspect of the art, but there is a push to get more more of the internal techniques

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This was a fun lesson. My agenda for the class was to build speed and power in punches. My plan had beginners working reverse punches and seniors working on lead punches.I only had three people turn up.The joy of teaching open classes is you don't know who is going to turn up, some days everyone takes a day off at the same time. Especially when there is a cold snap.So when I have a small class I

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There is a lot to be said for being able to throw a hard punch. There is also a lot to be said for being able to throw a fast punch. If you can through one you might not be able to throw the other however. For me a powerful punch is one that has a large mass released at the end, simple enough. For me however a fast punch, is a punch that has the shortest time span from conception to impact, not

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It will be 10-5 as far as I understand and will be $50 for the day which is reasonable. This course will be run by 白龙在下 and will be on 白龙拳 in general. I would like to get him to run a specific course. I haven't thought of this until now but usually he teaches courses on things he has learned at one event or another. If he taught courses on specific animals or on breathing I think people would

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I had a good class on Saturday, mostly form work but the student that I wanted to be ready for his next level was there and had shown improvement since last class. I think that it will be too early to grade him next week however there is a course on June the 17th. I need to remind/inform class of this course. I will get him to grade shortly after as I want to cement some of the changes that

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The best use for a leg of roast lamb is curry. The meet is not as tender as others so does better after a long simmer, and it is so cheep! Tonight I paid $6 for 1.5kg of lamb! How good is that, it was reduced and had a scrape off the top of the plastic wrap which brought it down, but that I think was done by me anyway when I picked it up. (I didn't ask for the discount, the manager saw it and

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I could tell you about the new whiskey's I have bought recently (last 2 months) 12yo Murray McDavid, very good relatively cheep ($50ish) very good and strong flavor unfiltered which is something I haven't knowingly experienced before, adds body don't know if it would be better with or without,but interesting. A bottle of 15yo Glenlivet French Oak Reserve, don't know about taste yet as unopened

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First class with happy knee, Monday it was still tender from surgery, Wednesday was great!I was able to do weird and wacky things like bend it... and stuff. It was great!Knee is feeling all round much better all the time (as predicted by Geekman).Hmmm, what did I teach...Ahh, yes, balance. Taking someone else's balance (physical).I split this into two lessons, one for beginners one for

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If you are not from Canberra you might not know that Belconnen has the most ugly town center going in there is. It is safe to say that I do hate it. Concrete does not have the same appeal when it is all you can see no matter where you look, and most of the time they haven't had the common decency to paint it, so it is ugly with water stains! But today is the day that I meet with one of my

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I almost forgot to post last night's class!I invented an interesting exercise (says me) last night.I wanted to give my students a core body and a leg workout at the same time as do some pad work using round strikes (to aid core muscles).This was my solution. It was a partner exercise, one partner holds a pad for an eye level strike and the other person strikes it with a round (hand) attack, then

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When I went into surgery I had a slight cold, now that my body has been subjected to all manner of drugs designed to dull your ability to react to stimulus I have developed a tap like feature in my nose that doesn't have an off position.I am currently eating Nyal Cold and Flu Fighter tablets like they are going out of fashion. Which they apparently are as Xiao ma wasn't able to find any last

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Currently feeling good, however it gets sore much more easily than before. So as expected. The only problem I have had (now that I think about it) is that the exercises that I have been given to do require you to be lying down. I haven't been in good places to lie down of late and have so forgotten to do them.Well I think it is time to go to bed and do another set of the given exercises.

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Yesterday I gave my second public demonstration of Gong Fu Cha. It went well, starting with a Jasmine ball with red flowers to get people in the mood, then moving onto biluochun then a Tie Guan Yin Oolong followed by a green Pu Er. Not everyone liked every tea, but some did. The favorite of the day was the Tie Guan Yin, as usual. This tea is the specialty of the shop that has asked me to

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小猫 has been quite testing of late, since his grading he has become quite unfocused in his training, and irritating in class. This irritation almost came to blows when he accidentally kicked another student in the groin, it was meant in fun but his control was a little lax on that occasion. I had a little talk to the 兄弟 involved after class. The result was a discussion on several things one

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Tonight 小马和我Discovered Club Mombassa, It is great!She danced and I boogied from a sitting position on account of the whole knee surgery think. It was totally awesome!! I can't wait until next week or so when I can get up and dance. We will boogie till the whee hours. I want to try to get some of my students there also, make it a club club!

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I have been cut.They took out a piece of meniscus about 25mm long and tapering from 10mm-5mm. I had two sorts of tare, a bucket handle and a radial. Basically I had done a really good job on hurting myself. I have permission to do all tolerable activity, which at the moment is not much, and I meet up with him again on the 22nd. I did get onto Robert also and he had no problem with Phil, I still

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I didn't have a plan for this lesson at all, partly due to not knowing who was going to be turning up, partly due to not having time to prepare that morning.I put it to the class who did arrive, "what do you want to work on" the most suitable suggestion was flexibility. So flexibility it was.We did an exercise holding sticks that is normally done with cups of water or something else that spills.

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"I'm sorry which surgeon do you have a booking with?""The wrong one, so I need to get some clarification from my doctor, do you think you can contact my doctor for me?""certainly, which doctor was that?""Dr Robert Still""We don't have a surgeon by that name, did you have an appointment with him here?""No, I am sorry, he is the doctor who recommended me to one of the surgeons that is here. I need

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Having established that I cannot speak to the surgeon who recommended me to the Dr I didn't get, I decided to speak to the physio who recommended me to the first Doc. Karl, "Hi could I please speak to Karl?" "I am sorry he is in Sydney today, can you call back tomorrow?" "I kinda want to speak to him now, I need him to tell me about a surgeon that I am to meet at 12pm (currently 12:05)" "Oh, I

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This didn't seem like too difficult a task at first. Go there, set a date, fill out some forms, leave. This was not to be. I last posted when it was time to leave, I decided to call ahead to check if the clinic was running on time, as I have known there to be four hour waits. I called the number on the card that I had and I was transfered to another area of the hospital, the to the reception of

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Last nights class was not an inspired class, I focused the lesson on the transfer of weight, how and why the transfers happen in different stances. I thought that this was a great lesson plan however I was not able to communicate it to the students in the class effectively I think largely due to me being in a very flat mood. Usually I am able to get enough energy out of the students of the

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I decided to reuse the idea from Saturday, which was a snake lesson. Not for any other reason than I felt like teaching it, which has to count for something.The idea that I have of snake is it moves around attacks stopping them from tracking, and then strikes hard and fast often attacking delicate areas in preference to harder areas. The snake gains it's power from coiling and uncoiling. It

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As I get more posts on this blog, I would like to hear from any readers that have trained in Pai Lum. Inparticular, those who have trained under ShinZan SenChuan or PaiLiLong branches of the family. Through my education I do not accept the Don Wilson branch of the family to be a valid branch and I am not willing to discuss it here. I do not believe that I am right about this beyond question,

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Friday morning was the second and last of my mid-semester tests.An oral exam for my Chinese class (only class). I had to perform with a partner a 5ish minute dialogue followed by some q&a in Chinese that we were given a guide as how to prepare, something like go over what you have learned. My partner 大马 （coincidence) and I have been working on it for several weeks an it was above and beyond what

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I was reading a blog I recently found here and was leaving a comment that turned out to be quite long, so I decided to leave it here and link there.星期六课This is an exercise that I taught today to help some of my students keep their body in balance when moving.Stand at least an arm's length from a solid wall (or something that can take your full body weight) bend you knees to lower your weight as

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As usual, I had a fairly busy morning. I woke up at 10:30am, cleaned the house for a while, then at 11ish went into the airport to pick up 小马 coming back from KL where she has had a week on the town at the expense of the office... so not really busy, this is because the student who had booked me for several hours this morning, canceled yesterdayHad lots of booze and fun, slept soundly through

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A little late however, Monday this week was my first Chinese exam. I think that it went well... but won't know until results are published. The only mistake I can remember making I still can't decide if it was an error in the situation. I think that I missed a possessive character but I am not sure it was appropriate. I said 我的女朋友做语言教授工作。 Do I need a possessive between yuyan and jiao shou?

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I found this article while reading another gong fu blog and I found it quite amusing, especially since 小马 is currently in KL for work. I don't think however she will be spending too much time in school yards.

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What is done is done. 小猫 did his grading last night. He passed however due to frustration from earlier in the night not as well as he later wanted to have. Learning the difference between performing for the satisfaction of others and performing for the benefit of yourself, is difficult. If you are being tested and you view the test as the former, you are more likely to resent everything they

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Friday had the first majiang evening of hopefully many with Styley and Geekman and what a good evening it was! Though Geekman had sporting commitments that meant a fairly early evening! (Australia Vs New-Zealand cricket started at 23:30) I believe that 小马, was the winner in the end, however fun was had by all! I do think that I want play for money some time, one cent at a time but still money!

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New favorite recipe, 500g pork mince1 bunch coriander chopped fine1 onion chopped fine1 chili sliced v.fine4 Tsp ish (I use about one lap of wok of each, low flow bottles) each of Sweet chili, Dark soy, white vinegar, fish sauce. 3-4 leaves of silver-beat shredded. brown mince and onion, with chili, add vinegar and coriander, stir, cover and steam, add sauces and silver-beat don't stir yet leave

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This class was aimed at adding to the leg lesson on Saturday, and the lesson before, stopping active breath to promote passive breath. This was then followed by first forms then some exercises to give foot placement awareness. So if all lessons are properly learned, strong stances in the right place with no effort. Sounds good to me!These lessons are coming from the idea that a balanced

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I have been working on 小猫 of late, I have been letting him ask questions to the wee hours. Tonight was no exception other than I was planning on it as he faces a yellow level test tomorrow (now today). While the knowledge rather than the cloth is the goal, the expectation that he places on his performance will be great, not that that is a problem as it will both help him train as well as show

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Class was good this weekend, I taught some exercises in developing leg strength and balance together to give better enable people to work from low stances with grounding. If the these lessons were not received, then there was plenty of leg strengthening going on. If however the lessons were received, then balance between stances should be very good!

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I have been thinking on weather to post or not to post lessons of gong fu on here. I don't want to post stuff that I can't give proper direction on, but I do want to keep a public record of some of the cool stuff that I teach. I have hence decided to post the cooler exercises on here that I get people to do.Exercise one. Taught 四月十八日， This is an exercise in breathing, or not breathing... Lay

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I currently have a Medial Meniscus injury. This means that I am mostly walking with a cane or at museum pace. The cause of the injury is pronating feet. This puts pressure on my medial meniscus when I walk and has given me a degenerative injury at 25! This is not good and I meet my surgeon on the 3rd of May. As you may have guessed the photos I took were quite difficult for me to manage

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My boss has decided that as my knee (will post more info next) got better after a brake from work (annual leave) when I went on holidays that I should reduce my working hours to 1/2 days. This means that I am getting more time for posting etc. Most of this time is taken up by study. Or doing stuff that I would not normally have time to do.This is another reason I like my work, they really do

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It has been over a week now, and I thing that I have actually got a viewer, not told to visit by me! It is so exciting. They only stayed for 5 minutes but that is probably enough. I haven't really been looking for hits though. When I have had the time to do that sort of thing I have been posting.

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好那。好

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Well 小马 has her truck and that means that I don't need my 4WD. Well I have decided, I WANNA CELICA! They are worth about as much as what my current car is though there was a plan to spend that money on the loan I have for my bike... I am not worried about my bike loan, it is at a good rate and I don't notice the money going as I was given a pay rise at the same time I bought it. Insurance might

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Last night I decided to spread the love, I took one of my 白兄弟 to 白龍在下's class so that he could fire the same questions to him and compare answers to find the meaning in what each of us was saying. There were some good lessons learned, however when I dropped him home it did end up being past the am before I arrived home. Again, if I had been getting paid... Though I did very much enjoy the

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The temptation to talk with students for hours after class is great, however the problem is that it takes hours of your time. 小马has an answer for this, make them pay for your time, this way every one wins. You get paid for you time and they value what they learn. However from where I stand, I want to reward students for asking challenging questions with informative answers. Rather than rewarding

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