Aswad -> RE: Punching your sub/slave? (7/7/2007 7:41:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado The martial arts may be second only to BDSM for making up history and tradition for what it is that they do....[:D] Second? Move over, BDSM, I say. Count speculative history, and it only gets worse. quote:
The actual names for the various systems practiced in the many villages and families, were whatever the people handing them down felt like calling them. Or, more likely, whatever some person receiving down the line felt like calling them. Those who have something to teach are usually more busy teaching than naming, IME. (Once people start organizing things, it's a bit different, but that's usually after the fact, I think.) quote:
And then from China, we have the GungFu/KungFu misnomer still fed from ongoing Bruce Lee worship. Transliteration errors aren't all that unreasonable. Just look at ju-jutsu. People stick i's wherever they feel like it, and sometimes dock a u. Of course, for all I know, my transliteration could be wrong, too. Someone had the bright idea of switching once. That made everything easier, as planned. Just not for everyone. Seems a bit odd for people to worship Lee. I don't think he'd want that. His wife said he was very fond of Krishnamurti's teachings. Particularly the one about how each person needs to find their own way, be their own light, rather than follow some religious figurehead. This thinking is evidenced in Lee's teachings. That said, he really opened people's eyes to some aspects of MA, and the difference between training in one and dedicating yourself to one. ISTR someone claimed his movies were the first time one encountered problems capturing a move on film, though I wouldn't know. Not entirely unlikely, though, as a full-speed punch would take slightly more than one frame at cinema frame rates. quote:
Oh, and everything is thousands of years old to boot [;)] Nah. Millions. For sure. Taught by aliens to a special clan of monkeys on the island of Atlantis.
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