OneWingedAngel
6/09/2004 10:14pm,
What is it about my work that attracts idiots? And this wasn't even a customer, it was a coworker(well, same company, different department).
Anyway, I come back from the copy machine, and my coworker who does bjj(we waste alotta time at work) is talking to this other guy(named John) from some other department. They were talking about different martial arts. John was going on about how Shaolin Kung Fu was the best martial art, period. How could this art be so good? What proof did John have? Well, he used anecdotes. His first was how his 7 year old student beat a 25 year old master(yes, I know). Second, Shaolin was really, really old(6,000 years by his count). Third, a computer program had been built to simulate martial arts(I imagine Tekken style), and Shaolin had come out on top.
Still skeptical, both my coworker and myself spoke up, talking about going to the ground, lack of nhb success, and other logical arguements. That's when he brought out the big guns. You're gonna have to follow this one closely, it requires a bit of twisted thinking.
Why is Shaolin so good? Well, imagine you have to defend a town against a seige. You have several days to do so. How do you do it? With Shaolin! No, but the answer John gave was almost as ridiculous. You would build a 3 sided wall aroun the town. You would also leave out the north wall. Why, you might ask. Because the enemy would approach from the south, and since the earth gently slopes up, they would become tired, and thus easy to defeat. Got that? That was his example of how Shaolin Kung Fu was so much better than every other art.
After staring dumbfounded for a second, he was called back to work, preventing my logic from destroying his arguement. My coworker and I were still unconvinced at Shaolin's effectiveness, assuming we never had to defend a village against an attacking army.
My plan is to track him down tomorrow and invite him either to a sparring match at my school or the Chicago throwdown. Then we'll see how well his Shaolin can defend him from an army of Bullshidoka.
Anyway, I come back from the copy machine, and my coworker who does bjj(we waste alotta time at work) is talking to this other guy(named John) from some other department. They were talking about different martial arts. John was going on about how Shaolin Kung Fu was the best martial art, period. How could this art be so good? What proof did John have? Well, he used anecdotes. His first was how his 7 year old student beat a 25 year old master(yes, I know). Second, Shaolin was really, really old(6,000 years by his count). Third, a computer program had been built to simulate martial arts(I imagine Tekken style), and Shaolin had come out on top.
Still skeptical, both my coworker and myself spoke up, talking about going to the ground, lack of nhb success, and other logical arguements. That's when he brought out the big guns. You're gonna have to follow this one closely, it requires a bit of twisted thinking.
Why is Shaolin so good? Well, imagine you have to defend a town against a seige. You have several days to do so. How do you do it? With Shaolin! No, but the answer John gave was almost as ridiculous. You would build a 3 sided wall aroun the town. You would also leave out the north wall. Why, you might ask. Because the enemy would approach from the south, and since the earth gently slopes up, they would become tired, and thus easy to defeat. Got that? That was his example of how Shaolin Kung Fu was so much better than every other art.
After staring dumbfounded for a second, he was called back to work, preventing my logic from destroying his arguement. My coworker and I were still unconvinced at Shaolin's effectiveness, assuming we never had to defend a village against an attacking army.
My plan is to track him down tomorrow and invite him either to a sparring match at my school or the Chicago throwdown. Then we'll see how well his Shaolin can defend him from an army of Bullshidoka.