White people try to be Chinese

[Don Gwinn]

Is the link working for the rest of you? 'Cause I get nothing.

[PizDoff]

Link works fine for me.

Am I missing something here? How does wearing a gi make you want to be chinese?

There is a gi somewhere in there?

[lifetime]

You should be more concerned when they start professing a taste for chinese food (the real **** not that crap you Americans have in boxes).

In the immortal words of my friend Adam, "White people shouldn't eat at chinese restaurants. There's only two reasons why you'd eat at a chinese restaurant. Either you're Chinese, or you're with Chinese people!"



Because we all know if two white people go to a Chinese restaurant unaccompanied by a suitably Asian chaperone it's just plain pretentious...

[CanucKyokushin]

My karate instructor was a real bad-ass when he was younger.I can tell.He won't tell us anything but he sometimes lets it slip out a comment about his old days.

But I think you guys have to understand that most MA instructors aren't Bad-asses at all.There mostly nice guys.I think the day when only street-fighters and goons used to be the only studenst found in a school are almost in the past.

oh! You will still finds these guys around.But less and less compared to the old days.

I think your trying not to give him any credit Ok! so he's not as tough as you.So what.For all you know he might have had a few tournaments under his belt.Again if he was not succesfull then I can't blame him for that either.If he's worried then I think thats all we can blame him for.Too worried.

[wakinonioi]

Because we all know if two white people go to a Chinese restaurant unaccompanied by a suitably Asian chaperone it's just plain pretentious...

I think your joke would make the owners of Chinese restaurants nervous.

[wakinonioi]

My karate instructor was a real bad-ass when he was younger.I can tell.He won't tell us anything but he sometimes lets it slip out a comment about his old days..

Those 'slips' may not be so accidental.

[CanucKyokushin]

Heeh! You never know.Maybe!

[SPJ]

In response to the article;

You can only be YOURSELF. You may pretend to be something that you are not. But in the end, you are still you.

It does not matter what you wear, what you eat or what style of MA you practice.

You are still YOU.

Yes. Responsibility for one's own action has to be "injected". If you beat someone up, you go to detention, suspension or even jail for assault. You end up in rehab.

Self defense should stress how to defend against strikes or grappling.

The counter moves have to be stressed.

Call security. How to avoid confrontatiopn and fight?

What you practice at Dojo, stay at Dojo.

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OOP, it is not my Dojo or Dojang.

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Then none of my business.

NEXT for Chinese food takeout.

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[Poop Loops]

What if you want to change "YOU"? Then what? If you start to acti differently and dress differently, have you succeeded? How do you succeed? Say I'm a jerk, or too shallow, and want to change that. How would I do it? If I act nice, will I only be "acting" and in reality want to rip someone's face off?

I hate the "just be yourself" advice/deely.

PL

[SPJ]

In private, you may be whatever you want to be. Sometime to the extreme or fancy this and that.

In public, there are certain rules or decorums. We have to be in certain agreeable way socially in school or work place etc.

If you want to better your self, you have to know your self first.

There are self assessment or self awareness or analysis tests etc.

Or just introspection and meditation.

Cultivate the things you like to have.

I will be nice or say something nice to 10 people a day.

Or do 3 good deeds a day.

OOPS. I am heading toward the Buddhist/Daoist path.

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