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01-04-2007, 01:49 AM
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Registered Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 38
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Style: Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu
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Cheng Hsin
Has anyone on the forum ever trained with Peter Ralston??? If so, please give me some feedback. I want to do an intensive training and he offers one week to one year programs. Thanks in advance for any comments/advice.
Regards,
Lucky
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01-04-2007, 08:47 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 7,050
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01-04-2007, 09:57 AM
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Here's looking at you, squid.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Florida
Posts: 2,861
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I have over 2500 posts and I'm still not a Supporting Member?
 
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Style: Ke?po, MMA ultra-newb
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I can't view the movie, but...
http://www.chenghsin.com/chpeter.htm
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By the age of 20 he was a black belt in Judo and Jujitsu (Nidan), black belt in Karate (Shodan), had been Sumo champion at his high school in Japan, Judo and fencing champion at UC Berkeley, and had demonstrated proficiency in Kempo, Ch'uan Fa and Northern Sil Lum Kung Fu.
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Good lord, that's quite a resume by age 20...
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Consistent with Zen studies, his investigation into martial arts also came to include a questioning of reality.
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I have some questions, too...
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he became the first non-Asian ever to win the World Championship full-contact martial arts tournament held in the Republic of China.
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I think I've heard this before, in various forms...
Plus, it's like martial arts with group therapy:
http://www.chenghsin.com/chappliedempower.htm
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"Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way to grasping reality -- it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see."
- Terry Goodkind, "Faith of the Fallen"
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01-04-2007, 10:03 AM
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Registered Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Style: Siling Labuyo Arnis
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Originally Posted by Virus
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Looked like aikido without the added thrill of magic pants
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01-04-2007, 10:05 AM
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Here's looking at you, squid.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Florida
Posts: 2,861
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I have over 2500 posts and I'm still not a Supporting Member?
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Style: Ke?po, MMA ultra-newb
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I hate to correct you, but it's Magic Pants. Otherwise, you'll make baby Ueshiba cry...
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01-04-2007, 11:29 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 54
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Style: MMA
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i bought one of his books "principles of effortless power" at a used bookstore in SF, CA. If your in this area and looking for a place to train... look elsewhere...... this guy is a chump... a serious poser. unless you want westernized enlighenment camp... head to a real gym.
if your close enough to his place.. you are close enough to Fairtex in SF or to Cezar Gracie's camp.
save your time, money and energy and avoid this fake like the plague.
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01-04-2007, 01:40 PM
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Here's looking at you, squid.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Florida
Posts: 2,861
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I have over 2500 posts and I'm still not a Supporting Member?
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Style: Ke?po, MMA ultra-newb
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Extra points for "westernized enlightenment camp!" (slight deduction for the spelling error)
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01-05-2007, 12:06 AM
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is our whitebelts learning?
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: herndon, va, usa
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i was always a fan of the enlightenment. age of voltaire, and all.
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01-05-2007, 11:08 AM
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Registered Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Style: Siling Labuyo Arnis
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Originally Posted by OnceLost
I hate to correct you, but it's Magic Pants. Otherwise, you'll make baby Ueshiba cry...
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Yeah?? Well maybe I want to make baby Ueshiba cry! Y'ever think a that? Huh?
(... okay, officer, I'll go quietly)
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01-05-2007, 05:16 PM
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Here's looking at you, squid.
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: North Florida
Posts: 2,861
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I have over 2500 posts and I'm still not a Supporting Member?
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Style: Ke?po, MMA ultra-newb
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Dude, believe me - you DON'T want to make Ueshiba cry. If you make him cry, he takes all that effort you used and channels it into a four corner throw that you just would not believe. Seriously, you wouldn't believe it. You'll watch him do it on someone and you'll be like, "That's fucking retarded."
There's only one way to avoid it. Say it with me, "Don't grab the wrist..."
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