Lion Dance

**NJM** · Posted On: 9/10/2007 11:54pm

Originally Posted by CodosDePiedra

We actually do enough lion dances to finance and maintain several lions. They're pretty expensive. My school has five of them that we hang up on the walls.

If you don't mind my asking, where do you buy your lions?

**LowwerWay** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 3:39pm

Lion dance=waste of valuable training time.

**ty5** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 4:32pm

You could say that about anything. Some of the people in my clubs Lion Dance team don't even train in the first place, they just want to do Lion Dance, other do it because they like to give something back to the Chinese community (team always does new year, weddings, buisness openings for good luck etc..) or just for a different type of work out once a week or (now this is a real shocker) just because they enjoy doing it as a hobby.

**isol8d** · Posted On: 9/12/2007 7:39pm

Originally Posted by LowwerWay

Lion dance=waste of valuable training time.

internet forums=waste of valuable training time.

some of the better schools are very acrobatic with their lions. we have 2-3, if you count the kids lion.

Not my cup of tea, but I enjoy them on cny....

**Permalost** · Posted On: 9/14/2007 2:29pm

Originally Posted by NJM

If you don't mind my asking, where do you buy your lions?

My sifu picks them up on trips to China. I haven't gone yet (because I'm poor), so I couldn't tell you exactly where.

Originally Posted by LowwerWay

Lion dance=waste of valuable training time.

I do lots of things that are a waste of training time. I go to the beach, and skateboard, and go out with ladies, and post on Bullshido, and read books, etc. When people used to ask me why I train, I used to have answers like getting better at fighting, self defense, etc. Now that people question the validity of anything that's not MMA, when people ask me why I train, I tell them because I enjoy practicing kung fu. I also enjoy lion dance. Hell, I enjoy practicing ki chuan do. Doing things I enjoy is not a waste of time *. I think in the grand scheme of things, spending all your time practicing for fighting if its not something you like is a real waste of time if you live in modern America.

*Mind you, most of my training time is spent doing things like bagwork and sparring, because they improve my fighting but also because I enjoy them.