http://www.wanderingtheway.com Striving for enlightenment, inner peace, and the martial way in a 21st century world. Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:08:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was saddened to read this article (The Sun Online) on a martial artist who claimed disability to the tune of $66,000. For shame. A person who walks the path of martial arts should strive to improve their character at the same time. With greater power comes ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/11/28/a-martial-artists-ethics/ Drunken boxing is always a crowd pleaser. I still have yet to see anyone use it, though. http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/09/18/drunken-master-form/ This is some rare footage. The late Brandon Lee was on "Sydney Extra", a show in Australia, to promote the movie Rapid Fire. He apparently gave the interview at Grandmaster Jim Fung's International Wing Chun Academy. Ah Brandon, you were taken from this world too early. http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/09/13/brandon-lee-at-jim-fungs-international-wing-chun-academy/ I came across a site providing different versions of the Tao Te Ching there are eighty-four different English versions, as well as versions in other languages. There are even different versions in Chinese. With so much variance between versions in each translation, how well can the essence of ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/09/11/would-the-real-tao-te-ching-please-stand-up/ I came across this article on boxing tips for fighting by Frank Benn and found it incredibly interesting. The tips themselves would be of useful to anyone interested in boxing or fighting, and are a highly recommended read. However, I also came across a lot of parallels ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/08/31/boxing-tips-for-fighting/ A relatively unknown martial art is the Russian style of Systema (Wikipedia), which, unfortunately, may sometimes just be referred to as "Russian Martial Art". This style is most notably employed by some Spetsnaz units (Russian special forces). The style is reported to date back to the 10th century, ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/08/02/the-russian-martial-art-of-systema/ Here's a fun idea: if you wanted to see a martial arts style, what movie would you watch? Sadly, in most cases, the movie will give a horrible, almost insulting representation of the art. (Hence, this list is going to have a lot of groaners for actual practitioners ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/07/31/movie-martial-arts-education/ One of the coolest clips I've seen is this one of a Shaolin martial artist versus a Tae Kwon Do martial artist. That Shaolin guy is fast. Yes, they're just playing tag. Yes, in general, with any martial art, whoever trains better will be the winner. It's still ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/07/26/shaolin-vs-tae-kwon-do/ I came across this thread on MetaFilter about occidental swordfighting -- rapiers, longswords, and so on. It's often easy to forget about these styles with flashy offerings like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon coming out of Hong Kong, but apparently, the other styles are still around. I sometimes forget ... http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/07/18/sword-fighting-the-western-way/ In Return Of the Dragon, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee have a climatic fight in the Colliseum. This is that fight. Enjoy! http://www.wanderingtheway.com/2006/06/22/chuck-norris-vs-bruce-lee/