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Watched the original with the English subtitles on the big screen and found it was great.
I loved their facial expressions, you could tell what they were thinking without them saying a word.
It was a real escapism movie for me.
I think true friendship is under-rated
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I loved their facial expressions, you could tell what they were thinking without them saying a word.
It was a real escapism movie for me.
I think true friendship is under-rated
Twitter: @Dreamskygirlsa
saw it last nite with original sound and subtitles. it was silly and fun. the making of movie feature showed just how much work went into it all....costumes, fight coreography and stunts, building the 1930s sets etc...lots of work for a comedy.
I recommend it for a light entertainment!
"The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton
I recommend it for a light entertainment!
"The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton
It's very mathematical and attacks and defense are to the centre line, almost without exception. Kicks are low and practical and are used primarily in a "patriot missile" kind of way, attacking the incoming kick. Offensive kicks are seldom higher than the waist. Punches trade power for speed and the system relies on simultainious multiple attacks which often overwhelm an opponent with something similar to sensory overload - too much to think about in too short a time. Two techniques, sticking hands (Chi Sau) and shooting hands (Bong Sau) prevent this from happening to the Wing Chun exponent after years of slow repetitive "muscle memory" type training. The system has some ground based techniques but many, many schools ignore this. When you fight - everything ends up on the ground sooner or later, so ground fighting skills are always a requirement unless the system is being learned purely as an art.
I did Wing Chun for about 7 years before being exposed to Jow Ga after a decade out of formal martial arts, and there is little negative residual. Most importantly, for me anyway, is that the fist is made the same way. It's hard to undo muscle memory on issues like that.
Some schools can be VERY hard. Too hard for a child. The school I attended was obsessive and in retrospect, abusive, requiring senior students to punch buckets of 17mm blue chip (The kind of stone that goes into concrete) for hours to strip the knuckles of Calluses - cushions designed to protect you - but also protect your opponent. This conditioning results in very few hand injuries when fighting though. Although 20 years later I have no apparent lasting orthopaedic damage to my hands, they are not pretty, with my knuckles being pure scar tissue. That may not look so good on a girl, and may not be that wise, but they have stood me in good stead in times of personal conflict. Heavily scared hands and an unscared face are a sign that a fight is best avoided. Beware the "pretty" fighter.
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