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[Prince_Alarming]

I don’t no much about dancing, but is their footwork anywhere near as precise as required in, say Koroddy?

Even straight ballroom with no lifts or figures can have quite complex foot movement as you move around the room. I did actually teach pinan nidan to my mother once. She managed OK. Better than I did at the foxtrot anyway.

 

[Gyakuto]

I'm not bothered. As far as I'm concerned, Americans have improved on the design of the pizza (and will insist on this point)

I totally agree with that.

The Brits have improved on nothing…

 

[Prince_Alarming]

We've bastardised a lot of things though, to be fair

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

In a podcast I listen to, one of the two main guys is from yorkshire. If there's a t in the middle of a word, he always skips it (the biggest one I notice is "Tattoo" gets pronounced ta-oo"). I'd imagine he pronounces karate as kuh-rah-eee

 

[Steve]

In a podcast I listen to, one of the two main guys is from yorkshire. If there's a t in the middle of a word, he always skips it (the biggest one I notice is "Tattoo" gets pronounced ta-oo"). I'd imagine he pronounces karate as kuh-rah-eee

Some American's do this, too. I have an employee who is originally from California. He'll say things like buh-un instead of button.

Slight tangent, but the one I don't care for is what is called cursive singing... where the singer will take on a strange sounding accent with a lot of vocal fry. The kids seem to like it, though.

 

[Buka]

Rather Ironic for a martial artist to be in that....don't you think

Quite clever, Xue.

But it was an accepted target in tournaments back in the Stone Age.

 

[Steve]

Well, I hope everyone is heading into a nice weekend. The sun has made an appearance here.

 

[drop bear]

I’ve often wonder how well all these ‘hip hop’ and ‘break dancers’ would take to the martial arts. Their extreme athletic abilities would give them such an advantage.

My coach was a hip hop dancer at one point.

We also have a circus performer come train with us when he is in town.

Both very physical guys.

 

[Steve]

My coach was a hip hop dancer at one point.

Drop Bear's coach:

 

[Buka]

What is it with which they have difficulty?

This feeds into the idea of cross training…

How very strange!

Ballet is a lot of training, maybe even more than Martial Arts. Maybe.

They’re used to raising and extending their legs in a completely different way than we are. They’re raising and extending strictly for the beauty seen by an audience. We raise and extend for entirely different reasons.

 

[drop bear]

Drop Bear's coach:

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He wasn't part of justice crew. But kind of hung out with them. In some way I have never really delved in to.

 

[Steve]

He wasn't part of justice crew. But kind of hung out with them. In some way I have never really delved in to.

I think I found him... the kid in a rash guard... has to be your coach:

 

[drop bear]

I think I found him... the kid in a rash guard... has to be your coach:

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That sounds likley. There is a Facebook video that gets around. But I am locked out at the moment.

The circus guy who does jits with us might even be an ashton.

Which is a big big deal in circus circles.

 

[drop bear]

Speaking of famous guys who I have trained with. I trained with a guy called Troy Dunn. Who is possibly the cowboyiest cowboy to ever cowboy.

And yeah. He was hard as nails.

 

[jks9199]

Regarding dance and martial arts... Watch this carefully:

 

[Steve]

Regarding dance and martial arts... Watch this carefully:

White Nights... a classic.

Another classic... sexy dance fighting on Bob's Burgers:

 

[Gyakuto]

In a podcast I listen to, one of the two main guys is from yorkshire. If there's a t in the middle of a word, he always skips it (the biggest one I notice is "Tattoo" gets pronounced ta-oo"). I'd imagine he pronounces karate as kuh-rah-eee

That’s not quite right (having lived in Yorkshire…or rather Yok-shuh for a long time). Tattoo would be Tattoooo, Karate would be Karatee (with short a sounds). Rather than saying “In the bath” they’d say, “Int’ bath’.

Ta-oo is known as a ‘glottal stop’ and beloved of Londoners

I heard a Yok-shun farmer, who’d brought his border collie into the vets speaking to the receptionist who asked what he was in for. He replied, in a very staccato fashion, “Wull , ‘e’s booked int’ fut deh” meaning ‘He’s booked in for the day’.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Due to my schooling and perhaps university education, I speak the ‘Kings English’: think Hugh Grant without the floppy hair and charm. As soon as I open my mouth people around me make an immediate judgement…’A brown faced bloke speaking’ like that?’ When I lived in Scotland it coaxed racist remarks out of some locals…about being ‘An Unglush bas*ard’.

When I was growing up in Manchester, my peers spoke like this

After 4 pints of ale I speak like that too!

Well I grew up in New England near Boston and I should talk like this, but I don't

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

He’s from a baby country. I understand it’s hard for some Brits to comprehend that American culture is quite different from State to State. I get it.


I don’t think we should sell Britain short. They have at least as many stupid people as we do, per capita.

But don’t forget, half of every country’s population has below average intelligence… and average isn’t very smart.

Too true, too true.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I’ve always found it difficult teaching kicking to ballet people. Especially if they’re still training in ballet. It seems like the more experience they have in ballet, the less likely they’ll grasp kicking in MA.

Obviously they have the flexibility, that’s never the problem. It’s more of a reprogramming thing.

Same goes for most dancers. I don’t mean people who know how to dance, I mean people who dance for a living.

I’ve also found it challenging to teach kicking to experience competitive swimmers. I can still spot a competitive swimmer taking their first couple of months of Martial Art lessons.

Easier to dance after ma training, I agree.