Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Time to go.....or it could also be I donāt have the tolerance I use to have for suffering fools.
I have been on MT for a so close to 14 years I might as well say 14 years. When I started there were an awful lot of incredibly knowledgeable people here (a few are still here and a few have come along later), and a few arm chair martial artists, keyboard warriors and paper tigers too. Admittedly I did not always get along with or agree with those who were very knowledgeable in their chosen style, but they were not looking for trouble and they were talking about what they knew and enjoyed doing and many of their posts were very good. Sadly, many of them are gone, a few I tried to talk out of leaving, but I remember one who could no longer ātake the idiotsā and moved on like much of our once active Ninjutsu section. And there also were many more people in MTās Kempo/Kenpo, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indochinese, and Western martial arts section as well. A few I may even of had a hand in their leaving. And if I did, I an truly sorry an regret any action that may have caused their exit.
But people leave for many different reasons, and web forums and the culture changes, but I know more than one I have talk with, like the gentleman from Bujinkan, who left because they were tired of what they called āposersā or ātrollsā or ājerksā or āidiotsā or those that were only here to start trouble, etc. Had one rather infamous fraud here at one time, who got exposed on another forum, and vanished into the ether. And of course there are those folks donāt know anything about the art they have targeted beyond what they see on YouTube. Or they drank the cool aide of whatever style they train, put on the blinders, and God help anyone who does not take their limited experience as gospel. Lord knows if you yell loud enough it makes you smarter right, so they start yelling, changing the topic, refusing to answer questions of actually read what was written before they go off and start bashing away.
Back about 14 years ago, when I first learned about the ignore list, I decided I would not use it because even though some people were infuriating (IMHO) they still had some rather impressive posts that you could learn a lot from. But one day I came across one poster who, from my POV, was posting nothing of use and only wanted to inflame, argue, and when he did not get his way falsely report you to the admins for things you never did. I believe it was about a year and a half in to my time here on MT and he became the first person that I ever put on my ignore list thereby becoming the first permanent resident as well, and he is still there. Since then there have been others I just needed a break from and I have put them on temporarily, but never for very long because they did posts some incredibly knowledgeable and interesting things.
But in the past few years my ignore list has increased because of an influx of posters that are only here (IMO) to push their agenda and bash other arts, not discuss but argue, not learn but out yell, and when that doesnāt work resort to name calling and labelling. Basically, they cannot dazzle us with their brilliance; they then resorted to trying to baffle us with ********. And when that doesnāt work, start with the insultsā¦.. admittedly, I got drawn into that for a bit, and was rather ashamed of myself for feeding into it and allowing myself to be drawn off center. When I realized it, I took a break from MT and decided to not get into this with people who were simply not posting anything worth reading, who were only here to argue and who had no desire to discuss or learn. So, my ignore list grew dramatically. I am sure compared to some here on MT it is still small. But for 12 years it only had one permanent resident, but in the last years it gained 3 more. There was going to be a forth, but then he actually does train what he claims and is at times amusing so he did not make the cut. Sorry if you were trying to, you just were not untrained and annoying enough.
Well, I have said my piece and also now realized I have stayed to long here on MT and it is time to retire from it, I have left before, but I always manage to return for one reason or another, but this time, I am retiring, may still show up once and a while, but like most when they retire, you eventually fade away and then youāre forgotten. And my blog, well, its closed, I will not be posting there any longer. There may be another blog, of my own, down the road, where I have more control, but that remains to be seen. I think the only reason I stay here these days is to stay in contact with a hand full of posters who still post here from time to timeā¦..
In a few years I can retire from my real job and Mrs. Xue already has me scheduled to start teaching Taijiquan at her office and possibly at some in the TCM organization she is in. So it is time to take my own advice and simply shut up and train. If Iām going to teach I have to be at the level I want to be at for the styles may teach. I have been working on the Cheng Manching form, finished actually and hoping to meet one of Cheng Manchingās students after winter to see what he thinks of what I have done. Also working on Sun style, still not sure if I am going to go to Boston to meet the Sun guy there or try and meet a shifu when I go to China next year to see what he thinks. And I am still intruded by Wu style, but I am now looking at Northern Wu, finding a teacher is proving difficult, but I know where one is and then, of course, there is China. I may be going there a bit more often after this year, but that too remains to be seen.
TTFN
The above guy and this was the show below are what got me into this martial arts messā¦..so it seems appropriate to leave with them
I have been on MT for a so close to 14 years I might as well say 14 years. When I started there were an awful lot of incredibly knowledgeable people here (a few are still here and a few have come along later), and a few arm chair martial artists, keyboard warriors and paper tigers too. Admittedly I did not always get along with or agree with those who were very knowledgeable in their chosen style, but they were not looking for trouble and they were talking about what they knew and enjoyed doing and many of their posts were very good. Sadly, many of them are gone, a few I tried to talk out of leaving, but I remember one who could no longer ātake the idiotsā and moved on like much of our once active Ninjutsu section. And there also were many more people in MTās Kempo/Kenpo, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indochinese, and Western martial arts section as well. A few I may even of had a hand in their leaving. And if I did, I an truly sorry an regret any action that may have caused their exit.
But people leave for many different reasons, and web forums and the culture changes, but I know more than one I have talk with, like the gentleman from Bujinkan, who left because they were tired of what they called āposersā or ātrollsā or ājerksā or āidiotsā or those that were only here to start trouble, etc. Had one rather infamous fraud here at one time, who got exposed on another forum, and vanished into the ether. And of course there are those folks donāt know anything about the art they have targeted beyond what they see on YouTube. Or they drank the cool aide of whatever style they train, put on the blinders, and God help anyone who does not take their limited experience as gospel. Lord knows if you yell loud enough it makes you smarter right, so they start yelling, changing the topic, refusing to answer questions of actually read what was written before they go off and start bashing away.
Back about 14 years ago, when I first learned about the ignore list, I decided I would not use it because even though some people were infuriating (IMHO) they still had some rather impressive posts that you could learn a lot from. But one day I came across one poster who, from my POV, was posting nothing of use and only wanted to inflame, argue, and when he did not get his way falsely report you to the admins for things you never did. I believe it was about a year and a half in to my time here on MT and he became the first person that I ever put on my ignore list thereby becoming the first permanent resident as well, and he is still there. Since then there have been others I just needed a break from and I have put them on temporarily, but never for very long because they did posts some incredibly knowledgeable and interesting things.
But in the past few years my ignore list has increased because of an influx of posters that are only here (IMO) to push their agenda and bash other arts, not discuss but argue, not learn but out yell, and when that doesnāt work resort to name calling and labelling. Basically, they cannot dazzle us with their brilliance; they then resorted to trying to baffle us with ********. And when that doesnāt work, start with the insultsā¦.. admittedly, I got drawn into that for a bit, and was rather ashamed of myself for feeding into it and allowing myself to be drawn off center. When I realized it, I took a break from MT and decided to not get into this with people who were simply not posting anything worth reading, who were only here to argue and who had no desire to discuss or learn. So, my ignore list grew dramatically. I am sure compared to some here on MT it is still small. But for 12 years it only had one permanent resident, but in the last years it gained 3 more. There was going to be a forth, but then he actually does train what he claims and is at times amusing so he did not make the cut. Sorry if you were trying to, you just were not untrained and annoying enough.
Well, I have said my piece and also now realized I have stayed to long here on MT and it is time to retire from it, I have left before, but I always manage to return for one reason or another, but this time, I am retiring, may still show up once and a while, but like most when they retire, you eventually fade away and then youāre forgotten. And my blog, well, its closed, I will not be posting there any longer. There may be another blog, of my own, down the road, where I have more control, but that remains to be seen. I think the only reason I stay here these days is to stay in contact with a hand full of posters who still post here from time to timeā¦..
In a few years I can retire from my real job and Mrs. Xue already has me scheduled to start teaching Taijiquan at her office and possibly at some in the TCM organization she is in. So it is time to take my own advice and simply shut up and train. If Iām going to teach I have to be at the level I want to be at for the styles may teach. I have been working on the Cheng Manching form, finished actually and hoping to meet one of Cheng Manchingās students after winter to see what he thinks of what I have done. Also working on Sun style, still not sure if I am going to go to Boston to meet the Sun guy there or try and meet a shifu when I go to China next year to see what he thinks. And I am still intruded by Wu style, but I am now looking at Northern Wu, finding a teacher is proving difficult, but I know where one is and then, of course, there is China. I may be going there a bit more often after this year, but that too remains to be seen.
TTFN
The above guy and this was the show below are what got me into this martial arts messā¦..so it seems appropriate to leave with them
