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Trouble explaining the lifestyle to friends and fam?
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Xue Sheng
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Xue Sheng
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I don't talk about MS to anyone other than other Martial Artists. Some of my family know I have been doing it for years but there is little to no conversation about it. My wife has told her entire family I am martial arts crazy (and they are all from China) but I'm ok with all this. I do martial arts and I am happy about it, don't care much what others think...but I did get my youngest into it 
I am happy if they understand it as "merely a niche hobby" and give me time for that without much trouble. They will not understand much, anyway.
"All about violence" is a label I don't like. I just like the ART of training. It could be gardening or music...
Don't bring your Windows woes here, tech man!
I am happy if they understand it as "merely a niche hobby" and give me time for that without much trouble. They will not understand much, anyway.
"All about violence" is a label I don't like. I just like the ART of training. It could be gardening or music...
Why can't it be both? Art of violence.
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Well, by the strict definition that is what they are. Martial, for usage in war or conflict. Arts, a medium of emotional, personal, creative expression.
Actually, MA is very much the art of violence. But needs the art side to be a martial art.
And art says better about me than violence alone. And it is less painful.
So my focus on the art.
Xue Sheng
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Sorry, got Windows on the mind, should have been MT, not MS...but since you asked....let me tell you about my current Microsoft problem...you see I have this PC and......
People today don't care too much. Seems like everyone knows somebody who does Martial Arts.
Most of the people around when I started are dead now. So they don't care much either.
I think the more difficult explanation might be why you stopped.
Most of the people around when I started are dead now. So they don't care much either.
I think the more difficult explanation might be why you stopped.
Xue Sheng
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People today don't care too much. Seems like everyone knows somebody who does Martial Arts.
Most of the people around when I started are dead now. So they don't care much either.
Braggart
To paraphrase Muhammad Ali...You're a bad man....remind me to never train with you if that is how you treat the people you started with
You're as bad as Jessica Fletcher, man.
Some more than others, I fear.
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I do and it has gotten to the point where I don't even try anymore. Most think it is just a hobby and a thing "I haven't grown out of." Some say I have an unhealthy obsession with it but honestly who are they to judge me?
I think they have an unhealthy obsession with watching television all day long and binge drinking, and pill popping but hey, that's none of my business.
I think they have an unhealthy obsession with watching television all day long and binge drinking, and pill popping but hey, that's none of my business.
Danny T
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I think the more difficult explanation might be why so many who were around with you are dead now!Most of the people around when I started are dead now...
I think the more difficult explanation might be why you stopped.
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I think the more difficult explanation might be why so many who were around with you are dead now!
Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to know the answer to . . .
Someone asked, "Are you still doing that chop chop stuff?" I said, "Yes." That was the end of that discussion.
You just don't play music for a cow.
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Very well put, but "chop chop stuff?" Seriously?
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