Bill G. sensei,

You're a good person and I hope things go well for you this season.

God bless you and all who are loved by you.



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sean

Sing it, my man!

Merry Christmas!

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sean

Peace and joy to all the wayward angels wearing black and white pajamas! May love be the fire that temper's the soul! God is so gracious to let us seek it when it has always been who we are. Happy holidays to all!! ------------------ sean [This message has been edited by SEAN C (edited December 20, ...

Here's a long, but interesting speech about the mind-body connection.
http://www.wolfsburg.de/~schaefer/kashpirov.htm


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[This message has been edited by SEAN C (edited December 19, 2000).]

The thought of practicing any kind of knee lock or twist makes me wince. That kind of thing could easily lead to a permanent problem. Everyone should be kind to their joints, or they might let you down when you really need them. My knees are pretty bogus. All I can do now is work on strengthening th...

Maybe "ki" is Japanese for what we call the concept of "K.I.S.S."? Like, if I'm blindfolded and earmuffed while attacked from different directions, I could feel floor vibration, heat, air pressure, electrical energy, maybe even a combination of these and many other things that ha...

"A bunch of tricks that I could teach you in an afternoon." "ki is nothing more than understanding of body mechanics, and the selective ability to relax any and all muscles at will." How come no one is ever taught these tricks in an afternoon? Understanding of body mechanics seem...

What is magic, and what does it have to do with energy and matter? I've never heard the word "chi" being used to describe anything other than energy. Energy is expressed through matter, and matter is defined by energy. What is energy, for that matter? Since every day I wake up and perceive...

There was an episode of "in search of" that dealt with touch healing. There was an experiment done with a person who had discovered that he had this ability without any training. Three groups of twenty mice had a patch of skin removed from their backs. Each group was kept in a box with wir...

What if someone uses a large circle to twist and bend the attacker's arm behind his back, and then plants a forward thrusting kick through the attacker's kidney or spine, while pulling on the aforementioned arm? Is that "kicking" or "grappling"?

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Aaaaahhhhhhh,

They've done it, they've killed the chi!

Oh well, back to the void.

"the five (ele)mental keys."

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sean

Tony,

The whipping action of my head as I turned to gape at such a beautiful sight would probably cause an imbalance of chi in my kneck. OW!

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sean

Another definition of time on target could be if you throw that side kick and then continue with the momentum until you're standing on a knee or whatever. Is there a striking range and a grappling range, or is there just the range where you can strike and grapple at the same time. The other might be...

John Thurston sensei,

Actually, what you described sounds like a good definition of the present to me. Undistracted by past or future. Existing in the movement.

What was I precluding?

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sean