I'm actually a very, very old member of Russbo, but I have no idea of what username I used to use, and I looked through the forums and can't find any of my old posts, so I decided to join up again and create a new account.
I used to come here many, many years ago, I'm pretty sure the site has had a couple of major face lifts since then.
There only used to be a few regulars on the forums back then, and we'd have good chats.
I remember chatting with people, and Doc of course, about how I could actively participate in martial arts, particularly kung fu, as I have major medical issues and at the time had problems walking and pain whenever I moved.
We came to the general conclusion that it would be very beneficial for me to do kung fu at the speed of t'ai chi and qi gong.
Unfortunately I've never had the money to get one on one training as it's stupidly expensive, and nowadays I'm in a wheelchair and movement is worse than ever.
It turns out I'm hypermobile, and what's happening is that my joints are all dislocating as I move, so I cut down on things and just practice a bit of t'ai chi when I'm not too bad.
I can walk around a bit though, and I'm really interested in getting back into proper t'ai chi practice, and learning qi gong to try and help with my problems.
I'd love to be able to learn kung fu properly, but I'm not stupid, I know that I'll probably never be able to do a lot of what's done in even the basics, but it would be nice to have a go.
I could use a lot of kung fu as simple motions for t'ai chi and qi gong, but I dread to think how much one on one sessions would cost.
I've looked at qi gong sessions and class kung fu sessions, but they're really expensive too (I'm a poor disabled student hehe), and I wouldn't be able to keep up with a class for kung fu, not even a kids class.
I'm a Buddhist too, Kagyu (Tibetan), and have been most of my life, so I can participate in discussions along philosophical lines, but I don't know too much about kung fu itself.
Chi and chi manipulation, I'm pretty good with though.
Ahh well.
That's me anyway.
Djon Ma
I used to come here many, many years ago, I'm pretty sure the site has had a couple of major face lifts since then.
There only used to be a few regulars on the forums back then, and we'd have good chats.
I remember chatting with people, and Doc of course, about how I could actively participate in martial arts, particularly kung fu, as I have major medical issues and at the time had problems walking and pain whenever I moved.
We came to the general conclusion that it would be very beneficial for me to do kung fu at the speed of t'ai chi and qi gong.
Unfortunately I've never had the money to get one on one training as it's stupidly expensive, and nowadays I'm in a wheelchair and movement is worse than ever.
It turns out I'm hypermobile, and what's happening is that my joints are all dislocating as I move, so I cut down on things and just practice a bit of t'ai chi when I'm not too bad.
I can walk around a bit though, and I'm really interested in getting back into proper t'ai chi practice, and learning qi gong to try and help with my problems.
I'd love to be able to learn kung fu properly, but I'm not stupid, I know that I'll probably never be able to do a lot of what's done in even the basics, but it would be nice to have a go.
I could use a lot of kung fu as simple motions for t'ai chi and qi gong, but I dread to think how much one on one sessions would cost.
I've looked at qi gong sessions and class kung fu sessions, but they're really expensive too (I'm a poor disabled student hehe), and I wouldn't be able to keep up with a class for kung fu, not even a kids class.
I'm a Buddhist too, Kagyu (Tibetan), and have been most of my life, so I can participate in discussions along philosophical lines, but I don't know too much about kung fu itself.
Chi and chi manipulation, I'm pretty good with though.
Ahh well.
That's me anyway.
Djon Ma
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