I took karate in my junior and senior years of high school. I started in on it, after classes, with my Latin instructor, Mr Sobczyk, a multi-tipped brown belt. I then graduated to a course at a nearby healthclub, taught by Mr Sobczyk’s instructor. (whose name I’ve forgotten). I enjoyed that course, in part because it worked on so many levels. We learned practical self defense and kata\/forms\/series of moves, we got exercise, we were trained in ethics, meditation, and awareness. <\/p>\n
I experimented with a aikido, tai chi, and a couple of different stripes of karate throughout college. Most seemed over or under structured. Or maybe I was unwilling to go back to square one.<\/p>\n
This kung fu thing seems reasonable. Whether because it’s right, or I’m more ready for it, I don’t know, nor do I especially care. But we’ll see how it works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I took karate in my junior and senior years of high school. I started in on it, after classes, with my Latin instructor, Mr Sobczyk, a multi-tipped brown belt. I then graduated to a course at a nearby healthclub, taught by Mr Sobczyk’s instructor. (whose name I’ve forgotten). I enjoyed that course, in part because … Continue reading “Kung Fu & my martial arts history”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}