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>> ^Deano:

That's quite likely.
I might liken it to some glass-blowing videos. There must be some out there where the technique is flawless but perhaps the end result isn't that showy or interesting. And the same with martial arts. The bottom line is I do need to apply some sort of filter even if it's only my gut judgement.
>> ^ghark:
>> ^Deano:
>> ^chingalera:
>> ^Deano:
Well what precisely is skillful about this clip? Looks like a guy doing interpretative dance - slowly.

Thia guy pretty much single-handedly fast-tracked western cultures on the road to Chinese martial arts development-As well as being an extremely fluid practitioner of Wing Chun, he was able to transmute the art across time and space in his lifetime to what we know of today as the evolution of Kung Fu.
It qualifies dude, take my word for it.

Like some other submissions the problem is the skill is implied but not shown. I'm sure the dude is awesome but we need to see him doing something awesome.

I think in this case, to be the judge of whether he is doing something skillful you'd need to be versed in the forms he is displaying.



Ahhhhhh! Thaks mate, I agree whole-hardheartedly with your self-composed criteria. It is, after all, a subjective judgement that moulds any course or ruling. If you watch this with a limited background in the history of the Chinese martial arts it does look as if this old codger is lilting around his flat practicing some form of mime or interpretive dance.
This cat kept the torch burning on the southern Shaolin art of Wing Chun-The system was developed during the Shaolin and Ming resistance to the Qing Dynasty and has been passed-down exclusively through direct transmission from practitioners until this last century, when his student, Bruce Lee (who makes it look so skilful as to be psychedelic at times) who was able to transform the art by making it available to the entire world. Quite a feat for an old Chinaman who survived the Japanese occupation and the Communist takeover, both some very hellish times and experiences in the "against all odds" category.

The mans' a legend and that feeble-looking dance translates into his 90-yr-old ass clearing a room full of thugs with hammers, knives and sharp sticks!

That's quite likely.

I might liken it to some glass-blowing videos. There must be some out there where the technique is flawless but perhaps the end result isn't that showy or interesting. And the same with martial arts. The bottom line is I do need to apply *some* sort of filter even if it's only my gut judgement.

>> ^ghark:

>> ^Deano:
>> ^chingalera:
>> ^Deano:
Well what precisely is skillful about this clip? Looks like a guy doing interpretative dance - slowly.

Thia guy pretty much single-handedly fast-tracked western cultures on the road to Chinese martial arts development-As well as being an extremely fluid practitioner of Wing Chun, he was able to transmute the art across time and space in his lifetime to what we know of today as the evolution of Kung Fu.
It qualifies dude, take my word for it.

Like some other submissions the problem is the skill is implied but not shown. I'm sure the dude is awesome but we need to see him doing something awesome.

I think in this case, to be the judge of whether he is doing something skillful you'd need to be versed in the forms he is displaying.

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>> ^laura:

...I love the silk one, too...


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Knowing the restrictions of the process, It always amazes me, the shapes, styles, patterns and originality that comes out of glass blowing / art.

What's the deal with the glass blowing then? Generic lazy sunday afternoon footage?

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yeah, close proximity to Cedar Point is a major ++, I got hugely spoiled as a kid going there every summer, it make disneyworld seem like wuss-land in comparison ... and if you do go to Packo's don't go to the new location down by the baseball field in town... for the authentic experience go to one of the older locations, like the one in Sylvania, that still has all the signed hotdog buns on the walls and Toledo memrobilia... the one by the park is too... too... new... and lacks the original 'dive' atmosphere.

The other decent bright spot in town is the Toledo Museum of Art... it's small mind you, but for its size has a fantastic collection, and somehow manages to net some pretty impressive traveling shows. It also has a brand spankin' new Glass Pavilion, built just to house it's massive glass collection (T-Town is known as the Glass City), and if you want to learn glass blowing, they offer classes in a really great brand new facility

I work at a glass blowing plant and while this is pretty nice to watch, glassblowers at my job can make more than just cats, and in much faster time with more precision and detail (including eyes, feathers of a bird or angel, etc). My job is to airbrush paint them. =)

Here's a site: http://cgi-bin.visi.net/~baronftp/cgi-bin/prod.cgi