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Sunday, October 02, 2005
Spurs was two goals down to Charlton. Fought back to win 3-2. What a cracker! Total opposite of the time (about three seasons back, methinks) when they were leading Manchester United 3-0, only to concede 5 goals to the Devils later on.
Life is raging by me in stressed-up doses. The word 'stress' almost sounds like a cliche. I hate to use is but it's hard to find another word.
Spent the weekend feeling the rush of Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage whup-assing bad guys in The Rock, chucking down scones made from Japanese flour (one of my aunt-in-laws passion cum hobby cum masterpieces); banging out more ideas on how various post-modern elements can be helpful to the Christian community and thinker; watching the life of Choi Baedal, a failed fighter pilot who became one of the best kungfu fighters in Asia, beating and kicking the living crap out of virtually all martial art leaders in Japan in the decade or so after WWII. Hey, this dude can chop a stone in two. Think what he can do to your wind-pipe.
To be the best, Baedal retreated into the snowy wilderness of Japan for two years. Ah, the price of greatness. Maybe we moderns should try something like this. Except we can't run away from our bills, sigh. So maybe a shortcut will suffice. A day away here, two weeks escape there. Me? Two hours in front of a big screen, watching Jackie Chan break some heads. Go home. Reflect. Laugh. Sleep.
That ought to do.
Posted at 02:45 pm by alwynlau
 | Posted by asdf @ 07/17/2008 08:03 AM PDT | | | this review from a disrespectful sarcastic white person shows how arrogant he is. | |
| Posted by malcolm @ 12/10/2006 03:21 PM PST | | | Fighter in the wind is a great film and Choi/Oyama had an amazing life...there are three other films based on his story(not very accurate though) starring Sonny Chiba that i can recommend Karate Bullfighter,Karate Bearfighter and Karate For Life there a bit over the top but great fun ... | |
| Posted by Derek L. @ 10/05/2005 04:34 PM PDT | | Dude, I'm sooooo way out of touch with the kung fu movie scene. We don't get much of that stuff here, which is a big pity. You gotta help keep me updated on the scene!
Choi is Masutatsu Oyama's original name. Yeah, the guy is Korean not Japanese. He learned a bunch of styles including kenpo, shotokan karate, goju-ryu karate (which was what I studied when I was young), judo etc and eventually found Kyokushinkai karate. | |
| Posted by Derek L. @ 10/05/2005 02:50 PM PDT | | Nah, haven't watched it. We don't get those asian movies here much, which is quite a big pity. You gotta keep me updated on the kung fu movie scene man!
Masutatsu Oyama's original name was Choi Baedal (yeah, he's korean, not japanese in fact). He studied a bunch of different styles - kenpo, shotokan karate, goju-ryu karate (the style I learned when I was young), and eventually founded Kyokushinkai karate. | |
| Posted by Alwyn @ 10/04/2005 03:57 PM PDT | | Did you watch 'Fighter in the Wind', too? I think the guy who tried to unite all the karate schools in Japan was called Kato or something.
And does the Muyamushi (or something similar) ring a bell? It was the fighting-style studied by Baedal... | |
| Posted by Derek L. @ 10/03/2005 05:39 PM PDT | | | Oyama is the founder of Kyokushinkai karate, which is probably the most brutal form of karate in the world. For example, in tae kwondo, a black belt wannabe has to undergo 2 (or 3?) rounds of light contact sparring. By way of contrast, a Kyokushinkai black belt wanna be has to undergo TWENTY rounds of full contact sparring... Absolutely brutal... | |
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