Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Peculiar's Did you know?




Yesterday I watched Ip Man 2. 


I enjoyed it as much as the first one 
and 
this 
is 
what 

took 
away 
from 
it.


There was a poignant line in the movie after Donnie Yen (my new idol, he's always so composed, is he human? makes me want to learn Martial arts. Wing Chun that is.) wins the fight against the Western champion boxer. (Compulsive urge to write it down but obviously I couldn't). It went something like this: "This match is not about proving that Chinese martial arts is more superior than Western boxing. This victory only means that though men have different status in society, our human dignity remains the same." It means when all else is stripped away, we are all the same. 
In 
death, 
we 
are 
made 
equal. 














Did you know that the Wing Chun style of martial arts was first developed by a woman? Why don't they ever talk about these things? Such a beautiful story behind it. Women of strength and beauty.
Read about her here . This probably explains why the Wing Chun style is so graceful and poised. Men? They act like brash monkeys when they fight. So will the multitudes of men out there 
still want to learn Wing Chun now? 

5 comments:

  1. open up a can of wing chun the next time someone bugs you! haha.. sounds better than whoop-ass! LoL

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  2. I've always wanted to take up wing chun! Never went around to taking it up in Singapore :S bah! There's a wing chun school in Chinatown in Sydney... perhaps I'll go there :P

    And yes.. a can of wing chun sounds more deadly.

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  3. Yea I wanted to take it up too after watching all the bruce lee shows. :) We should really get down to it! ;)

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  4. too bad they don't have wing chun in papua new guinea! haha you two can teach me - i'll be your personal bruise bag! LoL

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