I was at a kung fu forums talking to people about kung fu. People were talking about internal and external kung fu. I like to make teaching fun or silly or a game. I posted a video clip from DBZ and I told the men that this picture displayed the idea of internal martial arts.
All of these men either laughed at me or called me names. I shrugged it off. I am used to it. I posted the video clip again, and I assurred the men I knew exactly what I was talking about. I told them that if they looked carefully, they could find an example of internal martial arts in the video clip. Again they laughed and called me names. This time they were even more rude than before. I was not really happy.
I gave them some attitude and I posted the video clip again. I told them I did not believe they knew what kung fu was. I told them they had no idea what the difference between external and internal martial arts was. I reassured them in the strongest possible terms that there was an example of internal martial arts in the video.
Again they called names and laughed. By now they were showing outright disrespect and disregard. It was like hunting season on me. I was stunned. These men, there was a forums full of them, all claiming to be kung fu men, did not know what external and internal martial arts were. What was so shocking to me was that there were 3 or 4 men I had believed when they talked about their experience and knowledge. They had convinced me they knew something about kung fu.
Even these men were laughing and calling names. I really could not believe my eyes. This forums full of adult men, many with years of experience in kung fu, could not pick out he example of internal martial arts in a video clip that was about 10 seconds long. The clip was from DBZ so you know it was simple. The clip showed Goku standing next to a river and Bulma hanging from a tree limb off the side of the cliff. That was all there was to the clip. It was not rocket science to find what I was pointing at. There were only 3 or 4 subjects to chose from. Not a one of those adult men with years experience could see it.
I posted a message in a completely shocked tone saying "You guys really don't see it do you? You are not lying to me or playing games with me? You really don't see it?". I think my tone broke through to one or two of them. One of the men who had been giving me grief repeated exactly what was in the 10 second video to prove he had viewed it. Then he said he didn't see anything.
There was a problem though. These men, so certain they were right and I was wrong, had gone and complained about me. I don't know what they said. I was posting this video and insisting is showed internal martial arts. I might have impugned their abilities. Saying they didn't know squat about kung fu if they could not look at a 10 second video clip and pick out the example of internal martial arts. They went and complained, the little girls. I got banned from the forums.
I was banned from a kung fu forums for trying to teach people about kung fu. If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be crazy. An entire forums full of big mouths talking about things they had no clue about. And they banned the person that knows about kung fu, not the troublemaking rude individuals who didn't know anything.
People are jerks. I found that almost every kung fu forums on the internet is the same way. People who don't know anything talking to each other. If you try to teach them something, some problem comes up. The ignorant always form a circle to protect themselves so I always found myself on the outside of the group of people that resented me. You really can't be nice to people or teach them things. Most of them are clueless. The ones that are not clueless? They have to hide or they will get attacked by the clueless ones. They want to talk to me, but if they do, they make a target of themselves. Then after I get banned, they are left alone with the pack of animals.
I was watching Episode 50 and came across a picture that reminded me of that situation. The picture demonstrates external and internal marrtial arts. But only if you know what you are looking at. I am posting the picture as a mystery. Can you find what is external and what is internal? Or would you be like those other people and say I don't know squat, I don't have a clue, and there is nothing in the picture about internal and external martial arts?
All of these men either laughed at me or called me names. I shrugged it off. I am used to it. I posted the video clip again, and I assurred the men I knew exactly what I was talking about. I told them that if they looked carefully, they could find an example of internal martial arts in the video clip. Again they laughed and called me names. This time they were even more rude than before. I was not really happy.
I gave them some attitude and I posted the video clip again. I told them I did not believe they knew what kung fu was. I told them they had no idea what the difference between external and internal martial arts was. I reassured them in the strongest possible terms that there was an example of internal martial arts in the video.
Again they called names and laughed. By now they were showing outright disrespect and disregard. It was like hunting season on me. I was stunned. These men, there was a forums full of them, all claiming to be kung fu men, did not know what external and internal martial arts were. What was so shocking to me was that there were 3 or 4 men I had believed when they talked about their experience and knowledge. They had convinced me they knew something about kung fu.
Even these men were laughing and calling names. I really could not believe my eyes. This forums full of adult men, many with years of experience in kung fu, could not pick out he example of internal martial arts in a video clip that was about 10 seconds long. The clip was from DBZ so you know it was simple. The clip showed Goku standing next to a river and Bulma hanging from a tree limb off the side of the cliff. That was all there was to the clip. It was not rocket science to find what I was pointing at. There were only 3 or 4 subjects to chose from. Not a one of those adult men with years experience could see it.
I posted a message in a completely shocked tone saying "You guys really don't see it do you? You are not lying to me or playing games with me? You really don't see it?". I think my tone broke through to one or two of them. One of the men who had been giving me grief repeated exactly what was in the 10 second video to prove he had viewed it. Then he said he didn't see anything.
There was a problem though. These men, so certain they were right and I was wrong, had gone and complained about me. I don't know what they said. I was posting this video and insisting is showed internal martial arts. I might have impugned their abilities. Saying they didn't know squat about kung fu if they could not look at a 10 second video clip and pick out the example of internal martial arts. They went and complained, the little girls. I got banned from the forums.
I was banned from a kung fu forums for trying to teach people about kung fu. If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be crazy. An entire forums full of big mouths talking about things they had no clue about. And they banned the person that knows about kung fu, not the troublemaking rude individuals who didn't know anything.
People are jerks. I found that almost every kung fu forums on the internet is the same way. People who don't know anything talking to each other. If you try to teach them something, some problem comes up. The ignorant always form a circle to protect themselves so I always found myself on the outside of the group of people that resented me. You really can't be nice to people or teach them things. Most of them are clueless. The ones that are not clueless? They have to hide or they will get attacked by the clueless ones. They want to talk to me, but if they do, they make a target of themselves. Then after I get banned, they are left alone with the pack of animals.
I was watching Episode 50 and came across a picture that reminded me of that situation. The picture demonstrates external and internal marrtial arts. But only if you know what you are looking at. I am posting the picture as a mystery. Can you find what is external and what is internal? Or would you be like those other people and say I don't know squat, I don't have a clue, and there is nothing in the picture about internal and external martial arts?
