tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post911374173495361338..comments2024-02-20T17:22:43.089-06:00Comments on The Literary Assassin: New Year, motivationHollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-2914384019368222007-03-05T10:09:00.000-06:002007-03-05T10:09:00.000-06:00Sorry--overlooked something. Yes, I'm familiar wit...Sorry--overlooked something. Yes, I'm familiar with Kong Chi Wah's footage. And I know also that Sit choreographed the external forms he teaches from now. If I understand it correctly, the whole of Kong's tai hui was the internal form and the staff form. But Sit goes to pains to make this distinction; he refers to the external stuff as "kung fu" and most students never hear the term "tai hui" Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-22511691785337295682007-02-21T15:15:00.000-06:002007-02-21T15:15:00.000-06:00Heh. Sit occasionally tells us not to practice too...Heh. Sit occasionally tells us not to practice too much, also. A little every day, is his motto. He says that after an hour your mind gets too bored and you get sloppy.<BR/><BR/>I try to remind myself, too, that learning is a strange, non-linear thing, particularly when you're doing complex systems involving mind and body. I never have been an every-day writer; at my most prolific I averaged Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764623327385255044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736414.post-4469290243885897392007-02-21T14:43:00.000-06:002007-02-21T14:43:00.000-06:00So my sensei when I was a teenager used to tell a ...So my sensei when I was a teenager used to tell a story about a student who went to the master, saying, "If I train with you, how long do you think it'll take me to become a master?" And the master thought about it, and said, "10 years." <BR/><BR/>"Okay," said the student, "and what if I train twice as hard and work twice as hard?"<BR/><BR/>"20 years," the master replied. <BR/><BR/>I think about Abby Franquemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16213664026949436272noreply@blogger.com