Refrain from Divisive Speech

 It seem sI have to concentrate to a harsher extreme on the eightfold path. Otherwise everything will fall apart.

Standardization

 I have always been against Standardization. Maybe it is because I always valued diversity and also the environment that I learned Kung Fu in... had a schedule for forms and levels etc. But it was more of a guide. And it was ten years long. And we sort of didn't complete it. It wasn't so much that my Sifu was holding back on us. And I recognize this much more as I teach. Sometimes you can skip ahead... and sometimes you can't. But I want to try to have a standard curriculum that is shorter. Like just basics, walking basics, Luk Lik and then Sup ji. Not to say I am getting rid of the other forms.. and not to say I won't have other things added in. But it would be cool to really focus on this. I mean technically I feel like the basics in and of themselves could be their own system. And you just add in tid bits of Sanda moves from the forms and do various grappling drills an dplay fight. But its cool if say there was a meeting of 200 people and they did Sup Ji. 

For a while I wanted to take luk lik out. But this forms opening is the easiest to learn and aspects of it appear in other forms so... it kind of is necessary if you are going to do the whole system. (which most people won't) I also think if someone practices off and on for like ten years and learns luk lik and sup ji... and then is shown Joi jong... they would be like "Woah." 

I mean yes of course... I want a school like the one I learned in. But I could see a closer and more achievable goal of having several centers at varoius chinese schools and community centers and colleges or whatever that were clubs that taught basics, luk lik, and sup ji. In conjunction with whatever people like. MMA, HEMA, whatever. 

And then when those clubs gather... would be cool to all do the same form.

Now for a tournament...It would be cool to do forms like this. 

First you do the traditional form or basics. And that's just like a signal that you are part of the group, and maybe you are judged or graded on it... but it's only a fraction of the performance. So this section is like Karate. I say Karate instead of Wushu because in Wushu you can cerate new routines. 

Now after doing the traditional form. A beat drops and you can take those same moves and remix it adding in all kinds of difficult moves from any martial art or dance or whatever. Doesn't matter. And you can be judged on this creative portion on difficulty of moves creativity, practicality whatever. But this is a way to not "hold back" people who might be better at flips etc. but not as good at the traditional techniques that can often be very simple. 

Then for fighting, I feel like you should have to show that you know the techniques by performing them. That way its no surprise when someone throws a bunch of cups at you... but other than that, maybe the sparring is sort of a light version of MMA. Why light? well, maybe some events could offer full on fights, but for general gatherings I would say maybe light sparring with submissions would be better. Maybe even just points for submissions too instead of winning outright. Which sounds weird... but it shifts the focus slightly more to striking even though the strikes are light. There can be gloved and ungloved sparring too. Why so complicated? Mainly, its tto try and bring back that Kung Fu look into the fighting. Which people do want to see. But every time a low sidekick to the knee is thrown we realize why those types of techniques aren't really appropriate for sporting events even when they are legal.