Korea's Hapkido!A way to train your body.
Rescently, I want to a gym with
my classmate, it was a very funny experience. I signed up a lesson which is about
one kind of martial art that called “Hapkido” in Korea style ；the word in Chinese is called “韓式合氣道”. For what reason that I am willing to pay people money to beat me shitting around?
Maybe I just enjoy the pain, on me and on others. Anyways, it is not the funny
point, which make me feeling so funny is that we are in a Muay
Thai (泰拳) gym
learning Korea Hapkido and the teacher is Canadian . It let me feel like that I
am a Chinese and going abroad to U.S.A to learn Chinese literature from a
teacher whom from Dubai.
I know in
today it is coming to being a global village. But I still will feel strange
that if a foreigner teaching me Chinese literature in my pass days. Maybe it is
a warning that we should not forget our own cultures, in the future if my son
or grandson’s Chinese literature teacher is a foreigner, I will be shame about
it. We should be proud of our own cultures, even if it may have something
should improve, just improve and fix it, cultures just like animal, they are
dying and bearing with the time.
Back to
the martial art part, in the class I was also surprised that so many ladies
like to learn this, and also feel shame about that those pretty ladies also can
beat me down with only one hand, without joking, the Hapkido’s main point is
that use the minimum strength to knock down or control your foes, so it is very
suited to ladies whom do not have much strength, maybe our teacher can learn it
to deal with her husband. J
I agree that we should cherish our own culture and be proud of it. For me, I used to be in the Chinese calligraphy club in my junior high. By writing with a Chinese brush and ink, I felt that everything seemed to be settled in the slow movement of hand writing .Maybe that was the strongest connection I ever have with our traditional culture. And by the way, perhaps you can try 太極拳, which origins in China next time.
ReplyDeleteYour article made me think of a movie, "The Karate Kid"(功夫夢), acted by Jacky Chen and Jaden Smith. It was about an American boy ,who immigrated to China, learned kung fu from a master and at last won the champion in a competition.
ReplyDeleteWhat is different with your situation is that his coach was a Chinese; but the similar aspect is that the "foreigner" becomes an outstanding person in the field which wasn't originated from his or her native country.
In my opinion, on one hand, we should make efforts to spread the uniqueness of our own culture and cherish it as the treasure passed down from our ancestors. On the other hand, although I agree with you that it seems a little weird if my Chinese teacher isn't a Chinese, we should still respect those who delve into that field and become prominent, even if they are foreigners.
Dear Eli,
ReplyDeleteIt is really funny the phrases you use. I can directly feel your surprise to the status in this global village we stay. For it, I have two ideas from different points of views. First, the world is becoming more and more convenient. We can easily get almost every resources and information that we desire. The frontiers aren’t important at all. But on the other hand, facing this competitive world, you and I must improve us hard to own various abilities. It can’t be measured clearly to be a good or bad phenomenon. What we only can do is to accept it.
By the way, you can give our teacher to learn it face to face. I am very curious how she will respond to you. Overall, hope you can learn this cool exercise well.:)
Korea's hapkido sounds great! I hope you can learn some martial art to protect yourself. It's so funny that a gym has a class like this. Maybe I will try it one day.
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