The Drunken Boxing Podcast #011 - Chris (Guan Nan) Wang

YiiQuan

YiiQuan

Nerd
This start out to be a pretty boring interview as Chris’s conversational English is just ok and I had a hard time hearing him. But it turns out to be one of the best interview I have ever heard!

Personally, I read about YiQuan and Iron Palm at a very young age and have been fascinated about them. To hear about Chris’s who have actually walk the walk to try practice both of them finally engage me with the interview. The discussion about the YiQuan culture in Beijing is just an eye opening first person feedback.

Furthermore, to hear that after all the years about martial art experience. And now Chris is comfortable in learning a single move for a year just to learn the body mechanics.


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-boxing-podcast/id1472964983?i=1000471370859
 
duke

duke

Jingang
Is there a selected section you'd recommend? 2:21 is too long for me to handle - I've got a million & 1 things on my todo list.
 
Marin

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
There are very broad areas of interest in Chinese gongfu, and I am interested as well. However I draw the line at dishonest malavolent and self promoting egotistical people. This is one of them unfortunately. Maybe he has some good stories to tell about himself but it is fair to say that there may be a high percentage of raw bullshit.

The interviewee above, the person in question joined our Chen Gongfu facebook group and decided to lecture (the entire world) about how 'Chen Zhaokui did not spend enough time with his father to learn gongfu'. When his ridiculous statement was challenged he defended it by saying it was true 'because some important people in Beijing" who's names he would not reveal told him so. Then he went on to say that various other teachers were the real practitioners because of some other rumor. He unraveled false unsupported claims one after another like used tissue that should not be rolled back onto the roll if you get my point.

He finalized his "truth telling" lecture by then saying that he did not practice Chen, did not even know it, as evidence that he was unbiased and unquestionably correct, and all must take his word.

I can accept a pretty wide variety of interesting things, but people like this- I don't support them, nor to do I gave them any air time on any of my sites or projects. If you want to see the carnage you can READ IT HERE.
 
YiiQuan

YiiQuan

Nerd
Why is that people (Chris, in this case) always give strong option and suggestion on topic that they have no experience on :mad:
 
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Assad

Jingang
I just finished listening, it's definitely long but worth it. Many interesting topics and Byron shares some of his insights on martial arts. Byron is really interesting to listen, a truly dedicated man to the art.
 
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