Chi Ping Tao Kung Fu

06/03/2025

When I worked security a lot, I trained myself so that when three or four guys, each four times my size, started yelling at me about something, I would look them in the eye and tell them, "I hate verbal confrontation. Why don't we save some time. Why don't you go ahead and throw a punch at me, and I'll beat the s**t out of you." Even the time when it was four guys whose solar plexes I came up to, they backed down and quit yelling. I'm actually very reasonable as long as you don't yell at me. Then I do have a tendency to turn violent, just like if you point a gun at me or attack me with a knife. I do tend to be more forgiving of fists.

06/03/2025

The yell that is supposed to freeze people in their tracks is actually something that I have trained to attack. It doesn't bother me at all. My style fights silent with no facial expression so as to unnerve the opponent.

04/28/2025

03/24/2024

"According to Robert Temple in his book The Genius of China, some of the West’s greatest achievements have turned out to be simple borrowing from the Chinese. These include decimal mathematics, paper and printing, the mechanical clock, guns, multistage rockets, the magnetic compass, a ship’s rudder, manned flight, the steam engine, paper money, and even brandy and whiskey." -- Preface The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of medicine: a new translation of the Neijing Suwen with commentary/Maoshing Ni.—1st ed. Shambhala Publications, Inc.

02/24/2024

On death: I remember my whole body tingling and then going numb from lack of oxygen and then I was in the surgical theater watching the nurses rush around from above. After that, there was a sensation of whooshing off into a separate place that I call the void. It was an absence of everything and I did not perceive it as dark or light but more like the absence of dark. I tend to think of it as grey but that's not right either because you might as well call it the absence of grey. The whole time there was an overwhelming feeling of peacefulness that quite honestly I found overwhelming. There was never a tunnel or people or anything like that. No good, no bad. I just started having my individuality digested. I felt with a certainty I was being digested and wanted to come back. When I did come back, I found that I had memories from about a half dozen lives or so. Mostly centered around how I had died in that lifetime. I also learned a good bit about geometry which I used to pass a geometry class and some martial techniques of an advanced nature as well as some Tibetan medicine and among other things Yogic Mudras.

05/22/2023

Sifu Julian Reid of Chi Ping Tao Kung Fu School demonstrates the Muy Tai technique of Skip Knees and explains the application.