Spoilers! So. I just saw The Grandmaster, a movie based on the true story of Ip Man, Bruce Lee’s Sifu. It blew my expectations out of the water, earth, and sky. I saw a trailer for a few days ago, got excited, and while I know very little about how much of the movie was true, [...]
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Filed under: Kung Fu, writing like a girl
[This is the first character commentary for my new tumblr project: writing like a girl. I found the images on deviantart. They're both by Artist Asenceana. Go check them out!] I’m just gonna say it. I pretty much love everything about Tigress’ character design. So often in martial arts animation, whether it’s television, movie, or [...]
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Filed under: Kung Fu, writing like a girl
November 13, 2012 was the best day of my Kung Fu life. I’d spent almost nine months as a white sash and watched several other students who started after me advance to yellow. In particular there was this one girl who started about two months after I did and she made her yellow sash in [...]
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Filed under: Kung Fu
To understand how much I love Kung Fu, you need to understand how much I hate running. Seriously. I hate it. My father loves running. He’s a retired Marine. He ran pretty much every day for twenty-five years. I’m uncertain if my mother likes it but she’s run two half marathons [1]. I hated running [...]
