Although fighting is an inherently ;violent’ activity, there is an implicit ‘peacefulness’ to this attainment and practice. Russian Systema is a martial art worthy of study and respect.
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
I Will Never Forget the Perfection of LU Li!
This 15 year young woman – Lu Li – from the People’s Republic of China, scored a ‘Perfect 10’ in the 1992 Olympics and received a standing ovation!
UK: London Underground Fight [28.04.2014] at Aldgate East Tube! (15.11.2016)
An academic friend of mine (who monitors levels of street violence in the USA and UK), drew my attention to this disturbing footage. It appears to show an elderly Chinese man involved in an altercation with a young man on London’s Tube network (the District Line – to be precise).
Russian Army Salutes Space Dog Laika: First Soviet Cosmonaut
At this time, the Soviet Communist System was far in advance in its technological development, than its capitalist counter-part in the West.
Taijiquan Tempo and Breath
The point of this awareness training is to remove all blockages that restrict qi flow in the numerous energy channels throughout the body, and attain a robust health (through strengthening and integration of qi energy, essential nature [jing], and empty spirit [shen]).
When Julian Clary was Revolutionary…
Of course, the rightwing press immediately launched a vindictive campaign against Julian Clary for expressing his disdain at Toryism in general, and Tory policy inparticular. This was the very same press that thought it was perfectly OK for homelessness to re-appear on the UK streets, after being virtually eradicated by the Labour initiated Welfare State since 1948.