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I don't know why this memory came to me so strongly this morning--maybe because it's a beautiful spring day and I'm out in my backyard practicing my Orange material oh so slowly. But I recall a story told to me by my old friend Shifu Rich McDaniels of the Merced school about a black belt class, Da Shifu, and and a clueless blackbelt.

Now, I must stress that I was NOT there at the time--is it hersay if I heard it first hand by someone who was there? At any rate, the class, circa 1987, was focused on Orange belt stuff, and somewhere around Clawing Panther, a shifu, whose name has been lost to history, made some sort of crack about Da Shifu within ear shot of Da Shifu--something like "Da Shifu did that wrong". Again, I don't remember the speciifics, but he was singled out to throw the next punch for the "example".

Da Shifu swept him clean off his feet, dumped him on his head, and neatly stomped him across the forehead. The room went silent except for the collective "Ohh".

Shifu McDaniel said that the dummy walked around the rest of the class with a bright red heel mark across his eyebrows. I can only imagine that he had the smarts to keep his mouth shut after that.

To all ye Irish folk, happy St. Patricks day! To the rest of ye, grab a pint o ale an do yer best to be as close ta Irish as you can!

im putting this blog up so if there is any one willing, id like some insite and different opinions to futher my training. its always good to have some more advice.
im going up for my tiger soon. its all there but i figure it cant hurt to make it better..... in otherwords i could use some help!

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Does anyone know if Da' Shifu ever beat up Chuck Norris? I only ask because today is Chuck Norris birthday...So in memorandum I'll pick a clean "fact" from Ian Spectors book:

If you disagree with Chuck Norris he'll karate chop you into a bajillion pieces. He is aware that this is not a number but if you call him on it, he'll roundhouse kick you into a quabillion.

I really do have a life....really.

So it's sad that two days after going in to teach a bit (and I mean a little bit) that I am sore two days later... Granted it's been awhile since I worked out, but man how lame is it that helping out for MAYBE an hour could leave me sore....

It was a beautiful day and the first full moon of the new year. Perfect for Da' Shifu's birthday. I hope he liked his present.

He always said his birthday was the 29th of February so he was much younger since he only aged once every 4 years. But I think he might have been pulling my leg.

Happy Birthday Da' Shifu

Just wanted to say Thank you to Shifu Liz and Shun Shifu Weaver for all the help with putting on the class. It was a great learning tool. Again Thanks. Mr Miller

This is from camp 2000