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When I studied in China, I remember practising sanda boxing in the university. Once I chanced on some japanese who were stading still in an embracing posture. They were not doing anything else. I inquires what they were doing, and they asked me to push them. I had practised a combination of martial arts since my childhood including judo and karate. When I pushed the japanese man, his weight seemed to sink in the ground like a stone. He then pushed me, and I flew up in the air as both of his feet came unstuck from the ground as I was caught by another one of his friends. I asked him what they were practising and he gave me the card of his master, whom he assured me could push ten times as hard as him.
Although I found this difficult to believe, I decided to venture out and pay a visit to his master. As I went over to the other side of Beijing a young man came to open the door as I got out of the taxi. His face look battered like a boxer's. He took me through a series of little streets, through the hutongs, into his master's dojo or wuguan.
The master then showed me various paper cutting and articles in which he had been featured, and said that
he conducted some big classes at this time and that I could come. I had however made a big trip, and before making the same trip again, I wanted him to show me a bit of his martial art. He put me infront of a big series of mats lined up against the wall and pushed me. I was terrified, at what could best be described as the feeling of a car crash. I was even more terrfied when he reproduced the same result with only one hand, and I wont even tell you my reaction when he offered to hit me.
It took me a while before I came back however what amazed me with time was not as much the master's amazing fighting abilities as much as his permanent politeness and silent authority with people.
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