I'd rather see the video of the guy picking up the big stones with a rope tied to his Johnson (thats a willy for all you brits).... Never ceases to make me grab myself....
I'm not getting what Angampora has to do with Chinese stone locks. From what I've seen of it... it's got almost nothing in common with Chinese stone lock lifting and throwing other than they're both physical endeavors. Care to enlighten?
1min 21 sec, he uses what looks like wooden locks [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUoJ9RkaQnw"]YouTube - Hop Gar Training[/ame]
Time has moved on Where is the book ? If you have given up - can you share what you have - otherwise get motivated and finish the book
Nothin' doing. Good stuff takes time. I'm still working on it at the moment. No one has any idea how much bleeding searching has to be done. Which leads to any number of tangents to meander down. So yes it takes time. Much of the harder part is working out decent translations from the Chinese materials. No small task that.
I just hired two students to help translate with my book - that way I had 2 versions to check accuracy
Yes translations can be rather tricky! I've come across errors in other books when people attempt transliterations without really considering the context. Context is everything when it comes to translation. Not unsurprisingly I've found that a good number of Chinese people have no more clue than me for much of the material - either because most of what I'm working on isn't ever covered in school and isn't even considered by Chinese society at large. It's an interesting experience... I just wish there were more hours in the day. Refresh my memory... which book are you working on translating? (I'll go back through the thread to see if I can find it if you mentioned it before)
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Here's a bump: just got a 15kg/30 jin granite stone lock and I love it! Not a kung fu guy, but I'd love to get into some when I'm less busy. I'm in Hong Kong and had one sent from the northeast. I also work out with weights, steel maces/steel clubbells, aqua bags, etc, but the history behind the stone lock was fascinating. I want some lighter ones to work into my silat training now!