Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
For Chengdu, we have a few resources:
Chengdu Places, which you can also ADD to 🙂
and this small list of places we like:
Top Ten Free Places in Chengdu
and this short guide:
If it is bolted to the wall, which I am sure it is, then you will probably need to either remove it from the mount, and leave the mount there, or take the whole thing, which I also am not sure how to do. There is an electrician, foreigner, that I know, that might be able to help, I will try and get a hold of him and see if he has time. If he does I will let you know here.
absolutely I am down we had a great time. Here are the stats as I remember them:
Sascha 2/15 5 assists, 2 blocks
Christ 5/10 2 assists, 2 steals
Julio 9/12 2 assists
I think Zhang was just the very very beginning, a Jackie Robinson if you will. The big card for the RUFF Superfight included a Kazak badass Jumabieke Tuerxun, who pulled out at the last second. He beat Irshad twice. Most people believes (and the article from Global Times I linked above also believes) that he pulled out in order to pursue UFC dreams. Wouldn’t have thought of that had it not been for Iron Fist!!! Good Luck Tuerxun, gotta get outta yer contract first …
How many tough tough guys went into the UFC and lost 4/5? How many even got 5 chances? I met Tiequan and he is one tough dude. And a nice guy. He carried the hopes of all Chinese MMA fighters and took it to the UFC, he lost. So what man? He put a crack in the wall for others to dig into. I got love for Zhang.
So much to say. Zhang Tiequan is actually a protoge of the “original” MMA guys in China, of which there are four, including Ai Hao Lin and Liu Hai Long, so he is basically second generation coming out of a tiny, tiny base. The fighters following in his footsteps are better than he is, have better training … and there are more of them. Currently, maybe 100 fighters in China that have competed in an MMA setting and did not embarrass themselves. These guys are the next step in a pyramid of growth, I think it will continue, but the chances of it getting choked off in its infancy are great. Another dismal UFC performance by a Chinese fighter, a serious injury, RUFF collapsing, government support disappearing, corruption killing it at the roots … all of the basic stuff that can kill any nascent movement,
But the fighters I saw in Hohhot for the RUFF Superfight are badasses, very serious, and not interested in anything else really. Cept girls i guess 😉 Gave me perspective on how badass GSP must be …
It’s too bad for Maxxelli, because they actually do a lot for expat families and others who are here for brief stints. Most of the corporate people who roll through go through them and seem satisfied. I am pretty sure they hired a couple Chinese who went about standard spamming procedure for most Chinese-run websites/web-based services. Having said that, Chinese employees will do what they are told/shown to do, so it is up to management to set an example.
What gets me is how stupid the spammer was. I mean, all you really had to do was use a VPN and change locations, or recognize that you can be traced. But that speaks more to how things are done here than to the actual intelligence of the spammer.
It’s too bad for Maxxelli, because they actually do a lot for expat families and others who are here for brief stints. Most of the corporate people who roll through go through them and seem satisfied. I am pretty sure they hired a couple Chinese who went about standard spamming procedure for most Chinese-run websites/web-based services. Having said that, Chinese employees will do what they are told/shown to do, so it is up to management to set an example.
What gets me is how stupid the spammer was. I mean, all you really had to do was use a VPN and change locations, or recognize that you can be traced. But that speaks more to how things are done here than to the actual intelligence of the spammer.
I am down, i posted about this before and failed to get a group going, but I am ready to play ball with anyone anywhere
I am down, i posted about this before and failed to get a group going, but I am ready to play ball with anyone anywhere
you have to be with them, and even then, imo you should keep to clear and short routes. Traffic here is dangerous, no doubt about it.
People here are aware that roads are dangerous so MOST will drive real slow, of course the percentage of dipshits who make the road dangerous is still too high. I have been hit twice by a car. when i bike with my boy (3) he is on my bike and I bike very slooooowly.
BUT, there is some good news. Once you get out of the city (Third Ring Road) the biking is great. Wenjiang Green Belt, another couple of green belts south side. Biking out there is great for kids. In the city, I would check it out yourself before you put them out there ….
you have to be with them, and even then, imo you should keep to clear and short routes. Traffic here is dangerous, no doubt about it.
People here are aware that roads are dangerous so MOST will drive real slow, of course the percentage of dipshits who make the road dangerous is still too high. I have been hit twice by a car. when i bike with my boy (3) he is on my bike and I bike very slooooowly.
BUT, there is some good news. Once you get out of the city (Third Ring Road) the biking is great. Wenjiang Green Belt, another couple of green belts south side. Biking out there is great for kids. In the city, I would check it out yourself before you put them out there ….
in that last photo, S’pore’s homie Dan, the friendly hippy, is sprawled in the background. He managed to party hard for another hour or more after S’pore went down. Tried to help his friend out, passed the bottle to me for a shot, smiled and was generally a happy guy – as they both were.
my baijiu stripes usually involved a lot more yelling.
in that last photo, S’pore’s homie Dan, the friendly hippy, is sprawled in the background. He managed to party hard for another hour or more after S’pore went down. Tried to help his friend out, passed the bottle to me for a shot, smiled and was generally a happy guy – as they both were.
my baijiu stripes usually involved a lot more yelling.
@JerryS fascinating stuff. Chinese sports are very corrupt in general, so it doesn’t surprise me that trainers are paid low wages, asked to do shady things, and eventually are “forced” to leave. I also remember very clearly in Hohhot, that the RUFF people were at Shangri-la (along with the HK trainers/fighters) while the Chinese fighters were all in a three star Chinese hotel. I waited with the fighters – including champs – post-fight for an hour till a bus came to get us and take us back. Bus for every1 else had left long ago.
At the same time, i was very impressed with the RUFF organization and their overall clarity of purpose. The Chinese side, as can be read out of the Global Times article linked above, is much more complicated.
Money is a big issue, as always, and is probably the #1 factor for the decline of kungfu. And MMA, according to what you are talking about, faces the same issue.
I heard though, that the MMA fighters in Xi’an were paid to train. They said sponsored by the Wushu Association – but GT article says Sports Admin … i wonder what is really going on.
very interesting JerryS. Vaughn trains with fighters in Xi’an, all sponsored by the government. They get paid to train, Was one of Vaughn’s major observations re: difference between China gyms and other gyms around the world.
Here is an interesting article on MMA:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/759154.shtml
And this is what I wrote about it a couple weeks ago:
Would love to hear your thoughts. Can’t wait to get everyone together for a lil hodown.
