Today is the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year so I have a little time to take a look at the topics I put up for My Kung Fu Chatter.

I didn’t know how many chapters I had until I listed them down and found that I have 50 chapters. And these do not include those topics that came to mind but I did not list down as most of the topics come to mind when I don’t have the smartphone or pen handy to list it down. If I can’t remember it again it is probably a topic that is good to write about but not compelling enough for me to must write about it.

Below are the 50 chapters in no particular order :-

Introduction
Play the Game
The Three Prohibitions
The 7-Point Hands
Tricks of Speed and Power
Low Percentage, High Percentage
SLTB
LOL LOL
You Don’t Know Until You Know You Don’t Know
Iron Palm
The Dong Way
Mao Shan White Magic
Bye Bye Hand
No Money, No Honey
Scent of the Internal
Genius of Charp Chui Angle
Bad for Health
This Mysterious Art
Fate or Not
Got Chi?
To Chamber or Not to Chamber
WYSIWYG
White Belt Forever
Greedy to Hit
Reference Standard
Lonely is the Path
Kata The Key to Flow
Transmitting a Live Art
Using EDC for Self Defense
Nash Equilibrium and Why All Styles Are Equal
Worshiping the Dead
The Fulcrum & The Poleman
Making Sense of BJJ
Seeds of NGK Pole
Spearing Stability
Breathe
Being a Student Again
Making Sense Till It Does Not
Best Time to Learn
Lessons from Koryu Katas
Soft & Pliant Hands
The Yum, The Chau & The Sau
The Unchanging Sameness
Kill Buddha
Countering Internal Power
What I Learned from Cross Training
Science Speak
10,000 Repetitions
The Importance of Forgetting
10,000 Hours

Some are style specific topics, some are sub-topic of a style, a number are general topics and across styles. Some topics have been completed. Many are ideas that I quickly put down in a summary so that I can remember what I wanted to write about.

The topic list is likely to keep growing because ideas can be suggested by what I read or triggered in the midst of training or thinking through a training issue. For example, someone posted a picture of Yang Cheng Fu side by side with two pictures of Cheng Man Ching.

The topic that these three pictures triggered is something I have touched on when teaching but now I think it will make an excellent idea for a 51st chapter which I tentatively called “Flying Elbow and the Resist Reflex” but after thinking it over I might change it to “Training The Propensity to Resist” as this reflected my learning experience.

Some topics may end into two or three chapters. Some might be taken out if they are repeating the same thing in another topic. I try to keep the number of topics to no more than 100 so that I have to stop somewhere.