So Martial Development is running a contest to see who has the best piece of martial arts related writing for 2006. I’m not totally clear on the rules, but most of the entries appear to be blog posts. I’m also not sure if he is picking the best or letting people vote on his blog for the best piece. The latter would seem fairer. But regardless, he does have one rule that I don’t really like — you have to submit your own stuff. I find that a little too self-serving for my taste, so I’ve found a way around that requirement — I’m going to let you guys pick my post that I will enter.
So what post that I’ve written do you feel is the best on the blog?
The posts that I’m most proud of and that I had the most fun writing were ironically two of my posts on Chinese medicine. I liked both Amazing Chinese Medicine and Qi healing? My Experience. The reason that I liked relating those experiences was that they were real turning points in my life as far as what is and isn’t possible. They opened my mind to things that I can’t fully explain, thereby expanding my worldview.
So again, what one post should I enter? Please keep in mind that it has to be something that I actually wrote, not something that I found elsewhere on the Net.
6 responses so far ↓
1 chessman71 // Mar 13, 2007 at 8:51 am
So no one can think of ONE good post that I’ve written, not even the one’s I linked to in the post above?
2 Casey // Mar 13, 2007 at 9:22 am
Well, those two aren’t really about martial arts per se. My personal pick would be the three-part (or any one part of) “Chen as External” series.
3 Thomas // Mar 13, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I like that series on Chen style too, and also that post on Taiwan Chen style having too many forms. But those might be a bit ‘political’, though they adress some issues needing to be dealt with.
Another one might be your post on ‘Why most people need treatment before they practice IMA’
I like your TCM related topics, especcially this one, because I can relate to it.
Kind regards, and keep up the good work, this is a very nice and informative blog,my friend.
4 chessman71 // Mar 13, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Thomas,
Thanks for the feedback. i like those posts too, and I htink they are some of the more important ones that I’ve written. But I seem to get the fewest comments on those, so I get the feeling they aren’t too popular with most people. Oh well.
But thanks for the post suggestion for the contest.
Yeah, the Chen series didn’t go over so well in some circles.
5 wujimon // Mar 14, 2007 at 12:04 am
Hey chessman, I wouldn’t necessarily equate comments with popularity. Some of the items with the most ‘page views’ have the least amount of comments in my case.
I like the posts about too many forms
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6 Casey // Mar 14, 2007 at 3:55 am
The thing about the TCM experience posts is that they’re anecdotes. We don’t really have any comments to post other than “interesting story,” because it was something which happened to you. Of course, we still enjoy reading them. However, for the theme “best martial arts writing,” I’d still pick something in which you deal with the theory, practice or politics of one of the arts you practice. Since you don’t practice energy healing, it’s kind of like “well, that’s weird,” whereas because you practice Chen Taiji, you can go into more technical detail and people can have a debate about it.
Not that I don’t enjoy the anecdotes, intros, and TCM stuff (in fact, some of my favorites are the stories and pics of Han Qingtang, intro. to Sunbin-quan, etc.), just that I’d pick one of the ones more about the arts themselves for this.
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