the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Steve James wrote:I think it's an excellent description of a master, especially the part about their sense of responsibility to the subject and the student, and the ability to teach.

Though, in tcc, I think many feel the only people deserving of the term 'master' are those who've mastered tcc. But, what that really means is that there are no masters.
Certainly none who've beaten everyone in competition.

In that sense, I think master is a title bestowed by students on those they feel deserve it. Anyway, some schools solve it by using the term 'professor.' I remember Professor Vee, and there was Professor CMC. Hmm, was YLC even known as Master, or did that come later?

Because he had been a college professor, his students in the USA called him "Professor Cheng."

Steve James wrote::) The point was that CMC never called himself a master, though his definition did go beyond tcc. It was more the idea of a Renaissance man who excelled at several arts, including poetry and calligraphy. But, that's another subject.

Yeah, sifu/shifu is the common name for teacher. Ime, though, sifu was also a title. Just because you studied with someone meant you were actually accepted as a student. Calling someone sifu meant you accepted that person as your teacher. The sifu, though, looked up to someone they'd call "master."

There are people on rsf whose teachers were grandmasters, but they'd never call themselves 'master.' It'd be appropriate to call them masters though.

Anyway, Prof Vee had nothing to do with tcc or cma. People who teach bjj are often called/considered professors. Even when arts do use the term; for ex., "mestre" in capoeira, it's really just teacher. Though there are Mestres like Bemba and Pastinha who popularized capoeira, a mestre is just your teacher.

origami_itto wrote:The title Carmel macchiato .

Trick wrote:

origami_itto wrote:The title Carmel macchiato .

Is an Americano stained with milk and sugar