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Systema, Silat, and Xingyi. I've noticed a lot of graduate students in the sciences out rock climbing, too.
by khafra 17y ago
Systema, Silat, and Xingyi. I've noticed a lot of graduate students in the sciences out rock climbing, too.
- aarongough 17y agoThat's a good mix, I don't even know what Xingyi is, I'll have to look that up! I've been doing Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, Airsoft and I've just started Kali, JKD and DBMA. I notice a lot of martial artists like rock climbing too... I guess the challenge appeals!
- noodle 17y agoxingyi (aka hsing-i) is one of the three general internal chinese styles along with taiji and bagua. if you've seen jet li's movie "the one", you've seen xingyi (and bagua). its the only pop culture reference i can think of.
- ionfish 17y agoClimbing is popular amongst physicists and mathematicians—Raymond Paley and Jacques Herbrand come to mind. Scott Aaronson wrote about this last year. http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=355 http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=355