New Concept English of Ma Baoguo
Lesson 1 Youngsters Shall Strive for Martial Ethics
Hi comrades, I am Ma Baoguo, the master of Chaos Xingyi Taichi Boxing Sect.
A buddy asked me just now for "what happened, Mr.Ma", I answered “how's it about”, then he sent me several pages of screenshots.
I took a look, oh! Actually it was yesterday, there were two youngsters, aged around 30, one of them weighed over 90 kilograms and another weighed over 80 kilograms.
They came and said, hello, I hurt my cervical vertebrae by accident while exercising in the gymnasium, could you teach me something about Chaos Kung Fu, to… to help for rescuing my cervical spondylosis. I promised he can. I suggested he'll feel uncomfortable if exercise die-hard forces in the gym; to my surprise, he was not convinced.
Aha, I said, little kid, just try to snap one finger of mine using your two hands, and he couldn't. But he said my skills were useless.
I refuted him that my skill was useful, it is dissipation of powers, to dissipate is in keeping with the theories of traditional Kung Fu, 4 taels can move 1000 catties. Even a British muscleman weighing more than 200 catties, is also not able to grip one of my fingers.
Aha, he insisted on having a try with me, and I permitted him. Well, he suddenly stood up as soon as I finished my answer, it was quite fast, quite fast!
Then he immediately acted a left kick, a right kick and a left jab, I defended them all, defended!
After I defended, it's naturally to stop at where it supposed as traditions asked. I put a right punch arrived to his nose, then I made a grin and readied to retract, for this moment he had already lost to the traditional law stopping at where it supposed. If I exerted my strength, I would hit a fracture on his nose in one punch, so I touched his nose but not hit. And he admitted also, it was me arrived at him first. Even he didn't perceive when I put a hand on his nose, he admitted that.
However, while I decided to retract and not to hit, he made a sudden pounce, reached my face using a left jab, um, I was careless and I didn't dodge, ah! His punch hit my eye, right eye, that was no trouble, no trouble! He said also, on his screenshot.
2 minutes later, I wept out, then covered my eye, said stop, stop. And 2 another minutes… minutes later, 2 another minutes later I got recovered, I scolded that young man you didn't strive for martial virtues, you have nothing known about that, and he replied sorry Mr.Ma, I didn't understand the customs. Um, then… he said he was hitting at random, but I knew he couldn't be at random, front kick, whip kick and left jab, pretty well-trained, and later he revealed he had drilled Muay Thai for 3 to 4 years. Oh, he seemed to be, came and prepared!
These two youngsters, strived nothing for martial ethics, came to deceive, to attack sneakly, an old comrade aged 69 like me. Is that suitable? No, it isn't!
So I exhort! Exhort this youngster, conduct himself the best, introspect seriously, and never use his wits like this, petty tricks, um, em, we shall regard peace to be precious in the Wushu circle, we shall strive for martial ethics, and not have any infighting.
Thanks for you all.
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第二课 何为武德
…所以我讲武德就讲三德，头德、口德、手德。要讲武德，年轻人不讲武德，你要好自为之。现在网上搞个“耗子尾汁”是吧，…“你不讲武德”，就变成了社会这个…日常用语。
我没有注册商标，这个是谁注册的，“耗子尾汁”也注册了吗？啊…注册就注册吧。但是通过这个事情啊，只要对年轻人有所启发教育，就可以了。…
你想哪有一个二十多岁的小伙子，打一个七十多岁的老人，而且用偷袭的方法打。你想我速度那么快，哎，我发手他都没有反应，我真打他，我，我先动手一次就…不就把他打伤了。但是没有打他是吧。他一个左刺拳出来，我防住了以后，他后面就没有招了。打不住！因为我收了以后，他退步以后，我收了，突然把我眼打了一下。所以我说，年轻人不讲武德。
什么是武德？那老前辈们，有的…有的就是，流派，定了武德，十条八条十二条啊，很多。武德，一是口德，二是手德。口德就是说人长，不道人短。总说别人的长处，不要说别人的短处；说别人的好处，不要说别人的坏话，这就是口德。第二个手德，手德就是不要以强欺弱，以武欺人。你会了功夫，你去打那些不会功夫的，当然容易了，是不是？
在比武中，如果要搞比武切磋，一定要点到为止。现在有些…有些人吧，有些年轻人，就是把对方打晕了，打倒了啊，哎…这才感到过瘾，这个不好，这是伤人之心。
我就讲一个问题：平时我的出拳速度，这个速度，为什么有时间我比武成这个速度，为什么这么慢？我当时是大意了，因为前天晚上，他师傅说，马老师咱们都是自己人，我们也是郭云深派的啊，咱们点到为止。我说点到为止可以，那就是点到为止，我不打你头，我不打他头，不踢他裆。我就是不打他头不踢他裆，当他打我头的时间，我正常…就是正常，身体正常的话，我可以防…我可以防守啊，当时我这个手就抬不起来，他正好就打中我这个…这个，两次打中我这个，右太阳穴了。
我刚才讲武德，回个话啊，口德、手德啊，这是老前辈们讲的两个。还有一个最最重要了，头德。头德是什么呢，就是你的思想，你的心灵。这个头德，就是爱党，爱国家，爱民族，爱家！这四爱，非常重要！
下面是翻译，这一篇，采用几个特殊处理：因为本篇“德”字出现得太多，如果全部对译，就要用到大量的virtue，显得重复拖沓。因此对这几个地方采用音译：
词语 / 意译 / 音译
武德 / martial ethics / wood
口德 / virtue of tongue / code
手德 / virtue of actions / shoulder
头德 / virtue of thoughts / toad
其他地方及标题仍严格忠于原文。
Lesson 2 What Is Martial Ethics
This way I talk about wood, there are three virtues, toad, code, and shoulder. We shall strive for wood, but the youngster youngsters, you don't, you need to conduct yourself better. Now I heard there are saying "house witch" on the Internet, isn't it, and "you don't strive for wood", they have become daily words in society.
I didn't register it as a trademark, who registered it, and also "house witch" is also registered? Um, registered let it be registered. But from this affair, let's just get some edifications and educations for the youngsters, that's already enough.
Just think, who will agree with a boy in his twenties, to batter an aged man with an age nearly 70, and use the way sneaking? Just look, my speed is so quick, aye, he couldn't even react while I made an opening move, if I really hit… I, I strike first, in one time… he'll be injured. But I didn't to that. His left punch made, my defense responded, and he had nothing to continue. No way! Because after I retracted, he stepped backwards, I slackened, he suddenly hit on my eye. So I said, youngsters didn't strive for wood.
What is wood? The seniors, some sects of them, laid down the rules of wood, some 10 some 8 while some 12, they are quite various. Wood, the first is code, the second is shoulder. Code is to narrate others' advantages, instead of their disadvantages. Always talk about their good qualities, and never the bad; talk about their benefits, and never the evils, this is what code is. Next one is shoulder, it means not to bully the weak, nor to attack with forces. You have learned abt Kung Fu, and you attack those haven't learned, that's certainly easy, isn't it?
In competitions, if we exchange views of Kung Fu, we're supposed to stop appropriately. Now some… sone of the people, especially the young, he would hit his rival fainted, fallen over, ah… only this way will make them enjoyed, this isn't nice, it's the meanings to hurt others.
Let me talk about one question: my speed of punch in ordinary times, it's THIS speed, but why sometimes my speed in competition will turn to THIS, why would it become so slow? I was careless at that time, because it was on the night before yesterday, his master told me, we're all one family Mr.Ma, we're also in Guo Yunshen's sect, we don't be serious. I said that's all right, casually let's be casual, I won't hit his head nor his crotch. I really did that not to hit his head or his crotch, but when he hit my head, normally… I normally, it's to say, my body was normal, I could defend, defend… however I couldn't rise this hand, so he rightly hit my… my… hit for 2 times, on my right temple.
Just now I talked about wood, let's return from the digression, code and shoulder, it was insisted by the seniors. And the other one is the most important, toad. What is toad, it points at your mind, your spirit. The toad is, to love the Party, the State, the Nation, the Family! These four loves, are extremely important!
