Mind Fist : The Asian Arts of the Ninja Masters

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Wong continued, "Danny Rand as Iron Fist first appeared in 1974, inspired by kung-fu films. What does it look like to become an Iron Fist in 2021, almost fifty years later (in real time, not comics time)? It has to be different. Every Iron Fist’s journey is different, because they’re different people born in different eras. It’s definitely something I’m exploring in this run." Fisting Notes Regarding the Transverse Colon• To gain access, you may have to insert a finger into the splenic flexure and pull it down before inserting additional fingers and full fist. Both of these responses trigger additional reactions in the body, including a cessation in breathing, an increase/decrease in blood pressure and heart rate, and the release of certain neurochemicals inside the brain. The combination of these responses result in a 'poop-euphoria' that many experience after a big (excuse the language) shit. This euphoria is also reproduced during fisting.

Chow: I alluded to it earlier: I was a big Wong Kar-wai fan growing up, and I love, passionately, Tony Leung in anything. Chungking is one of my favorite movies, Mood for Love is one of my favorite movies, Infernal Affairs, love him. That’s another example of having to whitewash for American audiences, right? Like, just watch Infernal Affairs. Who needs to watch Departed? He’s the one thing I’m looking forward to. Apologies to Simu, apologies to Nora, apologies to everyone else, Michelle Yeoh even – I want to see Tony Leung in a Marvel movie. I had to buy the action figure as soon as it came out just because Tony Leung, come on. He’s the greatest actor of all time. Liu: And so serene, like seeing the way that a single foot dipping into the pond creates the ripples and the water is so still – oh my gosh.

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Chow: The Major in Ghost in the Shell. And also you had Matt Damon in The Great Wall. You had all of these castings centering white people in these Asian stories. Even the Dr. Strange character, Strange could have been an Asian American. That’s when we did our #WhitewashedOut campaign, that’s when the #StarringJohnCho campaign came out, pointing to the thing that we’ve been talking about, you and I as advocates in the Asian American space for several decades, we’ve been talking about, this was old hat for us, but somehow it penetrated in that 2015, 2016 year. Jon Chu’s told me; he’s like, “That conversation you guys were having on the internet is what got me in the room for Crazy Rich Asians.” Had we just been ignored like we always are, maybe Crazy Rich doesn’t come out. And if Crazy Rich doesn’t come out, we don’t have Henry Golding and Gemma Chan and Awkwafina, and all of these movies. Chow: We were talking about the dubbing piece when I was a kid being a distraction for me. And not even English dubbing, because what people don’t understand is that all of those movies were dubbed in Chinese, too. Like, they weren’t speaking words. They would just move their mouth, and some other cat would come into the booth and record their dialogue because they would do a Mandarin dub and a Cantonese dub. And it was never Jet Li’s voice when he was playing Wong Fei-hung [from the Once Upon a Time in China franchise]. It was always just some other guy’s voice. And I just knew that intrinsically as a young person, and it just turned me off. And that’s another reason why I was like, “This ain’t for me. This ain’t my bag; I can’t deal with it.” And the thing too with Tarantino is – we were talking about Bruce Lee – he doubles down on his Bruce Lee disrespect. Like the whole Once Upon a Time in Hollywood thing. Part of what you were saying about Asians who have been martial artists have never been able to be the leading man. They’ve always been the cannon fodder or the villain, but never the central, complex, three-dimensional character. That’s the thing about the martial arts stereotype that has always been troublesome for Asians. So advocating for an Asian martial artist isn’t in itself wrong, if that Asian martial artist gets to be three-dimensional and romantic and funny and charismatic. Because whenever you did see an Asian face in a martial arts movie made in the west, it was either the butt of a joke, or his whole role is to be beat up by the typically good white guy. And then the other part of that too is so few people in Hollywood get to be in a position where they can greenlight their own projects. And so hopefully, when the movie comes out and hopefully it does the numbers that we all want it to do, I’ll be in a position where I can choose the stories that I want to tell. So, I can say it’s an incredibly empowering moment for me, but I can say too, if I am the only Asian American person who gets that power, that should be considered a failure for all of us, because I can’t be the only one. There’s a real danger in that. It’s going to become an increasing priority of mine to make sure that I’m uplifting other voices as well. And just filling up the space, taking up space with our stories, with our culture, with our unapologetic energy is what I think is so critical. And what I think is a real opportunity with this moment. And that’s the problematic aspect of the martial arts stereotype, the problematic aspect of Asians just giving up martial arts. If we just give it to white people, that doesn’t help us, because we’re just saying, “This thing that’s intrinsic to a lot of our cultures doesn’t belong to us anymore.” And I’m saying, “Let’s reclaim that and make that our own.” And that’s what we’re seeing now with Mortal Kombat, with Snake Eyes, with Shang-Chi, this embrace of this cultural aspect of a lot of our cultures, but also giving us the opportunity to play the leads, to play the complex – even the villains are complex. We don’t have to be just the beard-stroking or the sexy temptress. We can be everything. And that’s what I’ve always advocated for.

For centuries, China has been known as a Liyi Zhibang which means a country of rites. There were various formal greeting etiquettes in ancient China. Among them the fist and palm salute is quite classic one. Today, though Chinese would usually shake hands when meeting friends and relatives, similar like it in the west, people would still make fist and palm salutes when they are paying visit to someone during the traditional Chinese new year or attending someone's wedding reception, birthday reception or funeral. Sun: Precisely. In hindsight, it seems just absurd to pass on somebody with the charisma of Bruce Lee. Not just his actual martial arts prowess as one of the greatest martial arts practitioners working in the generation, but also his genuine charisma. And I don’t think I myself appreciated that growing up. Because I grew up in the States. We grow up in Western culture. And so I knew about Bruce Lee as a trope before I actually learned anything about him as a performer, as an artist. I was in awe. I closed my eyes and breathed slowly as he caressed my hair, peeking once or twice to watch him stare at me with a smile on his face. He was obviously just as amazed by the experience. I had the feeling that we had known each other in a past life earlier that day, and that experience strengthened that vibe. The rectal walls contain sensory nerves that monitor pressure and trigger physiological responses the adjoining components of the fist chute: Fisting Notes Regarding the Coccyx• During the foreplay prior to fisting, use your fingers to try and locate the coccyx. If you can feel it, it is likely that you will have to enter the fist chute at a thirty or sixty degree angle so that your hand will glide past the wedge.Sun: I was going to ask you this question later, but since we’re talking about Shang-Chi, and I haven’t seen the film yet, but just going off of the trailers – Chow: That was kind of that first conversation that happened before it really hit the fan for Hollywood. That predated #OscarsSoWhite, that predated #StarringJohnCho, #WhitewashedOut, right? Gradual expansion of this opening is possible by repeated training with dildos or plugs. Advancement occurs at a snail's pace, usually only a few milimeters per year. Sun: You mentioned the dubbing, and for anybody who is really coming into this totally new, let’s talk a little bit about what you’re talking about. How did martial arts movies become a popular genre in American pop culture? Where did they come from?