A lot of kids there, even now, drive nicer cars than the teachers. I think he ended up placing 4th at state his senior year, which isn't a bad achievement since the wrestling program at Chaparral then was pretty bad.Ĭhaparral was then and still is in a very privileged part of town. Other than that I only met him a few times in passing, but never wrestled him. Probably the only connection to him I had was that we were at the same weight and a friend of mine had once wrestled him and had beaten him pretty badly.

Ironically I ended up as an assistant coach there for a few years, long after he and I had graduated from high school. He wrestled for Chaparral High in Scottsdale, AZ. I just knew him from wrestling in high school. First of all I wasn't his friend, or even an acquaintance. This is about Jake Mace, an interesting guy because we basically come from the same kind of background. But this is not about that, there are many positives of kung Fu, fighting another human being one on one isn't one of them apparently. Usually I mock it because the guys who entered the UFC in the early days and local 'kung fools' as we called them would occasionally test their luck in our local MMA world, only to get brutally beaten up by guys who could actually fight. I am not a kung Fu practicing person, and likely never will be. So I'll just preface this by saying, 'Holy shit!' Please check out our Member Map and add yourself to our community! You can also hop on the Discord channel ran by /u/letsbebuns.Ĭheck out some of our affiliates! /m/ChineseMartialArtsĪ Multi-Reddit for Chinese Martial Arts (kung fu) and everything related to it. Kung Fu is about the application of hard work throughout your life to better yourself and to gain mastery over your body and mind. We're here to talk about all the aspects of kung fu including philosophy, logic, medicine, health, mental/physical fitness, and (of course) technique. Welcome to r/kungfu, a humble community of practitioners of the Traditional Chinese Martial Art.

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