User Comments - rods

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

Oh ... I was lucky and honoured. I see. ;-)

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

Sort of the way it is when I hear "boxing", I think of western style boxing, unless "kick", or "thai" is stuck on the front.

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

As if 蹲马步 dūn mǎbù (Thanks Jenny) wasn't bad enough, my Shīfu would wander over, stand on my legs and start jumping up and down. My wǔshù stint was also "brief".

Posted on: Practicing Kung Fu

This lesson should be studied while standing in a nice low horse stance.

Posted on: A Visitor and Progress Tracking

I really enjoyed hearing everything you had to say xiao_liang. Good idea C-Pod, recording your visitors.

As to your accent, it reminded me a bit of Richard Hammond's.

Posted on: Walking the Bird

D'oh! Not the Simpsons. Futurama--Professor Fransworth's arch rival Dr. Wernstrom invented the reverse scuba suit:

http://theinfosphere.org/Reverse_Scuba_Suit

Posted on: Walking the Bird

Well worth the wait. You guys really put a lot of creativity into these lessons!

I wonder if there are those chic Paris Hilton types, who carry little birds around in their designer purses.

Posted on: Walking the Bird

I've been Googling like crazy to try and find a picture of suit professor Frink (the Simpsons) invented so that fish could run around on dry land. It had little robot legs-??

Posted on: Walking the Bird

I've been waiting for this one ever since I spotted the term liù niǎo in the Ele. lesson "A Walk in the Park" !!

Posted on: Cats Are Cool

Um, Pretzellogic?? Newbie 0576 :

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/my-cat

Cats!! ;-)

Also, playing with cat:

http://www.arcamax.com/garfield/s-786144-365170