Hello everyone and welcome to this blog!
I've been wanting to do this blog for a long time and finally have gotten around to actually doing it.
I'm overflowing with thoughts, feelings, ideas, theories etc. about chinlone especially and also about life in general. It's important for me to share the things I enjoy and love with others. Chinlone and music top the list - but there are many other things as well. As I get more familiar with how to use this blog - I'll be sharing more about chinlone and music and whatever else I think other people might be interested in.
One thing I'd like to mention up front is that the name of this blog is going to change in the near future. That is because there is a strange situation going on right now where I already have a blog by the name of 'chinlone' (chinlone.blogspot.com) that I cannot access to post on. Hopefully I'll get that fixed and switch from this one to that one.
The BIG NEWS is the upcoming MYSTIC BALL CHINLONE CAMP 2009! I'm very excited about it and have been working like crazy to get everything together. This will be the first time anything like this has ever been offered. It's a unique opportunity for people to learn this most beautiful art/sport at the source.
It will also be a way for the chinlone players in Myanmar to make some much needed money. This is very important to me as I've always felt that it is very sad that in spite of having developed absolutely sublime skills with a ball, chinlone players don't have an opportunity to make a decent living with those skills. I hope this chinlone camp will help to change that.
Today I'm sending out Mystic Ball Chinlone Camp emails to many people who have contacted me to express feelings about the film, buy DVD's and buy chinlone balls. I'm very much on the edge of my seat to see what the response is going to be like.
One of the reasons I wanted to start this blog is to share with others all the beautiful emails and messages I've received from people all over the world expressing their feelings and impressions about the film and about chinlone. I hope there will be some kind of dialogue, perhaps forum style, where people can respond and make comments. I'm rather new to blogging - I should say, completely new to it. So I have lots to learn and I expect it's going to take me some time to get up to speed and be able to post the way I'd like to, add pictures/videos, add music links etc.
I hope that I'll be able to share all kinds of things here - stories, other people's blogs, things that I love like dogs, art, animals, birds, culture, trees, beauty, gracefulness, insects, almost anything.
Here we are living on this huge, incredibly beautiful ball - surrounded by all kinds of circles and filled with all kinds of spheres and spirals. It's all connected - we're all connected, it just seems like we're not...
Hey greg, wow couldn't resist the opportunity to post the first comment:-). Sounds great to share beautiful positive feelings from you and other people on this blog to make everyone feel better and more connected!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the chinlone camp and you should be really proud that you've accomplished some difficult targets that you set for yourself! Plus all the good attention you brought to the sport and to all the people playing it! Continue the good work:-) Isabelle
ooh, I've saw you on a documentary in 'viajar' channel. I felt impressed of the pledge that you put on learning that sport, it's incredible that one thing like that can change your life. I really feel admiration of you and that sport. I would see someone playing chinlone. And I hope you make that
ReplyDeleteeverybody know chinlone. Good luck!
(sorry for my english...)
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Greetings from Spain Greg! A couple of weeks ago I watched the film in a spanish channel. Congratulations for such an amazing film. We have started playing chinlone (trying to copy movements from the film) but is difficult to get a good chinlone balls here in Spain.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, good luck and best regards from Barcelona!
we're all connected
Hey. I think I saw you playing years ago in Grange park. Actually, I remember joining you for a few rounds (you were playing with one other man at the time). This was about 10 or so years ago. I bought my own ball back then (though the Thai version I think, not the proper chinlone ball) and practiced a lot on my own. Then I stopped. I kept the ball though, and it's been sitting on a shelf in my house all this time. I ran into a friend of yours, Rocky, and he piqued my interest again in that little rattan ball. And then later I bought your video. Great video. And now I'm going outside to play with my little chinlone ball again after so many years.... Thanks Greg, for your passion and commitment to Chinlone... Maybe I'll see you in the Grange park again soon...
ReplyDeleteI'm gald about this !!! I send you an e-mail on this adress : greg.chinlone@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for your answer.
Sincerly,
Barthélémy Garcia
I have just watched the doumentary on the Travel channel and was blown away by your experience with this wonderful art/sport. Thanks for letting the rest of the world know this great non competitive game... I knew there had to be one!
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Mingala Ba...
ReplyDeleteI was stationed at the American Embassy in Myanmar many years ago, where I picked up the sport. When alone, I find that if I insert each finger into a chinlone ball hole that I can hold 10 balls at once. I start kicking and when a ball falls to the ground I just toss up a new one. This gives me more of a workout but, more importantly, after a while I actually go into a meditative trance.
Problem is, I've found that I really do need a lot of balls to reach the trance-like state, and now I'm down to less than a handful. Does anyone know where I can get some more chinlone balls? The Burmese woven rattan ones, not the plastic sepak takraw thai or malaysian variety.
Chinlone is the Fountain of Youth !
Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a ball in the pacific northwest of United States?
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