Last year late one evening, I sat down and watched a martial arts film entitled, The Grandmaster, a 2013 Hong Kong-Chinese martial arts drama film based on the life story of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Chun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_(martial_arts) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man.
There are a number of Ip Man films starring Donnie Yen that I have enjoyed watching. The following is a synopsis of The Grandmaster:
For the first forty years of his life, Ip Man (Tony Leung) leads a fairly simple life. He begins his study of the martial arts at the age of seven, starts a family with his wife Cheung Wing-sing (Song Hye-kyo), and focuses on perfecting his Wing Chun. In the 1930s, martial arts grandmaster Gong Yutian (Wang Qingxiang), a master of Xingyi and Bagua, announces his retirement. He's appointed his longtime apprentice Ma San (Zhang Jin) as his heir in the north. He comes down to the town of Foshan to identify his successor in the south. Having witnessed Ip Man in action defeating a dozen men including arch nemesis The Razor (Chang Chen), the retiring grandmaster believes that the young Wing Chun master is the right man to succeed him. Gong Yutian's daughter Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi) thinks otherwise.
To determine his heir, Gong Yutian issues an open challenge to the south. As part of this challenge, the masters of the south are to select a representative to face the grandmaster. Though many masters jockey for the opportunity, Ma San bars them all. As Gong Yutian hopes, the masters ultimately end up selecting Ip Man to challenge him. After some preparation, the young Wing Chun master meets the retiring grandmaster for a match of wits. In order to win, he must break the cake in Gong Yutian's hand. After a fierce back and forth between two magnificent warriors, Ip Man does just that and prevails. Unhappy about her father's defeat, Gong Er introduces the new grandmaster to her 64 Hands technique and leaves a lasting impression on him. As time marches on, the Japanese invade China, and Ip Man is forced to flee to Hong Kong. There, the grandmaster begins a martial arts school and reunites with friends and foes alike.
The next morning I sat down with Brad Ames at Starbucks in Hendersonville and after we had finished our opening dialogue he asked me, “Carroll, are you familiar with the chess prodigy, Bobby Fischer?” I had never heard of him and so Brad begin to tell me of the first and only American-born world chess champion, a grandmaster around 1972 and eccentric genius beloved to have an I.Q. of 181, today he is ranked #3 all-time best chess player. What really caught my attention was that Brad kept speaking of the 64 squares on the chessboard, Brad kept speaking of our enemy and how he could out maneuver us if we didn’t walking humility. For me I was sitting there thinking about the invitation I had recently been invited into with the Lord concerning the northern campaign that Joshua had led in the taking of the promise land. There’s so much to this but in short Joshua lead the conquest primarily through two campaigns, one in the south and one in the north. In the south there were nine kings defeated and in the north twenty-two for a total of 31 kings. It will not be until David rightfully becomes king after Saul's unification of the nation that you will see the South (Judah) and the North (Israel) become one untied Monarchy or more properly Theocracy. MZHOP had covered 7 of those kings, OOMZ had covered 2 but when we launched Asheville Collider we were already in the 10th king (PH10; see below) and ascending in the Northern campaign. Presently we are up against the 16th (7th Hebrew letter Zayin) out of 31 kings.
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