Drunken boxing

When I was a child, I liked kung fu movies by Jackie Chan. I watched “Snake In The Eagle's Shadow”, “Drunken Master”, “Project A” , “City Hunter“ and so on. I liked “Drunken Master” especially. I must have been talking about those cheerfully to my classmates at my school.

One day, a old man came to me. He said he was a drunken boxer. He asked me if I liked drunken boxing. I said yes. Then he said to me that there were 8 forms expressing Drunken Eight Immortals in drunken boxing. Then he played the eight forms. He asked me which form I’d like to learn. I thought I’d like to learn the form just like dance of drinking sake with two small sake cups on his hands because I thought it was the most drunken boxinglike motion.

The form consisted of mainly two motions, one was the motion just like drinking sake with two small sake cups on his hands in the upper body and two was the motion just staggering in the lower body. These had to be occurred at the same time. The feet were really unstable.

After I learnt the basics of the form, I thought I’d like to learn more because it was interesting, though I wouldn’t fight. I asked him if I could learn more. He said no. I asked why. He said he received money to teach drunken boxing to me for only one form. So I couldn’t learn anymore. Though it was an event during only a few hour, I had a good time. By the way, who paid him the money?