Talk:Lei tai/Archive 1

message: I know this article is severely missing pictures. I've looked around and found several pictures of the famous leitai masters and even a picture of a modern Sanda fighting stage. I just need to get permission from the owners before I add them to the page! (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 06:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: I recently corresponded via email with Mr. Gene Ching, Associate Publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, about a separate article I am writing on the Chicken-Saber Sickle ( 鷄刀鐮) and, its cousin, the Chicken-Claw Sickle ( 鷄爪鐮). Anyway, I mentioned the Leitai article to him and he told me that the magazine publishes stuff from amateur writers and compensates them for their work. Unfortunately, they don’t publish works that have appeared in prior venues, like Wikipedia for instance. I wrote him back and said that it would be a GREAT idea for a Leitai article to appear in the magazine since Fearless (2006) came out in American theaters. I said that it sparked many peoples’ interest in the Leitai, including my own when I first saw it on dvd many months ago. I had heard of and done some research on the fighting stage prior to seeing this movie. But it was the movie that inspired me to write this article. I suggested to Mr. Ching that maybe an intern uses my article as a “Beginning” for some REAL in-depth research. I hope he takes my advise. (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 23:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kung Fu Magazine Article 

message: I'm glad to see this article, I just found it by accident. My teachers told me many stories about old style leitai matches, and even set up a few for us internally and with other schools for us to train for when I was younger. My main concern is that I got the feeling that in the old days it was a generic thing, a "state fair" kind of scheduled village entertainment where a school could show off or get shown up, sort of in the spirit of the lion dances. Which leads me to question whether the word "leitai" should be capitalised in the article? --Fire Star 火星 03:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just capitalize it because that's the name. It was more than "entertainment". People fought private duels on the Leitai and many times people died. That's why in 1928, the republic band the private duels on the Leitai. If you would like to "lower-case" all the "L's" you can. Just leave it alone in the opening paragraph. (!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 10:18, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital letter? 

message: I found the following site a long while ago, but just recently found it again by typing in the Chinese characters for "Da Lei Tai". It's a video game set in what looks like ancient times where combats face eachother on the lei tai. I would like to add snapshots of this game to the article as it falls under the fair use rule. 
http://bo.sohu.com/game/leitai.shtml
I don't know the name of it or all of its details, but I've left a request for translation on an administrator's page in the hopes they can help me gleam more material from the page.(!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 19:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the video game section with a few snapshots. However, I think there is a lot more involved with the game than what I wrote. There is one snapshot of the game that looks like 15-16 different lei tai's connected by roads that web out from a central starting point. Plus, there is a chart for points per lei tai. But the Babel Fish translator I use is not good enough for me to get a clear picture of what is going on. Thanks to Firestar for helping me!(!Mi luchador nombre es amoladora de la carne y traigo el dolor! 23:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video Game 

message: I just got permission to use the water lei tai photo from Kung fu Magazine associate publisher, Gene Ching. (Ghostexorcist 20:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the Fearless movie poster to the "Film" subheading under "Media". (Ghostexorcist 21:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pics 

message: Can someone change the book references to use the standard Template:Cite_book? -- Medains 11:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Book Refs