The truth, it's been said, depends on one's point of view.
From one point of view, I could tell the story of how I was screwed with at the Diamond Mines, and then immediately made it clear to one of the two people involved (the other one left before I had a chance at him), by way of a bruise or two (that he probably won't even feel tomorrow) that I don't tolerate such behavior.
From another point...
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Friday, January 28, 2005
Well, I've been feeling better, but E hasn't. She was cooped up in the house for the past two days and decided that she needed out. So instead of going to Fight Club, E picked me up from the coffee shop and we hung out at Wally World, just for the heck of it. She wanted picture frames, but the crap they had...
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Which member of the JLA are you?BatmanLosing his parents to a tragic mugging, Bruce Wayne took a vow to wage a one man war on crime. Using the image of the bat to strike fear into criminals, he dons the guise of the Dark Knight after the sun sets. A genius detective and scientist he is a valuable member to the...
Monday, January 24, 2005
(That's just a line from Cassandra Wilson's vocal version of Wayne Shorter's E.S.P. - nothing at all really to do with the following post.)
I don’t know, these have been a messed-up past few days. I mean, nothing’s gone catastrophically wrong or anything – just full of negative outcomes and general badness. Between life at the Diamond Mines, a “mix-up” regarding a coaches pass for the Fight Club,...
Friday, January 21, 2005
I realize a coffee shop is a public place, but for Christ's sake, how is that license to allow five-year-olds (wtf are they doing at a coffee shop at quarter to noon, anyway?) to run around the place making noise?
Every couple of days I'm in here, a couple of dads show up and bring their kids. The dads chat while their kids (always within eyesight of them) proceed to climb about the couches, making...
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Monday, January 17, 2005
I certainly did enjoy The House of Flying Daggers! This, despite Ching Siu Tung taking much more than a few pages from Yuen Woo-Ping's playbook. This is just my opinion, but all I could think about while watching Daggers is that this is what Bruce must've had in mind when he envisioned quality movies by Asians that still make good on the bottom li...
Today's the second day in a string of "two days off from the Diamond Mines." This late in the day, I've managed to accomplish even less than I did yesterday.
When I could've been blogging about how much E and I enjoyed The House of Flying Daggers, I spent an unreasonable amount of time doing web research to support the hypothesis that getting published on McSweeney's is too easy. I've heard some...
Friday, January 14, 2005
It's official - I'm waaay too f**king out of shape. Couldn't even do half of a ten-lap cardio run. Now, I did manage to make it through the TKD-style kicks the club drilled. Man, it's been over a year since the last time I helped anyone with the mechanics of a dwi chuggi.
Probably the most useful drill last night was on using vectoring footwork to maneuver past someone firing jab/cross combos....
Thursday, January 13, 2005
This week, I've had one of those rare occassions of enjoying two consecutive days off. I've spent a lot of that time poring deeply over the Inosanto book, making notes just as I would any other textbook.
I spent an hour reading and re-reading the section on body angling while I had coffee and breakfast at the local "hippie hangout" by my house. I've lived in this town over a year now, and this...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Fight Club
Went to Fight Club last night, which started off with an extensive cardio warm-up. Now, I know I said my saving grace thus far was a refusal to keep up with the 20 year-olds, but now I'm wondering whether or not that's what whipped my @$$ into shape relatively quickly this time last year. It sure wasn't the flying spear-knees that we got to do last night, that's for sure. They started...
Monday, January 10, 2005
Who says you shouldn't kick a man while he's down? Not Bruce...
I snagged this while I was playing with the university's scanners. Between that and the mp3 player/USB flash drive I bought, the process is a whole lot more smooth. I even scanned all the Tao of JKD pages related to Bruce's Five Ways of...
E and I took an impromptu trip to Columbus yesterday, since I had a rare Sunday off. She got to spend the morning at her old Buddhist center and we got to meet with the head Lama who will marry us. Besides all the other little things, we've now got some more concrete plans, which makes the whole prospect blissfully more re...
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
As Dr. Smith from Lost in Space would say, "Oh, the pain... the pain." Sure, I needed E to get me in, but it was worth it. Two hours of cardio/pad work. I have to say that as bad as it hurts now, it didn't hurt like I thought it was going to. Maybe that's because this year, I didn't try to keep up with the 20 year olds like I did this time last year. Oh, and I guess the "Coaches Pass" really...
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Get engaged.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Some of them, and yes there are some for '05.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
I wish. I visited the state of Inebriation several times, if that counts.
6. What...
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Maybe this is why I like leaving the house to go to coffee shops so much...?
You Are a Traveler Soul
You're a thrill seeker who loves to be active and on the move
You love to wander: between places, ideas, and people.
A good communicator, you're a nonconformist and interested in the world.
You are an...
I've now scanned, edited and compiled 19 of my favorite Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu techniques in .pdf format with the intention of putting my "ninja scrolls" on CD-ROM. That way, instead of handing down outdated pieces of crinkling yellow paper to future generations of my progeny, I can hand down an outmoded piece of technolo...
Something I read from Tao of Jeet Kune Do stayed with me.Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. Perception alone will resolve all our problems.I can only hope.
While E and I were visiting Mamazoo in NY over Christmas, we hung out at a B&N, where I purchased Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living. I know, I know,...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
I was reading the chapter on Triangulations of Footwork and Striking in the Inosanto book, particularly the section on defensive footwork. I need to read it about three more times, but it's helped me get a better sense of the application, especially when supplemented by the clip on dogbrothers.com on footwork.
How can I describe having this 24 year old book? Training with DATU_B (who gave me the...
Monday, January 03, 2005
"It has been proven in boxing," [escrima master Ben Largusa] says, "that the hands are faster than the eye. If you shoot six darts at me at once, I can't defend against each one, so I treat them as one dart. If you throw three or four punches at me very fast, I treat them as one punch. They are only one point of your rhythm triangle. Once you understand the theory of the rhythm triangle, you can...
Aside from these two books, I've got one more to pore through...
That's right, b**tches...
Between these, kamagong sticks, training with DATU_B, and perhaps the ol' Fight Club... oooh, yeah...
I figure I've got about 6 months to cram in all the martial arts training I possibly can. I've got workout...
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