So this is a little recap of some martial arts mayhem last night. My head was swimming with all the techniques I learned last night at my Kali class. (We were learning stick attacks) I felt like it was sensory overload.
Apparently there are 7 attacks per stick angle and there are 7 counters to those attacks and there x amount of counters to the counters. Classic. I was lucky if I could manage to remember 3 of the 7 attacks we learned. I cheated a little I guess because I kept doing attack one and six over and over because they were easy to remember.
It is a fun class and I wish it was held more than one hour a week. I feel like I'm barely scrapped the surface. It is funny because I seem to do better under pressure when the instructor makes it seem like a life or death situation. Nothing like the threat of a fatal knife wound to get me motivated to learn the technique. I wonder how many times I have "died' in that class.
I named this blog entry because apparently one of the drills is to practice 7000 hits with the sticks. The "of death" add on (my idea) just makes me laugh.
Sidenote: I also got some laughs like this:
Me: Wow this looks tough! (watching a technique) This must be advanced.
Instructor: Advanced? This is whitebelt. (Laughter) Advanced for whitebelt I guess
Others : (Laughter)
Story of my life
-Rab
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
We Won! We Won!
Okay as a favour to a "friend" who loves the Bengals (wink,wink) I promised to give a play by play of the curling game on Monday. (Sidenote: I wish I would have updated this sooner. The game details are starting to get fuzzy. Here is the play by play:
End 1: We lost the toss and other team has hammer to start. We score 5 in the first round (5-0)
End 2: Opposing team scores 1 (5-1)
End 3: Our team scores 4 (9-1)
End 4 Opposing team scores 2 (9-3)
End 5 Our team scores 4 (12-3)
End 6 We finished the end and shook hands.
It helped that we had a substitution player that is really good and made all his shots. And I felt good going in and made say 70 percent of my shots. Overall a good game. Sorry I couldn't get into more details of each round. (My friend wanted a full play by play)
My friend can read this and edit it as necessary if he needs to. Hopefully our hot streak continues. Kaboom!
We are blowing up!
-Rab
End 1: We lost the toss and other team has hammer to start. We score 5 in the first round (5-0)
End 2: Opposing team scores 1 (5-1)
End 3: Our team scores 4 (9-1)
End 4 Opposing team scores 2 (9-3)
End 5 Our team scores 4 (12-3)
End 6 We finished the end and shook hands.
It helped that we had a substitution player that is really good and made all his shots. And I felt good going in and made say 70 percent of my shots. Overall a good game. Sorry I couldn't get into more details of each round. (My friend wanted a full play by play)
My friend can read this and edit it as necessary if he needs to. Hopefully our hot streak continues. Kaboom!
We are blowing up!
-Rab
Monday, February 7, 2011
More Website Mayhem!
Okay so today I stumbled across a cool website while browsing the postcrossing website. Here it is:
http://myrealwall.blogspot.com/
Basically a guy decided to have a "wall" of postcards and any letter people send him. He also takes a picture of the wall and blogs about it. I fired off a postcard today for him. His address is on his website.
So cross your fingers and maybe in a month my postcard will become a part of his "wall". Here's where my patience has to come into play.
Sidenote: Here is a good spot where I can bury a story about me. ( A little embarrassing) I went to the local comic book shop to play in a magic card tournament on the weekend. Well when I got there to play the owner of the store looked at me like I was a fish out of water. It went like this:
Owner: (Surprised) Can I help you?
Me: I'm here for the tournament. Is there one tonight?
Owner: We are waiting for two more people and then we get started.
Me: Okay. (I browsed around the store. The store had about ten people sitting down playing cards and talking.)
(Two minutes later)
Owner: There is no game tonight. Sorry (acting suspicious)
Me: Okay. (I left)
So I don't know whats worse between the following:
1) getting rejected by comic book/gaming nerds
2) magic cards was my Sat night option
3) or that I care enough to actually blog about it
Zing to myself!
Add-on: I was telling this story and someone was comparing it to losing a friend in life and being true to myself. LOL. I don't care what the local comic book guy thinks about me. End of transaction with him.
-Rab
http://myrealwall.blogspot.com/
Basically a guy decided to have a "wall" of postcards and any letter people send him. He also takes a picture of the wall and blogs about it. I fired off a postcard today for him. His address is on his website.
So cross your fingers and maybe in a month my postcard will become a part of his "wall". Here's where my patience has to come into play.
Sidenote: Here is a good spot where I can bury a story about me. ( A little embarrassing) I went to the local comic book shop to play in a magic card tournament on the weekend. Well when I got there to play the owner of the store looked at me like I was a fish out of water. It went like this:
Owner: (Surprised) Can I help you?
Me: I'm here for the tournament. Is there one tonight?
Owner: We are waiting for two more people and then we get started.
Me: Okay. (I browsed around the store. The store had about ten people sitting down playing cards and talking.)
(Two minutes later)
Owner: There is no game tonight. Sorry (acting suspicious)
Me: Okay. (I left)
So I don't know whats worse between the following:
1) getting rejected by comic book/gaming nerds
2) magic cards was my Sat night option
3) or that I care enough to actually blog about it
Zing to myself!
Add-on: I was telling this story and someone was comparing it to losing a friend in life and being true to myself. LOL. I don't care what the local comic book guy thinks about me. End of transaction with him.
-Rab
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