Saturday Oct 16, 2004

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illness has basically gone away. just still hacking and coughing, but whatever, i can deal with that. i saw team america again today. i saw it last week also as a sneak preview and it was good both times! good, crude, crazy, offensive (not offensive to me, but all the tighwads out there) humor. the weekend's almost over now. its 145 am on a sunday. blah, i hate that. that went by much too fast. here's a show i recommend. venture brothers on cartoon network. funny stuff. im wondering, should i put a pic of me back up there? i kinda like my freaky scary picture
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boundcreature:
well, i had what would be described as great tkd instructors, the problem was that i do not feel any fundamental attachment to tkd. thats more for flexibility, point-sparring, etc. whenever they tried to package it as self-defense, i knew clearly a lot of these techniques wouldn't work (and, i also recognized many techniques that had been appropriated from more defense oriented fighting styles like aikido and jujitsu). i respected the instructors to some extent, but i felt their techniques and style of teaching would cause their students to get hurt bad should they ever have to really fight.

i entered this school with a black belt in tang soo do (a very similar style, though less commercial) and was never treated with the respect i felt i deserved as someone with ten years of experience. they gave me a white belt and started me in beginners classes (which was fine, for a week or two) but it got to the point where they wouldn't let me fight on the full-contact nights because i was "new" or some shit. i asked an instructor about it, and he said maybe they didn't think i was ready. i dunno. i've been doing this shit for ten years, like i said.

so, i decided to drop the bullshit, drop all of the fucking pads and fake kicks, and i found (after a long search) a muay thai school that was offereing everything that i desired. i've been amazed with the sport ever since i was 12 and saw the van damme flick KICKBOXER (haha - i know its lame, and tong po is like a cartoon exagerration of muay thai, but i just loved the imagery and style it represented). i took an introductory class and loved it, right now i'm just waiting on some money and some time in my schedule to do it regularly.
deathhippie:
We launched JTL this morning. It went really smoothly. I have only found one real bug where a camera toggle does not work right. I do not play SWG much on my free time anymore. Its kind of redundant to go home and do what you were doing at work. I think JTL is prettydamn cool though. Once I get my copy of JTL for my play account your welcome to log into my account to check it out if you want.

The noob ship is as slow as a brick however, it gets much better as you upgrade.

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