for the period of july 19th through july 31st, i'll be out of country, going to temple-sur-lot in france for an aikibudo training camp.

on my return, i'll be in-town and available for the next five days after wich i'm leaving for california for apple's wwdc, for another 10 days.

have a great time while i'm gone!

ps

i'm bringing vaal'ok dasmar with me ;-)

Have a safe trip man. and tell up about the wwdc when you get back from california :)

heh im in paris too 4 a week teh azerty keyboards suck balls

i'm back for a few days before heading off to california this saturday.

t'was a gruesome 6 days of aikibudo training, each amounting to about 7 hours of practice. this is what i did to someone who said something incomprehensible to me in japanese. i don't know what he said but i'm sure my sister was involved so i didn't take any chance: slam!



i have yet to put up all the aikibudo pictures online but for the curious, here are some pictures of "temple sur lot" (somewhere between bordeau and toulouse) and the "domaine de lembrun", where the dojos were located:

http://homepage.mac.com/mouser/PhotoAlbum12.html

http://homepage.mac.com/mouser/PhotoAlbum13.html

Tsk, Tsk, upper case...

Shouldn't you be shifting your body weight to your right and coming down with your right elbow at this point? Come ON, he insulted your SISTER!

Hahahaha. <sigh> Looks like a blast. I miss being able to afford/go to/have time for serious martial arts.

the finality of a koshi nage is actually worse. that right arm i'm holding will stay in a kote (wrist) articulation lock as i twist the poor soul's arm to turn him flat on his tummy at wich point my left knee will secure his shoulder blade on the ground while his (right) arm gets shoulder/elbow -locked between my legs (that position is called robuse), leaving both my arms free to whack him on the back of the head or, better yet, play cards while he's in pain.

:p

it looks somewhat like this:



(although this particular one is not very well executed but the photo might have been taken as he was releasing the lock)

"Ow... the pain... just... leave me here... please... ow..."

well i'm back, this time from wwdc.

i'll put up some photos for those who are interested. later though. i have other things to attend in the immediate futur.

Coo'o'rony Uppercase, I'm a red belt meself, in it-qon-do...

i'm actually brown belt (1st kyu), preparing my black for next year.

in aikibudo, the tradition calls for white belts to be worn until you're black belt, in europe. though, we discovered some dojo in france and belgium are breaking the tradition and wearing colors like it's done in americas (and worldwide for other disciplines like judo, karate etc).

i've never heard of it-quon-do. where does that originate from? any similarities with tai-quon-do?

Other then the fact that apparently one of the members can't spell, yep.

/me smacks himself.
(tai qon do, I spelled it wrong)

*EDIT* this is the website of the dojo I go to, they don't have a good website....Something about what they do :P :http://www.kickconnection.com/

I've made a few feeble attempts at posting on the fourms. To barely any effect :o

Also, you have to listen to this, I grew up on it... :http://beagleweb.com/personal/Frantics-Tae-Kwon-Leep-64k.mp3
It's .....Awesome.

/me didn't listen to the link yet but...

Dr. Demento Boot to the Head?

EDIT: Yes! Boot to the Head!

*Ka-thunk*