Daily Archives: Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Do you suffer from the heartbreak of hat hair?

Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Administrator

Then don’t wear a bike helmet, bozo!: As you can see, I’m pretty broken up about it. I’ve only gone a paltry 34 or so km so far on my bike this year. It’s so hard to find time what with the work, the running, the karate, the liquor drinking and carousing, and so on that biking is gonna be a tough thing to schedule. Nevertheless I have to warm up to first my metric century then a real one. Should be fun. It’s really nice to be able to actually shift gears when you need to. Way cool. Speaking of way cool, apart from porcupines, badgers, moose, geese, hawks, bald eagles, deer, and a host of other critters including woody woodpecker (pileated woodpecker) some demented squirrels, and bunnies, we have coyotes that regularly prowl our back yard. Here’s a quick and dirty video I took out my front door … Continue reading →

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Karate 42

Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Administrator

We had another productive class today wherein we concentrated on kicks. We got to use the mats. I love kicking the mats because you can use full power and it’s just so much easier hitting a target than kicking the air. We did front thrust kicks, front snap kicks, roundhouse kicks, side thrust kicks, then back kicks. After that we practice ippon kumites 1 through 15. My partner was Sensei Kerrie. Then we did Yakushoku again with Sensei Kerrie as my partner. This I am not good at. In spite of urgings from Sensei Kerrie and Sensei Pat to attack like I meant it, I could not bring myself to really commit to the attack. I am getting better, but still I hesitate. Sensei Pat laughs and points to Sensei Kerrie’s black belt to say that she can handle anything I could throw at her. Intellectually I know this is … Continue reading →

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