On the road again
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pecuniumNext week I'm off to San Diego.
A conference, for an exercise in Ukraine. With luck (here's hoping) This one will be at Naval Station Coronado again. I have no idea how the conference will be run, nor yet if anyone I know (from the Ukrainian/European side of things) will be there.
I will have a car, probably at least one evening to myself and the name of a dojo in the area; so I might be able to train while I'm in SD, which would be nice. Last night was probably very good for me, but I felt as though I was uncoordinated, never able to relax enough to enter the moment (ten minutes of work with Paul is great, for precise technique, but can make one feel as if breathing is the far limit of one's skills, and that a very basic breathing, not more than merely exchanging O2 for CO2. I am probably better at Tenchi Nage as well as all the building blocks in the technique [I know this to be true, because some of it carried over to the next thing we were working on] but it's hard work training with Paul, because, while one need not be perfect, he doesn't give anything away. On the other hand, it isn't as if he treats anyone differently. I saw him exploit Michelle Sensei's lack of extention to reverse things in a demonstration last night too). Since I don't think I'll get to train much in January, and latter part of Dec. is likely to have a lot of lost training days, grabbing a night visiting another dojo would be nice.
I also might be able to break away, if anyone wants to meet for dinner, though I can't make any promises.
So, from Friday to a week from Monday I may be a tad out of the loop here (unless I can get my computer's internet to work by reformatting the damned thing) since I'll have limited time, and limited access.
Now to work on todays sourdough loaf, and maybe some beer bread (the seasonal brew from TJ's [despite the horror of the label "Brewed once a year in limited quantity, please enjoy Trader Joe's inaugural Vintage Ale"] is very good, though potent. Sweet, lots of malt it's a dark ale on lees, 9 percent alcohol. Put up in 750ml bottles from UNIBROUE, a Belgian style brewery in Canada, which the staff at my favorite Belgian restaurant {Mon Grenier, in Encino} said good things about last week. It ought to improve well, and I think a few more bottles are in order] and bottle of Anchor's 2004 Christmas Ale are both sitting here with some unfinished bits) will fill the day, as I do the laundry, set up a new rack of ribbons for the inspection Sat. Morning, prep some dough to make small kaiser rolls for the C. Co. Holiday Party to follow the inspection and pack for the next week.
A conference, for an exercise in Ukraine. With luck (here's hoping) This one will be at Naval Station Coronado again. I have no idea how the conference will be run, nor yet if anyone I know (from the Ukrainian/European side of things) will be there.
I will have a car, probably at least one evening to myself and the name of a dojo in the area; so I might be able to train while I'm in SD, which would be nice. Last night was probably very good for me, but I felt as though I was uncoordinated, never able to relax enough to enter the moment (ten minutes of work with Paul is great, for precise technique, but can make one feel as if breathing is the far limit of one's skills, and that a very basic breathing, not more than merely exchanging O2 for CO2. I am probably better at Tenchi Nage as well as all the building blocks in the technique [I know this to be true, because some of it carried over to the next thing we were working on] but it's hard work training with Paul, because, while one need not be perfect, he doesn't give anything away. On the other hand, it isn't as if he treats anyone differently. I saw him exploit Michelle Sensei's lack of extention to reverse things in a demonstration last night too). Since I don't think I'll get to train much in January, and latter part of Dec. is likely to have a lot of lost training days, grabbing a night visiting another dojo would be nice.
I also might be able to break away, if anyone wants to meet for dinner, though I can't make any promises.
So, from Friday to a week from Monday I may be a tad out of the loop here (unless I can get my computer's internet to work by reformatting the damned thing) since I'll have limited time, and limited access.
Now to work on todays sourdough loaf, and maybe some beer bread (the seasonal brew from TJ's [despite the horror of the label "Brewed once a year in limited quantity, please enjoy Trader Joe's inaugural Vintage Ale"] is very good, though potent. Sweet, lots of malt it's a dark ale on lees, 9 percent alcohol. Put up in 750ml bottles from UNIBROUE, a Belgian style brewery in Canada, which the staff at my favorite Belgian restaurant {Mon Grenier, in Encino} said good things about last week. It ought to improve well, and I think a few more bottles are in order] and bottle of Anchor's 2004 Christmas Ale are both sitting here with some unfinished bits) will fill the day, as I do the laundry, set up a new rack of ribbons for the inspection Sat. Morning, prep some dough to make small kaiser rolls for the C. Co. Holiday Party to follow the inspection and pack for the next week.
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Date: 2005-12-02 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-02 03:47 pm (UTC)For other arts I practice, or have trained in, Judo and Tai Chi Chu'an (A long time ago, about all that remains of that is good falling technique... it's been, we'll round it off and say 25 years since I last trained in judo, and 20 for the tai chi).
Half a dozen blade styles, from classical western foil, rapier, blade and buckler, knife, pike, naginata, katana to bayonette. If it's got an edge, and one can hold it, I've probably given it a test run.
Pi-bu... an esoteric, and syncretic martial art; designed, and humorusly named by my knife fighting instructor. It's mostly about situational awareness and knowing the limits of what you know. One of the easier aspects to explain is, "always spend some time training under the influence of one's recreational drug of choice, as the odds of ending up in a fight are higher when one is under the influence."
Lots of firearms. Some of that is discipline (and I'll put the archery in here) and some of it is practical. Most of the practical is because I'm in the Army, and there is a decided focus on the applied use of firearms.
Out of context it sounds as if all I do is play with toys and the like, but that's almost 30 years of interest.
TK
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Date: 2005-12-04 05:38 pm (UTC)I hope you'll take it as a compliment if I note that you don't look old for such concepts of "a long time ago". I mean, it's clear from your viewpoints and your writing style that you are (in that they show that much thought and experience), but you photo certainly doesn't look it.
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Date: 2005-12-09 01:17 am (UTC)These days, no so much.
TK