Martialtalk Meetup

[Xue Sheng]

Yeah, we ran out of time for the mutual homicides. We might need to put that earlier on the schedule for next one.

probably just because I wasn't there

 

[skribs]

Yeah, we ran out of time for the mutual homicides. We might need to put that earlier on the schedule for next one.

If we're doing jiu-jitsu, then mutual homicides is not the worst thing we might encounter...

 

[Buka]

Is there still a dojo there or is it long gone?

Long gone. A second floor, really long dojo, great for drilling up and down the floor.

It was originally the Draft Board where we all had to register for the Vietnam war.

As the school grew the instructor would rent the office behind it, and with the landlord’s permission, take down the wall and make the dojo longer. That happened four times, giving us a nice loooong dojo.

There was a small Edison office (electric company) beside it on the same floor.
Since I had become the kid who opened and closed the dojo everyday (whether there were classes or not) the landlord asked me to show the office to a potential renter and show him around the whole building inside and out. So I did.

We had been broken into a couple years before and the landlord put up great security doors. I showed the renters every inch of the building telling them how great the landlord was. They believed me. They bought the building and evicted us.

For four years we dojo hopped, training and teaching at the dojos of friends and competitors.

After about a year I stopped in at where we were booted from. Just to see what was there and to quietly hate them all. But that didn’t happen. They had turned the place into a model train place. It was the coolest thing I ever saw. An enormous table, the length of the room, with a dozen train sets on it. Bridges, buildings, trees, towns, pedestrian crossings. It was awesome. I couldn’t hate anyone that made something that cool.

The place where the Tai-Chi place is now is about fifty feet away.

 

[JowGaWolf]

You don't understand..... a man's got to know his limitations....... and at a martial arts meet up....I would tend to forget those.... and these days, I tend to hurt myself..... more like.."Sure, what the heck, I'll give it a try" followed by "ow....where's my cane"

lol. I didn't forget mine, but I learned about some new ones lol.