Lupa hugs
Good way to start the last night of a long weekend.
Friday night I went out in Corvallis.... because it was 5 minutes from here. Free Lindy Hop class and a public dance at the University with with a pretty diverse crowd. They got a lot more people than they were expecting. Stopped by the Corvallis Elks on the way home for a beer and got in late.
Got up real early and headed to Eugene to Alan Best's dojo for the Pacific Martial Arts Conference. Matthew and I were the second instructors of the day. Right after Sensei Best. We taught a front lead power punch from early European Pugilism traditions. The body mechanics of it are a bit alien to most eastern martial artists and people tended to struggle with it. We then showed a front lead counter punch to this punch which gets you offline and uses the punching arm to also block the incoming punch. We then taught a takedown from there. Pictures about to be posted to the Academia Duellatoria facebook page.
My leg still isn't healed up after a year. Supporting myself on my right leg while throwing round kicks is dicy. Pose on it doing slow drills while someone else is practicing catching those kicks to execute a throw..... forget it. That tendon in the back of the knee still has a ways to go.
Trying to keep up with the class by the TaeKwonDo instructor almost killed me. I am out of shape for all the high kicking stuff. Had a great 8 hours at the symposium/conference though. It still amazes me a bit that Matthew and I can step into this crowd with what we do and hold our own teaching this stuff. We got good feedback from people. Sore and tired by the end of the day.
Met a new friend for dinner afterwards. Was out late and ended up staying the night in Eugene. Got in Sunday and tackled some work and correspondence, took a short nap and then was up getting ready to go again.
First stopped at the Lovecraft Bar in Portland to meet up with Lupa who was vending. She greeted me with a big hug. Lupa has made me an owl healing totem for a friend in california dealing with her second round of cancer treatment after they discovered more and different areas of lymph node cancer after we though she had beat her first round of treatments last summer. I am going to do a little healing energy work with it myself and mail it off next weekend. Also had some great sushi and a good beer while I was there, and meet a couple of friends in a totally unplanned encounter. America is looking great and has lost so much weight I almost didn't recognize her.
Then it was off to my evening dance lessons. On the way there I got a call from Sienna who is moving to Canada in a few weeks. Left the dance around 10 and went over to her place. We spent the time mostly talking and browsing craigslist rental ads for the Vancouver Canada area. She needs to be up there mid February. Valkrie came home from work and we all talked a bit before I left about 12:30 and headed home.
Tired and sore today. My body hasn't felt like this in a long time.......
I have work waiting for me, but I havn't gotten much done today.
Friday night I went out in Corvallis.... because it was 5 minutes from here. Free Lindy Hop class and a public dance at the University with with a pretty diverse crowd. They got a lot more people than they were expecting. Stopped by the Corvallis Elks on the way home for a beer and got in late.
Got up real early and headed to Eugene to Alan Best's dojo for the Pacific Martial Arts Conference. Matthew and I were the second instructors of the day. Right after Sensei Best. We taught a front lead power punch from early European Pugilism traditions. The body mechanics of it are a bit alien to most eastern martial artists and people tended to struggle with it. We then showed a front lead counter punch to this punch which gets you offline and uses the punching arm to also block the incoming punch. We then taught a takedown from there. Pictures about to be posted to the Academia Duellatoria facebook page.
My leg still isn't healed up after a year. Supporting myself on my right leg while throwing round kicks is dicy. Pose on it doing slow drills while someone else is practicing catching those kicks to execute a throw..... forget it. That tendon in the back of the knee still has a ways to go.
Trying to keep up with the class by the TaeKwonDo instructor almost killed me. I am out of shape for all the high kicking stuff. Had a great 8 hours at the symposium/conference though. It still amazes me a bit that Matthew and I can step into this crowd with what we do and hold our own teaching this stuff. We got good feedback from people. Sore and tired by the end of the day.
Met a new friend for dinner afterwards. Was out late and ended up staying the night in Eugene. Got in Sunday and tackled some work and correspondence, took a short nap and then was up getting ready to go again.
First stopped at the Lovecraft Bar in Portland to meet up with Lupa who was vending. She greeted me with a big hug. Lupa has made me an owl healing totem for a friend in california dealing with her second round of cancer treatment after they discovered more and different areas of lymph node cancer after we though she had beat her first round of treatments last summer. I am going to do a little healing energy work with it myself and mail it off next weekend. Also had some great sushi and a good beer while I was there, and meet a couple of friends in a totally unplanned encounter. America is looking great and has lost so much weight I almost didn't recognize her.
Then it was off to my evening dance lessons. On the way there I got a call from Sienna who is moving to Canada in a few weeks. Left the dance around 10 and went over to her place. We spent the time mostly talking and browsing craigslist rental ads for the Vancouver Canada area. She needs to be up there mid February. Valkrie came home from work and we all talked a bit before I left about 12:30 and headed home.
Tired and sore today. My body hasn't felt like this in a long time.......
I have work waiting for me, but I havn't gotten much done today.