Broken Lances and the Children of Hell
There were about seventy five people on the field, and after the sides settled out, we had about a third the number of the other side. We had a slight edge in experienced fighters, and it was one of my…
Giant Killing
When I was 19, I was studying Hung Gar Gung Fu. I trained really hard, five or six days a week, lots of weight training and full-contact work. At one point I was working graveyards at a 7-11 in what…
To suck or to not suck
Spending the morning cruising through the websites of various WMA groups, checking out youtube videos. Painful experience. I know bad video is a thing that can happen to anyone. It’s the rule more than the exception. I do kind of…
Ground zero
I got a lot of benefits out of being trained in the survival of the fittest school of fencing. Challenge matches against other martial artists are a breeze. I’m used to the crazy, the insane, the unexpected. When I was…
A Little Night Music
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Step back into the past
I’m starting to get a nice groove going in the mornings. Get up, make coffee and have a healthy breakfast of cereal, with a cup of berries and extra cream, and a few fish oil pills. After seeing my wife…
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