attention WaterDragon

[fa_jing]

Yo' train is broke. Check your e-mail.

-FJ

[Water Dragon]

??? My inbox is empty ???

[Water Dragon]

da.mn, I'm out today. The wife is picking me up after work. Otherwise, I wont get home until midnight.

[fa_jing]

maybe I messed up? anyway, South Shore and Metra lines are out of service at least until tomorrow- there was a derailment at 11th street and some lines came down. I spoke to a guy that was stopping people from entering at Van Buren. They have some buses set up, to get to Indiana first you have to arrive at Kensington on a bus provided by METRA (from Union Station, I think), then South Shore "probably" has some buses that will take you the rest of the way from there, sounds like they don't even have a plan yet. You can check out the article at www.chicagotribune.com

[fa_jing]

Well, in my e-mail I offered you a ride home...Don't know what's best, did want to train today.

-FJ

[Water Dragon]

Well, I don't know how good I'll be today. I haven't trained since my dawg ran away and may be getting the flu. But if you want to make the trip, I'll give as good as I can. Let me know, so I can make plans with the wife.

[fa_jing]

give me a call at work.

[Royal Dragon]

Did you send me an E-Mail?

[SevenStar]

when did the dog run away? Now who am I gonna train with?

[Water Dragon]

RD, I haven't e-mailed you. As soon as I get some info from Lil Joe for this weekend, I'll let you know.

Sev, the dawg ran away June 25. I'm gonna start working out again this weekend. He was a good dawg too.

[ewallace]

We gonna grab a beer or twelve when you're down here or what?

[Royal Dragon]

I can get us into the gym a few nights a week at 6:00, or Monday-Wed at 7:00

[MonkeySlap Too]

Myoung's at my place. I'm not sure when he's returning from his travels - I'll ask him tonight.

[MonkeySlap Too]

Myoung's at my place. I'm not sure when he's returning from his travels - I'll ask him tonight.

[Royal Dragon]

You need a cable modem, so I don't get busy signals when I call you.

[Water Dragon]

No class this weekend, Lil Joe has a wedding to go to. I'll be training w/ John Wang next weekend :D (or thereabouts)

ewallace - yup

[Royal Dragon]

I'm on the 'telly with him right now.

[fa_jing]

We're planning on doing some sparring at my Kwoon Sunday at 5:00 pm on the Northside of Chicago, if anyone's interested. You can e-mail or PM me. Sifu sezs guests are welcome, if I know you.
Or we could do something separate, maybe Saturday.

-FJ

[Water Dragon]

How late will you be there til on Sunday? I might be able to make it after 7:00 PM

[fa_jing]

Well, normally we end at 7, but I can ask my Sifu to push up the class time to 6-8 if I know you're coming. Whaddabout after your BJJ class on Saturday?

[fa_jing]

Oh yeah if you can make it to my sifu's class we can get the sparring on digital film. I could even ask my Sifu to reschedule for tomorrow, possibly.

-FJ

[fa_jing]

Water must still be stuck practicing his San Ti on the SouthShore line.

[SevenStar]

If MJ is living and training with the brutal *******.... you may never see him again :D

[Royal Dragon]

:D

[SevenStar]

:D indeed

[fa_jing]

Well WD and I have scheduled for Monday after work, hope he brings his gloves!! I've got a big sparring session tonight, hopefully I'll have something left for him tomorrow.

-FJ

[SevenStar]

you guys going light or full?

[fa_jing]

Update - I sparred 4 consecutive rounds, one punching, one punching and kicking, with each of my sifu and his younger student. Then I did 2 rounds, non consecutively, of body taps with Sifu's old training partner, who stopped by to put some work in. We got all this on digital video.
We took it somewhat easy in the beginning, but things got pretty intense. Still, thankfully we didn't knock each other out. Some damage sustained, would still like to go for tomorrow.

Sev- ideally, instensity-wise you should be able to vary from 1 to ten, but once we get going, it is always 7 - 8. Sometimes we go to 9 and we hurt each other, I don't even want to think about going to 10.

I'm still down for training tomorrow and I'll bring my bag. If WD wants to get together Tuesday instead, that's good too and I'll leave my bag in a locker for the next day.

P.S. we hadn't sparred in a long time and I kinda sucked tonight. So much room to improve - looking forward to viewing this tape and analyzing my mistakes, which seemed to repeat themselves. Correctable stuff, for the most part.

-FJ

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

it's neat that nearly all the people i respect most on this forum actually train togeather.