Pezfu!!!

[PangQuan]

Hey, I just noticed its your day. Happy B Day man.

I also noticed you live in Portland. I live in Portland also. I study under Sifu Tran Duy Minh at the Chinese Kung Fu Assosiation. There is a Karate competition on May 6th, our school will be attending, and doing some forms and sparring. I dont know if sifu is going to have me compete or not. But Ill go anyhow at least to watch. Im not in the advanced class yet, so I doubt Ill be competing for him.

[PezFu]

thanks for the birthday wish. nice to "meet" a fellow portlandian. i train at the Academy of Kung Fu on SE 21st and Powell under Sifu Kyle Alexander. i'm attending a tournament this weekend at Barringer's. should be a lot of fun. except they're not allowing strikes to the head. :( what type o' crap is that? at any rate, thanks and nice to meet you.

www.academyofkungfu.org

[PangQuan]

Is this a Kung Fu comp? What is the entry fee for spectation. Are you going to compete?

[PezFu]

it's a hapkido tournament. and i am competing. here's the site to get the low-down if'n ya care:

www.modernhapkido.com

[Happeh]

I just had to look at this thread when I saw "PezFu".

Amusing name. :)

[Chief Fox]

Not trying to bust on that school or anything but I went to their "Fight Club" page and they have very little experience and not many wins. http://www.modernhapkido.com/fighter.html

So it's like "Come train to fight at our school, we're inexperienced and we know how to loose!"

[PangQuan]

Hmmm... It seems a little odd that a 35 year old Hapkido instructor would have only one bout under his belt. And that one a loss to boot.

[PezFu]

the head instructor of the modern hapkido school, ken barringer, just fought in his first MMA on the 26th and lost by rear-naked choke in less than 2 minutes of the 1st round. i have to admit i was a bit surprised by the outcome but i don't know him in the least bit. he always seemed more skilled than that but as the saying goes, "looks can be deceiving."

i'm not advocating their training methods nor am i vouching for the experience or quality of their methods, i merely attend as many full-contact tournaments as i can (barringer's does quite a few every year) so i can slowly work my way up to doing the MMA thing. i'm doing the baby steps procedure. again, i, myself, train here:


www.academyofkungfu.org


at any rate, my intent with these posts wasn't to promote any particular school (except, obviously, where i train) nor put down any particular school. it was merely to respond to a birthday wish, potentially make a new friend in the realm of the martial arts and to explain the type of tournament i'm doing this saturday (the 2nd of april).

i do know that once i decide to really take the big plunge and step into the MMA world i'm gonna go here:

www.tqfc.com

these guys have the "skills to pay the bills", so to speak.

ciao...

[PangQuan]

Im glad your not going to go to straight blast. :rolleyes:

Team Quest is good. My weekends are generally smash full of training, due to the whole having to work on weekday thing. But if I can I will try and make it to watch the fights. So this is taking place at their training area? What will the entry fee be if there is one for spectation?

[Chief Fox]

Hey Pez, sorry if it sounded like I was busting on you or you school. I wasn't. I just thought it was funny that the other school had a page dedicated to their loosing record.

Good luck at the tournament this weekend.