Originally Posted by
Yum Cha
Travis, right?
Ok, you put me in a difficult position...
You see, I started training with your Si Gung when I was one of those guys that was primarily a Tae Kwon Do guy, with '3 months' of this and that over about 10 or more years. After a couple of years of full contact training with Cheung Leung and fighting with Adrian, Eduardo, Donnie, and Sam, (you know Sam, right?) it got me to a second place in the NSW State Championships.
Each of those guys was a champion, some several years running. My blood was on the walls of that Kwoon, and so was a little trophy, up amongst dozens of others, some of them a lot bigger. I earned that by taking a beating 5 nights a week from big heavyweights down to squirly lightweights, the tournament itself was easy. Now, I was there with a bunch of great lads, guys I still see every New Year, James, Valient, Ming, Herman, Uncle Kit and the rest of them, and I still pay my respects. I trained with those guys until the kwoon closed its doors. You can understand how it would be really offensive of someone who wasn't there sweating and bleeding 5 nights a week for club honour was saying that they were? As for Gazza's achievements, well, they speak for themselves.
While I don't expect you to understand, honour, brotherhood and tradition. I'll cut to the chase, You think there's anything on that 25 year old tape of me, with 2 years experience, bleeding the Pak Hok guy for a win is something that would embarrass me?
Just the opposite Peaches, that's gold, probably something as dear to me as anything out there, I've been looking for that tape for a long time. I only ever saw it once, got my 5 minutes with Cheung Leung, and I remember the big lesson I got from it.
So, instead of dropping me an email saying, 'Hey Uncle Matty, I got some vid of you back in the day, wanna copy?' and earning my friendship, gratitude and respect, yet still getting the chance to gig me for laughs, man to man, instead you choose to taunt me with this online in public, and you know I like to keep it private.
You make your choices I guess. You can join Kyle in the 'Pests from Gary" club.