Maruichi bagels!


Maruichi bagels!
Originally uploaded by renfield

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Today at lunch in the dojo there were a couple of guys I hadn't worked with before, including one who is a semi-pro boxer getting ready for a fight soon.
At the end of the session I went one minute with him: mistake. Hands too fast it was all I could do to keep my head from getting knocked off, and then I took a hook to the ribs that didn't so much hurt as instantly knock all the air out of my lungs.
Dropped to my knees and tried to take a slow, deep breath, having flashbacks to the one and only time I played baseball as a little kid, and caught a hoppy line-drive right into the stomach. Same feeling of can't-breathe!, only this time I knew what to do.
Best part was, after me he went 3 minutes with another new guy, and 2 minutes into it, the semi-pro boxer (not the new guy!) suddenly stopped the fight and dropped to his knees -- he was panting, covered in sweat and totally out of breath!
Everyone told me: "If you just kept your guard solid, come into him more, and got aggressive, you would have tired him out!"
Good practice; at least now I know what it's like to square off with someone exactly my size but completely out of my league.

Prison eggs


Prison eggs
Originally uploaded by renfield

With cabbage, red onion, green beans, chick peas, smuggled can of scallops.