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Post? What post?

What post?

I could have sworn I saw something just now... Hm. Guess not.

Mass hallucinations!? All quoting the same nonexistant line? Perhaps this post is haunted...

I'm currently having my own little going insane session. A couple of days ago I bought, for reasons I can't begin to imagine, a coconut which is now sitting in the corner of my room looking at me. What one earth do you do with a coconut? Even once you're inside, which isn't easy, it's horrible. Is there some way of cooking them or something which tastes nice? And why did I buy one?

You bought it because it looks cool, my good man. And once you're inside, milk it a bit, then shred the rest and use it for cakes. Fresh grinded coconut is probably much better than that crap I get from a plastic bag.

Kiln, my good man, there are times we all feel down and out. Some of us have longer periods, some just flukes. Whenever you're ready to pour things onto us, I am sure there will be people here who will listen. Keep your head up.

Me, I'm not happy because tomorrow is a working day.

Just throw it away.

Preferably onto somebody's head.

Have set a start date for my new job: May 4th. Will be moving to Utah next week. Exciting times.

Congratulations Canis! Hope all goes well.

I got my orange belt in Aikido tonight.

My dojo gets hot so I was pouring with swaet afterwards.

Haha, congrats. My dojo gets like that sometimes as well. Near the end of this year I'll be doing my first dan grading in Shotokan Karate. Was training with Master Kanazawa and his son Nobuaki (think I spelled that right...) last night, fantastic as always.

Good stuff. Aikido is an interesting one, I've trained with guys who've done it a few times and they're seriously hard to hit. Trust me a hot dojo is better than a cold one, I've train in one really cold one and its just not nice, almost every injury I get is from cold mats.

Green next?

Congratulations, Sensei. Soon, you will live up to your nick.

Aye, Green next, but thats a way off I think. No need to rush though.

And a hot dojo probably is better but I don't take as well to heat as other people. by the time I was finished I looked like I'd just got out of a boiling shower.

Silly coffee house and it's longevity.... How've all you kids been?

Hehe the kids are probably ok...as for me, well I'm fine but I work too much. How about you Soulie?

Dude no way, I do exactly the same style of Karate in Britain, and I've trained with Kanazawa in Ukraine and Japan too! Are you going to the world championships in Athens this year?

Our sensei is Hanshi Asano, I'm not sure you may have heard of him - he's like second in command to Kanazawa.

P.S Our dojos are always cold... oh so cold... *shudders*

This post has been edited by Illydoor: Apr 28 2009, 07:40 PM

Bope, I'm not competitive... I know a couple of people who I believe are going there though. Haven't heard of your sensei... maybe you've heard of mine? Seamus O'Dowd, gonna be over in London in May as a guest sensei at a seminar thingy Kanazawa is doing, teaching Kanazawa no Bo. He recently released a DVD teaching the same kata, at the behest of Kanazawa himself.

I have heard of Seamus O'Dowd actually. Did he go to Sardinia a year or two back for the Europeans? There was quite a large irish team that went, almost as big as the British in terms of youngsters like myself.

I do karate for the competing to be honest. I admit first I was extremely nervous (at my first european champs in Ukraine I trained for four hours non-stop on the mats before my event because I was so afraid I was going to forget my kata) but once you've done something like that you think, wait, what have I got to be nervous about I've done a competition before? And then for some strange reason you start missin' the thrill .

P.S Still nervous as **** though whenever I'm up .

P.P.S Do you by any chance know a Sensei Murakami?

This post has been edited by Illydoor: Apr 28 2009, 09:11 PM