"team eF" at the kuoshu...

[neijia_boxer]

they extended the registration for lei Tai until July 14th.

[cerebus]

they extended the registration for lei Tai until July 14th.

So come on! Y'all still have time to sign up! Who else is going? Joe, are you still gonna be there? Folks gotta represent for EF....

[nianfong]

troy, you can get free HIV/HEP blood tests by donating blood. might knock you out of training for a day or two though.

[cerebus]

Dude, I CANNOT give blood, at least not more than the required minimum for testing. I would love to do so, but I hate needles bad enough as it is and just giving a small vial of the stuff usally has be almost passing out! I have an apointment for Thursday to get my physical though.

But thanks for the suggestion, it's a good way to cut costs...

[ashe]

they extended the registration for lei Tai until July 14th.

you beat me too it.

are you going then? need a room?

[nianfong]

afraid of blood?! pussy.

[cerebus]

afraid of blood?! pussy.

Well, that's the odd part. I'm not really afraid of blood. A bloody, nose, bloody lip, blood running out of a gash in my head, those things don't bother me. But some part of my subconscious just shuts my body down if I lose blood quickly through a puncture wound.

When I gave blood for my Army physical back in '88, I didn't look at what the doc was doing, didn't see the needle, didn't even FEEL the needle, didn't even know if he'd started drawing the blood yet, but one second I was fine, the next second my forehead hit the table I was sitting at.

[fuga]

I'm bringing a needle to our next sparring session.

[cerebus]

I'm bringing a needle to our next sparring session.

LOL! Not unless you want me to bring a baseball bat....

[qiphlow]

i'll help you both out and bring a baseball bat sized needle.

[cerebus]

i'll help you both out and bring a baseball bat sized needle.

Heh, heh. It'll be just you and the squirrels in the park that morning...

[qiphlow]

those goddamn squirrels won't stand a chance, then.

[kenneth fish]

needle syncope. a bit annoying to the person drawing blood - don't know whether to catch the person or protect the sample ......

[qiphlow]

in troy's case, better to protect the sample (he's got a hard skull).

[neijia_boxer]

neijia_boxer wrote:they extended the registration for lei Tai until July 14th.



you beat me too it.

are you going then? need a room?

Here the deal- i got accident prone on July 4th by deciding to jump in a moon bounce at this raging party. I was showing off front flips and back flips to my gymnast instructor / muaythai fighter friend whom i'm competitive with.... we both did wushu at one time. I got confident and decided to do a back flip wushu kick which gravity won. It killed my neck, so i have to get an MRI and X-rays because its pretty painful. i am still registered for the Lei tai event, but my doctor is not going to clear me with this injury. i've stopped all fight training and just doing Taijiquan until further diagnosis. each year its always something..I can still do forms and weapons perhaps.