Martial Arts Around The Office
Posted in Amateur & Club Level Events, Martial Arts, Men's & Women's Competitions, Tourneys, Matches, Meets & Races by Tim with 1 comment
The following is the sum total of my knowledge about the Martial Arts: Will Smith’s son is the new Karate Kid, and I loved him in The Pursuit of Happyness. That’s it, plus something in the back of my brain about grasshoppers snatching pebbles from hands. In other words, I’m a bit of a novice. If they gave out belts for martial arts watching, mine would be translucent.
But ignorance of the rules never stopped me from trying to bluff my way through to an informed opinion. A strategy which usually works – except in the case of field hockey. But I’m working on that with the help of Vancouver’s favorite field hockey team, The Dirty Birds.
In this case though, I knew that my visit to the Long Beach International Martial Arts Festival would prove to be unfathomable, so I just rolled with it. My goal was to figure out just one rule. If I added to my sports education by one single increment, I’d call it a win.
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