MT member meeting?

[Wing Woo Gar]

If you come through NC let me know. I live on the northern end of it.

I was there in 2020.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Holler if you head up toward NC. Unfortunately, I have nowhere to train these days (I'm currently trying to give away my mats, too - just taking up space downstairs in the corner). But I'd love to hang out a bit and ramble about MA for a while!

Wait what happened to your training space?

 

[JowGaWolf]

If you come through NC let me know. I live on the northern end of it.

Definitely.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Holler if you head up toward NC. Unfortunately, I have nowhere to train these days (I'm currently trying to give away my mats, too - just taking up space downstairs in the corner). But I'd love to hang out a bit and ramble about MA for a while!

What type of mats?

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Definitely.

Yo did you see the clip of Woo and Leo Whang?

 

[HighKick]

How do you do that when you don't know who would be there to teach this curriculum?

As I said, it would just be thinking paper in the beginning. Something to see what people are looking for and what is available.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

Following.

Additionally, as others said, I'm open to providing input on planning. I have quite a bit of experience in planning events/seminars/workshops/projects, etc.

Check out this thread MartialTalk Meetup Poll if you haven't seen it. I'm taking the lead planning so it doesn't die out, but it's been a bit since I've had to plan any events, so if you have any recommendations/advice I'm all ears.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Wait what happened to your training space?

I used 3 different places since I moved here. I taught at a YMCA until they decided to give my time slot to someone else. Then I taught a a county rec center until they decided I could no longer use their mats and would have to bring mine for every class (no storage in the room). Then I found a Shorin-ryu dojo that had open time slots and let me teach there. Covid put them out of business.

Now with my work schedule (entirely unpredictable) I can't even think about starting classes back up, nor even trying to join someplace as a student. And I don't really have a connection with any places in the area, so no place I can just ask to borrow space to play with a friend.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

What type of mats?

2 kinds.

• One is an 8x8 grappling mat that stores in a single case (bulky, but one person can carry it). Swain marketed it as a personal training mat - I suspect for BJJ, as it meets what one of the Gracie branches designated as the minimum training space.
• The other is a set of cheap tumbling mats I added more velcro to, so they could be joined on the long edge. I think they are 4x8, and fold down to 2x4, but that's from memory.

I used to put them all together to make a reasonable training space.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Yo did you see the clip of Woo and Leo Whang?

I saw a couple of Woo, but I'm not sure if I saw Leo Whang

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I saw a couple of Woo, but I'm not sure if I saw Leo Whang

Leo is the younger Chinese guy in the videos doing the Sarm Bo Jin.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I saw a couple of Woo, but I'm not sure if I saw Leo Whang

Black and white videos?

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I used 3 different places since I moved here. I taught at a YMCA until they decided to give my time slot to someone else. Then I taught a a county rec center until they decided I could no longer use their mats and would have to bring mine for every class (no storage in the room). Then I found a Shorin-ryu dojo that had open time slots and let me teach there. Covid put them out of business.

Now with my work schedule (entirely unpredictable) I can't even think about starting classes back up, nor even trying to join someplace as a student. And I don't really have a connection with any places in the area, so no place I can just ask to borrow space to play with a friend.

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Sorry to hear that.

I never had the time to devote to make much of the program, but I really like teaching, and the few students I had got a lot out of it.

I miss it. But such is life.

 

[dream]

Would NYers combine to a NYC midway point like New Paltz?