MBuzzy Soo Bahk Do and Haidong Gumdo Training Journal

Well, this past weekend was the Region 5 Soo Bahk Do camping trip. Definately a good time. John and I got out to Bradley, IL around 4:00pm on Friday and checking into the hotel. Very nice place! After that, we drove around, found the campsite and the host's school, then headed back to the...

Well, so the big focus of my Soo Bahk Do life now is learning Chil Sung Sam. Of course, I'm very behind here....but its going quickly. I started on it last Thursday, go the rest of the way last night. So now its just a matter of remembering and cleaning. Remembering is of course the hardest...

Well, I had two gumdo classes two days apart. Friday, I did the regular night class, plus about an hour of private instruction. I put the final polish on Ssang Soo #10, which I had only learned a week before AND it is an even numbered form (that means its harder....at least I think the even ones...

Well, Thursday night was our test for Soo Bahk Do, we had six people testing. Luckily everything went really well, no big problems. I discovered something important though. This was the first test that we used the half sized boards (demo boards) for breaking. The kids went through them much...

oh.......my...........god. I'm buying stock. Seriously, who ever thought of mail order meat is a god. People should sing songs about him (and I assure you...he must be a him) and build statues of him. I just had Omaha Steaks hamburgers and WOW. Not to mention the filets and strip steaks that I...

Well, I just got back from Soo Bahk Do Class. Well.....correction, I got back, ate my two pizzas and now I'm posting. So I was late tonight, got out of work late and then it was raining like crazy, so I waited for it to let up a bit. So I just decided to go for adult's class instead of kid's...

I'm writing most of this on the assumption that someone, somewhere, at some point in time may be interested in reading this thing. Which, I can't imagine why, since I'm not particularly interested, can be rather dry, and I'm not a very good writer. Really, I'm much more effective in...