A Toast: To Two Departed Ladies
The first: Johannah She was mo mhúinteoir (Irish language teacher). Battled cancer for quite some time – being a smoker didn’t help. Lass from Co. Tipperary (from which county my granddad also hailed). When...
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Sheos
The early years of the new millennium I was something of an Überjock: training six days a week at Sifu/Guro Ron’s (Monday thru Friday nights, and Saturday mornings) on both the Chinese side of...
My Three Concussions
Thrice now I’ve had what the medical guys call mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), i.e. concussions. Mountain biker + martial arts student, so that shouldn’t be all that surprising. Two weren’t especially noteworthy; the...
Simian Spankus Interruptus
Many years ago now, BF (Before Facebook), Guro Ron used to have – as part of the website for the school – a traditional webforum, where all sorts of topics martial arts related and...
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