Tagged: martial arts

Drink in a Mountain Bike Glass

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...

Vibram Fivefingers KSO Treks (and Injinji socks)

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...

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...