Thursday, November 15, 2012

Good morning crew,

The tournament is this weekend. They are doing something new this time; self defense demonstrations. This is sort of like form (or poomse) demonstrations in that winners are determined by judges, but unlike a form, the self defense demonstration is performed with a partner.

I have been practicing with my partner for about two weeks now. He's a teenager and the kid can really fly. It is going to look good if I don't break him before Sunday. We are doing some high risk techniques. Just the other night I threw him about five feet in the air and he came down kind of hard. It really is a tricky thing to make it look like you are crippling someone while not really hurting them.

Interestingly enough the wife will be performing in the exact same category; self defense demonstrations, which means we will be competing against one another. That should be fun.

I'll let you know how that goes next week.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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English professors love to catch the errors students make in their term papers, and they love nothing better than to catch mixed metaphors. The "friends and survivors" of Calvin College English department collected this list of mixed metaphors and posted them on their web site:

"He swept the rug under the carpet."
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"Some people sail through life on a bed of roses like a knife slicing through butter."