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martial arts recap

Apr 3, 2006 //

The Saratoga Martial Arts Festival was excellent. Not only did I get the chance to take some wonderful seminars, but I also made some progress on some Anthro research that I’ve been interested in for quite a while. Much of Sunday was spent picking the mind Sifu Sharif Bey, a very high ranking Hung Ga practioner. Hung Ga is a traditional southern Chinese system of fighting with close ties. Historically it was a revolutionary system, concieved and developed to fight against the Qing Dynasty. What is particularly interesting to me is that embodied in it are both fighting and cultural concepts. Hopefully down the road, I’ll be able to tap Sifu Bey for more research assistance. That said, Martial Art research is currently far, far, far down my list of priorities.

Also, for those who missed the Lessig lecture here at RIT, you can find a stream of it here:

If you have two hours, take the time to watch it. It’s excellent and thought provoking.

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Jul 22, 2003 //

Ok, sorry that I haven’t been responding to comments. My CGI is apparently belly-up and I didn’t realize it. Thanks to everyone for the encouragement about the Green Sash and the bump on the head. Sorry I didn’t acknowledge it sooner. GRRR!

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another thing off the list

Oct 31, 2002 //

Real quick (some day soon I’ll have enough time to post a longer blog), I’ve updated Renaissance Martial Arts website with new information, including the full schedule and information about the first day of classes (Nov 4th!).

I’ve also gotten pictures from the first day of the Martial Arts Festival up. So you can see some awesome shots of Kali, Hung Gar and other martial arts in action. Check ’em out here.

Other than that I wish I had enough time to pull a Halloween costume together, but that didn’t happen this year. :-(

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thanks heather!

Oct 11, 2002 //

Well, I liked the table problem at the Renaissance site. Heather sent me off in the right path. The problem was due to my flagrant misuse of HTML. Basically I was using an “li” tag without a “ul” tag (mainly because I hate what the “ul” tag does to formating). And IE apparently was choking on that usage and blowing out the tables.

We finished applying most of the first coat of polyurathane to the schools floors last night. This weekend we’ll be painting the interior and then next week a second coat goes on the floor. After that we build out the storage rooms and the dressing rooms. So close, so far, so little sleep.

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busy, busy…

Oct 10, 2002 //

busy clippers… Things are just flying by right now. Work has been hectic, but great. (side note: have you ever noticed that I like to write that something’s been crazy, then immediately follow it up with “but good” or “but great.” Sigh, it’s a sign of lazy writing I guess). Learning content for kodak.com keeps progressing.

As for the school, things are really shaping up. The ceiling is down, the lights are up and the floor has been redone. It’s looking beautiful. There’s still a ways to go though and only two weekends left to the festival and grand opening. That’s pretty scary!

Speaking of the school I spent most of last night updating the website. I now remember how much I hate and love web design. I’m still struggling with table rendering across different browsers. IE for some reason doesn’t want to constrain the navigation tables to the pixel widths I specified and I can’t figure out why…. Still, check it out at renMartialArts.com.

Things for the third annual Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino Martial Arts Festival are going great. We have a great line up this year and it should be two great days. Now if things would go smoothly for the Exact Theatre Project I’d be totally rockin’ and rolling. If anyone knows anyone willing to spot a couple thousand dollars to a struggling non profit, please let me know.

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