I still remember 9 years ago when my classmates Gino Nepomuceno and Ricky Ojeda drunkenly died in a car crash. It was a Saturday. I had just earned my green belt in Tae Kwon Do and then went to meet with my classmates Megan Kukla, Shenna Velsa and Allison Defrancesco at Allison's house to shoot a video for school - ironically about drunk driving. Morgan Meyries walked up to us out of nowhere to break the news to us. Morgan was a cute Irish girl with a black belt in Karate. I've jacked off to her, long before I had to devise code words for jacking off.
I ate a Subway sandwich and then went to visit Brian at the GNC to get his address so I can send him a postcard from the Philippines. That annoying kid Emmanuel was there. Brian says Manny Pacquiao and some guy named Floyd Mayweather might agree to fight.
RYAN: So what city [do you live in]?
BRIAN: Pasadena.
RYAN: Yeah, I already knew that.
BRIAN: Of course. Just the formalities.
RYAN: State?
BRIAN: Um, C-A.
RYAN: Country?
BRIAN: (trying not to laugh) The United States.
I plugged the story of how Chad (fellow PWG fan) who lives in Ontario in SoCal sometimes gets his bills late because they get sent to Ontario in Canada.
Capoeira training started at 6:00PM. I got there at 6:30 due to traffic. I walked in as Andres was leading drills and he improvised a roundhouse kick at me. The rest of the class was Jesse II, Louis, and Diana. A chubby kid and his family was watching in the corner. For my own boring reference, the combo we drilled was: armada (spin kick), quexiada (axe kick), switch stance, meia lua (low spin kick). Andres invited the chubby kid to try it.
ANDRES: You wanna try?
CHUBBY KID: This isn't for me.
ANDRES: Why not?
CHUBBY KID: I'm more of a wrestler.
ANDRES: Oh, how long have you been wrestling?
CHUBBY KID: A year.
ANDRES: Well, we do jujitsu on Mondays. You know, like, chokes and joint locks. But this is what we do today.
After, the family left, Andres went to town making fun of the chubby kid's attitude. Apparently, Andres' brother Joe invited him, but we're not sure what Joe said.
They're preparing for a demo on the 10th. It might just be them 4. I prepared with them anyway even though I'll be in the Philippines by then. We practiced palm strikes and sweeping. I was able to evade Diana and Jesse's sweeps and land palm strikes to each of them. We went in height order to do solos, 30 seconds each: Louis, Diana, me, Jesse II, and Andres. I busted the split in mine, but on my bad side (left). For future reference, I'll do it on my right.
ANDRES: It looked like you were doing drunken boxing for a second there!
Then we played. I sort of accidentally roundhouse-kicked Andres. I say "accidenatlly" because I meant to do it, but I thought he'd dodge it anyway. But no. I actually hit the teacher!
JESSE II: (taunting Andres getting kicked by me) Oooh! What's happening Andres?
I tried just sweeping Louis, but he's so damn skinny that it ended up taking out his ankle instead! My bad.
LOUIS: Ryan with the cheap shots!
Some bald guy with a mustache in the basketball gym was checking out Diana. Diana has a cool sweater in which the cord is actually a headphone, which comes in handy because headphones aren't allowed on her high school campus. Also, at Diana's insistence, I let my hair down and listened to them play up the Jacob Black (from Twilight) references.
ANDRES: You over that girl?
RYAN: Oh, yeah, dude, that was a long time ago.
ANDRES: Dude, you were sad for only like 2 minutes! That was fast! You're a funny guy.
He's talking about that chick Buggy from the wrestling shows. Even though she got a boyfriend, she still sometimes talks to me in that sort of way. I still talk to her, but no longer in that sort of way ever since she got the boyfriend. I ain't the type.
Andres told me a story about how his friend went to the Philippines, saw some dudes ganging up on a girl, saved the girl, and went back to his hotel room with the girl. But in the middle of the night, the girl unlocked the door to let aforementioned gangsters rob Andres' friend while asleep. What a set up! Then Andres' friend later saw them setting up another guy.
I watched an all new episode of Glee that featured their cover of Van Halen's Jump. Now it's time to go to NoBar in North Hollywood for Richard's Birthday.
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