My US team training in preparation for worlds. Plus almost getting kicked out of a club for being sober.

Notice how there is no one in both videos! I get bored training by myself.. so I start to record things or keep myself entertained somehow.

I figure I should at least post a vid of me doing something. Here I am a few weeks back doing a jump outside 540 at the end of my practice. I already took my shoes off, but decided to do a few more kicks for the heck of it.

Yesterday I trained SO much that I probably inverted time and space and went into another dimension where I was training myself because I trained so much. I probably even regressed in skill because I trained so much yesterday.

I went to train at NWTC (National Wushu Training Center) in Hollywood and as usual it was just an alfred on alfred training session. It went surprisingly well though because I had a game plan when I went there to train. I had a few things I really wanted to work on and I just didn’t leave until I finished all of them. On top of that I threw in a full form and a few half sections for endurance. I probably ended up staying there for close to 5 hours. All I know is when I got there, it was bright, when I left there was no light.

While on the topic of NWTC, I spoke to Eric Chen, the owner of the school and also someone I worked with on Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior… and he mentioned that the original intention of the school had always been to be a training center for the US Team. It could be a place for them to meet up together for a couple weeks before international tournaments and train with coaching and it could be a central location with proper training carpet. According to Eric, the powers that be didn’t agree with this. (He said this was many years ago and since NWTC has developed into a more Hollywood and stunt industry positioned center)

Having just discovered this though, it definitely made me think that we should get something going for the future teams where they can all meet up for 2-3 weeks prior to World Games and all fly out together as a team. It would be nice to develop a bond with the entire US team aside from just the few days you see each other at the tournament. Also currently the US team (or US team parents.. lol) pays for all their travel expenses and competition expenses with the exception of Tiger Claw / Kung Fu Magazine which has been gracious enough to sponsor some teams expenses and team jackets. Gathering money to sponsor 10 team members should not be a hard thing if everyone rallied together under a central wushu organization. I know that some schools in California alone have decent connections with colleges, corporations, and the entertainment industry. If our federation could work in harmony with all the wushu schools who support the art and our national team I think a few companies could definitely sponsor the team. It would be a few dollars to them (the large corporations) and mean so much for team members. It would also add more prestige and sense of pride making the sport grow and making new athletes that much more interested. It’s a win win situation. If the sport grows the athletes feel more inspired and respected and the schools or corporations with financial or community interest have a bigger piece of the pie to market to.

That’s my schpeal on that.

Then since I was in Hollywood for training I dropped by my buddies place and we went to Les Deux. I was a good boy of course and didn’t drink or do anything your grandma wouldn’t do- in other words I sat and just chatted with some friends. Especially 2 weeks before my competition I am not going to do anything. I haven’t been eating anything greasy like pizza or burgers.. no ice cream.. no alcohol.. no nothing. Eat, sleep, vitamins, training, other dimension training, and internet work is what I do.

Oh. I do however have a funny story involving this person.

Illegal hot dogs

There are always delicious smelling street dogs which satiate drunk people’s appetites quite well at the end of a good night of partying. However in this case the police officer in the back was doing his job of destroying this cart of defecated goodies by pouring mayonnaise and ketchup all over the hot dogs – almost just looks like hes cooking them (The police officer said they shut these carts down for health reasons because he has seen people defecate and then start cooking hot dogs). Jen was giving him shit I believe and saying they could feed the homeless (or me!).. instead of throwing it away to which he replied that the city could get sued if a bum got sick off the hot dogs. He also said “Where does Mayonnaise belong?… In the fridge!” .. as he poured it all over the cart.

Anyways, that wasn’t even my main story.

So I run into Jen the next day at Les Deux and she is a little tipsy and I started to SARCASTICALLY say “hey, im drunk”. As I mentioned earlier, I was not drinking at all because of my competition.. but in her drunken state she did not detect my sarcasm and she said something to the effect of “you are such a liar, you are terrible at pretending to be drunk” so then i said “let me pretend to be drunk then” so i started to pretend to be drunk.. you know- stumbling around and all that. Then I got a little carried away and sorta knocked over all these cups at the bar while the bartender was trying to make a drink.. she freaked out and called the bouncers to kick me out. Instantly it became a scene out of Bourne Identity where I was dodging and evading bouncers while trying to covertly escape and blend in with the other party-ers. I spent part of the night almost getting kicked out and trying to hide out from the crime scene, but I must say it was fun.