I got my hands on a camera for a bit so I have some pictures of some of my gear, not everything but I got a fair bit. Check it out below:
Bokken:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/bokken.jpg
Some books:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/bokken.jpg
Footwear:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/footwear.jpg
Various things:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/layout1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/layout2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/layout3.jpg
Shinobi Shozoku:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/shozoku.jpg
Portable Storage:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/storage.jpg
Woodland BDUs:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/woodlandbdu.jpg
Proof it's me and some face paint:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/mdemon9991/Gear/proofandcamo.jpg
Black Panther Ninja is in town for a bit so I wanna take BSC and go out and meet him and maybe train together and all that. Not sure what we'll work on, might take a BSC training from last time and do it again with Black Panther there too. We'll see when it happens, expect a post about it soonish...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Summer Roofing II
This adventure was really exciting and pretty nerve wracking now that I think back to it. Here's how it went down:
Gear-
Me
Green Field Shirt
Brown Tank Top
Camo Cargo Shorts
Black Sneakers
Crisis
Navy Long Sleeve
White Short Sleeve
Jeans
Grey Converse
We were hanging out with some friends at night, feasting on free food (if you hang out late enough good left over food gets thrown out, just ask the guy to take some before they toss it) and walking around. After a while everyone needs to go home. Me and Crisis had decided ahead of time to do some roofing that night so this is our chance. After we all split up me and Crisis walk to a street where we want to climb a house. It's just a ladder leading to a fire escape in from of a lit garage.
Once we get there we sit on the stoop of an abandoned house and watch for people until the street clears out. After that I hop a low rail and climb up the ladder (it's much louder than I'd like) and start up the stairs. After one flight I stick to the wall and wait for Crisis, (his ascent is just as loud, I don't like the ladder). We go up the rest of the stairs and climb the hook ladder at the top flight to get to the roof.
This seems like a regular ordinary block of roofs until we notice once thing; the door leading inside one of the apartment buildings is wide open with light leaking out. Wow, you're leaving a huge welcome sign to any burglars who know how to use binoculars...
We decide to keep exploring the roofs before we do anything with the door. We climb over the door and check the sky light to look down into the staircase it leads to then proceed to the end of the block. On the last house we find a nice setup of chairs and a table where we lounge out and enjoy the view of the city for a while. After some relaxing we decide to go back down, Crisis is set on getting back to street level through the apartment building.
We get to the open doorway and check around before going in, Crisis is in point and he tests the first step, it squeaks more than a haunted house in scooby doo. Doesn't matter, step two is quiet, but step three is the loudest step ever also. We brace ourselves between the banister and the wall and swing down to the next landing quietly. We then jog down the rest of the stairs and just walk out the front door. Kinda very stressful the fact that we walked down the staircase of an apartment building we knew nothing about but it turned out good.
After leaving the apartment we decided to climb a nearby friend's house (well our goal was to get onto his roof). We walked down his block and went under an apartment into the back yards (there are small unlocked passageways that go from the streets to the yards). Once in the back yards Crisis gave me a boost to a fire escape and then climbed up an AC to get on himself. The fire escape was covered in chipping paint and seemed old. As I started on the stairs I realized that one was missing and the one underneath was loose I warned Crisis and we headed up until w-- CRACK! A stair breaks off under Crisis' foot (apparently more than one stair was loose). We keep going up and paint is chipping off everywhere, as we reach the top flight a light comes on in a window and my back goes against the wall, Crisis crouches halfway up the stairs. A hand pulls back some curtains and I see a face approach the window. After a few seconds the face retreats and the curtains close, the lights go back off. We slink back down the fire escape (the fire escape clearly hates us anyways) and jump across to the one on the next building. As we climb that one nothing seems to go wrong, we fast and silent like the ninjas we are but maybe there are ninjas in the house we're going up also because some lights come one while we're going up the ladder :?, I'll never know...
Once we finally get to the roof we moved around a bit and decided to head down in case people called the cops on us. Went down our friend's fire escape which is actually sturdy and hopped a fence. We walked to the park and lay low for a while then each of us went home. My cab driver was a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Lessons learned: Don't trust rusty old fire escapes.
Gear-
Me
Green Field Shirt
Brown Tank Top
Camo Cargo Shorts
Black Sneakers
Crisis
Navy Long Sleeve
White Short Sleeve
Jeans
Grey Converse
We were hanging out with some friends at night, feasting on free food (if you hang out late enough good left over food gets thrown out, just ask the guy to take some before they toss it) and walking around. After a while everyone needs to go home. Me and Crisis had decided ahead of time to do some roofing that night so this is our chance. After we all split up me and Crisis walk to a street where we want to climb a house. It's just a ladder leading to a fire escape in from of a lit garage.
Once we get there we sit on the stoop of an abandoned house and watch for people until the street clears out. After that I hop a low rail and climb up the ladder (it's much louder than I'd like) and start up the stairs. After one flight I stick to the wall and wait for Crisis, (his ascent is just as loud, I don't like the ladder). We go up the rest of the stairs and climb the hook ladder at the top flight to get to the roof.
This seems like a regular ordinary block of roofs until we notice once thing; the door leading inside one of the apartment buildings is wide open with light leaking out. Wow, you're leaving a huge welcome sign to any burglars who know how to use binoculars...
We decide to keep exploring the roofs before we do anything with the door. We climb over the door and check the sky light to look down into the staircase it leads to then proceed to the end of the block. On the last house we find a nice setup of chairs and a table where we lounge out and enjoy the view of the city for a while. After some relaxing we decide to go back down, Crisis is set on getting back to street level through the apartment building.
We get to the open doorway and check around before going in, Crisis is in point and he tests the first step, it squeaks more than a haunted house in scooby doo. Doesn't matter, step two is quiet, but step three is the loudest step ever also. We brace ourselves between the banister and the wall and swing down to the next landing quietly. We then jog down the rest of the stairs and just walk out the front door. Kinda very stressful the fact that we walked down the staircase of an apartment building we knew nothing about but it turned out good.
After leaving the apartment we decided to climb a nearby friend's house (well our goal was to get onto his roof). We walked down his block and went under an apartment into the back yards (there are small unlocked passageways that go from the streets to the yards). Once in the back yards Crisis gave me a boost to a fire escape and then climbed up an AC to get on himself. The fire escape was covered in chipping paint and seemed old. As I started on the stairs I realized that one was missing and the one underneath was loose I warned Crisis and we headed up until w-- CRACK! A stair breaks off under Crisis' foot (apparently more than one stair was loose). We keep going up and paint is chipping off everywhere, as we reach the top flight a light comes on in a window and my back goes against the wall, Crisis crouches halfway up the stairs. A hand pulls back some curtains and I see a face approach the window. After a few seconds the face retreats and the curtains close, the lights go back off. We slink back down the fire escape (the fire escape clearly hates us anyways) and jump across to the one on the next building. As we climb that one nothing seems to go wrong, we fast and silent like the ninjas we are but maybe there are ninjas in the house we're going up also because some lights come one while we're going up the ladder :?, I'll never know...
Once we finally get to the roof we moved around a bit and decided to head down in case people called the cops on us. Went down our friend's fire escape which is actually sturdy and hopped a fence. We walked to the park and lay low for a while then each of us went home. My cab driver was a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Lessons learned: Don't trust rusty old fire escapes.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Recent News
Today was ugly outside, after working a bit i went to Chinatown with Crisis to pick up a wooden ninjaken (I know, I know the ninjaken's authenticity blah blah, it was to experience the difference with a shorter sword, and possibly experiment with two swords style). They were sold out at the place I usually go to and some other places in the area that we checked, they had a few short bokken but no ninjaken.
In other news, I recently got jumped by around 13 guys in a park, people came up to us started talking nonsense, we started leaving and got blind sided (we is me and a male friend, the girls are all fine), after fighting for a while the guys ran off when they saw that the cops were on their way. I'm ok (had some face swelling and blood in my mouth but now I'm good), but my friend's jaw broke (he'd had surgery done on it before and I guess it's fragile). I learned from it I guess...
I wanna to plan more ninja trainings for BSC, I'll probably focus on hiding and sentry removal. I also want to develop the skills of the ninja no hachimon (8 ninja gates) so that I could have a "legit" ninjutsu ryu, not sure where I'll pick up on spear fighting and all that but I'll see, Cipher might know some stuff.
In other news, I recently got jumped by around 13 guys in a park, people came up to us started talking nonsense, we started leaving and got blind sided (we is me and a male friend, the girls are all fine), after fighting for a while the guys ran off when they saw that the cops were on their way. I'm ok (had some face swelling and blood in my mouth but now I'm good), but my friend's jaw broke (he'd had surgery done on it before and I guess it's fragile). I learned from it I guess...
I wanna to plan more ninja trainings for BSC, I'll probably focus on hiding and sentry removal. I also want to develop the skills of the ninja no hachimon (8 ninja gates) so that I could have a "legit" ninjutsu ryu, not sure where I'll pick up on spear fighting and all that but I'll see, Cipher might know some stuff.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Kenjutsu and Choreographed fights
Today the day started with kenjutsu in the park with Ken, I learned a fair bit about parrying and riposting with the katana. Almost broke the tsuba on the sword, once it's broken I'll take it off the bokken. After some training in the park (we did some empty hand stuff on the side), we met up with Crisis and some other friends.
We moved to a parkour spot and jumped around a bit. After jumping around Crisis and a friend decided to choreograph a sword fight with my and Ken's bokken. We moved to a playground, where they finished their choreography with a bit of input from me and Ken. It looked great. I decided to try it out, me and Crisis did a short parkour chase/street fight martial arts choreography. Needless to say little kids loved it, watching us go at it with swords, jump over stuff and pretend to beat each others faces in.
All in all a good day and a great learning experience in fight choreography and swordsmanship.
We moved to a parkour spot and jumped around a bit. After jumping around Crisis and a friend decided to choreograph a sword fight with my and Ken's bokken. We moved to a playground, where they finished their choreography with a bit of input from me and Ken. It looked great. I decided to try it out, me and Crisis did a short parkour chase/street fight martial arts choreography. Needless to say little kids loved it, watching us go at it with swords, jump over stuff and pretend to beat each others faces in.
All in all a good day and a great learning experience in fight choreography and swordsmanship.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Ninja Training: Stealth and Movement
Today I ran a ninja training session, we focused on conditioning movement and stealth. After training parkour again with NYPK and UVPK I realized how important it is to condition.
Crisis, and Cipher showed up. I invited Ken but he didn't show (I never expect him to, he's unreliable). Here's a basic over view of what we did:
Stretch/warm up
Rolling (On grass)
Jumping
Walking/Running
Dealing with walls, rails and fences
Low Movement
some other stuff.
Cipher needs to work on forward rolls, he has excellent side rolls, but his front rolls are "sideways side rolls". Other than that it went pretty smoothly. I hope to do one again. We didn't get to rolling on cement for conditioning, but it'll happen next training.
Crisis, and Cipher showed up. I invited Ken but he didn't show (I never expect him to, he's unreliable). Here's a basic over view of what we did:
Stretch/warm up
Rolling (On grass)
Jumping
Walking/Running
Dealing with walls, rails and fences
Low Movement
some other stuff.
Cipher needs to work on forward rolls, he has excellent side rolls, but his front rolls are "sideways side rolls". Other than that it went pretty smoothly. I hope to do one again. We didn't get to rolling on cement for conditioning, but it'll happen next training.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Parkour Conditioning
Yesterday I was supposed to hang with some new friends but they didn't call and I slept in. I ended up going to parkour conditioning in the the city. Was a great time.
The first half was just everyone (a bunch of us) messing around at the playground and the rocks in in Central, wallruns, cats, tic tacs some vaulting. Met a bunch of traceurs and freerunners and martial artists that I never saw before, which means I clearly need to get out and train with everyone instead of just me and Crisis.
The second half was conditioning led by Sha and Pyro (they're traceurs who've been at it a while and are cut and buff respectively). It was intense by most peoples standards. I was tired at the end but not too sore, I want to go to these more often to have good conditioning for the entire body which a bigger part of parkour than I realized before. Some stuff we did were inchworms, QMing stairs, QM push ups, kong throughs and a bunch of other stuff.
At one point before the conditioning I learned a bit of drunken boxing from this guy, but I don't remember too much, it seems to strange and elaborate to be very effective in terms of technique unless you condition the hands and wrists and practice the movements a ton, but it's a type of Kung Fu so I shouldn't expect anything less.
The first half was just everyone (a bunch of us) messing around at the playground and the rocks in in Central, wallruns, cats, tic tacs some vaulting. Met a bunch of traceurs and freerunners and martial artists that I never saw before, which means I clearly need to get out and train with everyone instead of just me and Crisis.
The second half was conditioning led by Sha and Pyro (they're traceurs who've been at it a while and are cut and buff respectively). It was intense by most peoples standards. I was tired at the end but not too sore, I want to go to these more often to have good conditioning for the entire body which a bigger part of parkour than I realized before. Some stuff we did were inchworms, QMing stairs, QM push ups, kong throughs and a bunch of other stuff.
At one point before the conditioning I learned a bit of drunken boxing from this guy, but I don't remember too much, it seems to strange and elaborate to be very effective in terms of technique unless you condition the hands and wrists and practice the movements a ton, but it's a type of Kung Fu so I shouldn't expect anything less.
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