I miss serenity.
You have just officially read my most emo blog post ever.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Friday, November 18, 2005
New Musical Direction
Well.. a sort of musical direction. It looks at music in the distance .. well, it's in the field of vision.
Check out my debut smash hit "Shatner's Bassoon" on MySpace.
Check out my debut smash hit "Shatner's Bassoon" on MySpace.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Dorset Invitational Video
From the competition, my first competition. If you want you can watch the video of my fight.
Watch Here
The picture quality in the video is no where as near as good as this picture.
For those that might ever care the details of the .mov are as like this:
Format: AAC, Stereo (L R), 32.000 kHz
H.264, 300 x 240, Millions
FPS: 15
Data Size: 10.91 MB
Data Rate: 297.54 kbits/sec
Duration: 00:05:07.0/15
Normal Size: 300 x 240 pixels
What that means to you is that you'll probably need the latest version of QuickTime to watch it. There is a link on the page where you view the video but just incase I'll give it to you here aswell.
Get the latest QuickTime
Watch Here
The picture quality in the video is no where as near as good as this picture.
For those that might ever care the details of the .mov are as like this:
Format: AAC, Stereo (L R), 32.000 kHz
H.264, 300 x 240, Millions
FPS: 15
Data Size: 10.91 MB
Data Rate: 297.54 kbits/sec
Duration: 00:05:07.0/15
Normal Size: 300 x 240 pixels
What that means to you is that you'll probably need the latest version of QuickTime to watch it. There is a link on the page where you view the video but just incase I'll give it to you here aswell.
Get the latest QuickTime
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
DORSET INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
I have done stuff. I will now write about it. I did the Dorset Invitational Championships.
Last Sunday was my first taekwondo competition. I got a silver medal, should be pictured below somewhere. There was however only two people in my weight category, me and the other guy. It was a tiring day. I got to bed at about half 2 the night before and then I was up at eight to be a the hall by half past nine. It was then waiting around in the hall until about three thirty before my fight was on. At about three Sarah, Christine, Gavin and Mike arrive and Sarah had kindly brought me some food so I ate about half a small apple before going on. I made Mike film my fight with my camera, so for anyone that wants to see me get kicked that wasn't there, you can! Yay!
Apparently our fight was cut very short, it was supposed to be three rounds of two minutes, but ended up being shortened to two rounds of a minute and a half because they were running behind.
Overall it wasn't such a good day. My knees were hurting quite a bit at then end of it, not because of the three minutes of taekwondo, but the five hours of standing around being nervous. I should have sat down I know, but I was nervous and bored and stuff so I kept wandering around. It was worth it though. I did enjoy the competition, if you look at the video you can see after the first round where Aaron is talking to me I'm smiling quite a bit, I think I was probably very happy that the score was 2 - 2 and I hadn't suffered any major injuries.
I eventually lost 4 - 3. I was told that I did very well for my first time and I'm quite happy about it. I was chuffed to bits on Sunday about the whole thing. It wasn't until Monday afternoon walking down a road that I started to feel slightly disappointed that I didn't win. Remembering the mistakes I made, and knowing that I should have put a bit more effort in.. especially in the last few seconds. Oh well! Next time I'll get it right, and I'll take a packed lunch.
After my fight I didn't run off home, everyone else did. Which I was a bit gutted about. After five hours on my own I saw my supporters for about five minutes before I had to get ready to go on and then about three minutes after I'd finished. So I spent another couple of hours wandering around until the even finished. Was there for the issuing of trophies, we didn't win, we came fifth out of about twenty five teams. I then helped to tidy up a bit, put some mats away, awkwardly went to the bar with all the people that were keeping the competition running throughout the day, felt out of place with my pint of water, I was a bit of an outsider there. Only being with the club for a year and not really socialising with people as much as they clearly had with each other. Then at about seven Rob picked my up from Littledown Centre and I went with them, Rob, Gavin and Christine, for a meal in town. It was pretty crap, I had a cheese and pickle baguette, the pickle was on the side in a sealed Heinz plastic sauce container type thing.
The photo you see of me in the fight below cost me £8.50 so enjoy it! The photographers must have made a packet. The sat there ringside where no one else could and took masses of photos and then quickly printed up little samples so people could choose which one they wanted to buy, and then they would print out larger copies. Mine was the smallest you could buy other than the keyring, 7' by 5' print for £8.00 plus £0.50 for paying by card.
That's the picture that cost me £8.50 There were other pictures there, ones where you could see my face, ones where I was doing fancy kicks, but I went for the one that looks as if I've just floored him with a right hook. I went for the comedy one. I never did punch him, not ever, it's just the angle and timing. I swear.
Here you can see the medal I won. And below the sheet thing with the information stuff for the fights. That I took of the wall at the end of the evening, a unique piece as all the others were thrown in the bin.
Last Sunday was my first taekwondo competition. I got a silver medal, should be pictured below somewhere. There was however only two people in my weight category, me and the other guy. It was a tiring day. I got to bed at about half 2 the night before and then I was up at eight to be a the hall by half past nine. It was then waiting around in the hall until about three thirty before my fight was on. At about three Sarah, Christine, Gavin and Mike arrive and Sarah had kindly brought me some food so I ate about half a small apple before going on. I made Mike film my fight with my camera, so for anyone that wants to see me get kicked that wasn't there, you can! Yay!
Apparently our fight was cut very short, it was supposed to be three rounds of two minutes, but ended up being shortened to two rounds of a minute and a half because they were running behind.
Overall it wasn't such a good day. My knees were hurting quite a bit at then end of it, not because of the three minutes of taekwondo, but the five hours of standing around being nervous. I should have sat down I know, but I was nervous and bored and stuff so I kept wandering around. It was worth it though. I did enjoy the competition, if you look at the video you can see after the first round where Aaron is talking to me I'm smiling quite a bit, I think I was probably very happy that the score was 2 - 2 and I hadn't suffered any major injuries.
I eventually lost 4 - 3. I was told that I did very well for my first time and I'm quite happy about it. I was chuffed to bits on Sunday about the whole thing. It wasn't until Monday afternoon walking down a road that I started to feel slightly disappointed that I didn't win. Remembering the mistakes I made, and knowing that I should have put a bit more effort in.. especially in the last few seconds. Oh well! Next time I'll get it right, and I'll take a packed lunch.
After my fight I didn't run off home, everyone else did. Which I was a bit gutted about. After five hours on my own I saw my supporters for about five minutes before I had to get ready to go on and then about three minutes after I'd finished. So I spent another couple of hours wandering around until the even finished. Was there for the issuing of trophies, we didn't win, we came fifth out of about twenty five teams. I then helped to tidy up a bit, put some mats away, awkwardly went to the bar with all the people that were keeping the competition running throughout the day, felt out of place with my pint of water, I was a bit of an outsider there. Only being with the club for a year and not really socialising with people as much as they clearly had with each other. Then at about seven Rob picked my up from Littledown Centre and I went with them, Rob, Gavin and Christine, for a meal in town. It was pretty crap, I had a cheese and pickle baguette, the pickle was on the side in a sealed Heinz plastic sauce container type thing.
The photo you see of me in the fight below cost me £8.50 so enjoy it! The photographers must have made a packet. The sat there ringside where no one else could and took masses of photos and then quickly printed up little samples so people could choose which one they wanted to buy, and then they would print out larger copies. Mine was the smallest you could buy other than the keyring, 7' by 5' print for £8.00 plus £0.50 for paying by card.
That's the picture that cost me £8.50 There were other pictures there, ones where you could see my face, ones where I was doing fancy kicks, but I went for the one that looks as if I've just floored him with a right hook. I went for the comedy one. I never did punch him, not ever, it's just the angle and timing. I swear.
Here you can see the medal I won. And below the sheet thing with the information stuff for the fights. That I took of the wall at the end of the evening, a unique piece as all the others were thrown in the bin.
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