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After I post this, I’m out the door to pick up my ticket to LA which as been issued for June 1st. I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to pull it all off though because my room looks like this:

And my brain pretty much feels the same way right now.

The plan so far is to hang out in LA with Andy Wang for a couple weeks. There I’ll train more BJJ at R1 Training Center in LA (I think.) It looks like that’s where Mr. Wang is teaching.

Me Choking Out Wang at His Going Away Party

I also want to make it over to Las Vegas to hang out at [Marc Laimon's school]. A BJJ buddy of mine sent [one of my BJJ clips] to Mr. Laimon then Marc told BJJ buddy to tell me that I could stop by his gym anytime. Anytime just might be in a couple weeks. I better let him know I’m coming.

I will then be in Milwaukee (aka MILTOWN!!) on or before June 20th. Where I will continue training, and training and training and training (and training) until the end of August when the BJJ World Tournament will be held in LA and I will take Gold in my weight division (how can I not with all that training?)

I’ll probably also make it up to San Fran for a spell to see and old buddy of mine. If any of you reader dudes happen to be in those areas give me a shout.

So a couple weeks back I did this commercial. I recorded some stuff and took some pictures. Basically a dude was like “DUDE! I need you and another sporty looking dude for a commercial tomorrow.” I was like OK, and and brought Pedro with me.

The commercial features Wang (the Yankees pitcher.) He recorded his bit ealier, so I didn’t meet him or anything. What’s going to happen in the commercial is the catcher does some kind of Big Mac sign, then Wang throws a super hard pitch and knocks the catcher into a Mc Donalds. He then eats a tasty burger. Here be some pictures and vid.

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I normally don’t talk about emotional and person stuff here. I usually just spout off “random” stuff. I won’t get into the details of the story, but I did something the other day, that turned into a loss and eventually made me “sad” (at least that’s what I think mortals call the feeling.) It’s so rare that there’s something I’m attached to enough to make me sad when it’s gone that… I was a tad confused.

Now after figuring out what was going on, I feel a bit better (though still a bit salty.) So I acquired a new emotional flavor last night: grief. Which I guess defined by the sadness brought upon by the loss of something pimp.

Music always helps me feel better, that and silliness. Lets have a bit of both.
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This may be the first and only “Pimps in History” post, but who knows.

There aren’t many people I look up to. You know, look up to the way an aspiring basketball star would look up to Jordan, Kobe, or whoever the current reincarnation of basketball pimpness is.

Basically the way an aspiring basketball star loves basketball, I love something I like to call “mental gymnastics.” I believe the term is pretty self explanatory. I like thinkers.

Today’s Mental Gymnastic Pimp! is Bert. First, let’s peep a photo:

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I was going to post this on Forumosa.com, but then decided not to. Some people complain about how much Taiwan sucks on the forums over there. I wanted to write something to balance out the negativity. I’ll just put it here instead (why waste the effort eh?)

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Someone some time back asked me to post about all the crazy stuff I get myself into around the island… Maybe crazy is the wrong word, perhaps interesting is a better descriptor. Anyway, the point is this friend thought I needed to post about some of the stuff I do/I’ve done because he gets/got tired of reading the negative posts about how much Taiwan sucks.

I guess [this post] (10 reasons I am finally leaving Taiwan…) sparked the flame that cooked up this thread. But I’ve been hanging out in the background for a while and there have been a few others like it over the past 2 months that added fuel to the flames.

Before I share anything I’m going to put this fact here in bold:

The reason a person doesn’t like/love Taiwan is because they are poor.

Allow me to elaborate. This poor is spiritually/emotionally poor (in my language I would say they lack mojo/pimp.) If you have the mojo, cool stuff will come to you.

Now on to a few stories. I’ll keep them short and add pictures.

Here in Taiwan I…

got to be a "professional" fighter.

played a full 18 holes of golf on this playeristic ass course.

have hosted a few video game or movie nights at the crib.

did mad gaming at game club (on and off over the years.)

practiced A LOT of BJJ. AND was actually able to spend the last 2 months ONLY practicing BJJ with a black belt from Brazil.

have been able to travel to a bunch of different spots in the region because of a good combination of free time and extra BLING.

whooped all forms of ass in competitions here in Taiwan and in the region.

had a pretty sweet birthday party.

met numerous pimps, players and hustlers.

competed in an international Taichi competition and took second place.

I could go on and on, and I hope others will add more. I know I’m not the only one living the pimp lifestyle on this rock.

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PIMP!