I’ll be in Chicago upcoming from April 16-19. If anyone wants to get together (or put together a get together for the evening on one of those days) just let me know. LtC John has already expressed an interest in meeting up. Too, I know that JD sometimes hits Chicago and puts together meet ups.
I’m happy to attend any such gathering — though do keep in mind that I could be pretty banged up from the training I’ll be doing.
Which means you’ll have to buy me drinks to make me feel better. Also, it helps if you assuage my ego and call me a genius. Evidently, I can’t live without that kind of thing.
1st round on me!
Wish I were in the area for it, but whatever… Have fun. Avoid any “whose pizza is better” arguments.
Jeff, sadly I can’t make it up to Chicago that weekend, though I appreciate the notice.
Slightly OT, on April 3rd the Asylym Street Spankers will be at the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver.
There’s a chance I could swing down late-ish on Sunday evening.
I’ll be the short fat guy in glasses and a plaid jacket who isn’t nearly as tough as he pretends to be on the internet.
I’ll be the drunk guy.
‘Course, if I drink, I’ll have to take the train. Boo!
Please invite Nishi. I’ve got fifty bucks says her eyes don’t point the same direction.
My anniversary is that weekend. Maybe I should offer to take Mrs. Squid to the big city…
May I recommend Hackney’s? Great bar IMO.
Maybe Scott Jacobs will meet you there Jeff!
Sorry I can’t be there with y’all; but I’ll still be in mourning for the do-re-mi I sent to the IRS on the day before…
Not to mention that my anniversary is dangerously close that time window as well.
Scott Jacobs wants to live off the glory of taking me up on my offer. Without really taking me up on my offer. At any rate, this is where I’ll be. If anybody wants to hang out or, you know, run into me, or whatever.
Get all up in your grille progressive-like, is what you were looking to say. Boss.
Man, if you were going to be just 344 miles more to the east, I would love to get together. But, then you’d be in Cleveland, not quite Chicago. Have fun and have a beer or 10 for me.
Jeff G,
Before we call you “genius” would it be appropriate to genuflect in awe before the shining light of your towering intellect?
Or would you rather a beer and a shot?
Both?
Maybe Scott Jacobs will meet you there Jeff!
It’s only a bit over 100 miles from Peoria.
Oh. Forgot to blockquote. Oh, well.
Oh, now Marc is saying that
Assuming that the referent for “that” in the “may do that” is “driving to random people’s homes and beating them”, I’m wondering who Marc suspects of having done that. It sounds kind of like fantasy.
Also, he says:
Well, maybe. Not so I’ve noticed, though. What I’ve observed is more that the folks who trashtalk get even more trashtalky. Which is sort of the opposite of chilling, in that context.
Not that I’ve been exactly squeaky-clean in the trashtalking department, but (these days, at least) I do try and keep my Internet conversations consistent with what I’d say in person.
I don’t think this would be a proper use of Mr. Jacobs. Better that I fight him so Jeff can show me how the hell I’m supposed set up a takedown using the whizzer.
My way would be whizzer, stab, hipthrow. But I’m new to all this.
“Stab” is something you do with your leg, not a weapon.
I wouldn’t take someone to the ground, though, because nearly anyone who is semi-proficient at any of the grappling arts is better than me at that.
You wouldn’t want to leg jab, Slart. That actually creates distance — the enemy of a take down.
Sorry guys that this latest round of “Jeff the Unclean” has me feeling not much like posting today. I suspect I’ll get well soon.
On second thought, Slart, maybe you should get your tips from Scott Jacobs. He seems pretty certain I’m not what I say I am.
My way is whizzer, step… he goes single leg, I can’t sprawl that close, takedown, side mount or half guard.
Wrestlers 198, bh 0.
I will see who I can round up.
Double or nothing that they also don’t blink in synch.
I think your leg jab and mine might be difference. This starts with you standing next to your opponent (behind, a little) whizzer on. Stab is when you take the leg attached to the hip that is being used as the fulcrum and step between the other guy’s legs with it. My instructor likes to actually go head-down (other hand on the ground) and kick out with that leg, but I can’t seem to get the hang of it. If you don’t do that, it’s just like a judo throw. The stab just gets your hip in front of his, when before that you were over to the side.
That’s the only thing I think I know about that kind of thing so far, so I could be completely wrong. But I agree that anything that creates distance is no good for throwing, or most kinds of grappling that I’m aware of.
If I can convince my wife that A) she wants to drive to Chicago and B) she wants to drive my ass home. I’ll meet you Friday night.
Different terminology, Slart.
Also, it helps if you assuage my ego and call me a genius. Evidently, I can’t live without that kind of thing.
I should think that the extensive list of “Little-Known Facts About Jeff Goldstein” would hold you for a solid year.
Geez. Apparently not.
I dunno. The way that word gets thrown around these days — and at whom it is thrown — I wouldn’t say a thing like that to someone I consider a friend.
Man, if you were going to be just 6,344 miles more to the east, But, then you’d be in Baghdad,
Clevelanddefinitely notquiteChicago.Ditto on the beer though.
Jeff,
Make sure you register your rhetoric with the local police department.
and have the various orthopedic trauma centers put on standby.
I can be reached on Skype if you want to remind me of what beer looks like or how it tends to magnify the genius traits;)
I’d be available for a Friday nite or Saturday meet. If you promise to talk slowly and don’t ask me any questions that will reveal how simple I am.
I wish I could go but Chicago is far.It will be beautiful there this time of year.
LOL, Danger. Nice. Baghdad? Cleveland? It’s hard to tell the difference anymore.
Remember, the only guns you’re allowed to carry in Chicago gotta fit in your sleeves. Good thing is they’re perfectly legal to take into the bar!
If you’re taking the family, I highly recommend treating them to the river tour and double-decker bus tour. The harbor tour is optional.
Just make sure Dave Matthews isn’t in town.
Of course, the fact that guns are illegal means that most of the criminals are packing heat.
OT:
I was watching “1984” on video on demand; for some reason, the same last name between Jeff and Emmanuel never, ever connected until I heard that line in the movie.
Sadly, the above quote would appear to come from the lips of Armed Liberal and others.
*urrrp*
*hic*
I’d like to say I could make that but April is booked solid by the Ms. But I get August or September. ARIZONA!!! )
Re: *hic*
Band management suggested the City of Chicago fete Paper Lace.
The Mayor Richard J. Daley administration suggested the band “Jump off Navy Pier three times, but only come up twice.”
Stunned, was what they was.
I heard my Momma cry…
Na na na na na na na na na na na Chicago died…
I admit it. I love that song. Used to make people suffer through it at frat parties.
It was my peoples National Anthem at one point.
Donald Rumsfeld done stole my apostrophe.
I think he was just giving them directions to the east side of Chicago.
Was Paper Lace more than just the one? I guess I could Google. Even if I actually Bing. Because “I should Bing” sounds too silly.
they had one about Billy too
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods did Billy, Don’t Be a Hero. But I think the were written by the same people.
I liked Gallery. I Believe in Music.
I don’t anymore, of course. Believe in music, I mean. But it was a nice sentiment when I was 6 or 7.
We still believe in you…
*sniffle*
Ah. What I figured.
I have to say that I definitely respect and give due weight to your experience in these matters, Jeff. The little, itty bit of grappling I have done makes me realize all the more that even if you watch a lot of videos on the topic, nothing substitutes for actually putting the moves to work. Because the first dozen times you try it, you’re going to fuck it up more often than not. And the next dozen tries will be just a wee bit more successful, but still way too slow. For someone who’s never done any wrestling at all, it’s probably going to take even longer to get used to the amount of body contact that it takes to do this stuff correctly. That’s my own experience, anyway.
I’m still on my first dozen, is what I’m saying. I’m not arguing with you so much as feeling out the language.
Mostly unrelated: the first time you get your entire back cracked by being thrown and taken to the ground while in whizzer is…interesting.
If you told me at age 21 that I’d be doing THIS at age 48, I’d have thought you were insane.
I hear you. Bit of advice: while on your feet, keep your elbows tucked close to your body. Often times when we go against, say, a traditionally-trained Thai boxer, we’ll look for the flaired elbows to get inside and get that whizzer, or a the very least, to grab an underhook.
Thanks for the tip!
I’ve been nailed by some roundhouse kicks to the midsection because I tend to keep my fists (and hence elbows) some distance in front of my face, so I’m already working on that. Keeping elbows pasted to ribcage feels a little funny, still.
In sparring, those kicks don’t bother me much because they’re mostly to the ab-section, where I’ve got decent conditioning. Full-blast fighting, though, they’d probably hurt me.
The potential for whizzer and the like is just more incentive to keep things in tighter. I think you can do that and still be able to throw the Thai elbows at will; just takes discipline.