Formosa Neijia

I went to cover the third annual SanDa Wang tournament last night, but none of my pics worked out. This is what I was left with:

As you can see, none of that is usable.
In order to cover Taiwan’s martial arts scene better, I’m needing to upgrade my skills and/or equipment. But I’m at a bit [...]

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I’ve been tagged in a type of meme where you’re supposed to reveal 7 interesting or weird things about yourself and then pass the meme on to other bloggers. It sounds a bit like spam, but I had some fun writing these, so I’ll participate.
So here are my seven:
1. I was a magician in first [...]

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I’m now having some problems with my old theme and I need to upgrade to a new one.
How do you guys like this new theme?

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So I’ve been challenged by Chris over at the Martial Development blog to do a sort of self-roast by listing three shortcomings. He’s listed his, and he’s challenging others to do likewise. Why, I have no idea. Something about self-criticism being good for personal growth, I think. Haha.
Here goes:
1. I have a bad temper
I try [...]

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So I’ve kind of looked at this stuff from time to time, and I have to say that I’ve been a bit skeptical. I do believe that people can be predisposed to believe this stuff is worse than it actually is. But even I have been forced to admit that the US does seem to [...]

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Sorry folks, but there’s a major screwup with my service provider. Every time I check the site, it’s down. Only after I complain does it come back up for brief periods of time. Please be patient while I try to sort this out.

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We were having some major server problems but they seem to be fixed now. Thank you for your patience. I will post the second part of the article on Ye Xiao-long tomorrow to give people time to read the first part.

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We are experiencing some technical difficulties. Some of the site may not function normally. Thanks for your patience will I fix it.

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If you’re interested in what Taiwan looks like through eyes other than mine, I suggest you check out the guys and gals over at Trippin TV. Here’s their decription of the site: “TrippinTV is Taiwan’s very own FREE personals, language exhange and video community that connects people living in Taiwan to each other and the [...]

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For those of you who don’t know me, my real name is Dave Chesser. I’m in the pic above doing push hands with Mike Martello’s excellent teacher — Wang Jie. I’ve been using the screen name “chessman” for years because it was my high school nickname.
My martial arts background has been discussed before, but here [...]

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