Next Meet

The next session of W2FC will be October 12, 2008 at 11am at Clover Park in Santa Monica. Please note that by popular request the time has been pushed an hour to accomodate the more free-wheeling and beverage friendly lifestyle often enjoyed by members of the Web 2.0 community.

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We Survived

Mike, Dan, Casey & George

Mike, Dan, Casey & Rudy were awesome.

The inaugural gathering of W2FC was a “smashing” success! We went over kickboxing basics and by the end of the two hour session everyone looked smooth as they delivered punch and kick combos. Lots of sweat, some dry heaving and a few tired muscles was the price to step outside of Sunday’s brunch zone and try something new.

We’ll do this again real soon. Thanks everyone for a really great time.

Confirmed

Here’s the list of confirmed attendees for the inaugural session for W2FC:

Alex Albrecht (Diggnation, Totally Rad Show, Project Lore)

Barrett Garese (UTA Online)

Rudy Jahchan (Galacticast, A Comicbook Orange)

Casey McKinnon (Galacticast, A Comicbook Orange, Kitkast)

Mike Outmesguine (WiFi-Toys.com)

George Ruiz (International Creative Management)

Dan Tischler (BBC America)

A number of you have said you’ll try to drop by. Great! If you plan on attending, send me an email (georgehruiz at me dot com) with a quick summary of your martial arts background. See you Sunday.

Roll Call

Expect a lot of this

A number of people (mostly from Twitter) have indicated they are interested in attending our first workout, so I’d like to get an idea how many will attend on 9/28. Please email me (georgehruiz at me dot com) if you plan on coming and if you have any questions about what to expect. I’d appreciate getting a short summary of your martial arts background (e.g., “4 years tae kwon do” , “none”, “UFC champ”) so I know what kind of raw material we’ll be working with that day.

Welcome to Fight Club

Web 2.0 Fight Club is about collaboration and training among different martial arts practitioners who inhabit the web community. It’s not about banging, but instead about educating others in your fighting art. So far we have interested participants who have trained in boxing, muay thai, kenpo, tae kwon do, savate, kuk sool won and few other  esoteric arts. Over the course of several meetings you will have the opportunity to train and be trained by others.

We will drill and work pads until we grow comfortable with each other and our varying styles. Then we will have to the option to do some light contact sparring. No one will be required or pressured to spar. That will always be voluntary.

Our first meeting will held Sunday September 28, 2008 from 10am to 12 noon at Clover Park in Santa Monica. Please wear comfortable workout clothes (e.g., shorts and t-shirts but no gis) and wrestling shoes or cross-trainers. If you own any of the following it would be appreciated if you could bring them: jump-rope, boxing gloves, hand wraps, Thai pads, focus mitts and kicking shields. Since we’ll be outside for two hours, make sure to bring lots of water. If you think you might like to try sparring, please bring a mouthpiece, shin guards and groin protection.

The format for our first meeting will be as follows:

Warm-up,

Stretching,

Basic hand drills

Hand combinations

Kick fundamentals

Kicking drills

Hand and feet combinations

Advanced techniques

Stretching and cool down

Most of the drill and combinations will be done with partners and everyone will be constantly switching so you get a chance to train with everyone.

You will sweat, get a great workout and learn some new techniques. Mostly, it will be a lot of fun and you’ll meet lots of friends from the Web 2.0 and L.A. Twitter community. See you there.