So, on the subject of clubs week, I’ll say which clubs I joined. Or rather, which one I officially joined and which one I plan on joining. I joined the Anime Club. I don’t care if that makes me a gigantic nerd. I like anime. You never quite see TV shows or cartoons getting so epic and high fantasy or, in the case of comedy, so damned weird when you watch the stuff that’s just made in North America.
Also, I went to the open house for UBC’s Wing Chun club, as I mentioned interest in previously. When I went to the booth at clubs week, it seemed kind of intimidating and off-putting, as did the first little bits of the class, but Dr. Khoe, the head instructor there, was pretty friendly, and was anything but intimidating or off-putting, so as the class started it got a lot easier. What’s surprising is how fast the class goes by, considering that their classes go for three full hours. So I’m joining them on Monday.
If anyone’s curious or interested and has no idea what Wing Chun is, it’s a Kung Fu style that’s considered one of the more “street effective” self defense styles, but unlike ones like it that I’ve tried, such as Muay Thai and boxing, it doesn’t stress power at all (Actually, in my first class they kept telling me not to do all the things I did in boxing to generate power) so it’s highly recommended to people who aren’t very big or women who want to learn self defense. Wing Chun is also the original Kung Fu style of Bruce Lee, and one of the really interesting things about it is that unlike most martial arts, it was revealed to the public fairly recently by a guy named Yip Man. As a result of this, you can check the credibility of any Wing Chun Master by asking him to trace his Lineage to Yip Man. This isn’t as hard as it sounds. For instance, Dr. Khoe trained under a man named Wong Kiu, who was one of Yip Man’s original students.
In any case, I’d highly recommend it to anyone who’s interested and doesn’t mind sore forearms (you’ll understand once you see it) they meet at the International House on Mondays and Wednesdays, and they have a website here
Though, it hasn’t really been updated in awhile, so I’m not sure how informative it is.
Also, I went to the gym the other day. Did I mention I hate gyms? I love weight lifting, but gyms bother me so much. I hate all the waiting around for other people to finish and worrying about bumping into people. It’s not a good environment for exercise. This isn’t necessarily me trashing the BirdCoop, which is a fully functional gym for all intents and purposes (though, I do think it’s a little small for a gym that’s supposed to be used by a University as big as UBC) but I think the design of the modern gymnasium is fundamentally flawed.
I think this is about as much as I should write for now. I’ll try to be more frequent next week. Writing stuff about the career fair (anyone else noticed that the career fair is sponsored entirely by spies and accountants? Scary.) and Day of the Longboat (I hate water and boats, but Sam made me join her team. Expect much unpleasantness from me on this front) so I should be less of an update slacker.