{"id":1538,"date":"2012-02-02T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2012-02-02T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T22:46:27","slug":"memories-and-old-pictures-of-dojos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2012\/02\/02\/memories-and-old-pictures-of-dojos\/","title":{"rendered":"memories and old pictures of dojos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran into Uematsu-san at the AACC Saturday evening! I asked him if he was here to spar because he was fighting soon, and he said, “Oh I retired. I’m an old man. I’m Gono’s grappling coach.” I was like, “WHAAAAAAAT!?” He’s thirty-three and has been fighting since 1997.<\/p>\n

link to Uematsu’s sherdog page<\/a><\/p>\n

Uematsu was the teacher of Cross Point Kichijouji when I first came to Japan! I wrote a lot about him in my book ( that I can’t seem to get published ;_;)<\/p>\n

I think he cornered me in my debut fight in 2003. After I won, I asked him, “How many times have you fought?” and he said, “I don’t know…” I said, “HOW CAN YOU NOT REMEMBER?!” lol He was my idol! My role-model! He’s 15-8-2 now. Wow….<\/p>\n

Here’s a pic from my college student exchange year in 2004: He’s in the middle, next to me. He said he opened his own club in Tachikawa, but that’s too far for me to go to on a regular basis. \ud83d\ude41
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I’ve been also reminiscing about my old team, Keishukai. Man, those guys were like my second family. I joined right after I came to Japan. They welcomed me in and did their best to communicate with me and accept me, even though I was a foreigner. Foreigners passed through, but I was one of the few who stayed for years. It broke my heart to leave, but things happen.<\/p>\n

This is a group pic we took after I won my Fatal Femmes Fighting belt. There’s Moriyama-sensei before he passed away! Okami, Uno, Monma, Mitsuoka, Hashi, Sakura, Tetsu-san, Mizuho, many many!
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This is when Moriyama-san invited me, Hashi, Kadowaki, and Uno to go to a matsuri in Koga….but he passed away, so we went anyway, to honor his invitation. It was a special time. Summer 2008(Moriyama-san’s friend’s wife lent me a Kimono).
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Me, Kosuke Kudo-san, Hashi, Yokoyama-san, Hashi and Koizumi-san visited Serizawa-san’s Tsuruga dojo in Shizuoka in 2006! There’s Mt. Fuji in the back ground!
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I went to Fatal Femmes Fighting with Hashi and her brother and Koizumi-san. I bet nobody remembers that she had a WAR with Amanda Buckner? Veronica and Kristin from http:\/\/wmmaroundup.com\/<\/a>, you remember, at least, I know! \ud83d\ude42
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Well, now I’m training at new places. Everybody has changed. Everybody’s careers have taken different routes. And nobody can predict what will happen, most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran into Uematsu-san at the AACC Saturday evening! I asked him if he was here to spar because he was fighting soon, and he said, “Oh I retired. I’m an old man. I’m Gono’s grappling coach.” I was like, “WHAAAAAAAT!?” He’s thirty-three and has been fighting since 1997. link to Uematsu’s sherdog page Uematsu…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fight","category-friends","category-training","category-7","category-9","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}