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Thursday blog time and weather it was a nice sunny day, the third Thursday in a row, and the outlook for next week is good.
Like most of us, you long for spring. From my balcony I looked at a beautiful field of spring flowers but noticed today that they have mowed it, it's a shame that they didn't go around it with the mowing machine. Quite special that every year these flowers come up around the same time, but as written, prematurely swept away by some clumsy person who probably doesn't like nature.
I have to get up regularly while writing the blog because my back has been bothering me for 3 weeks and the best medicine is to walk around the block to relieve my back.
Yesterday morning a new problem was added and it was a particularly painful spot on the left side of my body. Especially when I have to cough, it feels like a knife is being poked in my side. I called the doctor and I have it again, the doctor won't be back until next week. This morning at the dojo I was talking about it with Folkert Rikkert de Koe, our medicine man, and he asked me to point out the place where you have problems.
I pointed out the spot and he pressed it for a moment.......pats that was an immediate hit and went through the ground for a while.
It's safe to say, it's a muscle tear under your bone because there's nothing else in that particular spot. Remains painful for a while but heals again, I am of course relieved but as a heavy shagroker I sometimes cough and believe me that is no fun at the moment.
Enough about myself so back to the Dojo.

Weirdo
This week I was sitting behind my computer in the evening to look up something via Google and saw on my 2nd screen where the cameras of the Dojo can be seen continuously a guy come in and immediately walked out of the picture, my first thought was, another one who has put his bike inside.
But less than a few seconds later, he walked out the door with the device that sterilizes tattoo needles and the like. I couldn't believe my eyes and because I saw Abman walking somewhere upstairs in the Gym and assumed his phone was downstairs, I immediately called Jerry to report it.
Won't repeat his response. That same evening I posted the recorded images on Facebook where his shoes and cap stand out, unfortunately his face is not visible. Of course, such a thing is unimaginably brutal and below par.
That our motto is "One Gym One Fam" revealed itself in the speed with which members shared Jerry's message! Just under 200 times at the time of writing. Despite this horrible event, Jerry didn't lose his faith in humanity, which manifested itself in a kind of parody the next day on Facebook, see for yourself on his page how that went!!
Jerry, you're still a wonderful weirdo!

Judo
Last Saturday it was exam day at the Judo department.
Luckily for me, Pa Taling came by to look at a few things. I asked, René, do you want to film the frolic champions so that I can provide the parents and other people present with coffee etc. It then became filming all morning for René because the approach in front of the bar was such that I was not able to relieve him. That René took his task as a filmmaker seriously was evident from the images on the SD card, more than 100 recordings. I've been quite busy making short videos of this, partly because some recordings lasted for minutes. It's watching and cutting over and over again until it's an acceptable length.
During this editing, I got more and more admiration for Stijn Taling, who is now in charge of the Judo department. Staying true to himself, patiently and with a lot of humor to keep the attention of the Kids, hats off to Stijn for your way of acting!

Viking Run
The registrations for the Viking Run continue to pour in. Be careful because the registration closes on April 15 and as Jerry effectively put it, after April 15 you have to arrange it yourself and you can run after the bus. This also applies to the payment, most of them have not yet paid and we ask for the amount of 50 euros to be paid in cash for administrative reasons. Such a run is a one-time thing and it is a hassle for us to do this via the pin. What forgot to mention is that Jerry has shirts made free of charge and of course we want the sizes, so people who have already signed up also give your size shirt. They are normal size shirts so not like the first time when they were on the tight side.

Until my next blog.
Dick

 

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