By way of a brief re-introduction - HELLO! - my name is Chris McKaskell and I've been training in Uechi pretty consistently since about 1987 mostly in Southwestern Ontario (think Toronto/London), in Canada.

I've been a little removed from this wing of the community for the past few years...how is ...

Thanks Bill -- Hey Marcus!

Nice pic -- Lee Valley was offering posters of that tool box few years ago...very cool, and one heckofaload of work. Wow.

Hope cabinetmaking has picked up down under!!

Hi Bill,

Just wanted to share this article about us which came out as a huge spread in our local newspaper's weekend 'Home Magazine'

It's been a tough couple of years and we've watched several other cabinet shops go out of business around us - friends and competitors both. I was not expecting ...

Agreed!

A few places up here really standout in particular -- Vancouver and area, obviously...then Alberta has a huge wealth of folks each focusing on entirely different things!

Laird if a force to be reckoned in Banff - I must get there someday; I love visiting Rick Wilson in Edmonton, and Ken ...

Hi Bill,

Just wanted to note that I managed to meet up with Mike Vena and his crew and enjoyed a couple of awesome classes with them in North Vancouver. I posted a note in the 'locate a dojo' forum, but wanted to mention it here as well.

A couple of Mike's students, John and Jason, I remember ...

Just wanted to let everyone know I managed to meet up with Mike and his crew and enjoyed a couple of awesome classes. I found his contact info on George's list of dojo and instructors.

John and Jason I remember meeting way back when I attended a couple of Rob Kolenc's and Kai Heinonen's classes in ...

Barry Gower mentioned Mike Vena is teaching in Vancouver....I'm looking for contact info if anyone can help. Love to visit....thanks, Chris

I'm very pleased to announce that Rory will be returning to London, Ontario again early in April to run a series of seminars including 'Thugs and Ambushes', 'Conflict Communication' and a third.....Likely 'Logic of Violence' -- which happens to be a personal favourite!

Anyone is intersted in ...

Hello Laird!!

HEY STRANGER!!

Good to see you here again - looking foraward to seeing your new dojo sometime this summer!

Thank you!

A feature we'll be adding in a couple of weeks will be a small blog section.

I'm really looking forward to writing about my trade, and I'm also looking forward to sneaking in some explorations of MA -- the relationship between a physical trade and a physical art -- each requiring ...

Leo, you are too kind....my grandfather used to refer to us as "damned upper canadians"! :lol:

George, thank you, I appreciate the comment -- It's a big year for us: we've spent the last few years just kinda hunkered down trying to survive the recession and this year we've decided to risk a little ...

Sorry, I should have mentioned this isn't an MA thread...

But if anyone has any thoughts, or notices any typos I'm open to comments -- I have an enormous amount of respect for the opinions of the people in this community!

Hi All,

This just launched today and I wanted to share:

http://mhdbonline.com/wp/

It's so new I don't think the e-mail address even works yet!

The date is getting close...