UVA Uechi Club

[Bill Glasheen]

Never wear that shirt in Roanoke

It's my experience that the Tech people are a little less subtle. They wear really imaginative buttons like "UVa su-cks" IN Charlottesville at UVa games.

What-ever...

Whenever Tech people give me a hard time about UVa football, I tell them that I went to college to get an education. It shuts them up every time - usually with some laughter in the background from the peanut gallery.

- Bill

[benzocaine]

Tech has a cult following here.... to the point it sickens me a little. It has gotten even worse since the massacre that recently happened.... but that is fading enough to the point that I can start to make jabs at TECH again.

My wife is working on her Masters though there now, so I have to be careful In spite of that she is well aware of how I feel, which is that I have little respect for a team that would allow the likes of Marcus Vick to stay as there Q.B..

I heard something funny last week. "All dirt roads lead to tech."

[Bill Glasheen]

I have little respect for a team that would allow the likes of Marcus Vick to stay as [their quarterback].

Between Marcus and Michael, you have quite a prison show at Virginia Tech.

Brother Michael was the wunderkid who could do no wrong in the eyes of Tech faithful. The truth however is what it is.

It started with Michael and STDs. Something about getting girls sick, and being treated in a foreign country under a false name for nasty stuff. With time we see the sordid affiliation with dog fighting. Not to be outdone by this redneck practice, his "Bad Newz Kennels" gang tops that off with electrocutions and hangings of dogs who didn't measure up.

Marcus couldn't even try to give the appearance of respectability. There were his early charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (getting minor girls drunk and having sex with them). Then there were multiple incidents of speeding around 100 and being caught with pot in the car when stopped. He topped all that off with brandishing a weapon at a fast food place to intimidate people who were badmouthing him.

As I've said before, you can take the boy out of the 'hood, but you can't take the hood out of the boy.

Truth be told, the VA Tech football program has a lengthy record of its athletes running amuck with the law. They in fact specialize in assault charges. That wouldn't happen at many famous institutions. Winning isn't everything. A small fraction of people who play Varsity sports end up in the pros. The rest of them need to get good educations so they can be productive citizens. When you have big boys behaving badly, that just can't be good. Sooner or later the "win and cover up" philosophy will bite you in the arse as it did with the shenanigans of the Vick brothers.

I heard something funny last week. "All dirt roads lead to tech."

Yep... That's an old one. And then there are many spin-offs. For example... When UVa running back Barry Word - former ACC player of the year and 3rd round draft pick - got convicted of cocaine distribution, bumper stickers popped up with the slogan "All white lines lead to UVa."

Tech gets the rural rap because Blacksburg is in the middle of sleepy southwest Virginia and because it specializes in engineering and agricultural technology. Want to be a farmer? VA Tech is your school. So when Playboy Magazine once reviewed schools for their party reputations and patterns of misbehavior, Tech was skewered for students' fascination with cow tipping.



And if you don't know what cow tipping is, you aren't Tech material.

- Bill

[benzocaine]

In all fairness the Region is developing rapidly. It's sad to think the area is losing it's rural feel. Before long it will be like Virginia East of the Blue Ridge.

PS. Ross.....no offense meant to you.

[Dale Houser]

This baby should not follow the Tech folks. They are a different line of Uech,...

What's that got to do with anything?

...and they have not contributed at all to the effort.

Absolutely correct and the only valid reason. Above is a little crack but it tells a lot, doesn't it?

Still, temporary hosting would be nice and helpful to all Uechis, not any particular line. That is, if they would even consider doing it.

Remember, the VA Tech club did not suggest this.

[Bill Glasheen]

This baby should not follow the Tech folks. They are a different line of Uech,...

What's that got to do with anything?

...and they have not contributed at all to the effort.

Absolutely correct and the only valid reason. Above is a little crack but it tells a lot, doesn't it?

Still, temporary hosting would be nice and helpful to all Uechis, not any particular line. That is, if they would even consider doing it.

Remember, the VA Tech club did not suggest this.

It would be a bit like someone suggesting I manage the proofs of Alan Dollar's book if he passed away. While I would be flattered and humbled by the suggestion, I would never presume that to be proper. The book content is definitely Kenyukai specific. Members of the Kenyukai community should ALWAYS have first refusal rights. Then and only then should someone outside of the Kenyukai family be mentioned as a possible resource. And I would say that BECAUSE I have worked out with both Shinjo Seiyu and Shinjo Narahiro, and have the deepest respect for them and their contributions to the Uechi family of martial styles.

We Uechika of various lines in the Mid-Atlantic area get along better than in any other region of the world except for maybe Germany. Part of getting along is respecting both what we share and what makes us unique. That's what makes the whole better than the sum of the parts.

It's a protocol thing. No biggie. No blood, no foul.

I'm a scientist and not a diplomat. I say pretty much what's on my mind. And everyone else should feel free to do the same here.

- Bill

[Dale Houser]

Fair enough. At least people are open here. Cheers.

[AE Moores]

Bill sensei,
You were in Boston and didn't find your way up to our dojo.... and here I thought we had a special place in your uechi heart.

Andrew

[Bill Glasheen]

Alright... Make me feel guilty, why don't you!

I make it to Boston now once a month. This month is a short one because I have to swing by Jersey City to give a talk. But I'm up for 3 days in a stretch. I stay in the Summer Street area, near the Downtown Crossing stop. (I take the Silver Line from the airport right to that part of town.)

Maybe November will work. Let's see if we can plan it.

Bill

[AE Moores]

Sounds great! We would love to have you up to the dojo.


Andrew

[Dale Houser]

Seems the site is still down. Is the Uechi club inactive this semester/year? That would be too bad. Are there other dojos nearby for the students?

[Bill Glasheen]

The club has been inactive for a bit. The remaining students have evaporated. I'm still working on seeing if I can find someone who can rescue the website content. It's been a chore...

I'm not that far away. We could get it going again with one warm body. I even rescued some of the equipment that would have been absconded by the other martial clubs in a New York second.

We shall see...

- Bill

[Dale Houser]

That's a bummer. I hope it works out. It's a great experience for students and the site was very well done too.

[Chris McKaskell]

Hi just wondering if there's been any movment in the effort to re-launch the much missed UVA Uechi website???

[Bill Glasheen]

Chris

So far we can't find the right systems person with the files. We may have to re-create the whole thing from scratch.

The student associations have unfortunately been next-to-useless, and we don't now have a body "on the ground" over there to annoy the right administrative people. My next step is the Alumni Association. It may cost me a donation, but that wouldn't be so bad if they can recover hundreds of hours of work.

Thanks for asking.

Bill