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Electroshock
Yoga may have the appearance of a gentle sport, but don’t be fooled. I managed to massively overstretch my rotator cuff in a vicious Thread the Needle last month and keep reinjuring it doing Chaturanga. So, having bollocksed it up again yesterday morning, I decided to seek medical attention at my favorite sports clinic where…
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Chili-roasted Mushrooms (plus bonus recipe)
I made this as part of a tapas spread but it would be a lovely side dish or a rich and flavourful topping for salad, grilled vegetables or steaks. For the chili oil, I used a Japanese rayu with roasted garlic and chilli flakes in it that infused the oil with unbeatable flavour, but if…
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Another Rainy Shoot
This time, I had an umbrella. The photoshoot in the middle of yet another Sunday downpour was taken by Chel Beeson and will be used on a website for an onsen resort here in Japan. I love my ad hoc modeling gigs. The photos depict me and my mate Phil as a happy couple enjoying…
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Hooping on an Unknown Beach
Not an unknown beach at all, but one of my favorites – Habushiura near the campsite on Niijima. Rainy season began yesterday, the earliest since records began in 1951, and for the next six weeks or more, my hooping activities are going to be limited to classrooms, the carport, and rare sunny days. I am…
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Plans for Summer 2011
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Rainy Robots
Yesterday I had the honor and joy of helping out with the video shoot for Jesse and Will’s song, Hooked on Robots. The day dawned warm and sunny. There was forecast rain in the late afternoon but it didn’t seem likely. I was out and about early in the day and I was already sweating.…
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Merry, merry month of May
There are two months in Tokyo that make me gloriously happy because they have the absolute best weather – May and October. I’ve been enjoying this year’s May very much. It’s combined a lot of outdoor time with hooping and some new skills, too. First, I hosted a Guru-guru Camp during Golden Week. 15 people…
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Circus Style Hoop Drills – the chimes
Lots of people have checked out the Circus Style Hoop Drills videos; thank you all. I plan to make more of these this summer with some new moves and multiple hoops, too. Once you’ve done the drills a few times and gotten the sequences down, you really don’t need the video except to know when…
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Everything in between
I keep trying to write about the aftermath of the disasters but I have little new to say. Things in Tokyo are fine; disruptions are either settling into routine or are fading away. At the same time, everything up north is not fine. What is striking all of us now, even in the safety of…
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Spring Hoop Mania
Today’s weather was gorgeous and no amount of disaster-anything was going to keep me inside. I put on a gorgeous long twirly skirt given to me by my hooping friend, Sarah, walked up to my local park where the stone paving is always warm, slipped off my shoes, turned up my iPod and completely ignored…
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