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About Me

I'm a 31 year old, Bi-Polar Blackbelt. Is that a bad combination or what? Seriously though, I am very passionate about what I do for a living, which most people would give anything to feel about their job. I teach kids martial arts, and specialize in children with disabilities such as ADHD, Bi-Polar Disorder, and even Hearing Impaired children. I teach adults too, but both the rewards and achievements are much greater with these kids, on both of our parts. I compete in weapons on the NASKA/NBL National circuits, and the local events as well, while teaching private lessons and seminars.
I also own my own Graphic Design Studio, I get the wonderful job of playing in Photoshop all day long....so to all those teachers who told me to stop drawing in class, here's to you. You can check out some of my work/play in my pics.
I have a Photobucket Portfolio also HERE.

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My Interests

Wayne Crawford and one of our students, "Keene", breaking 3 boards with a Inverted Ridgehand. 3 Board Break

Martial Arts ( NASKA , NBL ), Mixed Martial Arts, any kind of art (I'm a collector), Graphic Design ( D & D Design ), and doing anything with my family. I also enjoy reasearching my Choctaw heritage/lineage.

I also play Poker online. Catch up with me on Pokerstars.com and I'll hurt your feelings, SlwMotion4Me is tha' name, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!!"

I'd like to meet:

Music:

I'll listen to just about anything, rap, rock, metal, country, oldies. It really depends on the mood I'm in at the moment.

Movies:

Television:

Big guy small guy fight!!

I'm a National Geographic/Discovery Channel freak. I don't get into the reality craze that much, it just seems to me like they're all the same now. Don't get me wrong, I rent every big fight that comes up, I just don't see any variation of style or technique like you used to back when UFC started. I love boxing, on any channel, any time. My newest thing is World Combat League on the Versus channel.

Books:

Heroes:

My beautiful Wife. She's been with me through the hardest parts of my life, and hasn't given up on me no matter how hard it got, and it got BAD. Bi-Polar Disorder is a hard thing for ANYBODY to live with.

My Blog

I write rhymes

This is a spoken word piece I did at a poetry slam a while back. Quite good, I think. I got a great round of applause for it. As with most Spoken Word, it has no actual format to it, is more realistic...
Posted by The Robbie on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST

Christmas

The last month or so has been rough for me, AGAIN. It seems like problem after problem after problem pops up, always unexpectantly, always at the worst moment possible. I am adopting a new saying in m...
Posted by The Robbie on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:53:00 PST

Lately

Ok, I haven't posted in a while. I have had some rough times here lately with my Bi-Polar Disorder. What started it all was me damaging my father-in-laws lawn mower, $300 worth of damage(he has a big ...
Posted by The Robbie on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:46:00 PST

The Gift

The Gift Its two in the morning and She's glued to the carpet The pills are all missing and The bottle is empty Her makeup is everywhere Her lipstick is smudged She lays on the floor of the lost and ...
Posted by The Robbie on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST

A new me.

Ok, so I went to the doc right? What I didn't say before was it was Accupuncture. I wasn't real sure it would help, was real skeptical. This is how it goes: I went in, and had a 45 min. full-body mas...
Posted by The Robbie on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:20:00 PST

A Good Parent & New Friend

This week has started out pretty good so far. I spent all day today swimming with my kids and BBQ'ing with the rest of the family. The other blackbelts at the school, the owners, came over tonight for...
Posted by The Robbie on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:24:00 PST

Wow..a BAD week it has been so far...

To start out, Friday I got my boot off of my foot only to hear from the doctor that it was never hurt, nothing was wrong. First it was a tear, then it changed to a break, then to nothing at all. Hmmm....
Posted by The Robbie on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:14:00 PST

Update...

Ok,so we had the meeting I was talking about last time. It went great, and since then I think we all got on the same page, because we now have a school we can be proud of. Most of all, he will and has...
Posted by The Robbie on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:41:00 PST

Damn Damn Damn...

Ok, this is how's things went down here lately. Workin out, I tore a tendon in the top of my foot. Doc put me in a cast for 3 weeks, then some rehab. If that don't work, it's cortizone, then surgery. ...
Posted by The Robbie on Fri, 12 May 2006 01:07:00 PST

More About Me...

First off, I am a Martial Arts Instructor, and I specialize in Oriental Weapons. My other speciality is teaching special needs children. I have taught children who were deaf, blind, ADHD, and Bi-Polar...
Posted by The Robbie on Mon, 01 May 2006 09:48:00 PST