Seize the Night!!!

People who know me would often say that I’m a very confrontational person; always looking for reasons to get into an argument, throwing tactless comments into the air, etc. But these days, I’m devolving into something different; something much worse. Instead of looking for verbal battles, I’ve been looking for fights. Real ones.

I guess this is another demon a have to face in my backtracking expedition. I dealt with this particular aggressive demon two-and-a-half years ago but I never really had a problem containing it because I was in a "Fight Club". I was somewhat able to unleash some of my pent-up rage and open up a can of whoop-ass. Even though I didn’t really win that much since I was one of the weaker fighters (if not the weakest), it did it’s job in training me and containing my unexplained desire to pummel someone.

As mentioned, I am facing this demon again. Only problem is: I’M NOT IN A FIGHT CLUB ANYMORE!!! So what am I to do? I can’t just go around challenging anyone I see on the street. That can only lead to two things: 1) I get my ass whooped; 2) I kick someone’s head in, get captured by the police for disturbing the peace and get my ass whooped. Former or latter, it doesn’t matter. I lose.

I decided to do some retail therapy. I bought the Batman Begins DVD and the Marvel Knights: Elektra Trade Paperback; two items that I oh-so-coveted over the weeks. Upon watching the Special Features disc of the Batman Begins, my attention was immediately captured by the featurette about the martial art they used for the movie, the KeySi Fighting Method.

The KeySi Fighting Method is a very tight close-quarters martial art. Unlike other martial arts which look beautiful only when choreographed and lethal only when executed crudely, KeySi is as lethal as it is beautiful. It is a mixture of many types of martial arts and is still evolving. The primary stance of KeySi is the "Thinking Man" stance which is very defensive, but it uses the stance’s awkward position to it’s full offensive advantage by getting in really close and using a lot of elbow and fist strikes. To support this technique, the footwork involved in the art always aims to dodge an opponent’s strikes and/or get as close as possible (and I mean in-your-face close). It also has some nifty grappling techniques that often lead to a neck-break, choke, or headlock. Basically, it’s built to end a fight quickly with very serious injuries to your victim… errr… opponent.

Ever since then, I’ve been researching everything I can about KeySi. I’ve also been trying to train myself (as much as I could train watching and imitating the movements in the featurette) to learn it. So I ended up buying boxing gloves, a punching bag, and a new pair of nunchuckus (Okay, the nunchucks are not really part of the KeySi Fighting Method. I just use it for dexterity training). The training is also a good way for me to release tension brought about my sudden attacks of ruthless aggression. The timing for my interest to learn something has never been so perfect.

Aside from KeySi training, I’ve also tried to express my aggression through the clothes I wear. Everyone who has seen me can attest that I always wear black. I wanted to take it to the next level by using the hue as an expression of rage and intimidation by combining it with shades of red and other gothic elements. The perfect opportunity for me to try this out came in the form of an event: the grand launch of Shades of Gray: Split-Second Eternities, DLS-CSB’s Literary Folio.

The event had a corporate-punk theme. So I came in a black collared shirt, black pants, and black Chuck Taylor’s. I enhanced it by sporting a dark violet duotone neck-tie, mismatched earrings (one hoop and one dangling), mismatched finger-gloves (black on the left, black and red on the right), and 3 wrist-watches on my left arm (pink and circular, blue and squarish, red and triangular). I was happy with the way I looked, especially with the wrist-watches+finger-glove combo which looked like a make-shift gauntlet. I was even happier when I was awarded 2nd-best dressed person in the event–I lost by (a) hair, literally. Dianne, the 1st placer, had really wild hair that I can’t compete with. I got a really cool charm bracelet for it as a prize. It looked really cool. Me likey.

Aggression Deterrents. Yes, I do need anger management.

Shiny New Nunchuckus. The newest addition to my armory: Equilibrium. I shall paint it soon.

Charmed. The bracelet that I won from the Shades of Gray Launch. I likes it very mucho.

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