Masato's BC Adventure

[Masato]

Here I have to tell a story (but no pics, sorry);

On the way home from the lake I was driving with my brother, wife & daughter (others in my bro's wife's car).

Driving through a neighborhood when my bro sees major SMOKE coming from behind a house. We turn back to investigate, and can't find the road in to where we saw it. Almost gave up thinking someone was just burning brush or something, but then realized there was a major fire-ban in effect cuz everything was so dry.

We go back and find the driveway, and there is a woman running around panicking. We realize its a fire. The woman and her husband are an elderly asian couple that speak no english and are FREAKING OUT. the fire is coming up real fast from behind their house and getting pretty big.

My bro jumps out like a fuckin superhero and asks if anyone called 911. They don't know what he's talking about and hand him the phone. He calls 911 and then somehow finds a fire extinguisher and starts fighting the fire like a boss, lol (I tried to get the garden hose but it wasn't working, and was kind of in a Jack Black-esuqe role thinking 'holy shit there's a fire!' while my bro was several miles ahead of me in reaction :D

Fire trucks come in I swear less than 2 minutes and they blasted that fire like fuckin champs.

I swear if we had not showed up when we did, in 5 minutes that fire would have reached the house and burned it. My brother was gleaming for the rest of the day. We left with no reward. Surely the eldery asian couple will tell elaborate tales of this mysterious red-bearded hero to their grandkids for generations to come, lol

[Masato]

Back to my brother's house.

He has been doing Aikido religiously for like 20 years, and is a several degree blackbelt (don't know which exactly). He also trains a variety of other MA, and recently started BJJ.

The morning after epic Lake-And-Firefighting-Day, he invited me to come train BAGUA with some badass he was doing private lessons with. We went in this underground parking garage, and the dude starts teaching some crazy knife-defense moves. I have been in company of many martial arts 'badasses', and this guy impressed me more than any. He was a short black-skinned man in his late 40's with a big belly, but was fuckin BAD ASS. Watching him move was like watching an elite jazz musician or something.... so fluid, so perfect in his movements. Truly impressive, was an honor to be in his company. Some women who came down to use the parking lot saw us fighting and scurried off like rabbits, lol


Here is my brother's dojo that he made in his garage.
My son and his son had a roll.. My bro's wife called them for lunch just as my boy was locking up a triangle. They were best friends from that moment on







here he is giving a swordfighting lesson to my son:

[Masato]

That night he took us to a wicked rock where we could watch the Canada Day fireworks and get a view of the city:



That's my brother in the red hat:


Mrs Masato with the nice ass:


My daughter discovered this panning-photo option on my phone, but if you pan too quickly the image gets all warped. This image got fucked up, but I think it turned out to be a kind of cool portrait of my bro (on the right):


great fireworks show. Some people were saying that the 2 stars visible were Venus and Jupiter, but I don't know how they knew that or if its true:

[Masato]

Beach by my brother's house where we went skim-boarding. His son could do some nice tricks. Was my first time, I got the hang of it pretty quick, lots of fun (sorry no pics)




More beaches around the island we went to:

[Masato]

Leaving the Island for back home.

I will always love this place, what an amazing playground of natural wonder

Goodbye BC!!


Mount Baker:

[Masato]

That's it.

Back to Real Lyfe now, feelin OK.

Will post more regularly now... thanks 2 all for keepin the place goin while I was gone!

:D

[Edge Guerrero]

- Cool adventure Masato, that place looks like something from a comic-book.

[Edge Guerrero]

Here is my brother's dojo that he made in his garage.
My son and his son had a roll.. My bro's wife called them for lunch just as my boy was locking up a triangle. They were best friends from that moment on

- The old trick: - My mom is calling for lunch!

here he is giving a swordfighting lesson to my son:

Very cool place.

[superCalo]

this look very similar to place in world I am going this weekend, will try & take photos but not have the skillz to cover up faces or rather the luchadour masks are too expensive this time of year

that lake if drained & filled with those mountains would make a great car park

[penxv]

It looks like you had a really nice vacation.

You didn't miss much. It was pretty quiet, mostly.