Loopkicks camp – The wake up call post #22

Loopkicks camp – The wake up call post#22

July 2004

Camp was an amazing experience. It was such a great learning experience for everyone. Who would have thought a bunch of teenage misfits with no business experience and no organizational skills could pull such an epic event off.

The mini show was successful also. All the guests performed in the afternoon show. There were some very memorable performances. The routine I did with Wild One was ok. Wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. It wasn’t the right crowd I think. The routine was for more a mature audience. But you have to try new things regardless of the outcome. Everything after the show was going to be a breeze. Everyone had a night to do whatever he or she wanted. I needed the mental rest.

Wild One and I had definitely become a lot closer as the days passed. She wasn’t as wild and crazy as she appeared. She and I flirted hardcore for a long time that night. I wasn’t going to give in though. I don’t think she has ever lost this game.

So instead of losing the game. She decided that she would hook up with someone else instead. Which I didn’t mind. The satisfaction of winning was enough for me in this situation. Everyone was having a great time at the guest party house. Time flew by. I really needed to get home and get some sleep. On my way out I ran into Wild One. I told her bye and said I would see her tomorrow.

I asked her if she needed a ride back to the hotel. She said sure. On the drive to the hotel I asked her if she was going to see Shuriken later tonight. She said yes. Then she responded with

“But I would rather have someone else though”

I told her that she was being greedy and a bad girl. She gave me the look that said, “I don’t give a fuck”. I looked at her and said “hell, why not”.

I followed her back to her room. It will be a night I will never forget and not in a good way. She didn’t get the name Wild One for no reason. Here is how it all went down.

Wild One and I did our thing. Afterwards I was exhausted. There was no way I was driving home. I decided to just crash there. Minutes later there is a knock on the door. Wild One is in the bathroom. So I opened the door. It was Shuriken. I was too tired to care who was here. I told him Wild One was in the Bathroom. I went back to the bed that Wild One and I just hooked up on. The room had two queen beds. Shuriken laid on the other bed. I rolled over to go to sleep. I hear Wild One come out of the bathroom. Moments later I hear them making out. I know where this is leading. I fell asleep mid make out. Thankfully.

When I woke up in the morning, Shuriken was gone. I went to the bathroom. When I came out I laid next to Wild One. I have no idea why I didn’t just go home. A little while later. We hooked up again. I felt disgusting. I don’t know why I decided to go at it again with her. But it was definitely a wake up call.

I drove home feeling used and filthy. I did it to myself. I was paying the price though. I was having anxiety attacks. I was a complete mess. When I got home, I just went to my room and laid in my bed in the fetal position. I didn’t contact anyone for a long time. I slowly pulled it together. Enough to turn on my computer. I still didn’t want to interact with anyone.

My computer automatically connected to aim when it starts up. Which I had forgotten in my messed up head situation. Before I could log off of aim. Throwback messaged me. Why did she want to talk to me right now? Of all people, why her? She asked where I was and that everyone was worried about me. I told her that I had a rough night and didn’t want to be around anyone today.

She asked me why. I told her that I didn’t want to talk about it. She told me that she understood and that if I needed someone to talk to, that she would be here to listen.

I really needed someone to talk to. I was making it worse holding it inside. An hour later I told her that I would drive over there and talk to her about my problem. She said that she would be waiting for me.

I drove over to the guesthouse and met up with Throwback. We sat down on the curb far away from the guesthouse and I told her about everything that happened. I told her that I know I did it to myself and I have no one to blame but myself. That’s why I didn’t want to talk to anyone. She was very consoling and had a way to make me feel much better.

I thanked her for talking with me about everything. She asked what I was going to do for the rest of the day. I told her that I would probably just stay home and try to get over it myself. I could tell that she wanted to tell me that, that wasn’t a good way to deal with it. But she told me again that she would be there for me anytime I needed someone to talk to and not be a stranger. I gave her a hug and left.

Loopkicks Camp - The Game Post #21

Loopkicks Camp - The Game Post #21

July 2004

Campers were arriving to the camp today. For the most part we had everyone’s travel info. We picked up campers and drove them to the hotel. One problem was that on the camp’s website the hotel for the camp was not the one we were actually using. A couple of campers went there to look for us. So we went on a while goose chase looking for stranded campers.

One group of campers we were looking for didn’t know where they were. Ended up at some Asian fast food place they said. We stopped at a boba place as we waited for Dee to figure out where they were. We sat and waited for instructions from home base to find the campers. We chilled and played cards for an hour while we waited. Then we got the address of where they were. It was where we were. We turned and saw a group of kids at a table across from us with duffle bags. How retarded was that?

I walked up to them and asked if they were campers. They said yes. They told me they recognized me but wasn’t sure if it was me. They were to scared to ask lol. Kids are funny.

That was the only real drama of the day, thankfully. The first night of camp went very smoothly. That day I decided to do a mini show at the end of the camp. Have a little show for the campers and utilize all the talent we had. It would be a good show.

I decided to do a ballad piece for the show. I intended Throwback to do it with me since she was the most talented girl and it would easy to show emotion with someone that you have been intimate with.

But she refused to do it with me. I knew she would say no but I had to ask. So I had to find another girl to do it with me. There one other girl that was decent enough to fill her shoes. By doing this, I was 100% for sure getting myself into some kind of drama. Fuck it! Why not? “Let’s do this bitch” A quote made famous by Chris Balualua.

So I choose Wild One. Wild One was a very close friend of Atlanta. Like a little sister to her. I’ve known her since she was a teenager. Watched her grow up. She had been a drama queen just like her mentor. I think she was about 20 years old by this time.

She and I clicked right away. The routine was coming together smoothly. The piece had a person singing live while we performed. It was a love song and we told the story with martial arts. We had to show that we were attracted to each other. Of course this would lead to us becoming closer with each other.

Later that night there was party at a friend’s house. Everyone was going to be there. After we dropped off all the campers and fed them. I headed over to the party. When I got there the party was nearly over. When I say over I mean everyone was drunk, sleepy or about to hook up with someone. Throwback was there and it was the first time we would actually talk to each other.

I asked her what was going on and why she was avoiding me. She told me that she had spent a month with Gifted’s boyfriend’s friend (Prodigy). He really liked her and she felt the same way about him. She told me they didn’t hook up but they have some very special moments together. He also had a girlfriend at the time. Which made things complicated.

She couldn’t be seen talking with me, because Gifted’s boyfriend (Darkside) would tell Prodigy that she was speaking with me again. I understood her situation and would stay away from her. Though I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. She was still so beautiful. Our conversation ended because she could feel Darkside’s eyes on her.

I then focused my attention on Wild One. She was definitely a handful in more ways the one. I think she wanted to conquer me. Maybe she wanted to have what Atlanta had and find out what it was all about. But that’s just a guess. Throwback had left way before Wild One and I began flirting. It was becoming obvious that something was brewing between us. I thought she was a fun girl to hang out with. So I would play the game with her.

That night we slept together on the couch. He played around a bit. But I kept it PG-13. I think it was the first time I have ever been the one in control of the action. We fell asleep next together.

The next day was a monstrous tricking day. Everyone was going hard. People were throwing all sorts of crazy tricks and combos. I started to realize why people would continue to come to this camp. People break through sticking points in their tricking when they are around other talented people. Walls were crumbling down. For the most part the best trickers were helping other trickers get better and not being pushed themselves. The energy here was intense and fun. People wanted to see it first had and be apart of history in the making.

The singer that was singing the song in our routine invited us to a club that he was going to that night. Wild One had a fake ID. So we decided to go together. Girls drinking alcohol, me dancing, sexual tension and me not giving a fuck equals a recipe for chaos.

We arrive to the club. Wild One is wearing a revealing dress with no undergarments. How do I know you ask? Very tight dress with No bra straps and no panty lines. What will happen tonight?

We meet up with the singer and he walks off with Wild One. Someone was trying to get her attention tonight. I didn’t care because I had a feeling she would be coming back. I danced for a while by myself and with some random girls that weren’t very interesting. I sat down for a moment and suddenly someone was kissing my ear. I turned and looked at who it was. Of course it was Wild One. She was a bit tipsy.

“Having fun?” she asked

“Yup, it could be better though” I said

“How so?” She wondered

“You with me on the dance floor” I demanded

She agreed and we went hard on the dance floor. She loved being the center of attention. I helped fueled the fire by being a good dance partner. After we danced, I told her that we should get out of here. She didn’t hesitate to even answer me. We left the club together not even saying by to the singer.

We left the club and the things calmed down a bit while I was driving us home. We talked the whole way back about everything. Atlanta, her situation with her ex, things happening in our lives. I decided to go get something to eat instead of taking her home.

We sat at Denny’s and talked for another hour. She was a cool girl underneath all that crazy. I didn’t want to ruin the cool moment we had by getting freaky. I told her how cool she was and that we shouldn’t force things and just let things happen.

The game had begun. We would sleep together at some point during this camp. It was a matter who would give in and tell the other person that they wanted to do it.

Loopkicks camp – The beginning post #20

Loopkicks camp – The beginning post #20

July 2004

Mike Chat had successfully ran the first martial arts camp in the world. The sport karate world was in a buzz about it. Suddenly other people were starting to follow his lead and have camps of their own. Chat was charging an insane amount of money for the camp. He had the reputation and credibility to charge that much money though.

The crew that I was training with called Loopkicks was having the first ever-tricking camp. The camp was focused on the tricking side of martial arts. I wasn’t involved with it because I was too busy competing, playing video games and trying to settle into my new drama free lifestyle.

Trouble and I were doing great. Since she visited me, I’ve felt so happy to have her in my life. I’ve completely stopped contact with Throwback. Which was a first good decision that I’ve made.

I wasn’t sure how well the camp would go. I thought they would have 25 people come, 35 if they were lucky, I couldn’t imagine anyone paying 700 dollars to come to camp with only tricking. On top of that they had to buy their own plane ticket.

Trickers were mainly teenagers and young adults. None of which had any real jobs.

A week before the camp I went over to Dee’s house and see how the camp was coming along. I was interested to see how many people were going to attend the camp.

I asked him how many campers he had. He told me he had 45 people that already paid and another 25 paying when they arrive. HOLY SHIT! That is a shit load of people to come and just trick. I then asked him how many guests and instructors he was flying in. He had another 15 people coming. 85 total people that he was responsible for. That didn’t include the locals that were coming. He was in way over his head. He had no idea what he was in for.

“Where are you housing the campers?” I asked

“Don’t know yet.” He nonchalantly replied

“How are you transporting them?” I asked knowing the answer

“Don’t know that either” He replied with the same demeanor

“Where are you training them?” I asked for shits and giggles

“I was gonna do it at the karate school, but there are too many people now. So I don’t know that either” He said shrugging his shoulders

WTF! He had to be fucking with me… but he wasn’t. He was so fucked. So now I had to get involved. I grabbed the phone book and we started calling around for rental vans and hotels. It was a mad dash to get everything locked down.

Nothing was planned before I talked to him. Unbelievable. I tried my best to save as much money as we could because we were doing everything last minute.

I had a friend’s mom that was sitting on a house during the housing bubble. So I offered her some money to rent the house for a week. We planned to cram all the guests and instructors there. Fifteen people crammed into a three-bedroom house lol. It would turn into an animal house.

The hotel was only 3 blocks from Dee’s house. Which made it easy to travel back and forth to take care of the campers. We got one rental van and an army of drivers. I had a friend that was teaching at a school that was about a 30-minute drive from the hotel. We had no choice but to use that school because it was cheap for us. The owner was really cool with us being there also. Everything was coming together finally.

The Wednesday of following week a handful of guests arrived. It was nice to see everyone coming together in one place. We planned to have the first tricking super session. I don’t remember ever seeing so many talented and elite trickers coming together and training at one time. I was looking forward to it.

The session was going to start at 10pm. So a couple of my friends and I went to have dinner. I told them the story about the crazy year that I’ve had so far. Telling them about all the girls that have come in and out of my life. We had a few good laughs. I dropped them off at the hotel and would meet them at the school later.

I went back to Dee’s house to see what was going on. Everything seems to be going smoothly. What a relief.

But of course nothing ever goes smoothly. Guess who shows up to camp? Throwback and Gifted. Not only are they both here. They are best friends now. Oh joy! I make eye contact with them and I get the coldest look from both of them. This is getting better and better. They don’t say hello to me. They completely ignore me.

The session was a success though. It was a lot of fun to train with all these amazing people. The highlight of the session was someone had kicked a hole in the ceiling. I would say the ceiling was about 10 feet high. Definitely an amazing feet.

Later that night I found out that Gifted was dating one of the guys I had dinner with and he was angry with her because she didn’t tell him about me. On top of that Throwback and Gifted’s Boyfriend best friend had a little thing building. So both of the girls were angry that I made them out to be groupies. It’s going to be a long camp. Oh well, shit happens.