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We Are The Order of Seven Hills Martial Arts Club

Posted on March 15, 2013 | Leave a comment
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The Flag of The Order of Seven Hills

Update 7/18/19:  My club still uses the flag but we’re now called Cabal Fang Temple, and we’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity.  Visit our website or purchase our 12-week personal growth program at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, or wherever fine e-books are sold.

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This is our flag.

We are the Order of Seven Hills martial arts club, and this photo was taken on Saturday 3/2/13 at Petronius S. Jones Park on Idlewood Ave. in Richmond, VA.

Next month will be our 3rd anniversary.  For three years we have met outdoors, twice a week, rain or shine in all four seasons, for an hour of martial arts practice followed by half an hour of savage calisthenics.

We are not superhuman commandos or ex-Navy Seals.  We are just a bunch of guys from all walks of life, some thick and some thin, some young and some old, getting fit enough to defend ourselves and our loved ones, cultivating our character, and expanding our minds.

We have frozen in cold dark night and baked in the hot afternoon sun.  We have boxed, wrestled, attacked with and defended against wooden sticks and knives, practiced gun disarms with airsoft guns, drilled and dissected martial techniques of every description, tested ourselves against multiple attackers, subjected ourselves to savage gauntlets, pressed 10′ logs overhead, slammed, tossed, and hefted tires, told stories around fires in the dark, faced enlightening initiations, and anointed our heads with oil.

We are The Order of Seven Hills. 

We meet on Tuesdays from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at West End Manor Civic Association, 8600 Lakefront Drive, Henrico, VA 23294-6100.  Saturdays from 3:30 to 5:00 PM we meet at Petronius S. Jones Park on Idlewood Avenue near VCU.

Membership is open to anyone over 18 years of age.  We are a club not a business, so there’s no charge.  Just come and work out with us.  If you stick around we’ll ask you to sign the scroll and you’ll become an official member.

Our martial art is called Cabal Fang.  To learn more about Cabal Fang or connect with us, here are some helpful links:

Cabal Fang info site on Tumblr
Cabal Fang Members on Tumblr
Cabal Fang on Twitter
Cabal Fang Martial Arts Group on Facebook

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Savateurs Do It With Their Boots On

Posted on November 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

Update 7/18/19:  My club still uses the flag but we’re now called Cabal Fang Temple, and we’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity.  Visit our website or purchase our 12-week personal growth program at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, or wherever fine e-books are sold.

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Yes, folks who practice Savate (a.k.a. French Boxing, French Foot-fighting) practice in shoes (males are called savateur, females savateuse).

Watch the video below and you’ll see how a champion savateur uses his hands and feet in unison, setting up punches with kicks and vice versa to create mind boggling combinations.

Many of the kicks of Savate are incorporated in Cabal Fang, and we’re practicing them this month at the Order of Seven Hills.  If you want to move like the guy in this video you’re going to have to put in many hours of practice.  And you could start by joining us.

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Lots Going On

Posted on August 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

Update 7/18/19:  My club still uses the flag but we’re now called Cabal Fang Temple, and we’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity.  Visit our website or purchase our 12-week personal growth program at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, or wherever fine e-books are sold.

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* The ‘Some Kind of Green‘ project is yielding results.  I feel better about myself, I’m more productive, and I’m saving money to boot.  If only I had done this 30 years ago.  * Started connecting with other like-minded bloggers (check my blogroll for cool people saying cool stuff).  Keep the faith my brothers and sisters!  * In two weeks my son and I will be spending three days off the grid practicing stone-age skills (since we can’t afford, and don’t want to drive 4.5 hours to attend, MAPS Meet #2 that weekend).  Sorry fellow MAPSsters 😦 * I’ll be attending the free Decolonization class at Wingnut 9/20, 9/27, & 10/4 and blogging about what I learn.  * My martial arts club, The Order of Seven Hills, will be tabling at Zinefest on October 8th.  The best stuff still ain’t for sale at big box bookstores!  * Re-writes of some of my unpublished books are under way and will be available for download at Smashwords by the first of next year.

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Yes, we’re still here

Posted on November 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

Update 1/5/20:  My club still uses the flag but we’re now called Cabal Fang Temple, and we’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity.  Visit our website or purchase our 12-week personal growth program at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, or wherever fine e-books are sold.

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Daylight saving time? Falling temperatures? Who cares! The Order of Seven Hills is still working out at WEMCA — come and join us!

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Theodore Roosevelt

Posted on August 12, 2009 | 1 comment

Update 7/18/19:  My club still uses the flag but we’re now called Cabal Fang Temple, and we’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity.  Visit our website or purchase our 12-week personal growth program at Smashwords, Amazon, B&N, or wherever fine e-books are sold.

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The recent post about Mt. Rushmore got me to thinking about those famous heads.  And then on The Daily Show I saw an interview with Douglas Brinkley, the author of Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.  Now  I’m so intrigued, I have to read Brinkley’s book.

Did you know:

  • That while campaiging in 1912 he was shot in the chest — and delivered a 90-minute speech before going to the hospital?
  • That he is one of the great pioneers of the conservation movement?
  • That as President he firmly believed in the separation of church and state and thought it unwise to have In God We Trust on currency, because he thought it sacrilegious to put the name of the Deity on something so common as money?
  • That he was a Freemason?
  • That he boxed several times a week, even as President, until a blow detached his left retina, leaving him blind in that eye?
  • That he practiced judo and was a third degree brown belt?
  • That he was an enthusiastic stickfighter,  an avid singlestick player (fencing with a wooden sword) ?
  • That he drank a gallon of coffee a day, and often stayed up all night reading several books a day in multiple languages?

Nobody’s perfect of course.  I’m not fond of his views regarding Native Americans and other indigenous peoples for example, but all in all, he was ahead of his time.  He was the kind of man I could have been friends with, and were he still alove he would fit right in at The Order of Seven Hills.

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