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So tonight I went to my second Eskrima lesson. Eskrima is a Filipino martial art involving fighting with bolos, a short sword type weapon that is extremely effective in killing an adversary.
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Now before Hannah and Rachel jump on the bandwagon with all sorts of lewd and twisted comments
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let me just fill you in on what happened tonight. For training purposes, we use a rattan cane stick about 2 feet long.
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There are 12 basic movements in Eskrima with #5 being a lunge to the belly area. My training partner lunged, I missed the block and he hit me in the bag. No pain or damage done, but the guys there who knew me understood my next comment. As it hit my bag, I said, "Jesus, lucky that wasn't a Bolo or we'd have shit from arsehole to breakfast." That was it. The instructor and 4 of the other guys were laughing so much they had to lay down on the mat, of course, my training partner had no clue
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which added to the ruckus and I had to explain to him that I had an ileostomy and what it was and once he knew that was it, training stopped for about 10 minutes. Once we were all composed, training resumed but still, blokes would stop because of what happened and crack up laughing.
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It's a "you had to be there" moment but damn it was funny
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