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Brazilian jiu-jitsu



I currently train at 10th Planet Jiu-jitsu San Francisco (Denny Prokopos) and FT Combat Club (Darren Uyenoyama). I formerly trained at Charles Gracie Jiu-jitsu. Here are good YouTube overviews of BJJ:
Visit our San Francisco Bay Area Group site.

Youth soccer coach

I coach Las Mantarrayas (the Stingrays), a boys developmental (Division 3) soccer team.
  • Coaching E/D license (July, 2008);
  • Goalkeeper license (August, 2007); and
  • US Soccer Federation Grade 8 Referee Certification (October, 2007).
Visit the LMF web site.

Selected quotes

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you look at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."

... Poul Anderson


"To every complex question there is simple answer . . . and it is wrong."

... H.L. Mencken


"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

... Aristotle


"It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists."

... Knut Schmidt-Nielson


"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

... Chinese Proverb


"True learning makes us humble. The more we learn, the more we realize what little we actually know.

... Tomás Aragón