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Home » Gabriel's Blog

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
Author: Gabriel TorresDate: July 15, 2005 - 3:09 PM PST

I promised. Now I have to pay. When I set my Siemens C45 cell phone on fire I promised that my next victim would be my lousy DVD player.
 
My pet, which played only the DVDs it felt like “in the mood” for playing – a chronic problem on the optical unit for this particular model, I learned from other friends with the same problem –, has finally drop dead.

So, the time has come... After several months thinking what I would do with it, I finally destroyed it. Several options crossed my mind: set it on fire (since I had already done this with my cell phone, I immediately discarded this option), throw it from the tenth floor (I was afraid of hitting someone or a car, even just before dawn), bury it at the beach and play “Treasure Hunt” with my readers, fill it with sand and drown it at the sea or at a lake (I think nature has nothing to do with my anger), and I even though in renting a stone crusher or a steamroller to destroy it. I was with my phone in my hand to call a company that rents out big machines to construction companies when I had another idea. To break it by literally kicking it, using my Tae Kwon Do knowledge. So you can laugh AND learn something useful at the same time.

Tarining Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 1: Yop Tchagui (side kick).

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 2: Impact detail.

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 3: Punch.

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 4: Another punch...

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 5: Ap Tchagui (front kick).

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 6: Concentrating for the final blow (Sonal Tiregui, open hand punch).

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 7: Sonal Tiregui (open hand punch).

Training Tae Kwon Do With My DVD Player
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Figure 8: My DVD player after my “Falling Down” session.

I already have a good candidate for my next “Assassin Rage” session: that 3-disc Aiwa CD Player that stops working after some years of use. I don’t have one of this but after the cell phone story and DVD player wreck promise at least three people offered me their Aiwa mini system for destruction. I’ll be back...

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