24 hour Fitness,Right on George!

I've been a member of 24 hour fitness for some times here in the Bay Area. I joined cause I got jumped on by some youths while playing my electric guitar in a park. At that time I kept fit by exercising on my own and jogging around Lake Merritt. After the assault I became afraid to go out much , afraid of getting attacked again, plus I have asthma and have been told by doctors that I have type 2 Diabetes. Exercise is my only way of battling my diabetes...so I opted to join a 24 hour fitness program.

The price was great only 20.00 a month ..after a 120.00 enrollment fee! It gave me a chance a work on exercise machines..specializing on various muscles groups on the bodya nd other machines.

In short..maybe I was better off just exercising on my own. The machines like the various treadmills don't simulate actual exercise conditions well if you ask me. I use to work on an uphill climber there..and after working on it for a while I discovered an inability for me to lift my body up from my legs in a kneeling position! I didn't have the strenght in spite going 2+ miles on that uphill climber at level 10-11 (half). Fortunately I discovered one of the classes there where other members participate. This class was Cardio-kickboxing. Unfortunatey my right knee as been acting-up fron an old injury, its been poping and locking alittle , yet I don't remeber injuring it recently..unless you count that Tai-Chi class.

I used to think That Cardio-kickboxing wasn't a Martial Art. I've been in a couple of Martial Arts, Gung-fu, Tae Known do, Boxing, freestyle sparring with friends and Tai Chi. I'm not proficient in any one of these...I got knocked around alot in Boxing did a couple of rounds with a short (but experienced) Mexican fighter, I never got knocked around like that before and hope I never do in a real fight! That guy literally handed me my head. This brings me back to today .

There were mostly ..women.. in that Cardio Kickboxing-class, and while watching them(The girls) I joked about it while watching one of the girls perform those exercises.. "We need more emotional content..." "You call that a kick". after seeing the poor girl struggle, I decided to try it myself. It was difficult and frustrating to keep up with the instructor, I looked fat and sloppy out there, but most of those women there, looked and look great. As I said I've participated in lots of different types of Martial Arts and some of those girls there had great fighting form, they probably would give alot of the guys in that gym a run for there money. What the Hell its an inexpensive way to bolster up my fighting skills and get a workout at the same time...So I've been going the kick-boxing for a while..

The first instructor there was a short little dynamo..she had the moves and the combinations, just phenomenal. She looked like a person that actually been in the ring a time or two and she was beautiful looking. I asked her if she actually had experience in the ring or so ...she denied it, said she been instructing kickboxing for several years (7) but I didn't believe her. She left the Gym where I was going at to another site..she was phenomenal. I think now I'm beginning to understand why she left...

Maybe I'm paranoid, but since I started going there, more guys have been participating in that class..and there are alot of faggots around in that Gym. Gays and queers of all kinds, closeted, professional, trolls, and gangsters. This is the "Meat Palace". I think there basically cruising there and I don't like it much... Why not just go to a bar to kick up guys isn't that more honest??

So now today there's these two guys in the kick boxing class, they seem to be taking me very seriously, and I'd like to be takened seriously and maybe unmolested..but noooo, they got to fuck around with me. I mean first it was this older gentleman (but in good shape) and now with this other guy..who's much younger, bigger and in good shape, I felt alittle "double teamed", after all I'm a black man in marginal physical (decent) condition, but at 43 with Type 2 diabetes....and I ain't exactly Bruce Lee, but I wish I was alittle more proficient, I might have to try out my skills to see where I stand (what skills?). this could be dangerous , supposing that both of those guys are skillful fighters... I could get my head handed to me or worse?

I hate to think that people are seeing me as a threat, maybe there too scary anyway. Bullying people is not a remedy for terrorism. I think it might be more important to "Stand up for your rights". Maybe its not unpatriotic to stand up for your rights, cause in these times its important to do that, lest we provide an easy target for terrorist who want to strike and hurt us by our inaction. I'm sorry that these guys may feel threatened my me. Just seems like alot of people feel threatened by me.