Our Halloween in Martial Arts Gear
So maybe I am a little late, but I thought I should do a quick post on Halloween. Chris and I both dressed up as “ninjas” (pardon my ignorance for those who are well-informed on martial arts). At first, we were trying to throw together costumes with things we had laying around the house, but we both ended up looking pretty silly and people couldn’t really tell what we were. That would simply not do, so we started searching online for ninja costumes and what we ended up doing was purchasing costume materials from real martial arts sites.
There are a number of quality websites out there that can provide martial arts supplies that are completely authentic. Although authenticity wasn’t our number one concern (we just wanted people to understand what we were), it was a nice bonus. We ended up buying a bunch of sparring gear and wearing that as our costumes, so we were sort of “ninjas in training.” I thought it was pretty cool.
We started the night out by heading to the big “Castro” party in San Francisco. It seemed pretty insane with literally thousands of people roaming the streets. Quite a few of the party participants were pretty heavily inebriated, and you could sort of tell something bad was going to happen.
After about an hour of hanging out, we heard a banging noise that sounded link fireworks, so we turned to look and saw that what we had thought was the bang of a firecracker was actually a gun shot. It was quickly followed by about 10 more. The crowd started literally stampeding away, with some people even pulling down fences to get as far from the action as possible. Chris and I, being the morons we are, just sort of stood there. After about 30 seconds we went over to see if anyone needed help, but the police were already on the scene and asked us to leave. It turns out that we had actually seen seven people get shot in some kind of gang related violence. Crazy night, eh?