A winter ninja demonstrating good covert snowballing technique.
There’s a new Fudebakudo cartoon in the gallery, which appears in the latest (December) edition of MAI magazine. It shines a cold light on the different snowballing styles to be found in the martial arts.
Somehow, snowball fights never really worked for me when I was little. I used to hurl increasingly hurried, and therefore poorly-made, snowballs at my friend G___, never really hitting with any of them, until he’d come over, rugby tackle me, and rub my face in the snow. Every time.
Last year — which is actually about thirty years after those early battles — we had a snowball fight (with his kids) in which I lobbed snowballs at him that inexplicably and repeatedly struck their target. We were both bemused. In fact, he was so bemused he forgot to rugby tackle me and rub my face in the snow.