Anybody have information on Vancouver?

[sabrutat]

Uncle Stef may be packing his bags soon and moving to Vancouver mates!

Anyone here from Vancouver or British Columbia who can give me the lowdown on where to drink and train? More importantly on where to drink


Cheers

Stef

[Angel_of_Pain]

Well I dont live there but I know that Vancouver is the mini-china and that theres a lot of martial art school, they have a lot of tae kwon do and judo club but other style to. As for the bar man you will get so goood canadian beer MOLSON!!!

[hounddog]

For your first night out you must start off @ CECIL's. Often referred to as "The Cecil" or just plain Cecil.

You won't be disappointed.

[fil]

NHB veteran Lance Gibson (trained by Matt Hume, AMC pankration) has a gym in Port Moody which I beleive is near Vancouver. Check out his site for details:

http://www.francogibson.com

[Shimora]

Lucky Vancouver,

[sabrutat]

Yes, they don't realize they are getting one of the world's notorious drinkers. I will bring business up to
all the merry bars of Vancouver

Cheers

Stef

[E1am]

Vancouver....

I'm not sure, but I hear it's in Canada.

[aseepish]

Training in Vancouver

I lived in Vancouver for 3 years.Port Moody is quite a distance away. Several hours by car.

There are a couple of JKD clubs. The best (in my not so humble opinion) is Trevor Clarkson's. He's a senior instructor in PFS JKD (he's been on a couple of Vu's tapes). His club is in Richmond, which might be a bit out of the way depending on where you're living. His instructors have clubs all over the city. Tim Shears has one downtown. Collectively they're called "Creative Fighter's Guild." Both guys are heavily into BJJ.

Trevor's page: http://www.creativefightersguild.com
Tim's page: http://www.straightblast.com

I trained with Weldon Cheung, one of Trevor's instructors, but I don't think he's teaching anymore.

There are also a couple of high quality FMA instructors. Louie Lindo teaches Balintawak escrima, as well as bit from other styles, as well as Pencak Silat Mande Muda. Loki Jorgenson (sp?) teaches pekiti tersia, as well as Silat.

There are numerous BJJ clubs as well, I think Carlson Gracie is represented.

There are the typical TKD, Karate, Aikido, Wing Chun, Wushu, etc. clubs here too. Vancouver is a pretty good city for martial arts. Most of the clubs/people above are in the yellow pages.

As far as drinking is concerned, Gastown is one area with a lot of pubs, Richards St. has most of the discos/nightclubs, Yaletown is a cool area with some interesting bars and restaurants.

I hope you enjoy your time in Vancouver, it's probably (again in my not-so-humble opinion) one of the nicest Canadian cities!

-Tony