Actually it is more about how I came to be here, at The Boston School of Boabom. I had begun to question many things: things about me, my life, how and what I had accepted. I felt a need for change. A need to start searching again. I believe I did so when younger, although with no purpose or direction. More wandering, or possibly, an effort to outdistance something that did not fit. Something that was just not right. Quite simply… me. 

    Lots of time spent wandering the electronic world of the internet; it really can be an amazing tool if properly utilized. So much quicker and so much easier on your feet than the old way. As I was saying, I spent hours searching for an answer. What I really found was direction, or more correctly put, opportunity. One of the lessons learned as a result of my short time studying at The Boston School of Boabom is that if you want to learn, if you want to change, it is possible. The opportunity for change, healthy, positive change is there if you are willing to invest in yourself. The Art can present some pretty amazing opportunities for change, or improvement. 

      One night while researching karma and all things I could find associated with it, I was fortunate enough to have my electronic journey or wanderings lead me to The Mmulargan School. It was really quite an extraordinary journey as one site led to another, one subject branched off to yet another: I journeyed to India, China and Tibet. I read of religions, Yoga, the mind, things magical and mystical. Somehow my wanderings led me back to things Tibetan. I took an electronic path which led me somehow to forms of self defense. This led to what little I could learn of Tibetan forms of self defense. This is how I learned of Boabom. After reading the information from the Mmulargen School’s web site I was very motivated to learn more. There was something which felt right, more right than anything I had felt for a very long time, if ever. Upon learning there was a School in Brookline, Massachusetts the clouds parted and trumpets sounded (ok, ok, a little too dramatic!). But I was driven to learn, to learn more of what ever this ancient Art had to offer. 

       I called The Boston School of Boabom the very next day. My call was returned by a very well spoken and cheerful man named SEE A KNEE (or that’s how I heard it and pronounced it). He explained the School and its classes briefly. I decided to just jump right in and sign up for a month: no intro class required. I knew this was going to be a match.

       My first class was not an ego boost by any means. So many of the strange movements I was unable to do. But as I progress, there are always movements I struggle with before being able to accomplish them, to varying degrees of competency. A Teacher with an even stranger and more unpronounceable name led the class. She was quite friendly and supportive. As were all the students in the class. The Teacher repeatedly told me to take it easy and just go slow for the first few classes. I tried to listen and comply, but the recessive ‘Guy Gene’ became dominant. The ‘Guy Gene’ circulated through my bloodstream ’til coming to rest somewhere in the vast open area between my ears. It began saying stuff like: “this isn’t so tough” “you can do this”, “push it”, “don’t listen to her, push it!”, “faster, harder”!!

       After the first class I felt great, relaxed and at the same time pumped up. The next day or so I felt like I had been run over by a bus, a bus driven by a Teacher with a strange name. This bus had a horn which when sounded said “TAKE IT EASY”!!!!!!!

       I can’t remember anything of my second class, possibly due to the fact I sat home icing my aching EVERYTHING. Since then I still have a slight tendency to overdo it and not pace myself so well. Ok, maybe more than a slight tendency. Still struggling with that lesson. But everything Boabom is truly healthy, positive, healing and amazing!

      As to the opening question: why am I here? Well I guess the answer is twofold. Firstly I want to be here to learn and to make positive changes. Secondly I am here to undue a lot of bad past decisions!  

Paul, BSB (Boabom North)