Looking for a Pittsburgh Fighter Practice

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Hey everyone,

Small back story first. I live in central PA and my girlfriend currently is living in pittsburgh. I end up visiting her on weekends (saturday night - sunday night) but with her having to work a few hours on sunday I was curious if anyone knew of fighter practices where I could get a little stick time in around the squirrel hill/greenfield/waterfront area. She works around 12-4pm.

Either an address/email/phone number of the fighters running the deal so i could contact them would be amazing.



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See Below ... I messed up.
Last edited by Kjott.Thorgrimsson on Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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From Debatablelands.org the Baronies web page

During the winter, figher practice will be held at:

Pittsburgh Chinese Church
8711 Old Perry Hwy, Pittsburgh, PA 15237.

Parking: Park in the downslope lot off of Highland Rd, walk around the side of the building, enter the first door, and walk up the stairs to the room on the 3rd floor. Helpful picture are here (entrance at the green arrow)

The Doors open at 1 pm and close at 5 pm.

Contact is Shirou (and he's a really great guy)

knightmarshal at debatablelands.org

have fun swinging stick

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Meurig MacRuari wrote:Hey everyone,

Small back story first. I live in central PA and my girlfriend currently is living in pittsburgh. I end up visiting her on weekends (saturday night - sunday night) but with her having to work a few hours on sunday I was curious if anyone knew of fighter practices where I could get a little stick time in around the squirrel hill/greenfield/waterfront area. She works around 12-4pm.

Either an address/email/phone number of the fighters running the deal so i could contact them would be amazing.



Thanks,
Meurig

Here you go:

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Shiro No Kaminari <shironokaminari> wrote:

Greetings good gentles,

Come take in the fresh air and sunshine. Join us at the First Outdoor BMDL Sunday fighter practice

Sunday 1-5pm

Washington Blvd Park



Fight practice will continue at Washington Blvd Park on Sunday afternoons 1pm - 5pm unless other notice is given.
Youth fighters and fencers are welcome to join at this site, if they have their own marshals.

See you Sunday - Shiro
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I don't know of any practice out in the squirrel hill/greenfield/waterfront area. The Washington Blvd site is very close to the Pittsburgh Zoo.

Hope to see you there.
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William Freskyn Murray wrote:From Debatablelands.org the Baronies web page

During the winter, figher practice will be held at:

Pittsburgh Chinese Church
8711 Old Perry Hwy, Pittsburgh, PA 15237.

Parking: Park in the downslope lot off of Highland Rd, walk around the side of the building, enter the first door, and walk up the stairs to the room on the 3rd floor. Helpful picture are here (entrance at the green arrow)

The Doors open at 1 pm and close at 5 pm.

Contact is Shirou (and he's a really great guy)

knightmarshal at debatablelands.org

have fun swinging stick

Will

Starting this weekend we are back to the outdoor site.
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Post by Galfrid atte grene »

The Washington Blvd practice is about 15 minutes from Squirrel Hill, add a couple more minutes if you're coming from Greenfield or the waterfront.
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This is perfect! Where I'd be coming from is the major intersection in Squirrel Hill (Hazelwood Ave, Beechwood Blvd, and Brown Hills Rd). Shouldn't be too hard to get there :).

Thanks again everyone :)

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The actual location is
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 9,0.009323

When I was BMDL KM I made sure we could use GoogleMaps for all of our various fighting sites; directions from Sq Hill should be pretty simple.
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Looking at this map made my jaw drop... it's close...

Thanks again,

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No prob. With any luck, I'll be at practice this coming Sunday.
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