Canned Blog: mai 2026

fredag 1. mai 2026

Det gjekk!

I dag, tretten år etter at eg gjekk opp til III dan, stod eg til IV dan. Eg er no blant seniorane. I morgon skal me ha seniormøte og deretter trening med grandmaster’n for å lære dei nye mønstera våre. Det har vore ein stor dag full av hard innsats, masse kjensler, masse varme og gode helsingar og ei kjempetrivelig avslutting saman med dei andre.

Eg gjorde same tabben som då eg gjekk opp til I dan: Eg knuste med midtre knoke sentrert i punchet, heller enn heile front knyttneve (altså peikefinger- og langfingerknoken). Ja, ja. Plankane gjekk no uansett til pøbels.

Ein enorm takk til Kjersti, alle instruktørane mine og ikkje minst alle de som har hatt tru på meg gjennom alle desse åra.

Etter fullført gradering fekk eg belte og ny drakt i gåve frå klubben ved sabeomnim Sturle Halleraker VI dan.

Elvis Aron Presley: Did You Know?

In Wright City, Missouri (about 40 miles west of St. Louis) there is a roadside attraction called the "Elvis Is Alive Museum.". Their theory is that Elvis faked his own death and has lived in obscurity ever since. They're serious. (www.artistfacts.com)
Elvis' televised concert Aloha From Hawaii was the first global satellite broadcast devoted to a single entertainer. It was seen by 51% of US viewers, more households than watched the first moon landing. In many countries it captured 70-90+% of the television audience. Ultimately, nearly 1.5 billion people in 40 countries saw this performance. (www.artistfacts.com)
In 1955, Sam Phillips sold Elvis' contract to RCA records for $35,000. According to music journalist Robert Fontenot, this was not as big a blunder as it sounds, as the music business in 1955 was a quick-cash game; no label owner, certainly not a small, regional one like Phillips, could have possibly asked for a percentage of an artists' future royalties once he was signed away. $35,000 was by far the largest amount ever paid for any artist by a major label, and no one in the business considered Rock music more than a passing fad; if anything, RCA was thought to have wildly overpaid for Elvis. Phillips proved he was indeed a shrewd businessman by investing that $35,000 in a small upstart hotel chain in Memphis. The name of that chain was the Holiday Hotel; you may know it better as the Holiday Inn. (www.artistfacts.com)
In 1959 Elvis became the first artist to release an album without an artist name on the cover, front or back, with the album For LP Fans Only. (www.artistfacts.com)
Elvis is the only artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Hall of Fame. (www.artistfacts.com)