DojoMojo 2009 in SF Style

Tomorrow night will see the return of the Brisbane Premier League to the Annerley Junior Football Club fields, and the first 2009 training run of a new-look DojoMojo roster.

We've been busy during the summer break refining strategies, honing bodies and inducting new recruits to the Dojo Way and, as evidenced by the roster below, Dojo '09 is an even taller, faster, bigger-throwing team than Dojo '08 was. Tone Loc may have said "'88 was great, but '89 is mine", but DojoMojo is bringing that into the right-now. Gen Y kids reading this may not immediately comprehend, but then they've got YouTube to provide their oldskool education for them.

So, as uncustomary as it is for us here at the DojoMojo Blog to indulge in vainglorious team bios, we couldn't resist the temptation to announce this year's frankly kickass team, especially when (to continue the oldskool theme) we discovered that 2009 will also see the release of the third sequel to Capcom's 1987 classic Street Fighter. Without getting too nerdy (we leave that to our buddies at the Brisbane Ultimate Blog) let's look at the team:














Andrew Goldstiver (aka Goldy) - a towering behemoth with long range and devastating moves, one cannot become the "Greatest Fighter in the World" without first getting past him.














Andrew Lankowski (aka Coopers) - flat-top hair and a special-ops field presence give Coopers the visage of a man who never quits, and who unfortunately also has difficulty tying his shoelaces.














Andy Mclean - has the smooth, textbook moves of a man who stays up very late at night training himself to exhaustion while listening to "Eye of the Tiger" on his headphones. How he found the time to acquire a Brazilian fiancee nobody knows.














Dan Blacklock (aka Blackcock - says it right there on the back of his shirt!) - is possessed of a diminutive presence that conceals deep and quietly seething agression. Dan likes to run a lot.
EDIT: Turns out Dan likes to run so much that he's taking indefinite leave from the team to focus on his illustrious distance running career...













Dan Walls - nobody can deny Dan's rightful title of "Master of the Disc", and he is without doubt the player that Dojo opponents least look forward to meeting on the field. The disc just comes to him - no-one knows how.













Dave Watson - one of the very original Kenshi, Watto can occasionally be heard breathing the word "Shoryuken" when sending the disc long. Legend has it that he founded the Dojo along with his sparring partner Ryan Black, nemesis Dan Walls and a few notable others way back when Tone Loc was still doing the wild thing.













Matt Eastburn - a very strong physical (sometimes a bit too physical) presence on the field and master of the seriously destructive "Spinning Piledriver" move, Matt has a strange enthusiasm for the colour red.













Mike Morgan - the fact that he's an Irish surfer says it all: the man is an unstoppable mutant and never, ever quits.













Dr Phil Stocks - his famous one-two combo of wink & smile conceal a fiendish mind and an all-consuming evil nature (just ask his students). Phil has seen things no human should ever wish to.













Ryan Black - THE original big hair Dojo kenshi. The moves of every single Dojo player are just their own interpretations of things Ryan invented years ago, and to this day no-one has matched his behind-the-back throwing prowess in the heat of tournament play. Without Ryan and his buddy/rival Watto, there would be no Dojo for its current sensei to curate.













Sean Flanagan - is peace-loving by nature, but lethal when challenged. Nobody knows how old Sean is, or how he manages to apparently suspend himself in the air, and some say that his incredible ability to catch and deliver a frisbee to and from any part of the field derives from some mystical form of teleportation.













Stefan Rappazzo (nickname witheld for political correctness) - is a non-stop slugger who wins his way to the disc with brute force and aggression. He is a monster on the field and in the huddle, constantly spurring his team on to play harder. He is Canadian, NOT American.













Stephen Cameron (aka Sensei) - is protector of the Dojo Way, keeper of the secrets of the Hadouken, the Shoryuken and the Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku, sends a pretty good email and writes the occasional self-indulgent blog post...