Meeting Night at the House of Skills

Every other Tuesday we have a meeting at the House of Skills.  We bring all the guys out, order half a dozen pizzas or so and talk over what's new in the world of Myachi.  We use the time for all kinds of stuff; we hash out our sales strategies, we do training exercises with the new guys, we deal with in-store issues, we fill the store guys in on what's happening on the office end and we will in the office guys on what's happening on the store end.

Many people get the impression that when you work for a toy company it's all fun and games.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  As you can see from the video below, we generally stay productive the entire time.

Okay, okay, so maybe we're not productive the whole time, but we still get some business done.  That's just one video.  I'm sure if I dig around on YouTube a bit more I can find a video of us actually hard at work...

Now, that video might not look like we're working, but trust me, that is some very serious research and development going on there.  Just look at how Myachi Man is taking notes with his mind...

Alright, so I admit it, we don't actually do a whole lot of work at these meetings.  Sometimes we actually do have business issues to go over, but we usually try to hammer that kind of stuff out in the first half hour of the meeting so we can spend the rest of the time goofing off and hanging out.  In two weeks time between all of us we've usually come up with at least a half dozen new tricks and combos and the meeting has become the de facto place to show off the latest and greatest challenges.

Last night was no exception.  We're putting together a cool little video so we spent more than half the night getting video of all the guys shredding.  I captured some really solid video of individual shreds as well as a couple of two and three person tricks and some circle jams as well.  We had a full house last night so it took until almost midnight to get everybody on camera but eventually I got jams from everyone present:

• Bones
• Bamboo
• Noodles
• Maverick
• Pinky
• Myachi Man
• Rush
• Kid Myach
• Unknown
• Prime
• Skratch
• Animal
• Me

Now, you'll probably notice that Monk and Kore aren't on the list but fear not.  They are actually both still on vacation this week so I'll be getting shreds from them in the next day or two (they may be on vacation, but they still live in the same house as me) and we'll put it all together over the next few days.

I'll put up some of the raw footage by Friday and link it here on the blog, but the finished product won't be done until Tuesday.  We're shooting for "coolest Myachi You Tube video of all time" with this one and we go into it fully aware of how difficult a task that is...