Bobbe Edmunds was a fun, interesting individual with an immense amount of Silat skill. He recently passed away and will be missed by everyone who knew him or anyone who is just interested in Silat!
Here are some videos of Bobbe…
https://youtu.be/GgYjWjKeT7s?si=_wPahvMUs61vBdYs
https://youtu.be/X2xprN12qmY?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/-7kMh5ElL2Q?si=gqcNgGANMcIeAwCb
Final Farewell:
At the risk of sounding more pretentious than I ever have in my life (and THAT’S saying something) – when you read this, I’ll be dead.
I’m writing this on March 14, 2026. I have end-stage renal failure, and after fighting it for the past year, I’ve come to the finish line. I don’t know when it’s going to happen – could be tomorrow, could be in a month – but the disease is aggressive, and my symptoms have accelerated this past year.
I’ve known this was coming for several months now, so I’ve had a little time to prepare for it. I kept it mostly to myself, because it’s inevitable anyway, and milking misfortune for sympathy just isn’t my style. Someone once said I’d rather bleed to death from a damn paper cut before I’ll ask for a band-aid, and that’s as true a statement as any.
They say life happens while you’re busy making other plans – turns out, death does as well.
I was diagnosed with this disease a few years ago, but it’s been eating me alive long before that – I just didn’t know it. After a severe and unexpected attack that left me unconscious and unable to walk for a couple of days last year, the doctor said the one word that led me to this decision;
“Irreversible”
Even now, I feel my body dying off little by little. Every day, I’m wracked with pain, my breath is getting shorter and shorter, I’m winded just walking to the car, and fatigue forces me to sleep most of the day. My body rejects food, and my appetite has dwindled into almost nothing. I will never be even as healthy and active as I was a year ago, and things were getting pretty bad then.
I have two choices; go to dialysis twice a week, injections, live with tubes running in and out of my body, daily severe vomiting, all kinds of shit just to eke out a little more time in mortal agony and a quality of life similar to roadkill…or go out standing on both feet, on my own terms, living the way I want to live in my final days.
I have chosen the latter.
I’ve stocked up a *heroic* amount of RSO, and I plan on being irie up to my eyeballs when the time is near. Trust me, I’ll be feeling no pain.
As lifetimes go, I’ve had a good one, even counting the bad times. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, because now, at the last chapter, I can look in the mirror and not be ashamed of who and what I am. I can’t say I have no regrets – who among us can say THAT? – but I’m satisfied with my life. I got further than anyone expected me to, and did more with my life than a lot of people believed I could.
I’ve lived how I’ve lived, I’ve done what I’ve done, I have seen all I want to see. I’ve traveled the world, I’ve had amazing adventures, and I’ve eaten some really great food. Thank you everyone, for being in my life – for better or worse, you made it worth the living. I’m at peace with my decision, and I’m surrounded by family, and people who love and care for me. That’s more than I ever would have hoped for in my life, and I’m grateful that I can go this way.
I’m sorry if I wasn’t always the friend I should have been, but I always tried to do the best I could. If I’ve wronged anyone, I’m sorry. Let it go, and live on – don’t drag a dead man’s bones around. The dead have no place amongst the living.
I’d love to say something profound here, but all the good lines have been used, and it turns out I’m not *that* deep after all. Be excellent to each other.
I have to go now. My ride is waiting, and the Gray Man beckons. When I’m gone, a friend is going to post this for me on my page and my blog, and that will be that.
Fight the good fight.
Make it worth the price you pay.
I love you all.
“If I leave you, it doesn’t mean I love you any less – keep me in your heart for awhile”
He was a character and larger than life!
Always Keep Training…
