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I'd love to see the guy from real aikido come to spar with us.:whistling:

Loved the part in the older video, where the guy falls, then rolls backwards, and stands up on his hands.

By the way, my teacher knows where the joints are, so to speak. He won't teach me though. He said that to properly execute locks you need to learn to move around your opponents force, instead of directly into it.

You guys turn me on...

...to practice martial arts:wink:

EDIT: You guys should take a look at "Human weapon", and "Mind, body and kick *** moves" if you get the chance. Those are TV series(es?). There is no aikido in either, but there is some Eskrima, and other cool stuff.
 
Thanks Drystan, I understand the differences between dojos, but that seems to be an archive of information. I'll look at it another time, as I'm entertaining a very special guest this evening.

Essojay, don't give up hope. Practise on friends and family, and use the internet as a resource to help you, rather than just for pornography and free music (note to self: take own advice).

The lady is coming round this evening after a long slog at Mickey D's. I'm going to run her a bubble bath, then thrust a cold brewski in her hand while I run downstairs to make us pasta bake for dinner. Then we'll watch whatever she film she wants to watch, and maybe I'll ask her out, and maybe she'll say yes.
 
@Esso: +1 to practice with friends/family and internet-as-resource archive. (also +1 to taking my own advice.)

@FE: Enjoy time with Samantha, for sure! Pasta bake? Yum. Bubble Bath: fun for whoever is involved, for sure. Whatever film she wants to watch? Good times! Asking her out: GOGO Eddie!

Ok. I'll have an arrogant bastard: my first since I came back to TX. I found that they sell for $3.99 round here (even at the expensive market; and vs. $4.99 on LI), so I picked up a couple, and now am attempting to drink them without mominem noticing that I'm imbibing beer out of 1 liter bottles. Good times. (@FE: for reference, Arrogant Bastard rings in at 7.2% and ~1200 calories/liter: YUM!!!1!!1!1!1!!!one!)


Edit: OK. So following dinner with mominem, I started up some GwE action (FAIL) and am now researching a new GwE Sinner, probably a Kick/Trap Hybrid, since I've never played one before, so. . .

Research of this type requires beer. Viel mehr Bier. Mas Cervesa. However you say it (can some of you from other parts of the world give some more translations (and correct mine)? Thanks! Danke! Gracias! ).

So, I'll have a LongHammer. Once mominem go off to bed, I'll pop an Arrogant Bastard, but I don't want them to see me drinking a liter-sized bottle. YUM.
 
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That last post of mine was a bit long winded, yes? :) All it is, is agreeing that we should all get information from various sources, and mine is naturally biased.
Some youtube clips are valuable (one of my friends learnt to tie her belt from a youtube video!) while others won't help at all.
And, I really hate the youtube flame wars about effective martial arts. :) None claim to be real life situations, all are practiced, and any training will help, even if it's just fitness.

I'd love to train with the real aikido group too, because their techniques are that much sharper than ours - their style is more aggressive - but I wouldn't like to lose the traditional non-aggressive nature of our aikido. I know I'd get my arse kicked though, and probably a few sore limbs. Some of their locks look even more painful than ours, even though they're the same lock!

Pijus said:
Loved the part in the older video, where the guy falls, then rolls backwards, and stands up on his hands.
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Could you get a time frame? I can't find that part. Cheers, I'll keep looking.
{EDIT} 2:45-2:50 - I see it. Very nice roll and fluent movement to his hands! {/EDIT}

Pijus said:
EDIT: You guys should take a look at "Human weapon", and "Mind, body and kick *** moves" if you get the chance. Those are TV series(es?). There is no aikido in either, but there is some Eskrima, and other cool stuff.
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I've seen one documentary on martial arts and the human body - it sounds similar to Human Weapon - but I'll check those out. It's amazing just how much the body can do if trained.

@Essojay
Best of luck with the interviews man. Practice, and learn about the company. Try to prepare some questions about the company to ask beforehand. GL!

Haha at FE's internet-use advice!
And enjoy the night. Hope it all goes well, and sounds like a nice evening to begin with. :thumbup:
 
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All this aikido talk is making me want to have a bar fight. We probably shouldn't though, Thy would ban us all. She probably knows about it already, she has ears in the walls....


My favorite rider crashed broke his wrist yesterday, so now my Tour has sort of been ruined. I guess there is still Lance, but I'll be pissed for a couple days anyway. Stupid wrist. Why do you even need your wrist? You're on a bike!



Bah!
 
*dodges fight evasion words and throws insult at pancakeman*

They can ride some distance with their arms up celebrating - maybe he should do that?
 
I bet pcm can ride with his hands in the air aswell. It's a rather simple skill that I don't have.

I've been to martial arts today. We practiced what I can only describe as "beating eachothers forearms". Mine are pulverized. I asked my teacher to send me a link to a video of Eskrima with long sticks.
 
@Pijus: +1 for using 'pulverised' in a sentence. I don't think I've even heard an English person use that word, although the average vocabulary of a McDonald's worker (i.e. my usual social circle) is as depressing as you'd think. I get told off for using long words as some people don't understand me.

I could never ride no-handed. Hell, I couldn't even wheelie.

I'm tired, I stayed on three extra hours at work, to earn some pennies and gaze longingly at Samantha. The shift was horrible, too many trainees meant too many bodies (five extra people on shift over lunchtime) and when they went home the egos came out. Idiots. I just kept my head down and did my work. I got invited to see Harry Potter with Samantha's friends, but I turned them down. I got to train a good friend to be in charge of the kitchen, which we both enjoyed.

Friday night went very well, but I didn't ask her out. I got scared, and the night was going so well (even though she's already told me she'll say yes). I will ask her Monday, the next night we spend together.

I keep having this fleeting thought about using some of my money to fly to Texas to see my fake-internet-buddies. I'm not sure that would cheer them up or make it worse.

I'm tired, I'm going to have a fruit tea and tidy up one of my hard drives.
 
Come on over, FE. I might be able to convince mominem to put you up for a night or two, and we could rock down to Austin for a few days and get in some trouble with TRM! Good times! Though, I don't know why you'd want to come all this way to hang out with fake buddies. . .

Ok. Just watched Quantum of Solace with mominem. I give it a Meh+. Definitely a good way to waste an evening, yep.

I'll have some iced tea, I guess. I'm laying off the booze tonight in preparation for tomorrow's Bridge party with mominem's friends. (Read: JayGun sitting around with a bunch of 50+s, playing a bit of Bridge, pounding beers, and waiting around to come back 'home' for some D2.)
 
Come hang out with me. It involves a lot of sitting still, mixed with plenty of doing things that don't cost money. I am a cheap bastard. More like a poor bastard, really.

Should money be acquired I am hoping I can go out and see a movie or something in the coming days. I've been wanting to see Ice Age 3, so that might work. In fact, why not have someone else there to see it with me, maybe of the female persuasion?

Dew please.




And yes, I can ride with my hands in the air.
 
I might tell you, FastE, that you should save your money for more important moments. I keep forgetting to do the pound--->American dollar conversion, but if you've got as much as I think you do that money can do quite a bit for you. No need to waste it.

...I might tell you, however, that you taking a trip here would be effing awesome and I'd have to take a week off from work just to recover from all the good times. :wink:

In truth, it would be super cool. I have no idea what we'd do besides half-heartedly talk you out of drinking, watching movies on my projector, and maybe a little miniature golf. But it would be awesome to meet a couple of the people I talk to the most in the whole world.

I'll take a cup of coffee. Back to work.

In the meantime, though, a roommate rant (hopefully the last one for a long time):
I'm getting some rediculous pressure from the roommates to get moved out quickly, along with some really dumb reasons to have to give them extra money. I'm a really low-key guy, but I almost snapped at my idiot roommate tonight. He said he's doing a walkthrough with the apartment manager on Wednesday, but because I'm lazy and haven't done enough around the place yet I told him I won't have moved everything out by then. He looked at me like I was a five year-old and said that he's really disappointed because then he'd have to reschedule. ...First off, screw you for not asking me when I'd be out before you scheduled something. Second, screw you for looking at me like that. Thirdly, we're not getting any of our deposit back, so what's it matter if someone does a walkthrough? It's pointless. And lastly, you're unemployed. What the hell does it matter if you have to reschedule? What plans do you have to break by coming in any other day where you've got nothing going on besides smoking weed all day? But before I could snap, they gave me a pity parting gift: a gift card to Ikea with ~$60 on it. ...That I gave to them for Christmas. I am SO done with them.

...Ahem. Yeah. So to make sure I'm out, I'm taking three days off from work this week. Not only will it be good to get away, but it'll mean I can move my stuff at night and when it's not 100+ degrees outside. But also, they've been doing their packing while I've been sleeping during the day. I can't tell you how annoying it is to be woken up by the sound of someone using packing tape. And they're moving during prime sleeping time on Monday, so I wouldn't get any sleep at all that day. Two days.... two days and I won't have to barely think about them. So close.
 
I can't string a sentence together, so I'll just list my thoughts as they come to me:

- MLM, if you were ever broken, the EMB would fix you with blu-tac and sticky tape. remember to put on your "If found drunk, please return to SPF" shirt before you get too plastered.
- So what part of Canada is Texas in anyway?
- I meant 'fake buddies' in the sense we're BFFs but haven't actually met. You knew that already.
- ZOMG I love minature golf.
- I'd be up for playing Bridge with the oldies. Good luck JayGun.
- If I lived by you TRM, I'd help you move out, but then if I lived by you, you'd know that.
- I've been talking about moving out as well. At the very least it makes me feel better in the short term.
- I'm intrigued by 'sitting still' next to PCM, although Ice Age 3 isn't my bag baby.
- I'm off to work, wish me luck.
 
If you love miniature golf, I bet it'd be even better here. There's a course where they allow you to bring beer. It's right near the drive-thru liquor store. :p

What's messed up about the course is that almost every hole slightly slanty. If you're drunk enough, it either makes the good putters really angry or the bad players get holes-in-one.

And haha about Texas/Canada. They're so far removed from one another. A lot of people think Canada's basically 51st state, but Texans think Texas is a seperate country. So weird. I'm an anomaly since I grew up three hours from Canada, but now I'm here. It's like I've lived in three countries having never left the U.S.
 
You guys know I was kidding about Texas/Canada right? I like to think I have a pretty good grasp of geography, especially in the US.

Pijus, I'll look at your clips later, after work.

Toodles.
 
I find that reminding Texans that if we split Alaska in half, then Texas is the third largest state humbles them a little. :wink:

I did my first very serious exercise bike ride yesterday, a solid 15 miles of hilly terrain in about 54 minutes. My legs feel okay today, but I'll probably give it another day before riding again, as I don't want to aggravate my knee. I'm fairly sure Pancake would whip my butt if we rode together, but all in all I'm pleased with how I rode.

That, and my man Alberto Contador obliterated the competition today and won the stage and the yellow jersey. :thumbsup:
 
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Drystan said:
None claim to be real life situations, all are practiced, and any training will help, even if it's just fitness.
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hmm, depends on how you practice ;)
p.s. the whole week is on the same subject.

RE: Visits in RL
At one point the SPF was trying to get a big huge meeting of members together in RL, or rather
several small meetings all over the world at about the same time (there were quite a few in the
Netherlands and Norway and the US west coast as I recall). I don't think we had as many Texans
back then, but I offered then and it still sands that if anyone sets up a decent sized meeting
(and gives me warning!!) I'll send cookies.



 
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