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Well, the Saints took care of business against my Cowboys quite handling at home with a dismal score of 44-19. Cowboys' defense was absent throughout the whole game, or it seemed that way. Hopefully the Cowboys defense shows up at home against the Ravens. The Ravens lost at home to the Raiders in a close game, so the Cowboys against the Ravens won't be a positive win. Go Cowboys!!

I'm checking things out in the new app, and it's awesome! Easy UI and easy to read and post. So smooth!

Or just have other problems in general that need to be addressed.

A second person who was shot had been hospitalized but is now dead. Absolutely ridiculous. If you are shooting someone over a football game, you are taking the sport too seriously.

Thanks for explaining this, Patrick. I'll be looking into it!

Congrats Ashworth! Well done!

That's nuts! Hadn't heard that! Chiefs pulled out another great win against another good AFC team. Unfortunately, they lost Pecheco for 6-8 weeks in the process to a fractured fibula I believe it was. That'll hurt. Hopefully Perine and Steele can platoon and cover the load. Steele looks promising; just have to protect the football. Worthy wasn't as involved in the offense this week, and Kelce has been too quite as well. I'd also like to Smith-Schuster get more involved. Especially now that it's been announced that Hollywood Brown is out for the season.

I've done a few things like this in TKD years ago. It wasn't really a cross-style setup; everyone was TKD, but there were different things broached, so we got to see some different topics. I like to see different specialties show up in things like this. As the organizer of this event, perhaps you can have some control over this. If I were you, see if you can invite specific instructors that have some special stuff they teach to do so in their allotted timeframes. That way, instead of getting a bunch of instructors teaching the same basics and forms everyone knows, there will be whole bunch of fun and interesting stuff the students get exposed to.

I'm not sure what you mean by "how did you find it." If you mean how I found the material? It was material that a DT instructor I met in college was teaching as his curriculum for women's self-defense seminars. He'd been doing them for some time. However, what the CI at the school is teaching at this seminar is a bit changed up, which I don't think is a good thing. As far as women's self-defense courses in general, I believe that getting exposure to some good tools is better than nothing at all. I also try to make sure to drop some real life knowledge and facts on them about attacks against women, so they understand the severity of it. My hope is that it convinces some of them to look into actively training somewhere themselves, in order to get more than just what that day or session offers. It's not something we are trying to make money on, it's a free service we are offering, so there's no monetary motivation there. The CI has also stated that he plans to open up our Wednesday open-mat time to the women who would be interested in coming in and continuing to train on the self-defense material. I'll be surprised if we have anyone show up on the regular, though. 9/14/2024 Women's Self-Defense Seminar: 9:30 - 11:30 am. In this session, we covered standing situations. Escapes from bear hugs (front, side, rear, both arms in, one arm, both arms out, etc), defenses against standing chokes (front, side, rear, pushing from the front, pushing from the back; not rear-naked style chokes, but a two-handed aggressive choke). Striking elements done in the first session came into play here as part of the defenses. We had about the same number of attendees as the previous week, which was good. But some of them were newcomers, and some from the previous week didn't make it back. We'll see what the turnout for this weekend is for the ground focused material.

Thank you for the kind words, @ashworth! Happy to accept them and acknowledge the wider team at the same time. Also glad the new software is growing on you!

Shogun by James Cavell When I first read Shogun many, many years ago, the Japanese characters spoke Japanese. This 2023 publication has the Japanese characters speaking English, which truly, isn't my cup of tea.

Getting excited!

It's good to hear things are going well on the health front. Keep it up! Very cool on the weapons forging and finishing. Sounds like a lot of fun!

Preseason starts this month!!

Also how i picture myself :p Though in our house we are also big fans of Thanos and Beerus (from Dragonball!) so i might have to rotate them in too!

For those unfamiliar, "gasshuku" or "training camps" are a pretty common practice in karate, where folks get together for multiple days (usually a weekend, but some last as long as a week) to train extensively with each other. Usually, there are many classes taught by various instructors covering multiple different subjects over the course of the camp. I'm sure this is done in other martial arts, as well, though I'm not sure how common it is. Personally, I find that these events can be a great experience, for a number of reasons, but they can also be disappointing, which is why I wanted to bring it up. Recently, I've been planning a Gasshuku for my organization that will be next summer, I've been invited to many that have been and are about to occur this summer, and I just attended one this past weekend, so the subject is at the forefront of my thoughts. These events are great opportunities to network and make new friends in the martial arts, because you obviously all know that you have at least one thing in common. You get to workout and cross arms with new people and it's a fun time. The question is--how much do you actually learn? Many of these events are just glorified kata workouts and kihon (basics) practice with big names in your style. It's a chance to get your picture taken with high ranking people and say you trained with them, but how much value are you actually getting? I'm curious, for those who have attended events like this, did you find the actual content of the events valuable? Did you really learn much? What were your favorite sessions or instructors, and what made them valuable to you? What could have been done better? If you haven't been to an event like this, what do you think would make you want to?

Chandler has signed to fight Oliveira so looks like he has moved on - doubt Conor fights again tbh unless it is a clear slam dunk win - he doesn't want to hurt his brand any more i think!

Dana said recently about McGregor "He will fight in 2025. I wasn't very confident he would fight in 2024, but he will fight in 2025."

I really should check the scale, I have not done that yet. The classes can be a bit chaotic. It seems like at times there is not a lot of planning, they just wing it and throw things together as it goes along. Better organization would be nice. It is not always like that, but it can be.

Lions lost, then at a postgame tailgate party a fight broke out that lead to a shooting and someone getting killed. Sheesh.

Muse - Uprising

Thanks! Slowly getting used to the new forum, and it is growing on me! great work Patrick! the time and dedication that you put into this community continues to amaze me!

Now, that's a very cool feature. Thanks for sharing that, Patrick.

That's a cool feature!!

Congrats, ashworth; well deserved!!