DarthPenguin

I don't disagree but it just seems quite brave. Though it probably came up in the discussions when he agreed to the role.

Been pretty irregular month with kids being ill etc which has thrown a spanner in the works. Tuesday 31st October Lifting Session Trap Bar Deadlift 70kg x 5 80kg x 5 85kg x 3 97.5kg x 3 110kg x 12 was quite pleased with that as didn't think i would manage as many reps as just getting back into it Reverse E-Z Bar curl 20kg x 10 20kg x 10 20kg x 10 Abridged session as had to get back for the kids but i wanted to try and get something in! On the plus side, while i will have lost some strength in last few months, it is maybe not as big a drop off as i had feared

What did you think of his decision to bench Garoppolo straight away? Seemed quite surprising to me and a little risky for an interim coach who presumably wants the permanent job!

Watched the first few innings then needed to go to bed (was 2am here). Think that from the two teams the better team won. Thats another ring for Scherzer though. I'm going to be interested to see the eventual difference in their first ballot support between him and Verlander (they are both no doubt first baller HoFers, am curious who will get bragging rights). Personally i would pick Verlander by a hair but i could see it either way

Not good! Hopefully you can get it sorted soon and get the heating back up and running too

Ouch, hopefully it abates soon!

I've been seeing that too. The Bengals haven't looked great, either. But if both teams pull it together down the stretch, they'll be hitting their strides before the playoffs. I fully expect that to happen. Bengals looked good this week! I think you're probably right though, i expect both teams to come good in the end. Problem is we might give Kansas City home field throughout the playoffs which will make it a lot tougher

yeah i have watch the first three too. I thought the first episode was patchy but that it improved a little over the next couple. I'll likely watch the season and see if it is just taking time to find it's feet. The show does make me think how much they miss Niles as a character, his son is meant to be the 'new him' but is nowhere near as good (i think)

Should be an interesting series but i won't deny i am a little disappointed that the Phillies lost - partly as i think Harper deserves a WS at some point and partly as i think they are just a better team! This is one of the WS where i think it won't be the best team in the league that wins, just one that got hot at the right moments in October. Should be quite an even series though which is always good!

I'm finding this season very odd as a Bills fan - one minute we absolutely destroy a very good Miami team and look like a strong bet for the superbowl - the next we somehow lose to the Patriots! I'm just hoping this is one of the odd years where we get players back for the playoffs, squeak in and make a strong run

Training time comes down more to 'sessions attended' than years. eg BJ Penn famously got his bjj bb in 3 years (and won worlds) when std time is 10-12 years but he trained basically full time. Assuming the average ma student trains twice a week every year then they probably manage 100 sessions a year, 1.5hrs per session, so approx 150hrs per year. Compare that to someone training all day 5 days per week. Assuming a 50/50 split between conditioning work and skill work that might be 20hrs skill training a week, so in 8 weeks (2 mths approx) they will have trained more than a hobbyist in a year. Their year would be like 6 years for the hobbyist. Add in being a world class athlete and they could get very very good (in normal person terms) in that 2 years. Where this falls down is prime Mike Tyson was a world class athlete, training full time with years of experience, so he has that skill acquisition times more. The one that always intrigued me was Amir Khan the boxer. Amazing hand speed, good power but a glass chin. I always wondered how he would have done in mma rather than boxing - the lighter gloves would have sorta compensated for his chin, since everyone would get hit harder, and at his weight classes they don't ko as often. Imagine his physical attributes with a lifetime of mma training - would have been interesting!

Saturday 14 October Karate Session Warm up Usual Warm up for session Kihon Worked through standard kihon from kiba-dachi rather than moving which is unusual for us. Then worked through combinations of kicks and strikes as per grading requirements Kata Ran through Bassai dai and also went over Kihon Kata and Heian Shodan Kumite We practiced footwork for kumite, taking an angle for a yoko geri or mawashi geri - working on not leaving yourself open post kick too. Then did multiple rounds of kumite Overall good session .First one for a few weeks as feeling a lot better now and i enjoyed it

100% agree here. Tbh the size/weight is more important than the height. someone equally skilled, my height but decent amount lighter i usually feel i can 'bully' a little when sparring; someone equally skilled, shorter but same or greater weight usually feels a LOT harder (especially if they can take a hit) - it's why they have weight classes and not height classes Would you say then that reach advantages are overrated? Not challenging your opinion, just asking. I think reach can be advantageous, but again, it can be situational. Someone who is 6'3" with long arms and legs but only weighs 130 lbs....typically, I am not going to worry as much about their reach. I'll take a few tags to get inside that. Now, if that person is 6'3" and 230 lbs, then that'll be a different story, even though I would still have weight on them. 100% agree and said a lot more succinctly than i managed it!

100% agree here. Tbh the size/weight is more important than the height. someone equally skilled, my height but decent amount lighter i usually feel i can 'bully' a little when sparring; someone equally skilled, shorter but same or greater weight usually feels a LOT harder (especially if they can take a hit) - it's why they have weight classes and not height classes Would you say then that reach advantages are overrated? Not challenging your opinion, just asking. For me, personally, i find that weight is more important than reach, though i would still say that reach is important. I would describe it as a bunch of different factors that can help. If someone is equally skilled and the same weight then reach does help. I think Mike Tyson illustrates the point quite well - when he was at his peak he covered up with a fantastic defence and got into close range before exploding. His defence was good enough and he was strong enough taking hits that he could get to the point when reach became a disadvantage. Reach plus size is the best (obviously) like Lennox Lewis or Wlad Klitschko, neither of whom had a great chin but were able to use their reaches and sheer size to have fantastic success. I would also say that reach helps more if it is full contact. In semi contact people can march through your strike as they don't get hurt (assuming it's continuous) and get into a range where you are less effective. Full contact you can try and hurt them before they get into their range. I think what it actually comes down to is there are a huge amount of factors at play and everything is individualised - apologies if the above is a bit rambling!

Excellent! I loved Frasier though i have already heard negative things about the reboot. Hope it's good though part of me wonders where they can go - by the finale they had pretty much exhausted most sensible plotlines; fingers crossed though!

100% agree here. Tbh the size/weight is more important than the height. someone equally skilled, my height but decent amount lighter i usually feel i can 'bully' a little when sparring; someone equally skilled, shorter but same or greater weight usually feels a LOT harder (especially if they can take a hit) - it's why they have weight classes and not height classes

Thursday 5 October Lifting session Next 'breaking back in' session Bench Press 20kg x 5 40kg x 5 50kg x 5 55kg x 5 60kg x 11 Seated overhead barbell press 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 Triceps banded pushdown 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 25kg x 10 Called it quits there as needed to get back to the kids - intention was just to keep getting back into it which i think i managed.

It is always a tough one tbh. As a simple example i am roughly the size of the larger individual in your example (i'm 6'4" and about 225lbs in American units). My background was mainly in striking styles until i added in bjj and i always noticed the following : whenever i went to a new striking style i could usually always hold my own sparring unless someone was a much higher level than me (i mean multiple dans etc) if i was a lot bigger than them, however, when i went to bjj for the first time it was totally different (and one of the main reasons i took it up). Rolled with a experienced white belt (got his blue soon after) who was about 5'6 and maybe 130-140lbs and got absolutely destroyed. I was nigh on helpless tbh. This may just be making the point again about skill differences though. There is a difference between being big and knowing how to use your size effectively. I think there is a clip somewhere of Conor McGregor sparring Hafthor Bjornsson and handling him pretty easily due to the skill disparity. Also look at Marius Pudzianovski (sp) the former multiple time WSM and his foray into mma. He had some prior martial arts training and he will have always been the biggest and strongest person in all of his fights but that didn't mean he won them all

unfortunately this is nigh on impossible to answer accurately. All i will say is weight classes exist for a reason and you need a significant disparity in skill to counteract this eg i think most boxing fans would concur that Floyd Mayweather Jnr is a significantly more skilled boxer than Anthony Joshua but i doubt Mayweather would stand a chance if they ever fought. You mention 8 years of training but this could be a 1hr session twice a week at a mediocre academy or every day at a world class school.

I've been tempted - thought a series S would be a good thing to get for my boy when he turns 7 at xmas time (an easy joint present) and could maybe use it too! Use a Mac rather than a PC so would likely need to go for Xbox version. Thats a useful descriptipn of the game though - as someone who has several copies of Skyrim on different platforms i can relate to it being consistently good and easy to come back to (punching dragons never gets old!)

has been really good so far. Think it's going to come down to Bills vs Chiefs again from their conference. We just need a non Josh Allen running game. If we can nail that down then i genuinely think we win the superbowl. He is always asked to do too much - throw loads plus be the main running back really. Mahomes can do it too but at least he always (historically) had a decent enough rb to carry that load. Am also please to see Purdy looking good still for San Fran. Was hoping he wasn't going to be a one season wonder and so far he looks legit

Is this not quite risky though - a semester of varying arts is just enough for a lot of people to become a danger to themselves - erroneously believing they 'can fight' and getting into situations that they shouldn't? I don't know, I guess the same question could be asked of the new yellow belt who is overconfident and thinks he knows more than he does. I don't see a problem with learning, or trying out, different styles to see what fits the student. Hopefully they have the maturity to not misuse it. Yep it's exactly the same. We used to call it "yellow belt syndrome" in fact! The difference i suppose is that in a non-semester environment you know that they will be offered more training and can get past it, plus the semester isn't an end point. In a semester course it is natural to view the end of the semester as "the end" and i can see that leading someone to thinking they have learnt all they need as otherwise it wouldn't be a one semester course would it (not that i agree with this mindset!)

interesting, when i used to use these we always had the opposite issue that we could only get rebreakable boards with the crease going horizontal and for some things we would have liked vertical! Might be too expensive but if it is something you are planning to practice a lot more again maybe it's worth getting some more boards with a horizontal crease and working between the two sets?

are you guys playing the pc version or the xbox series s/x version? I loved Skyrim so it is something that is tempting but not sure if it is good enough to shell out on an xbox for!

People enjoying the new season? As a Bills fan i was slightly worried at the start but now a lot more hopeful! We are nearing the tail end of our superbowl window so hopefully they can get over the hump this year