JusticeZero

I have very little patience for how people immediately say not to use prescription medication to solve problems. I'm concerned with how many suicides that advice has created. You take a person who cannot get out of their room and cries at how horrible a video game monster has it, and tell them to avoid taking the treatment to get themselves back on their feet. That's like lecturing someone bleeding out on the sidewalk that bandages and stitches are immoral. It's completely unacceptable.

Arms and feet together. Builds coordination while also being a pretty intensive stretch of the core and shoulders. Core is important to everything. I could show you a few more, but it's hard to communicate them without using style-specific language - one of the main ones I push for is to coil a switch from lunge-right to lunge-left without picking up the feet starting through the back foot and making sure to isolate each section as much as possible.

Well, yeah, that's what I mean. The only reason for muscle to "slow you down" is if you built the muscle up using poor and unbalanced exercises that neglected flexibility to the degree that you no longer have the flexibility to perform the technique correctly. And that is fairly easy to remedy with stretching.

I could show you a few, but they're hard to explain. The easiest to explain is basic enough - backbridge, then walk forward and backward a few steps.

Well, yeah. Speed can be thought of as a function of muscle strength times flexibility. If your flexibility goes downhill, so will your speed, but it isn't because "muscle slows you down".

Saw an interesting picture, did research, saw a very interesting answer to a question.. Source: We">http://www.combatant-magazine.com/flag/profile-samantha-swords/ She goes on to note that her sport venue of choice does not have weight classes, meaning that she gets beat.. a LOT.. by superior strength and mass.This is explained as being an advantage because they have to do the movement correctly with proper physics the first time. The explanation is actually fairly long, long enough that I can't post the whole answer here. Any thoughts?

Depends on the type and context.

If everybody wears a t-shirt, that's fine - but when I layer clothes for cold weather activity, a T-shirt gives me noticeably more insulation.

Yeah, but the end result is the equivalent of half the class training in a light shirt and the other half training in a heavy alpine winter coat, and the ones in coats being stereotyped as weak because of how often they overheat.

She's American, this is American law. Tell the parents. I'd tell the police too, personally, and i'm hoping that one of the resident LEO's or people with a lot of knowledge on the relevant laws will put in their advice on the situation. Partly because i'd like to know what to tell people if I hear about this sort of thing happening again.

Yeah, well, i'd like some advice from a law and order type on this first. What Fang was describing is sort've serious, and I wouldn't want her to accidentally make it less clear cut.

Yeah, i'm pretty much waiting until an LEO or someone who knows more about the laws and such can come in and give some better advice. I'm seeing what looks like two serious business things to address. Yes, keep everything. Keep records of when and where you found it.

Given the unwanted physical contact, you may well have legal grounds to be out of there immediately. I don't know the details exactly, so i'm waiting for someone more qualified on the subject to chime in.

That's completely unacceptable behavior, and you don't have to put up with it.

More mass - in moderation, don't wreck yourself trying to turn into the Hulk - has health benefits. Pure strength always helps, and has health benefits. Muscle does not slow you down. Muscle speeds you up. The only slowing down you might worry about is flexibility, if you just worry about bulking up and don't stretch.

That behavior is completely unacceptable. You are completely right not to want to be exposed to such abuse. You are an awesome young woman who needs to be respected as a talented human being.

I don't consider any current CMA material that I have seen to be effective on the ground for the simple reason that they do not practice on the ground. A BJJ school that never rolled would not produce effective students.

I do my games on voice chat because people have moved, including me; I don't attempt to find a time that everyone can show up, I just give a predictable time and whoever can make it gets to play. This has been hard to explain to some though I think.Predictability in schedule is very important for making things possible for busy people. I can't just spontaneously discover a few hours a week out at some specific random time, but I can reserve a six hour block every Sunday and often get it. I've had people suggest that it would be easier to show up every two weeks, but it was suggested by the people who can't seem to be bothered to show up every two weeks either so I take it with a grain of salt. We all moved, and books get lost. PF leaves all their material up for free on a website, and it's open source. I would have done 3.5 if not for that. I'm simply not at a point in my life where the idea of prowling through used bookstores for dusty and rare out of print tomes that i'll end up having to loan out to players appeals to me; PF is supported and easy to acquire. I don't object to 4, but it's closed and requires a bunch of books and doesn't play like I like. I haven't been tracking 5, but I expect it to be closed source and set up around selling books, which ironically means I probably won't be buying them, and why people still make stuff for 3.5. So it was really a logistical reason. Videogame wise, my current playlist as of late is Torchlight II, NWN2; i'd be playing NWN1 if it didn't crash on me in spite of using compatibility mode. Played a bit of Bastion recently. Also, booted up DosBox to poke around at Dungeon Master again. And awhile back, prodded at the revived Earth and Beyond that they've gotten up and running, in the MMO area.

Yeah, i'm running a weekly PF game with some friends. It's a pain to convince people that I actually am tolerant of them missing a couple of game sessions for family, though. I get a lot of "I don't know if I can commit to that because of my family.." yeah, I have a family too, I get it. I don't do individual XP and I handwave people being absent. I just want enough people that I can keep the group size above two after assorted cancellations. bah!

If they're just going through the motions, they aren't improving. They just don't advance.

Guest belts work well for students from schools where the belt colors don't match; it indicates that they have some form of training, but they are a wild card who has yet to find their place in your ranking system. This would be the belt you hand a transfer student or guest when they first walk in.

I don't own a car for various reasons, that being somewhere on the list. That said, i'm not training for combat effectiveness, I train for knowledge.

right, cross-gender combat defies the ceteris paribus assumption at the heart of the competitive arena. Better or worse, inequalities are introduced.

The "breathable" fabrics are good insulation; I wore one "breathable" shirt under the light sweater I wore under the thin jacket I wore when riding eight miles in midwinter in Alaska.

If people are having an issue with bowing because of the religious content, is it OK to refuse to shake hands because of the religious content of that act? No specific prohibition against it, just trying to keep the rampant Christianity away? That seems like the analogue to me. Shaking hands is just as religious in nature as bowing is.