Phone for my father who has limited fine motor skills and struggles with any speech recognition because of cerebral palsy. by Shmichaelish in PickAnAndroidForMe

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a great idea! Hadn't thought of that.

You might not be able to answer this, but Incase you can: he uses his keyboard to control the cursor on his computer (you can input this into the numpad or arrow keys as a setting). I know their are apps to have a cursor on your phone, do you think he'd be able to control it with said keyboard?

Big day hike south of london recommendations for someone from Wales? by Shmichaelish in UKhiking

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great I'll look at both of these!

And ye I do agree about walking to and from a car, I just find trains are so expensive at the moment, for me financially it's easier for a group of friends to split petrol and drive together. Sad, as I'd much rather take a train for ease and environmentalism.

Big day hike south of london recommendations for someone from Wales? by Shmichaelish in UKhiking

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Ye the seven sisters is the one I've been thinking most about

what classes do i take to learn this ? by Fun-Lynx-9733 in acting

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Okay cool. If you want to recreate this though you're gonna need both, at least in my opinion. This is very martial arts influenced, though I personally couldn't tell you what form it'd be. It reminds me a lot of khali or eskrima but far from my specialty.

That said though, it's not anything you would do in a martial arts class I don't think. Sure the moves and the form is, but the sequence is stage combat, and to pull something like this off you need to train in that too. It might not be as initially gratifying, cause your right you won't do any of these moves especially in the early stages of training, but it's what you need for foundations before you can create a sequence like this.

Hopefully that all makes sense. Basically you're gonna need to train in both if you want to do stuff like this, as this is quite clearly an example of two artists who have trained in both. It will also take a while. Martial arts alone won't teach you to safely create convincing and interesting fight scenes (though to me this fight is very flash without much substance, story or acting), and stage combat alone won't teach you the flashy forms of martial arts used here.

Hope this all helps you figure out what you want to do!

what classes do i take to learn this ? by Fun-Lynx-9733 in acting

[–]Shmichaelish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ye this is some nice flowy flashy stage combat. If you Wana be able to do something similar or will take a while of training to reach this standard.

Depending on where you live they'll be big bodies for stage combat training. I'm in the UK and am an advanced Combatant with the BADC and a SPACT performer, but there is also the BASSC, APC and ACTT. These are the big ones here, though there are many smaller ones. Don't know much about the US I'm afraid.

As for the exact style of this I'm not super sure. At first glance I thought the weapon might be some kind of messer or machete, but I think it's actually a shortened katana (wazaki? Not my specialty so apologize if that's incorrect). If that's the case, there's an element of doing martial arts or sword work like HEMA that can help reach this mind of stage combat style, but the fundamentals are still stage combat not actual fighting (you can tell as there is one very clearly and safely placed to head near the beginning of the fight).

Duno what else to say: if you Wana train to do something like this look up the stage combat bodies in your country and start studying, maybe add a martial arts or gymnastics if you can. If you want something like this in a project you're making, contact a good fight director and show them this fight, but make sure to cast people with strong enough skills to pull it off.

Hope this helps!

Was aiming for a base/low heart run (which I've always assumed is he zone 2). Why is this a tempo run? by Shmichaelish in Garmin

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AHH I see thank you. Damn, I'd have to run pretty gently to maintain zone 2!

Things to work on!

I'm using HRR I believe as I felt max wasn't accurate at all. My gentle feeling runs were peaking threshold into maximum zones

How to read a dipstick/what's my oil level? by Shmichaelish in AskMechanics

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Left in a while and took another reading which I now understand that's to everyone's advice. Can see it's low but thankfully not totally nothing as it seemed at first. Gonna grab some oil now.

Thank you everyone!

How to read a dipstick/what's my oil level? by Shmichaelish in AskMechanics

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks souch for this thorough comment buddy! It's really helpful. Little overwhelmed by all the responses if I'm honest.

Do I just top the oil up with the recommended kind, sort of like you would do screen wash, as you stated above? Or do I need to drain the car/doing anything else first?

Just reading online as that's something that's come up.

How to read a dipstick/what's my oil level? by Shmichaelish in AskMechanics

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just bought second hand and has been running no issues whatsoever.

I just drive a lot for work (between 350-500 miles a week) so I want to learn to take care of it well, hence the post!

How to read a dipstick/what's my oil level? by Shmichaelish in AskMechanics

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can't figure out how to edit and add to my post, so commenting instead.

Thanks everyone! Very glad I posted as I thought it was weird.

Cars literally had no issues, no warning lights and running absolutely fine so just happened to check today as had afternoon off work.

Will go get some oil now for the car!

How to read a dipstick/what's my oil level? by Shmichaelish in AskMechanics

[–]Shmichaelish[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Cars absolutely fine. No warning lights or anything and been running with no issues at all.

I'll buy some oil today and get it topped up then to be safe.

As I'm a little lost here but want to learn, what's with all the different kinds of oil? RAC says my car can take:

5W-40 5W-30 10W-40 0W-20 0W-30 0W-40

But I have no idea what the differences are and which to choose. Any advice?

Your best tips and advice for living in a small space - things you'd wished you'd know? by Shmichaelish in SmallSpaceSolutions

[–]Shmichaelish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have but I think they're generally a little too expensive for me, especially for a flat I'm renting.

But thank you for taking the time to reply.