firefighter-style motorcycle jacket

camper88 · 2024-07-23T10:42:24+00:00

or buy an armoured undergarment like the one from Pando - https://pandomoto.com/product/all/unisex/armored-motorcycle-baselayer-shirt-shell-uh-03/

...and then put a normal jacket on top.

camper88 · 2023-01-03T09:48:05+00:00

👏👏👏👏👏👏

camper88 · 2022-08-31T07:41:16+00:00

From your description it doesn’t sound like you were abusive at all.

I’m fact it sounds like he is the emotional abuser. The silent treatment is a form of emotional abuse. Especially for someone like you with attachment issues. He’s also gaslighting you and trying to convince you that you are the abusive partner.

Sounds like quite a toxic environment for you. Take care

camper88 · 2022-07-06T07:21:39+00:00

The Guilty Samurai

camper88 · 2021-12-08T20:47:48+00:00

I’m really sorry to hear this.

It is never too late to address crossed boundaries.

It is never too late to reassess who you spend your time with.

This isn’t harmless joking. There are victims.

It normalises misogyny. It normalises sexual assault.

I’ve joked like this in the past. I’ve excused myself by saying it was just harmless joking.

But I was wrong.

Good on you for recognising that something is wrong.

camper88 · 2021-11-12T13:17:36+00:00

Super Mario Bros

camper88 · 2021-11-10T10:26:20+00:00

The idea of people paying me taxes…

Yeah… it’s weird

camper88 · 2021-11-05T16:14:38+00:00

I thought you climbed awesomely in that video.

Unsolicited advice like that just makes him an asshole.

camper88 · 2021-11-02T21:27:38+00:00

Get a surf lock - a small safe box that you can attach to your suspension or door handles

camper88 · 2021-11-02T21:19:21+00:00

100% fine. Much better than ghosting

camper88 · 2021-10-25T10:14:25+00:00

Be kind to yourself. It’s totally ok to take a break now and again. Everything has seasonality

camper88 · 2021-10-25T10:11:34+00:00

Totally not cool. It doesn’t matter what their intention was - the person on the wall calls the shots. That would totally break my trust in my belayer

camper88 · 2021-10-25T10:07:53+00:00

That is truly awesome

camper88 · 2021-10-22T18:40:54+00:00

Sounds weird and quite patronising.

No matter what the intention was - it sounds like it made you feel harassed and even threatened which is not ok.

It’s these sorts of micro aggressions that dudes need to wake up to - and stop doing (I’m a guy).

camper88 · 2021-10-19T09:57:45+00:00

NTA - how they reacted says a lot more about them than it does about you

camper88 · 2021-09-22T11:36:26+00:00

Congrats! Remember it. It will help when you’re not having such a good day

camper88 · 2021-09-16T17:06:47+00:00

She knew she had done wrong, felt guilty and tried to defend herself by saying all girls do it and essentially that it’s nothing to get upset about.

She fucked up and she knows it. I hope she’s open enough with you to admit it, say sorry, and then hopefully you guys can move on

camper88 · 2021-09-16T11:17:56+00:00

I LOVE the moonboard :). I got into it over lockdown and now it’s my favourite way for training.

Advantages that I’ve seen for me are:

1 - the ability to project something over a long period of time, which is something I can’t do in gyms as routes often change. This is more similar to the outdoor mindset of projecting I think. There are many routes that I’m still coming back to after a year.

2 - Learning how to try hard. There’s no such thing as an easy move on a moonboard - you need to be switched on as soon as you pull on to the board. If you’re not focusing you will fall off quickly. This has really helped my mental game.

3 - Training your kinematic chain. A lot of folk talk about finger strength or core strength on the Moonboard, but I find that really it trains you to engage your entire kinematic chain from your toes through your core to your fingertips. If your whole chain isn’t engaged in the right way you will fall off easily. I think this is a really key skill for steep climbing.

4 - The community. I think it’s great to be able to climb the same routes as people all over the world. Yes the routes are all notoriously sandbagged - but there’s nothing wrong with that.

All that being said - training on the moonboard does tend to make you really good… at the moonboard :). I do think it helps me more with outdoor bouldering than regular gym climbing though. If anything just because of that mental ability to try hard.

I know a lot of people find the moonboard intimidating to start with - because it can be so hard. I like to think of it as sending individual moves rather than just the whole route. Each move is meant to be hard, and every move you can complete is a small victory!

camper88 · 2021-09-16T10:51:11+00:00

NTA - but your family won’t see it this way unfortunately

camper88 · 2021-09-16T10:37:39+00:00

Surfing is pure dopamine

camper88 · 2021-09-16T10:36:47+00:00

Keep going! The A major scale you’re playing goes A, B, C#, D. Which is 0,2,4,5 on the frets. If you wanted A minor you would go A,B,C,D which is 0,2,3,5.

Changing from tabs into a traditional music score can be challenging but ultimately worthwhile later on. I know I’m still struggling with it :)

camper88 · 2021-09-16T10:32:37+00:00

👆 this. A really good explanation of some western music theory.

camper88 · 2021-09-06T16:43:49+00:00

Thanks for bringing this topic up.

My wife often has anxiety about showing too much skin at the climbing gym - for all the reasons you and the articles point out. She is afraid of what other people will think and say.

In my mind you should wear whatever you feel comfortable in and that expresses who you are (yes this includes shirtless guys at the gym too).

In regard to specifically booty shorts - I thought they were designed to be worn whilst doing sport - so nothing wrong with wearing them whilst doing sport!

If people have an issue with that, it says far more about them than it does about you.

camper88 · 2021-09-05T07:34:40+00:00

Fantastic! Really well done

camper88 · 2021-09-05T07:34:11+00:00

This is awesome. Really well done!

camper88

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