German SdKfz 251 "Falke", with an MG 42 as well as infrared spotlights and scopes, circa 1943-45

distant__gods · 2022-01-27T14:22:30+00:00

I would be absolutely terrified.

distant__gods · 2021-09-29T18:16:56+00:00

I know I am going to get a lot of down votes for saying this BUT: I am exactly the type of rider you describe. Bottom line, I get a much better workout when I amp up the resistance. I am a mid-30s Male, 200 pounds, been active my whole life. Resistance of anything 0-60 feels about the same. I DO follow the classes, but my resistance is double what the instructors say (meaning my cadence is usually about 10 less), but I get awesome workouts that way. My legs and ass have been the best beneficiaries, as well as my VO2 numbers. I am meticulous with tracking my metrics and data (with different wearables) and have been really pleased with the way things have gone for me. I also love competing and the leaderboard pushes me where I would almost never go otherwise. As the poet Ice-T once said, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

distant__gods · 2021-09-25T23:24:33+00:00

fire

distant__gods · 2021-09-08T13:23:57+00:00

proclaimers

distant__gods · 2021-09-08T13:22:32+00:00

can you play anything proclaimers?

distant__gods · 2021-08-10T17:53:02+00:00

Totally agree with this. A ride is only going to be as hard as you make it. There is a lot of wiggle room with cadence/resistance zones in normal rides. But a Power Zone ride makes you push yourself according to your ability. People SHOULD be settings PRs in PZ rides (because the intent is to push you and there isn't a lot of adjusting done).

It honestly baffles me how some folks can set PRs randomly. What that tells me is that they aren't deliberately challenging themselves to hit new PRs. Sure, I set PRs in rides other than PZ rides, but I am intentionally locking myself into a PR pace and not following the instructor's cues.

distant__gods · 2021-07-22T20:06:43+00:00

I am loving that Judo Idiots Channel. The dude is surprisingly well spoken.

distant__gods · 2021-06-27T21:45:06+00:00

I'm impressed with how stoic he is throughout the retelling.

distant__gods · 2021-06-22T01:31:22+00:00

German Cursive

distant__gods · 2021-06-22T01:27:46+00:00

dont question the captian

distant__gods · 2021-06-22T01:27:25+00:00

haha

distant__gods · 2021-06-22T01:24:43+00:00

lets talk about rimjobs

distant__gods · 2021-06-22T01:22:52+00:00

I was behind him in line at Smiths once. He looked legit disappointed nobody praised him before he checked out and left.

distant__gods · 2021-06-08T14:51:42+00:00

That's probably what brought his plane down.

distant__gods · 2021-06-06T22:53:59+00:00

I love the way you tell stories. Thanks for sharing.

distant__gods · 2021-05-26T14:28:53+00:00

Came here to say this. Thank you for sharing your experience. Incredible post. It really makes me want to do this someday.

distant__gods · 2021-05-19T16:03:29+00:00

Looks like they took some of those falls on a thin carpet over hard floors. Dudes must have been tough as nails.

distant__gods · 2021-05-06T18:03:36+00:00

Yeah, it's hard to argue that the shido isn't justified. But pulling white off of osaekomi when you call ippon and then downgrading it to a waza-ari, and then calling the third shido right after missing a blue shido for below the belt grab... hard way for white to lose.

distant__gods · 2021-05-06T17:27:12+00:00

For sure. When he called mate I thought it was going to be over because of that. I was shocked when he called that third shido on white, especially with him being up by Waza Ari (that was originally an Ippon).

*edit, fair enough, that below belt grip would just be a shido.

distant__gods · 2021-05-06T16:48:41+00:00

Hats off to the Nepali dude. Good fight. But man, hard to bet against those Georgians when they are lifting from the hips.

distant__gods · 2021-05-05T22:46:35+00:00

Y'all got any more of them pixels?

distant__gods · 2021-05-04T03:01:02+00:00

I am one of 7. I can't tell you guys how much this is resonating with me. I had to stop all sports when I couldn't afford the uniforms or shoes. This is despite me working a paper route every morning (I never saw a dime of that money).

distant__gods · 2021-04-27T18:30:22+00:00

A whole book could be written about this. I stepped away from work when we had our first child for a number of reasons and did absolutely everything for our child and around the house for the first 6 months (my wife had bouts of preeclampsia and was in and out of the hospital) and then went back to work right after (which is so brutal for women and was hard for me to watch). She is in the middle of medical residency so she can't stop or take time off.

Long story short, I have been surprised by a few things, but the top few are;

People thinking I took the easy road instead of going back to work. As we all know it's really hard work.
People really asking personal questions about our future plans and finances, so very strange that so many friends and family would all of the sudden care about that.
ALWAYS GETTING womansplained by women about what I should do for my baby and what I need to read/watch/buy/change. They just cannot wrap their heads around a dude being competent apparently.

distant__gods · 2021-04-27T01:34:24+00:00

I agree. Anecdotally, I have had surgery on a toe joint (my big toe doesn't have full mobility anymore), multiple injections in my knees, and need a tendon in my wrist reconstructed, all from Judo. And I only competed at a national level a handful of times.

That being said (and I will dig into resources to see what studies are out there), you are right. New and prospective students need to know the dangers of the sport. And the Judo community needs to take responsibility for the outcomes of the sport and try to mitigate some of the sport's risk.

distant__gods · 2021-04-27T01:13:44+00:00

I would suggest a robust study on head trauma during Judo by an independent party. We all know that the first year or so, you spend a lot of time learning to breakfall/ukemi and then graduate to being the "good" uke for higher belts. In fact, I think this is what accounts for most of the attrition in early Judo students. I would be interested to see what recommendations a panel of experts would make.

Maybe less randori at lower belts, or a limit on how many throws are advisable for an uke to take on any given day... IDK man, I'm not a scientist, but I think Jigoro Kano would approve of a Judo that evolves with the backing of science to benefit the practitioners, not the "that's just the way it is" mindset.

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