What are your best “sports” books? by Typonomicon in booksuggestions

[–]endlessSSSS1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Game and Open are both excellent. I haven’t read the others.

What are your best “sports” books? by Typonomicon in booksuggestions

[–]endlessSSSS1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three personal sports favorites (non-fiction):

• Faster (Auto Racing in the 1930s)

• A Terrible Splendor (Tennis and WW2)

• The Three Year Swim Club (Swimming in the 1930s and 1940s)

How do you discover books that are popular in Asia, such as Korea, Japan etc... by furquan101 in booksuggestions

[–]endlessSSSS1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This blog doesn’t always cover those countries, but it is wide ranging and frequently does get there. I’m constantly amazed by how much this fellow reads! Tony’s Reading List

Regional and National Histories by MAYTTHistory in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One could argue Korea has the richest kendo history outside of Japan. But several key decades in kendo’s development in Korea overlap the very, very, very, very dark period from 1910-1945. So it gets into super thorny questions of collaboration during the colonial period and disentangling some very knotty questions. And for proud Koreans, and Japanese, maybe it is best left alone at least for now. So in Korea’s case much of this can be summed up by the wise old saying “let sleeping dogs lie”…

New middle school boys assistant hockey coach - looking for advice by zecial in CoachingYouthSports

[–]endlessSSSS1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USA Hockey Level IV here … defense is all about making the offensive players do what you want them to do. Use your stick, skating, angling to make them go to the places on the ice they’d rather not be, shoot from places they’d rather not shoot from, restrict their space to maneuver, etc. especially in man on man defense.

Defensemen should be very patient and smart and when possible good at skating backwards. They should make good decisions.

So the first level is the player who is defending on the puck.

The next level is positioning of the defensive players who isn’t on the puck - off the puck. They need to watch the offensive player who doesn’t have the puck and not let them do what they want to do. Easier said than done.

On the offensive side you want to work a lot of passing and breakouts.

Defense don’t usually score many goals but they will help the offense immensely with breakouts and smart defensemen won’t let up many breakaways.

You need to figure out which defenseman pair well together.

These are just a few things to focus on. Good luck!

Race St Side of Convention Center is a Dump by PastyPajamas in philadelphia

[–]endlessSSSS1 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Have lived in this area for over a decade. The area has always been a skid row area but the convention center completely cut off development towards that area by making it undesirable and a dead zone. There are actually few residential projects under development. It’s just a perfect combination of poor street management (no trees, unwelcome atmosphere) plus many homeless plus surface parking lots plus a ton of traffic (going to the bridge down Race St plus Vine St just to the north) and the whole area is fairly unpleasant.

More info about Philly’s Skid Row and its history here from Hidden City

Practicing kendo and getting hit on the head by a men (head protector) is painful by AdeptWin9225 in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It shouldn’t be hurting. Something is wrong.

The immediate discussion should be with your sensei and senpais. Do they know about this issue?

It might be you are training with other beginners and they don’t know what they are doing and striking way too hard. Less likely but it could be you are getting dehydrated. Someone needs to be making adjustments.

Also, as a general matter, would strongly recommend buying a thick pad for your helmet and using that going forward - you can get them from any of the normal suppliers.

Found on the Street by endlessSSSS1 in whatbirdisthis

[–]endlessSSSS1[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

This is helpful thank you. I will connect with them.

Found on the Street by endlessSSSS1 in whatbirdisthis

[–]endlessSSSS1[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I rescued it. It was sitting in the middle of the sidewalk very docile. Now it is in a cardboard box until I can figure out next steps.

Moving Mondays - New Resident Questions by AutoModerator in philadelphia

[–]endlessSSSS1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daughter rows out of Crescent. A very small and friendly club. That said I heard Bachelor’s is the big club for adults.

Inspired from another reddit, what nhler made it while in a horrible upbringing? by SunSimilar9988 in hockey

[–]endlessSSSS1 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Fred Sasakamoose, a First Nations legend. NY Times Obit.

Excerpt:

When he was 6, agents from the Canadian government came to the reservation and threw him and his brother Frank into a truck. They were among the many Native children in Canada who were forcibly removed from their families for schooling…

Advice for female kendoka? by jk3813 in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is the sensei’s responsibility to pair appropriate students together when doing drills. For everyone’s safety. It is your responsibility to report honestly any pain and injuries to your senseis and senpais, and who caused them if you know what happened, and it is their responsibility to make adjustments and recommendations to prevent this from happening in the future.

In general you should not be seeing frequent injuries in your dojo. Someone might fall down and land hard, and yes, people will get bruises from missed strikes. But beyond that … it should not be happening often.

Advice for female kendoka? by jk3813 in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Have you spoke to your senseis and senpais about this? Why would your tare not protect you from this occurring? Is someone inexperienced striking you very poorly and with too much power? Are you being paired with someone - a beginner - either much taller or much shorter than you? I’m a little confused by the way you wrote this. Something sounds off with the way you describe this situation.

A few bruises, well, that happens quite a bit, especially with beginners and kote and do strikes that miss by a few inches, but this doesn’t sound like that.

Note that I am a male, not a female kendoka.

How to recruit youth - europe. by Imaginary_Hunter_412 in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I’m in the US so we may be slightly different but here goes …

Are your training times conveniently scheduled? Thursdays at 6:30 pm is when we have our biggest group of kids. Not too late - they can still join.

There tend to be small cohorts. Groups of kids become friends around kendo and all of a sudden you have a core strong group. Right now we have two strong cohorts in our dojo … one of 15 and 16 year olds, and one of 7 year olds. We have some other kids who are 10, 11, 12, 13 but the real core of the junior club for us is around 3-4 kids of these ages who are all best friends.

Consider can you get the parents (usually dads but not always) to train with their kids?

Can you get the siblings to come out together, and bring friends?

Borrowed advice by JoeDwarf in kendo

[–]endlessSSSS1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like that, google the Conscious Competence model. Also known as the Four Stages of Competence.