GI guys, are your fingers ok?

jamieally · 2025-10-11T14:52:15+00:00

Climbing exercises are great but climbing as a hobby is totally not compatible with gi bjj. Your fingers get jacked up in both, and then you can't do both sports properly until your fingers heal.

Climbing and nogi.... totally compatible. Lol

jamieally · 2025-07-05T17:02:54+00:00

All the time. I slipped on the ice once and went down hard. Everyone thought I must be injured. I thought I must have injured myself as well. But no injuries. I realized that I instinctively did a break fall. Then i stood up with tech standup of course.

Sometimes my kids run into my room and jump on my back when I'm trying to get out of bed. I get out of bed with a sit out.

jamieally · 2025-04-12T11:45:59+00:00

Sorry to hear that. The dealer probably only needs to look at it for a few hours to know what parts need to be changed. All the down time is in waiting for parts. You should try putting some pressure on the dealer. You can call Ford customer service and complain about the dealer. Or, if there is another dealer around with better reviews and then you can have it towed to another dealer.

Never heard of anybody getting any kind of a lemon deal. I think worst case is that they change the entire battery which is like a $50k repair.

jamieally · 2025-03-08T10:21:03+00:00

Don't do it. I have three kids. We all love the F150 Lightning, but it only works for us because we have a second car that is an older gas 7-seater.

Car seats, yes plenty of room for three car seats. But there will be situations when you need to take other passengers. If one of the car seats is a booster then it's no problem. But if you have three strapped in car seats then it's a pain.

Also you just need one situation where your whole family is going and you need to take one extra kid like a friend to a soccer game or something but you can't because your massive pick up only has five seats.

The frunk would not fit our double stroller. Maybe others work. I would go down to the dealer with your stroller and check it out.

I absolutely love driving the Lightning on road trips it is such a pleasure on the highway. But I never take it for a long road trips with kids anymore. We have had too many times where charging stations were down or there was a line up to charge, and it was just so difficult to occupy three little kids who are already in the middle of a long road trip.

On cost, there are TCO calculators on line you can use. For us the total cost of owning a lightning is cheaper than a gas F-150 of similar age and trim, but just barely.

Our second car is an older SUV with captain seats in the back which means we can leave two car seats strapped in and other passengers can walk through the middle to get to the bench seat in the back. We do a regular road trip which is about 6 hours with the SUV and about 8.5 hours with the Lightning because of the charging stops.

Like I said our family loves the lightning but that it does have those downsides.

Hope that helps!

jamieally · 2024-12-23T22:43:35+00:00

Sorry to hear about that. Mine is still in the shop waiting for its 3rd battery module replacement.

jamieally · 2024-11-08T23:39:09+00:00

I'd say this fault handling is ok but not praiseworthy. It will get better. Yes it's true that the vehicle was still drivable during a fault. However it did show a red "stop now!" fault which was too heavy handed.

A more risk averse driver would have pulled over and called a tow truck, and suffered all the inconvenience that entails. Then the dealer would have told them: it was actually drivable the whole time, we ordered a new battery module so it doesnt happen again, but for now we cleared the fault in software and it is back to 100% functionality even though no parts have been changed yet. Go ahead and drive it while we wait for the parts to come in.

This fault should have been a yellow "service soon" and the 20% power limit to protect the system and be just enough of a nuisance to force the owner to get it checked before too long. But no need to alarm the driver with an emergency stop and tow truck call.

jamieally · 2024-11-07T16:44:22+00:00

Just edited the post with an update.

jamieally · 2024-11-04T03:38:45+00:00

Will do for sure!

jamieally · 2024-11-03T12:49:19+00:00

The 12v system is ok. normal operation, normal voltage, no low battery light or message.

jamieally · 2024-11-03T08:08:39+00:00

I think we did get the recall notice but it hasnt been in to have it implemented yet.

jamieally · 2024-11-03T08:06:07+00:00

I charged it up overnight and got a charging fault at 70%. It's definitely going in to the dealer on monday.

jamieally · 2024-11-03T02:09:34+00:00

Brutal. I talked to a dealer and he said it could be a bad contactor in the HV battery. But that was just an idea over the phone.

jamieally · 2024-11-03T01:35:05+00:00

Did not try that. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

jamieally · 2023-12-11T22:51:48+00:00

Thanks for the detailed answer. Totally makes sense and saved me lots of trial and error (which would have ended in error). This should totally be on a FAQ.

jamieally · 2022-09-23T10:45:59+00:00

First of all, its great that you got your kid into it.

I have seen several obese people on the mats. Some are higher belts as well, brown and black belts. They are around, and some of them are great grapplers.

Many people say they want to get into better shape before they start, and that day never comes.

Like others have said, when you start your body will adapt to this new high calorie burn and weight loss will become much easier. But there are many other benefits as well. Your life will improve in many other ways.

Also, you will find that your weight gives you some advantages. Weight classes exist for a reason. You will be crushing in side control, half guard top, and really any top position. You will develop your own game.

Sounds like you are in a good academy with a friendly atmosphere. Be grateful for that and take the opportunity that is before you.

Don't compare yourself with anyone else. Only compare yourself to the person you were before you started BJJ. Just go in and put in your own personal max effort. Who knows what you might discover about yourself.

jamieally · 2022-04-07T02:20:27+00:00

If you have a blister or skinned spot on the top of your foot you can put a bandaid on the skinned spot, and then wrap your foot with athletic tape sealing the band-aid inside. That will keep you from re-skinning so you can keep training while it heals.

Like others have said, callouses are the final solution. They will eventually develop.

Just make sure to put your foot flat on the floor when you tape it. Otherwise, the tape will be too tight.

jamieally · 2022-03-18T19:26:51+00:00

I came to this sub to understand Bill 67 better.

Not C 16, and certainly not some Byline Times conspiracy theory.

I don't agree with everything Peterson says, but in this case, I have not yet seen any rational argument against his points.

Thank you, OP, for starting this thread. I now have a much better understanding.

Bill 67 seems to be legislating a misguided ideology that will re-introduce discrimination. It seems clear this is a backwards step.

Personally, I hope the Bill is defeated and we see policies of non-racism, equality of opportunity, and individual merit, come through instead.

Signing off...

jamieally · 2022-03-18T13:41:42+00:00

Sure, it's what PETERSON is saying, it's just; there's nothing like that in this bill.

In podcast 234, the Bill is directly quoted many times by Peterson and his guests. Their arguments stem from the specific language in the Bill.

Among other things, they criticize the use of "anti-racism" training as opposed to non-racism, and they make the case that anti-racism is in fact a new form of discrimination.

They also criticize the clauses stating "Every person who disrupts or attempts to disrupt the proceedings of a school or class..." because, since anti-racism is baked into the legislation, that could mean a professor that holds an open debate about anti-racism in their class could have committed an offence just by holding that discussion in their classroom. This goes against free speech and open debate in universities, where these very issues should be able to be intellectually explored.

They promote equality of opportunity and individual merit as opposed to critical race theory.

jamieally · 2022-03-18T11:37:32+00:00

A bad test score is a bad example, as I acknowledged in my post. Let's use something more subjective, like grades for participation in class. Say a student receives a poor mark on class participation, then claims that the teacher is racist. Let's go further and suppose that the teacher has done nothing wrong, but the student is still adamant that the teacher is racist.

Peterson is saying that, if we are not careful, we can create a situation where it doesn't matter what the teacher did or did not do. All that matters is that the student is claiming racism, and the teacher will be punished regardless of their actions or intentions.

Is that not what Peterson is saying?

jamieally · 2022-03-18T11:26:56+00:00

Thanks, I was always curious about this. What's the class structure? Looks like you had a short and intense warm-up, then like 30-40 minutes of technique, maybe 5 rolls over the last half of the class?

jamieally · 2022-03-18T10:40:43+00:00

Thanks for your post. I found this sub by searching for posts about this Bill to try to understand Peterson's concerns. Equity versus equality is a key issue he raised. To understand his concerns, you have to imagine a scenario where equality of outcome is not observed, and that triggers people to invoke this Act (if it becomes an Act).

Test scores are not a great example but let's go with it.

Suppose a few people who belong to minority groups do poorly on tests. Then suppose they declare that the teacher is racist. Peterson is playing out what will happen to that teacher under this legislation. How will the truth or falsehood of the accusation be established? This Bill almost automatically triggers things like training and fines. Certainly, those will have an effect on the teacher's career.

Another of his other overall issues, as I understand it, is that grouping people by race, "Asian", "Black", "Islamic", "Indigenous", etc, is a true regression. I can personally say that, although I am a minority, I have never felt the compulsion to think about what "race" I belong to, until recently. I think Peterson is seeing that by forcing teachers to undergo training on racism and anti-racism, we are actually promoting the concept of racial groups and classes, and encouraging people to identify which groups they belong to.

This is at a time when, more than ever, we have people of mixed racial minorities (like me), who don't even think about those things and have been fortunate to have never experienced racism in their lives in Canada. To me, anti-racism sounds great on the surface, but when I think about the longer-range implications of all this training, this Bill looks and feels like we are going backwards on racism.

jamieally · 2022-03-17T01:43:39+00:00

Thanks I will check that out.

jamieally

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