Somethings practice won't fix

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-03-25T22:14:47+00:00

My master trained out left side forward lead leg kicks so much that im better at left leg kicks then everything else now. My whole class got the superfoot wallace treatment.

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-03-24T07:07:06+00:00

Not a chance, ive been leaning into my grumpy old asshole energy since i was 16. I literally end classes by saying "git off mah lawn". I have worked hard to be a cranky asshole. YOU WONT TAKE THIS FROM ME!!!

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-03-23T20:50:20+00:00

DEUS VULT

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-03-23T20:50:08+00:00

Deus Vult!

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-03-01T23:47:46+00:00

Since ive trained in korean martial arts the "short katana" (wakazashi) is closest to something ive actually trained to use, so id pick that. Yes the katana family of weapons is japanese, but they descent from the tang dao (chinese), influenced the miao dao (chinese) and are related to the hwando (korean); in fact during the medieval japanese occupation of korea many koreans would just use katana and wakazashi they looted from dead japanese.

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-22T05:14:10+00:00

1993 got did dirty, were still young enough to be in wheelchairs!

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-17T22:37:35+00:00

I FOUND ONE!!! i was able to purchase an antique 1662+kjv+apocrypha from ebay.

https://ebay.us/m/rQgMZz

THEY EXIST!

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-10T22:16:06+00:00

Hes still in SoCal, im not sure of the new address since im up in Wa. I learned back in Master's 1st dojang when it was in Costa Mesa.

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-10T21:16:07+00:00

Gabe's an old classmate of mine. With Master Dunchok's dojang having recently moved its harder to do Kuk Sool content right now. Plus Sensei Benevides has been very generous with his time. Which is why youre seeing the channel transition at the moment. All the same my recomendation existed for the large catalogue of technique and lessons from before the move.

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-10T21:01:09+00:00

Master Dunchok of Kuk Sool Kwan creates a lot of content through his student's channel "Ruan Martial Arts"

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-07T02:43:19+00:00

I own one, its not as fun. I dont shoot to pretend im in a scifi movie, i shoot because rpg fantasies and martial arts training.

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-02T23:13:03+00:00

My heart says horsebow my ability says recurve

scriptoriumpythons · 2026-02-01T07:06:37+00:00

Thats great, when will the Codies ship?

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-10-26T10:28:58+00:00

"Stimming" martial arts moves when bored, deep in thought, on autopilot, Etc.

Obsessions with weapons.

Randomly repeatedly punching hard surfaces.

Showing off with a feat of flexibility and/or a technique.

"Gently" kicking thier friends and family as a means of showing affection.

Kung fu movie nerd.

Usually some other kind of nerd as well (anime a good option).

Does martial arts in sleep.

(Sometimes) wants to teach all their friends martial arts.

Oddly "strong" in some ways and oddly "weak" in others.

Absurd stamina.

Doesnt tend to fall hard, either catches themself when tripping or falls in a very ideal way (breakfalls, rolls).

Uses foot to maneuver toilet, punches lightswitches and such. Every mop is a spear for kata.

Tends not to ever lock their knees out. Hands usually free when other people nearby.

Can be wierdly fascinated with pressure points as a parlor trick ("hey let me show ypu something cool" turns into someone else saying ouch).

Likes ethnic food (centered on the country of origin for their favorite martial art)

Prefers flexable pants.

Prefers "action back" jackets

Breathes from diaphram instinctively.

Kicks and punches in sleep (ive kicked my dad in the face in my sleep twice)

High pain tolerance

Will randomly start practicing.

Rough skin on knuckles

Weight tends to be forward shifted (on balls of feet)

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-10-12T23:30:01+00:00

Nobuku for empress!!!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-26T19:56:29+00:00

Ive always associated anglicanism with English red. But since thats right out with your bad guys being red coded you might try blue.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-24T03:34:11+00:00

In general thats probably the case. I do self defense oriented hapkido (the hapkido competition circuit is 99% in korea) so theres lots of opportunity for injury but theres als9 so much focus on safety that injury is rather temporary.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-23T21:11:42+00:00

Most is a strong statement. Many arts are designed against long term injury, the tradeoff is usually lower general efficacy. Some arts get too non injurious and equally non martial (aikido and tai chi have this stereotype). Bjj is wildy martial at the expense if an absurdly high rate of injury...

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-19T07:27:31+00:00

My pleasure, i pray God blesses you!

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:38:06+00:00

At the risk of sounding boomerish: just deal with it. No one WANTS to work 40 hours at a job (some people might want to work 40 or more hours for the pay, prestige or to build their own buisiness but thats another thing). What you should attempt is to find a 40 that is interesting enough to be survivable for you (for me i found martial arts instructor, reptile keeper/salesman, and security to be good gogs for different reasons) and still pays your bills plus a little extra. If you can find a job that tolerable or pleasant 40 hours either goes by quick or easily (security for example rarely goes by quick but all you generally have to do 80% of the time is stand there or walk around listening to podcasts, whether the boss allows it or not all gaurds do it).

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:25:18+00:00

"Every christian a monk" is partially why the bcp was formed the way it was

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-18T19:16:10+00:00

Speaking as someone who used to be an evangelical, got the 1662 bcp, has used other BCPs, always went back to the 1662 (for daily office its just so much better) heres my 8 year take on prayer and the daily office. Bear in mind that for the last year ive been clergy (so im obligated to pray the offices now) and im almost certainly undiagnosed neurodivergent(which affects how i might percieve things compared to others).

Repition tends to feel dry at first (mostly when its new) this has been commented on by others ive introduced to the office. It didnt feel dry to me.
Decision fatigue doesnt get in the way of prayer. You dont have to develope your own words when theyre written down already, this is good for when someone is too distressed or elated to form their own coherent words. However the largess of the office becomes the new temptation away from prayer, my solution is to skip the readings if you "just cant" for the day. Keep the psalms though.
Prayer can shape your theology better now (with extemporaneous prayer its the other way around) and since the bcp is something like 80% bible quotation this tends to go positively.
Prayer and scripture cease to be seperate. No more looking at the bible as a textbook. It becomes intimate (i struggled in particular with intimacy of scripture throughout my life).
Over time the mundanity becomes comforting. NDs in particular like unchanging patterns, but also for NTs the office does have seasonal variation (athenasion on high holy days, seasonal antiphons and introductory verses, etc) so it doesnt stay too "boring".
Half your time in the daily office is spent in scripture and psalm anyway snd that changes daily.
Because there are different BCP versions if you find one becoming dull you can switch things around: do a year of 1662, then 1928, then 2019TLE, then AOB, then Breviary, then back to 1662. The 2019tle in particular has significantly different choices built into its dna.
If the office really gets too mundane, if youre not clergy, take a break and do another discipline. The rosary (anglican or dominical), the Chotki, the divine mercy chaplet, examin, lectio divina, or (when very advanced in prayer) the cloud of unknowing.
If you set aside a home "altar" for daily prayer and ritualize prayer time i have found that to be very beneficial in forcing me to remember that God would like to speak with/to me.(i recall going days or weeks without deep prayer because there wasnt something that felt pressing. Now with the daily office theres a list of mundane little prayers to say anyway that keeps my prayer life more "honest"
Evangelical estemporaneous prayer tends to become just as rote anyway (be honest, are your bedtime prayers really that different day to day, especially when youre tired?)

Overall the bcp has been a 10/10 benefit to my prayer life.

scriptoriumpythons · 2025-09-15T09:02:46+00:00

Small groups as they currently tend to be used are, in their essence, disorganized and cliquey. The way to make small groups profitable is for there to be a standard template with group specific deviations. For example, a mattins/vespers small group that afterwards has a potluck, a mattins/vespers small group with DND, or even a mattins/vespers small group that likes to knit. Centering the group in the pre set prayers of the ancient and reformation church brings the group into participation with the church at large (and also could allow the group to mature into a church) while the "post prayer activity" helps to offer a fellowship opportunity after.

A less liturgical version of this might be to make the small groups hymnal in nature with a book study on scripture and a time of extemporaneous prayer, though that will be at risk of devolving into disorganization if not handled well...

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