Post Race!

-chuckle #2-

By the way, I'm pretty proud of myself. I've gone from >48 Diet Dr. Peppers a week to 14 a week.

For a moment there, I thought that count was per day. It's still insane. I largely gave up soda once I got out of grad school because it was such a HUGE amount of the daily calories I was getting. I eat enough without that addition.

I've quit for a week and I've already lost 5 lbs.

I can tell you where to find them, if you're looking.

No, not really. I'd prefer that they stay lost.

Trust me - you'll find them again...

Eventually we all do.

Except for Jared. He's doing pretty good I hear.

The boy on the right in my avatar is going for brown belt tonight (tae kwon do). His twin brother on the left decided to wait until the next testing.

This is the first time they've not progressed through something together. I guess individuality is starting to appear...

Hopefully next time we are in Disney, King Arthurs sword will surrender to him :)

By the way szlamany, the rep you just gave me pushed me over 1k. I am now a name known to all. Behooooooold!

Glad to help!

You are number 41 overall - not bad for someone joining just 3 years ago!

You know, I use to take Shotokan karate when I was younger and we use to go to tournaments. I always hated fighting against those that studied Tae Kwon Do because with Shotokan it was mostly the strikes from within the body such as quick body punches and the occasional head punch(when the opportunity presented itself) or kicks to the legs/body but with Tae Kwon Do y'all would go for the head kicks.... those hurt!

Last testing I watched a brown-two going against a black sabonim in sparing - blacks have no padding at all - they don't need it.

She had padding - helmet and all...

In a casual glance he hit that girl square in the nose - blood and all...

I took tae kwon do for several years, too. We used hand and foot padding, but no head padding. Basically, we were not trying to clobber anybody, so for sparring we left out serious head shots...mostly. On the other hand, mistakes were made. I remember one gal sparring with a guy. I think she was a bit tired, but she was fairly strong...and a bit slow on one particular kick, which "split the uprights" you might say. In fact, she was strong enough that the force of the kick lifted him clean off the ground. He landed on his knees and stayed there, despite wearing a cup. Everybody watching just cringed. She was mighty embarrassed...he was speechless...for quite some time.

My worst injury was against a guy who was built like a little tank. Normally, we had pretty good fights, but one night he was tired and kicking low. I took three kicks to the thigh and thought nothing of it. They didn't hurt, since the thigh is pretty durable, and a blow like that doesn't count in competition. However, later on that evening I found that I had a hard time kneeling down. By the next day I couldn't walk and had to stay home from school for a day, or two. After a couple days, I jogged somewhere...then spent the next several days in bed.

What happened was that those three kicks had caused some deep bruising, so blood had leaked into the space around the large muscles in the thigh. This caused pressure and stiffness, but it went away in that first day or two. The jogging opened up the injury before all the blood had been fully re-absorbed and increased the pressure far beyond the original level. That did me in proper for a couple days.

I would've never taken you for a fighter Shaggy. That post comes to me as a surprise.

I rather enjoyed it. I'd probably enjoy it more now, except that I don't think my knees could take it. The thought of kicking anything higher than my waist leaves me with visions of my lower leg detatching at the knee. They are better than that, so it wouldn't happen, but there is pain occasionally.

A buddy of mine started doing some form of karate. I think I'd have to stick with something that allowed me to keep my feet on the ground, for the most part.

I guess I'll just have to get my kicks some other way.

no offense but when someone open a thread ... some people playing google for them... but most of those people looking for answer not a search engine :D so sometimes it does maybe work to give him a link but mostly coming with a solution and some code is the best help!

if i'm wrong DO NOT correct me :duck:

Correct you?!?!? I can't even understand you!

Are you in the right thread?

There is no right in POST RACE - it's all left...