On the job front, the subway on 21st is hiring, which may or may not be way out of your way, but it's right on the bus route from SCC.
What were your beginning reasons, if I may ask? I'm curious, is all.
And, what's Kamae? And do they actually teach you Ukemi? The beginner's class with Dan doesn't really teach anything about it, it's just something you're expected to pick up as you get dropped more and more. ... Which is probably gunna take me a while, since I haven't even done dive rolls or backwards-rolls right yet.
Kamae (if that's spelled right) is at a basic level, a stance. Like ichimonji. It can also be interpreted as an attitude or feeling at later levels. And when I first started, I basically just wanted to get back into martial arts and learn something new. Had no idea where this would lead me at the time.
Cough up the cookie!triskelesJanuary 19 2007, 02:44:55 UTC
*lol* That was a tough read. But I managed to get through it.
Take my advice with a grain of salt, but it sounds like you need to stop thinking and start doing. Getting too caught up in what you "want" rather than what you need to do can cause ambivilance, stagnation and retardation (okay, just kidding with that last bit)But seriously, you don't have to figure out your whole future right now. A lot of time is wasted on thinking of what you are going to do, rather than getting to the actual doing. You know?
Things will become clear, you just have to clear your head to do it. There is that whole bodies in motion stay in motion, bodies at rest tend to become couch potatoes theory.
Good luck... and take an ibuprofin for the foot, elevate it as much as possible, and throug anything you can find from the freezer onto it, even wrapping a bottle of vodka from the freezer in a towel and resting it on your foot would help.
It seems to me (from observation and comparison) that Brian does not realize how to treat ukes well.
It makes me wonder if he's the one that threw (is this her name?) Synthia (blonde haired thin chick (besides Reme)) with a hip throw that busted her ankle...
Because ya, my jaw was never able to pop out of place until after I started attending Brian's classes. I don't think I'm really going to be his uke until I know he works only within somebody's capacity to recieve.
Much in the manner that was discussed with how Joel beats you up in such a way that you learn from it, and you want to come back for more to keep learning. Whereas Brian beats you up, and it just fucking hurts. =P
I mean, he moves really well, there's no doubt about that. But he needs to work within his partner's ability to recieve, not make it so their receptiveness has to meet his level. 'Cause that's how people break ya?
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What were your beginning reasons, if I may ask? I'm curious, is all.
And, what's Kamae? And do they actually teach you Ukemi? The beginner's class with Dan doesn't really teach anything about it, it's just something you're expected to pick up as you get dropped more and more. ... Which is probably gunna take me a while, since I haven't even done dive rolls or backwards-rolls right yet.
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Take my advice with a grain of salt, but it sounds like you need to stop thinking and start doing. Getting too caught up in what you "want" rather than what you need to do can cause ambivilance, stagnation and retardation (okay, just kidding with that last bit)But seriously, you don't have to figure out your whole future right now. A lot of time is wasted on thinking of what you are going to do, rather than getting to the actual doing. You know?
Things will become clear, you just have to clear your head to do it. There is that whole bodies in motion stay in motion, bodies at rest tend to become couch potatoes theory.
Good luck... and take an ibuprofin for the foot, elevate it as much as possible, and throug anything you can find from the freezer onto it, even wrapping a bottle of vodka from the freezer in a towel and resting it on your foot would help.
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I've just finished some Isaac Asimov myself. Good reading. :)
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It makes me wonder if he's the one that threw (is this her name?) Synthia (blonde haired thin chick (besides Reme)) with a hip throw that busted her ankle...
Because ya, my jaw was never able to pop out of place until after I started attending Brian's classes. I don't think I'm really going to be his uke until I know he works only within somebody's capacity to recieve.
Much in the manner that was discussed with how Joel beats you up in such a way that you learn from it, and you want to come back for more to keep learning. Whereas Brian beats you up, and it just fucking hurts. =P
I mean, he moves really well, there's no doubt about that. But he needs to work within his partner's ability to recieve, not make it so their receptiveness has to meet his level. 'Cause that's how people break ya?
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