The "So There" Thread

Awesome day so far. (Altho pricey).

Had a day guest pass to a high end fitness and health centre. (Average about £100pcm)

Did me some training. Bit of jacuzzi and sauna which Im hoping would've helped blood flow to my re torn knee.

Treated my friend to lunch at the place and was shocked at the price but was a good day.

Other guests were giving me the raised eyebrow of my exercise intensity, then seeing me hop from one station to another and then hobble off on crutches.

I love making people look at me weird (more than usual)

So there...

*negative point, chlorine always gives me a headache after.

 

What exactly did you (re-) tear?

 

I now have a high grade tear of the ACL. Back in Sept, I slipped on some stairs at a train station, I didn't fall but knee went crunch. Toes went numb.

By November was back training, altho slowly. Then couple weeks ago, I countered a leg sweep and must have re-aggravated the injury, swelled so much it looked like a tennis ball was hanging off my knee.

So that's me out for the rest of the year. Was aiming for 3 or 4 BJJ comps (1 right in my hometown too)

 

@Mushroom: Get well soon!

This seems to be a crappy year, injury-wise, for some people.
My former JJ-teacher injured himself and faces half a year reha and such until he can start again, after his operation...


I had nearly completed my program for my bluebelt grading sometime this or next year.
Was only missing a few techniques of the "Defense against..." part.

Then I showed it to my former JJ-teacher, as my current JJ-teacher doesn't care for the written down stuff, but wants to actually see, what I plan to do - which certainly makes sense, no question, but is a bit tough within the next two weeks, since we won't see each other due to the holidays.
And after I asked him, the former teacher told me to send him the program and he would take a look at it.

Well... lucky me!
He thought it to be weal for a future bluebelt; and I should also have another look for effective techniques, playful techniques and spectacular techniques, so the program covers all.
Alas I looked through it again, marked some techniques I'd like to be included and that I think fit the above mentioned criteria.
Now I'm down not even half the needed techniques again

Hopefully my training partner, the really useful one, has some time during the holidays for trial & error & play.
We started today with a few techniques, that I thought of keeping - and will keep.
And hopefully tomorrow I can figure some new things out, kicking other stuff off the program, replacing it with something ... well - good.

So there!
Start anew!

Thinking of that, I might add myself to your line of misunderstanding this thread

 

Some of you will know I'm quite keen on Huel (a meal replacement product which I've been using for a few years now).

It's not every day you find yourself listed on the same page as one of the guys from One Direction...

Huelers

Yours truly is about 2/3 of the way down. So there.

 

Thanks, I did ok during my competition days.

 

The one direction guys should be honored to be on the same page

 

So, yesterday was one of my teachers grading, where a friend of mine (well, I think we are something like friends anyway) and I were uke.

We did pretty well, I think, and he passed easily, now having his fourth Dan (J)JJ.
We all had a nice day; I somehow talked to quite some people (no idea how!) and was greeted by a lot with a hug (no idea when that happened!) and it didn't include sentences of the "stay away"-sort (no idea how the came to be)...
One of the people called me "The Dan-maker" lol.
I wish that would be more true, because it's great fun to work for Dan-gradings - since these people usually work hard for it and I can learn so much!

So: I enjoyed and had a great day, and helped a friend to get his next Dan!
So there!

 

Lol, I just realized how useful it was, to delete the name on the certificate
Well, at least the last name isn't visible

Okay, I'm dumb like a post - so there!

 

So in cleaning out my closets and what not I've been gleaning my boxes of MA clippings.Tossing some,keeping others.

Kept running across magazine articles I'd saved many years ago written by this one guy.They were some of the articles I didn't toss during this cleaning.

Except for perhaps himself I might have the largest collection of his articles of any MAP member.

Some guy named John Wang.

A few pieces of MA publishing history.

So there!

 

Is that the one and only John S Wang?

 

YouKnowWho!

 

So, I look like a cheap Hobbit fighting a cheap Nazgul.

So there!

 

Got back to no-gi after taking a few weeks off to prep for bodypower. I only mostly sucked, so there!

 

Just finished my first Hero WoD at CrossFit, Murph.
1 mile run
100 pull-ups (I used a very thick rubber band there, though)
200 push-ups
300 air squats
1 mile run

Finished 12 seconds before the 50 min time cap that was set, quite proud I pushed through the push-ups and didn't do them from my knees. I can't do the pull-ups, but I am happy about everything else.

So there!

 

Confirmed on the list for ACL replacement surgery in 2 months.

Back to rolling sometime next week.

Hopefully competing again by Jan /Feb 19 - so there!