Self Improvement

[vaga1220 *]

DJ FC's intensive sailing course: Day 1.

[thekremlin]

I'm going to drop from 178 to 173 in the month of august.

[DDTempest]

Originally Posted by thekremlin

I'm going to drop from 178 to 173 in the month of august.

Personally I think you should raise your rate to an even $200 a man.

[thekremlin]

Originally Posted by thekremlin

I'm going to drop from 178 to 173 in the month of august.

173.0 this morning.

171 by September 8.

[Beebs]

Are you cutting weight? Or just picking really specific and unorthodox numbers?

[thekremlin]

London Open October 1st. I would like to go 76 kilo, or 167 lbs (WITH gi).

[Beebs]

Fun, how much time between weigh-in and first match?

[thekremlin]

Coupla hours, prolly.

[thekremlin]

5 days late, but 170.2 this AM. On my way.

[thekremlin]

165.3 this AM. This is just over 75 kg. The ki supposedly weighs 1.5 kg. Competition is this weekend, saturday or sunday. Just need to stay the course.

I'm now as light as I've been since I moved to London. Last time I was this light was about 2.5 years ago, when I went 160 lbs for a tournament. I'm stronger now than I was then. In college I wrestled at 157, but that was a long time ago, innit.

I've been training BJJ/no-gi 4-5 times a week, jogging about 20 miles a week, lifting 1-2 times, but all low rep, low weight lifts. The jogs are usually 7-mile runs 2x a week and several shorter runs, mostly on the weekends.

I haven't had any alcohol in the past three weeks weeks. I have been eating healthy for the past month-plus. Over the past week, I have begun to limit my caloric intake a lot, which let's face it, is a necessity if you're going to lose 5 lbs in a week. 1.5 light meals a day. I might have cut the calories a LITTLE too early, but since it's been going for a few days, I no longer get hungry easily, which helps. (If I were to have a big meal, I would get full very quickly. This will happen immediately following my competition.) Good news is, I still poop after eating, so my body isn't so hungry it's hoarding food, which would be bad. I'm NOT particularly dehydrated, and I would like to be able to weigh in without going the dehydration route, since my match is immediately after the weigh in. My piss smells strongly like vitamins because I'm eating a ton of vitamins to make up for the lack of food.

I expect to be one of the strongest guy/ the strongest guy in my division. Most BJJ competitors aren't as good at losing weight as me, and my game emphasizes physical strength anyways, because I wrestled for so long. On the other hand, it is my first competition as a purple belt, and it is a larger international competition, so I could be up against some almost-brown-belts. There is one guy from my school in my division and he is a beast, sponsored by a gi company (tatami) and took 2nd, I think, in europeans last year. He kicks the shit out of me in practice.

Losing weight makes me think about food a lot. If my tourney is saturday, I plan on cooking chili on sunday while watching football. I also bought 2 vietnamese cookbooks on amazon and want to learn how to cook the food I am notoriously gay for. I would also like to get drunk.

[Saint DH]

Why would you do low rep, low weight lifts? Did you mean heavy weight?

I'm assuming you probably did. That sounds like a lot of effort. How do you have enough energy to go to work in the morning? I know you've been doing this stuff for awhile now, so I'm sure it's gotten easier as your body has adapted. Was it pretty rough starting out?

Congrats on hitting your weight goal and good luck on Saturday.

[thekremlin]

I meant hi rep, low weight, yeah.

In terms of energy: waking up always sucks, but I have been sleeping with all my blinds open, so the sun wakes me up in the morning. Green tea with honey (small caffiene + some of the only sugar I'll get all day) once I get into the office. When I drink water in the office, it's mostly hot water, which forces me to drink slower. After lunch, fish oil gels, vitamin D, men's multivitamins, and alphalipoic acid, which is green tea extract, takes about two hours to kick in and gives me fantastic energy for the rest of the day. It's the shit.

Yesterday was my last hard workout of the week. I got just what I was hoping for in a practice: lots of sparring, and training partners who didn't suck but I could still beat. During standup sparring I got six or seven consecutive takedowns at one point. On the mat, I was able to get different subs and sweeps, lots of halfguard (which is my game for no-gi) and butterfly guard (which I've been developing for gi,) omapolatas and reverse triangles. The week before a tourney, I like to train with people I can beat, just to build confidence in my moves, make me more willing to try things than I would against someone stronger.

Feeling good.

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

Good luck, win!

[vaga1220 *]

Did you get to see the 2011 ADCC? Heel hooks and ended careers everywhere. I'd put those in your game asap.

[Beebs]

Toquinho is a fucking maniac.

[angry pancake]

Originally Posted by angry pancake

wanted to learn indoor gardening. Got the hang of it pretty good so far. still been less than a year.

Been tinkering with guitar cabinets for a while. Can wire them in series and parallel and all, but really all you need to do that is to look at how one is already done and copy to learn that. But have thought about learning to build tube amplifiers in the last month or so. I have doubts that will ever come to fruition as I don't know the first thing about electronics and would have to start from scratch. rebuilding a speaker cabinet is one thing, but transformers and capacitors are another. The other issue is I have no idea where I'll get the time to do this right now. And the older I get the more frustrated I become when things don't come to me immediately. The thought that not having any idea what I'm doing, but using electricity, has also been a slight deterrent.

Decided to completely redo a cheap ass 1970s bass. The neck and body seem to be good quality materials. Everything else, except the frets are going to go. Unfortunately I started this long ago. When I started tearing out the old stuff I didn't even think to take pictures. I finally got around to removing the old electronic circuitry.

What we have in this picture are the old pickups, volume and tone pots along with the imput jack all mostly still wired together. Also is the old bridge.



Next is a picture of the body with the new bridge already installed and the new pickups were also installed. Those were a pickups were a bitch to get in properly and I'm not unsoldering anything for the sake of a picture.



A close up of the Gotoh bridge. The silver screw is the one being used for the ground wire to attach to. It's a much shorter screw.



Dimarzio pickups.



Not the best picture, but this is the electronic circuitry and imput jack. I soldered the wiring. The pickguard came preshielded from Fender.



A better picture of the back of the pickguard and electronics.



The headstock that bears the logo of this cheap ass relic. I haven't quite got to this part yet as it took a while to find black chrome tuners that match the bridge. After I receive those, it's just a matter of switching it out. Stringing it up and adjusting the intunations.

[f3lix]

Great post. Also, it's "intonation" not "intunation". Not sure why, as correct intonation is achieved by playing in tune.

[Beebs]

AP is fucking punk rock.

[angry pancake]

Originally Posted by f3lix

Great post. Also, it's "intonation" not "intunation". Not sure why, as correct intonation is achieved by playing in tune.

F3lix has anally raped the correct with a rusty viola string.

[DJ FC]

Tune comes from tone.

intonation

1610s, "opening phrase of a melody," from Fr. intonation, from M.L. intonationem (nom. intonatio), from pp. stem of intonare (see intone). Meaning "modulation of the voice in speaking" is from 1791.

intone

late 14c., entunen "sing, chant, recite," from O.Fr. entoner "sing, chant" (13c.), from M.L. intonare "sing according to tone," from L. in- "in" (see in- (2)) + tonus "tone," from Gk. tonos (see tenet). A different verb intone was in use 17c.18c., from L. intonare "to thunder, resound," figuratively "to cry out vehemently," from tonare "to thunder."

tune

late 14c., "a musical sound, a succession of musical notes," unexplained variant of tone. Meaning "state of being in proper pitch" is from mid-15c.; the verb in this sense is recorded from c.1500. Non-musical meaning "to adjust an organ or receiver" is recorded from 1887. Verbal phrase tune in in reference to radio (later also TV) is recorded from 1913; figurative sense of "become aware" is recorded from 1926. Tune out "to eliminate radio reception" is recorded from 1908; fig. sense of "disregard, stop heeding" is from 1928. Tunesmith is a U.S. colloquial coinage first recorded 1926.

tone

mid-14c., from O.Fr. ton (13c.), from L. tonus "a sound, tone, accent," lit. "stretching" (in M.L., a term peculiar to music), from Gk. tonos "vocal pitch, raising of voice, accent, key in music," originally "a stretching, taut string," related to teinein "to stretch" (see tenet). Sense of "manner of speaking" is from c.1600. First reference to firmness of body is from 1660s. The verb meaning "to impart tone to" is recorded from 1811.

[thekremlin]

Chooooooooooooooooooooooon.

[Mr. Blonde]

MEGACHOON

fuckin brits

[f3lix]

FC, source?

I want to share that with my students, as they are discovering what playing in tune is like this year.

[Ugly Bastard]

Jesus f3lix LMGTFY. Sourcebear.

[Orgazmo]

Originally Posted by Dent

What car did you end up buying?

I'm growing the supposed worlds hottest Chili (dorset naga bhut jolokia)


also doing squats n oats

How did the pepper turn out? As hot as anticipated?