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This.. this is so important. And, it's something I never thought about until I started training when I was 19. It was amazing how much combat training tempered me. But, yes. avoidance at all costs if possible... if you have to fight, then do so... and my mentality is "I'll fight you for about 5 - 10 seconds if I must, but I'm doing it to break you down enough so I can run the f*ck away". 😂 This is why I always save up some energy and not go all out in anything I do lol. I need energy to run away!

I'm in a shopping mood... and am curious on fun and awesome merchandise to get some cash flow here. This would be a bigger side project for me to outline and implement as we would want to accommodate all price ranges and purchasing capabilities... then figure out logistics. Again, I'm just babbling... so ignore me.

Dare I ask what has come of this idea?

Just curious... where would your cruise be and on what cruise line?

Days Gone fan here... super disappointed... and I was one of those people who watched the announcement of it during one of the Playstation shows and thought "Oh look. How boring. Another zombie game." Only to be incredibly surprised at how enjoyable the gameplay was. Days Gone was/is totally a game that could have turned into a great franchise. It is a game that could have really knocked it out of the park with better writing. Because Deacon is just... a bit cringe. But, they do nail a lot of the psychological issues that vets have when coming home. Skizzo needed a bit more development. But, was thoroughly easy to hate. Just like how Horizon Zero Dawn gave hints on the outside world, so did Days Gone... and the "secret ending" scene... just wondering what it meant for that world... what crazy new zombies to face against... yeah. It would have been exciting. The lore in Days Gone reminded me a lot of I Am Legend with the discovery of the freakers actually still having some traces of humanity via holding their relationships and whatnot. Days Gone would have been one of those franchises that started off not perfect but had subsequent sequels be perfect. So, seeing Sony put God of War in their "must not fail" bucket is a bit irksome... given that the first God of War was fun, but trash.

Funny you should say "Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat". My current boxing Coach (Marcus) was commenting on my " muscular thunder thighs" during our last session when he was massaging them out. I said, "Just think of them like Chung Li's thighs. Them thighs were monsters! And, would kick you into oblivion." But, nah... as much as I would like to be able to throw down like White Canary in the Arrowverse or any of the video game characters, there are physical attributes that I will never nail perfectly. You have to train basically when you start walking as a toddler to get the proper footing to consistently land and string long combo moves together. I will lose my balance after the 5th or 6th move. Jonesly is countering that by giving me a time to reset using a forward kick with jabs. My training is to get me somewhat competent for if/when I do need to defend myself. I cannot tell you how painful it was the first few times I got jumped as a kid and not know how to make it stop. Nor how many times when I was in the Philippines that it took for me to go from getting punched during a random street test to being fully aware of my surroundings to be able to appropriately block or counter the first move. My coach (Tabimina) in the Philippines was all about practicality. He is the same age as my father, so he grew up during the martial law. Being able to street fight was as important as breathing. So, even if I was not in a training session, I could get "jumped" at any time. I will tell you that the one time I got sliced by a knife, I promptly learned how to block and evade that move moving forward. Coach Jonesly is of the same mindset as Tabimina. This, I guess, happens when you grow up in areas that dictate survival via physicality. As for taking videos? Lol. Nah... I already know my footwork is garbage. I don't need confirmation of that haha. When I can finish a full 3-minute round without wanting to die, that will be my celebratory marker. But, in regards to my squat clean workshops... because this weightlifting move is hella technical to improve numbers, I don't think I can get away with not getting videos. So, I will be making necessary preparations for that to be a bit more comfortable with the videos. I thoroughly hated watching each one after each lift this past Saturday.

In my internet wanderings yesterday while I was daydreaming of traveling once again now that vaccines are getting distributed... I was looking at Iceland (because I fell on some really cool jewelry person designer)... and it looks like they will be revisiting their restrictions again in May. So, I will look again in May on what is possible. We, over here in the US, are debating vaccine passports... one of those things that sounds like a great idea until you get into the socio-economics of it. Ideally, I would like to start helping out on planning your usual annual FG trip to happen in late September/October... which means I would need to start negotiating with various travel people in May/June. It's just with COVID, like @GazzaGarratt says, it would suck to find something, get it all done.. then terrible things happen and we lose our deposit. Just random morning babblings...

What is this? Is this real??? 🤣😂🤣

I think @TurboR56Mini and I are on a "let's revive old threads" kick. I found this one and thought, "Lolz. This was from April 2020.. We were only 2 - 3 weeks into COVID quarantine. Now, look! 1 year later, and... hahaha. I posted this on my IG about 2 weeks into COVID quarantine (still holds true for me!):

4/11/2021 Workout MMA Training Thoughts: I've been on/off on defense training since I was 19. My 1 year in the Philippines was my most intensive training, and it is something I lean on a lot. Being back in the US, I was told to just keep up by boxing because finding a proper trainer would be near impossible. And, it has been. The only really good trainers for my art are like in Las Vegas and California. I do not live there, so boxing is what it has been ever since I came back to the US. I've never really progressed much. Sure, I can throw some hard hitting combos, but boxing isn't street fighting. And, I can easily catch a jab or a hook and turn it around by elbowing someone to their face or bringing them to my knee. Now, I'm with Coach Jonesly. He is practical. He is quick. He got into martial arts almost the same reason I did. Because getting into fights when you grow up in rough areas means you need to defend yourself. We went through basics today. Tweaking what boxing moves were into practical street moves. Combining what we both know from martial arts and boxing into something that works. Addressing all my issues I have with boxing and showing how to counter and take advantage of all the openings a typical boxer has. I found it super interesting when we focused on uppercuts. Because when I came back to the US, I had to "re-learn" uppercuts and hooks. How I learned them in Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) was slightly different than in boxing. In FMA, we are always concerned about having any openings, especially in the legs. In boxing, there's no concern for how when you twist your body for power that you are essentially leaving open your whole sciatic nerve in your thigh. So, you know what I had to do today? Re-learn how to do uppercuts and hooks like how I was originally taught. And, this... this is where it got fun. Every move you do should be setting up your next move. Each punch into the next, then possibly into a kick. Using my whole body for a fight. That... that was fun. Jab, cross, hook, uppercut, forward kick, uppercut, low kick... we finished it with 2 jabs. Realistically, it would be on the ground next. My shins are bruised. I have not done MMA style kicks in 10 years. I have to build up my shins again. At least I think this time there will be no repeated bare skin kicks to canvas bags then to wood poles. There will be no shin pads still, but we will be at least using pads lol. Jonesly has set goals for the end of our 10 sessions. Goals that I have never really considered ever meeting until now. This means I have work to do aside from everything else. By June 13th, I am to do (currently, I'm sure he's going to add a bunch of other things) 50 strict non-scaled push-ups 20 Non-Scaled Raised Bent Knee Sit-ups This.. this will be interesting.

Spoilers for Episode 4 Discussion

4/10/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Thoughts: Work on your weaknesses, they say. In the almost 9 years I have dabbled in weightlifting, no one has been able to fix my cleans. Granted, no one has actually focused on trying. So, we do this workshop. Getting to proper extension on the shrug before dipping below the bar has always been something I had issues with. Now, we add on the fact that I can't catch the bar with an open grip either. This was never an issue for me until this round of working out. All I can say is that I'm still glad I was not the one with the lowest 1 rep max. Now, if I could just stop mostly muscling the clean part and open my grip, there should be a huge improvement in that number lol.

Wait. What? WTF is this bullshit? Days Gone has a pretty solid and growing base.. Uncharted has a huge following... and their doing a cash grab for TLOU? What? Did an EA exec sneak in or something? Bend is going to help Naughty Dog on some multiplayer BS? I took and nap and woke up into this? What?

The S21 Ultra looks pretty slick. Even I was tempted by it when it was released. I'm a hardcore OnePlus fan since their first one. I'm on a OnePlus 6 and debating on going to a OnePlus 9. I think you'll be happy with the S21 Ultra!

Them some fighting words to this NYCer (me) and Connecticut ( @TurboR56Mini ) couple! Hahaha.

I wanted crispy, thin crust pizza.......

The gaming industry will continue to be a disaster that releases hot piles of garbage until they stop putting people who only care about money in charge. Care about money, but care about the quality of games too if you're going to lead a gaming company. Care about the well being of your employees a bit. Creatives are not factory workers. Creatives cannot just "make" it happen. Gaming devs need to focus on the task at hand... not be told to do a million other things. Look at Guerilla Games. They shifted gears completely, focused on one game... and now they have everyone's attention. Look at Bend Studios. Look at Iron Gate. Look at what proper growth can look like when you look at Square Enix. Conversely, look at how major games with cult followings failed when money-hungry leaders took the reigns (basically any EA acquisition). The gaming industry is going through some serious rough patch... oddly at the same time that I think the Anime/Manga industry is as well. Great games just happen rarely now.. just like great manga and anima rarely happens.

Oh, I'll probably put a bunch of fires in it after I clear it... But, someone :: cough :: @TurboR56Mini :: cough :: seems to take issues with my random "beacons of hope". 🙃 I actually use Needle Arrows since we have killed so many Deathsquitos. Alternating between actual Poison and Fire arrows for multiple "damage over time". Have yet to really use Frost arrows. They breed so quickly! It's like Tribbles from Star Trek! I was laughing when @TurboR56Mini showed me a pic from something he built last night, and there was a wolf cub wandering around next to his new building lol. Also, might as well make them useful if they are going to reproduce like bunnies everywhere.