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Definitely the coolest child-carrying rig in town tbh.

I can't attached it to a cargo bike in the middle of bloody Hoxton, can I?

Nah, the other bike has a coaster brake only and you really need a front brake with it when going down hill.

Ha! I thought you were kidding about hitching it to the lo-pro tbh :-)

Oh, well...

Mea culpa. I should have expressed that this was based on my outsider's preconception of martial arts as a whole... compared to something like parkour or breakdancing, martial arts im geral seem rigid and unquestionable; if you don't do exactly what Sensei says, you're not doing it right, whereas Capoeira has absolutely none of this, on the contrary; if you're not expressing yourself and experimenting, then you're not doing it right.

Well, now that I think is spot on. I don't want to fall back on lazy stereotypes but there absolutely is a marked cultural difference between the traditional Japanese arts I started in and the Brazilian atmosphere I train in now.
Even in the BJJ gym though there is definitely an emphasis placed (rightly IMHO) on adhering strictly to doctrine in the initial phases of your training career. It's only as you progress that you will begin to open up your game and start subtly altering the basics to suit yourself. This was also true in the TMAs I studied but there was much more weight placed on the conformity aspects and, of course, the whole environment was much more formal.

Interestingly, more and more BJJ is working it's way into Capoeira games; training in Bahia last year opened my eyes to a level of grappling in the roda that I hadn't seen before; combined with a more offensively-positioned base that is almost certainly also borrowed from BJJ.

That is interesting. To the best of my knowledge there doesn't seem to be much if any cross-training going the other way but, AFAICT, there isn't a lot of overlap of curriculum in any case. Happy to be corrected on that point if I've got it wrong.

If you want to do well in a street fight, then experience in street fighting is vital, and everything else is speculative.

This is spot-on IMHO. Next best thing would be any art that places an emphasis on live sparring with fully resisting partners.

but because it allows (and promotes) creativity, improvisation, interpretation and expression, something that is missing in other martial arts.
This is dead wrong. Capoeira may well place a particular emphasis on these things but saying they are missing from other martial arts is absolutely untrue. All of the arts I've studied (it's a few now) have rewarded these attributes to a greater or lesser extent. Sometimes not explicitly it's true but they are present nonetheless.

Think of it as a physical game of chess, parkour with people instead of buildings, a coporeal conversation.
Interestingly, this is also an almost perfect description of the art I have finally 'settled' on as my own (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu FWIW). Also, a nicely turned phrase.

Discussions comparing martial arts online always seem culminate in a "my dad could beat up your dad" cock-measuring contest
and it's for this reason that I find them laughable.
This is true. It's why I don't read Bullshido much anymore tbh.

I'll bet I mince a lot prettier than Balki, too. ;)
Pics or GTFO?

It is. Depending on when you go there will be rafts of drunk people on hire bikes though.

I got sunburned walking from the ferry to our hotel last time we were there (a distance of about 100 metres). My Nordic complexion fails again.

Rottnest island off Perth is, I think, car-free and therefore probably fun if not challenging for bikes. (I'm not sure, you'd have to check.) Keep in mind that Perth, Margaret River etc can be incredibly windy, which can be good in the sense of keeping you cool, but hard going, and you can still get VERY sunburnt.

...c'est moi, Monsieur!

I'm happy with "rakish".

Nice! If you see either this:

or a silver MTB with a kids trailer out the front of Grind (on the corner you came out of) then stop and have a brew :)

A rakish young chap on a beyooootiful purple/silver Colnago with white bullhorns and saddle heading into the Lwr Richmond Rd in Putney at about 0800. I didn't DAS him as I had a face full of coffee.

Hai! Just saw this thread pop up.

I'm a blue belt under Nic Gregoriades (who was Roger Gracie's first black belt). I do gi and no-gi mainly at Budokwai in Chelsea although I head up to Roger's place whenever I can.

I used to do Muay Thai and MMA at Carlson's in Hammersmith but have decided to focus on the grappling as that's what I find most enjoyable.

I missed most of the tournaments this year due to injury but am keen to compete some more.

breakfast menu you say?
well, excellent.
mmmm. I can taste the flat white already.

Yeah he's poached a mate of his who was a chef at the River Cafe. He actually started last week but was just getting set up and baking muffins and stuff.

agreed good coffee
Love it, love the NZ vibe.
I'll probably head over there for a cuppa in the AM.

Absolutely. Dave's a top bloke as well as a very handy barista. I'll be there tomorrow morning (actually, I'm there at least once pretty much everyday). Probably won't be on the bike but will have a gaggle of youngsters and the missus with me as they are starting their new breakfast menu tomorrow so we thought we'd all head out.

Will keep my eyes peeled for caffeine-starved fixie skidders.

Ooh, ooh that's right near my place. If you're in the vicinity go to Grind Coffee Bar on Lower Richmond Rd just near the Half Moon for an awesome brew.

Hello new wifey on the block...

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/26363d1276444945-dscf0082.jpg

Yesterday in SW15...

Male, tall-ish, fair-ish in lycra shorts and cycling jersey according to the missus.

My wife saw this as she went past on her way to work. She said the cyclist was up and talking to the cops/ambos etc so seems ok.

I heard from a cycling colleague that there was a rider down on the Upper Richmond Road this morning to the west of Putney.

There were two ambulances and the cyclist was being given CPR. I don't know any more at the moment.

A chap on a lovely dark metallic green frame with a Brooks and bullhorns spinning into Queens Ride towards Putney this morning.

Better living through science tbqfh

I'd still prefer a bat/toothbrush powered phone ...

I'll be there later (around 21:30) and am also a newb so we can snigger at the cool kids together or something.

What time are people aiming to get to the pub?
(And will people say hi to a newb, or just let me wander around looking, whilst you lot snigger?)

Bumpity bump.

C'mon people, there are at least 15 stems, mostly std roadie size, handle bars, and we've only had about 3 things taken- I managed to force a free set of (non-replaceable) cranks on to a nice bloke who was building a beater on a budget yesterday.

IT'S FREEEEEE!

That was me btw :-)

Thanks again although I couldn't get the chainline to work with those cranks in the end so my budget build has ended up being slightly less budget :-/

14.) Time ATAC Alium. Unused, but with used cleats.
20GBP

I'll take these if Japes doesn't. I'll be at Wests around 21:30 or so.

Oooh. I'd be in for this.

Also, West drinks likely to still be occurring at around 9:30pm?

ok with that timescale I'm sure I could find some. will let you know at wests.

are you left handed?

Also- I'm dead serious about forum golf.
A ride to RP and some laps, followed by a beer, followed by golf, followed by more beer?

Really? That high? All the calculators/websites I've tried put it around that figure. Maybe I should start on GOMAD or DEAD....

For someone who weighs 100kg+ , 4000kcal is definitely not maintenance. This is the reason you losing weight. 4000kcal might be a good number if you were chillaxing all day, but your doing strength training, BJJ & bike riding. Double it bro!

If your careful to only have carbs post-workout, a 10,000kcal diet will not even make you fat. Mike Phelps downs 12,000 during training/competing.

I spend quite a few hours each week rolling around on the ground with sweaty men. Filming it is the least of my worries :-)

is anyone else catching the oh-so-slight homo-erotic undertones here?

filming yourself lifting weights is a bit odd.....

Yes, absolutely recovery was my issue. To be honest, I didn't read the "advanced novice" section until I had already switched to 5/3/1 as I still considered myself a rank beginner at that point. I think you're right that I could have kept up the linear progression for awhile longer but I'm making consistent (albeit not speedy) gains on 5/3/1 now so I think I'll stick to it until I've stalled/reset a couple times at least before I try something else. I have been neglecting my assistance work recently though so I really need to remedy that. Like I mentioned, my upper-body strength is by far my weak point so I need to hammer that a bit more.

I've started gaining weight again over the last couple months after a long period of consistent loss (120kgs down to 108). I was gradually ramping up the kcal intake trying to identify my maintenance level which seems to be around 4000kcal at the moment.

Sleeping can be problematic with two young children but I also work from home so I can sneak in the odd cheeky afternoon nap which helps.

Anybody here doing any serious Oly lifting?

Congrats on the bench marks, but I am sure you could have pushed your numbers a lot further on the basic SS progression. Your issue is clearly recovery. Did you ever switch to doing 2xweek squats on SS? It is recommended for the "advanced novice" as is deadlifting only every other week.

In addition to this you should be eating like a beast but sleeping like a baby.

I started lifting seriously about 5 or 6 months ago to raise my base strength level for my main sport (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu). I'd never done any proper weight training before and have been quite surprised by how much I'm enjoying it.

I started on Rippetoe's Starting Strength for a few months but fairly quickly got to the point where squatting three times a week was preventing me from recovering for BJJ sessions so I switched to Wendler's 5/3/1 which suits me quite well.

I broke 1xbodyweight deadlifts a few weeks back (110kg) and am sneaking up on bodyweight squats (up to 90kg there so far)

My pressing (bench and OH) are my weakest areas by far though. Going to start ramping up the assistance work on those lifts to try and bring them up from "embarrasing" to merely "weak"

The thread title caught my eye as I train at Physical Culture gym in Putney. Anybody else there?