Train with your partner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbhBX6E4lEA

Love it :)

Bank 'helpdesks'

Fucking idiots. My online PIN wasn't working, so I stop before I get locked out of the account. The idiot on the phone then tells me to try again, and consequently I get locked out. Then presented with "sorry sir, you'll have to wait for another PIN to arrive in 3 to 5 business days". When I point out that I'm travelling to the US this weekend and am not going to be here to receive my new PIN, I get told "sorry sir, that's the way the system works".

Fucking dickheads. Have made a complaint, but am still going to be on another continent for over two weeks - so quite how Im supposed to pay bills etc is beyond me.

This week has been a disaster so far - also managed to lose the last two years of emails when I 'backed up' prior to reinstalling everything.

Technology may well be your friend, but the last two days it has been my worst enemy. That and call centre fucktards who can't even follow their own procedures properly.

Gah.

Day 2 Woes

Obviously what I forgot when I posted yesterday about doing BJJ is that muscle soreness takes two days to come out of the system. 50 push-ups and 150 sit-ups in the warm up pretty much shredded me, then rolling on the floor for 90 minutes grappling demolished what was left. It actually hurts when I try to sit uo :) Love it.

I just started doing BJJ again, and am aching like a mofo for it. I love it. Martial artists often declare that they know hundreds of techniques, but are rarely pushed to show it. I like this anecdote:

Master x said to Master y, how many arm bars do you know?

Master Y then started to talk through this one and that one.

Then Master x said 'no, show me'.

Master y then started to demonstrate step by step on a student.

Master x then said 'no, show me while grappling.'

Master y then grappled with his student, and out of the 30 odd arm bars he knew, he only successfully applied 5.

Master x then concluded, 'you only know 5 arm bars.'