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I feel like Dr. Thackery from The Knick.

I just (kinda) tried to fix my ingrown toenail myself.

Sometimes I just don't get what goes on in my head. I'm my own worst enemy.

I temporarily made things better, by getting it out of there.. it wasn't much. My toe does feel waaay better right now. Put hydrogen peroxide on it, now soaking it for the 4th time since yesterday. I could tell it was definitely ingrown because I used tweezers to pull up on the edge where the pain is, and i'd see the skin pop up too. So it was under there. So i slowly trimmed away at it with some sharp tweezers and got it out.

I bet i'll still need to see a pro though.. probably cut my toenail wrong, or several other things, that'll cause this to become a chronic issue.

I guess I just dwell hard on injuries. You'd think by now, over my life span of soo many injuries, that i'd be able to handle them better.. It's actually the opposite.

I figured i'd try to do it myself because if I go to a podiatrist, they are going to go to town on my toenail(s). So if I made sure to avoid any pain and just go really slow, I couldn't do TOO MUCH damage (presumably).

bleh.

also, ultra marathonners are fucking nuts man:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/fashion/22FITNESS.html

getting their toenails removed.. 

Ultramarathoners, who number more than 17,000 nationwide, according to UltraRunning magazine — “appear crazy sometimes, but they are great strategists,” said Dr. Robert M. Conenello, a sports podiatrist who tended to contestants of a multiday race in the Sahara. “A lot of them look at their toenails as useless appendages, remnants of claws from evolutionary times long ago. I’ve heard them say, ‘Toenails are dead weight.’

they have a point..

I don't consider any of my wrecked (4 black, 1 ingrown) toenails a badge of honor. I absolutely hate it. I've also wrecked my toenails when dunking and when I was younger playing basketball, so it's not something i've only obtained from running. I still remember the first time I got black toenails .. got them after wearing my new iverson's and playing several games at the park:





i loved those shoes. ;f

Quote from: adarqui on April 22, 2016, 04:34:12 pm

fuuuuck. was just driving home and passed this area where I most often run; a bus ran off the road completely.. Lately I run around this time too, eek.

I always worry about stuff like that.

As long as you didnt have a vision about it beforehand, movie rules say you're good.

i have a vision about it every time i run, how's that factor in? lol

Quote from: adarqui on April 22, 2016, 03:36:49 am

Quote from: Raptor on April 22, 2016, 02:48:26 am

I was wondering, I'm thinking of going to a boxing club. Except that usually it's filled with under 80 IQ people, gypsies, and extremely idiotic "coaches". Plus probably I would quickly get in a fight with someone and, well, let's just say that getting in a fight at a boxing club is the last thing you want to do.

What do you think? What's your experience with this?

lots of good people at boxing gyms.. sure most of them might not be into the stuff you're into but, you'll find lots of dedicated people in there.. most of which probably wouldn't judge you/size you up at all; they'd probably be pretty helpful.

i seriously doubt anyone would get into a fight with you.. think about it, you're in a boxing gym. In boxing gyms, if people really have a beef, they get in the ring and slug it out, usually under supervision. Fighting outside of the square circle is often a big no-no and can get you banned from most gyms.

People actually go into boxing gyms looking for fights.. there's videos on youtube. Usually, the boxing coach will find some young tough amateur KID to beat this grown man's ass in the actual ring.

Yeah I absolutely LOVE that. Always makes me think of Charlie Zelenoff (although that guy is a victim of mental illness, so I can't really make fun of him, but still, you get the idea).

ya.. the zelenoff stuff is bad. He was harassing Wilder's daughter etc, who I think has handicaps. So Wilder definitely wanted to hurt him.. but even then, he refrained from just beating his brains in when he was on the ground helpless.

The more I think about boxing the more I want to do it.

Do you "have" to fight in the ring or you can just train? What's the progression? How does the typical learning curve look like? (what do you learn first, and how do you grow as a boxer, even a non-competitive one)?

nah you don't have to fight at all, ever. most people don't.

the progression is:
- learning how to wrap your hands
- joining a class: a coach runs you through various drills and basic stuff, holds the mitts for you, has you and a partner in the class do drills together, gives you instruction while you're hitting a bag, takes you through some finishing extra stuff like core-work/jump rope etc.
- after a while of this, you may want to actually spar, so you'd let the coach know or he'd ask you: light supervised sparring, where going out of control/going 100% is not the goal.. the goal is to learn how to move and react to punches, throw clean but light punches, get hit a bit
- after a while of this, you may want to hard spar: this is 100% effort while sparring, again supervised. A coach (or multiple coaches) supervise and will step in if someone is hurt or can't defend themselves. They also try and pair you with someone you are "equal with", or, someone who is slightly better than you if the goal is to get you to improve against better opposition.. This person who is better might be told to hold back a bit, but still try to get the better of you obviously.
- after a while of this, you may want to do amateurs or turn pro: At this point your coach is literally your coach, and you have a team etc.. Anyone can go pro or do amateurs.

In sparring (at any level), everyone should have a mouth piece and wear head gear, a body guard, and heavier gloves (16 oz for example). They will put vaseline on your face, head gear, and gloves so that you have less risk of getting cut and punches slip off easier. Heavier gloves (16oz or more) are preferred because they slow down the punches, protects your hands more, and protect your opponent more.

If you're going CRAZY LIGHT with someone you know/trust, you could go without head gear etc. You should never do that with someone you don't know though.

But ya once you get some of the basics down, you can just go into a gym and hit the bag, work the speed bag, jump rope, shadow box, all on your own. Don't need to train with anyone.

pc!

I was wondering, I'm thinking of going to a boxing club. Except that usually it's filled with under 80 IQ people, gypsies, and extremely idiotic "coaches". Plus probably I would quickly get in a fight with someone and, well, let's just say that getting in a fight at a boxing club is the last thing you want to do.

What do you think? What's your experience with this?

lots of good people at boxing gyms.. sure most of them might not be into the stuff you're into but, you'll find lots of dedicated people in there.. most of which probably wouldn't judge you/size you up at all; they'd probably be pretty helpful.

i seriously doubt anyone would get into a fight with you.. think about it, you're in a boxing gym. In boxing gyms, if people really have a beef, they get in the ring and slug it out, usually under supervision. Fighting outside of the square circle is often a big no-no and can get you banned from most gyms.

People actually go into boxing gyms looking for fights.. there's videos on youtube. Usually, the boxing coach will find some young tough amateur KID to beat this grown man's ass in the actual ring.

so ya, not much fighting happens outside of the ring in a boxing gym (even if you were joking, just addressing it).

who knows you might love it.. one thing you absolutely must not do though is "rush it". You'd need someone in there to show you how to wrap your hands, get you good gloves, show you how to work a bag, maybe hold the mitts for you.. If you do want to spar, you'd want to go light first with people who know how to hold back.

Hitting the bag is the only thing (other than dunking) that I miss. It's so much fun and a very good workout. Also speed bag is so damn fun.

If you have a gym near you, ya stop by and check it out. No reason to be intimidated.. if it's an actual gym, it should have somewhat responsible coaches and people at all levels preparing for amateurs or pros, or just trying to get fit/improve.

One way to look at boxing gyms is similar to your comment in Eric's thread, about not giving up on people. You know how many criminals have ended up in boxing gyms and completely turn their lives around? ALOT. That should give you an idea of the respect/discipline that can be found in most of those places.

My experience with boxing gym's has been mostly positive. The only negatives I have is when people allowed me to spar 100% with less than optimal gloves. Ended up permanently hurting my hand. I got good gloves after that and sparred for several months but the injury just never went away. So that kind of wrecked everything.. The coaches should have taken more interest in the gloves I was using, IMHO. I thought they were decent, but they apparently sucked. I should have gotten some Winning gloves initially which are much safer for your knuckles.

pc!

Kids are fucking stupid, holy shit.  I read an article about an incident like today or recently a 16 year old girl was fighting with another in the bathroom at school then was jumped and left in critical condition and later died at the hospital.

What's fucked up is if the attackers are the same age, they will probably get a slap on the wrist which is complete bullshit.  Fucking people today aren't scared of the god damn laws because they are a joke.  At 16 I did stupid shit but I was also able to think about IF i do this then this this this and this could happen, so is it worth it? 

If you are old enough to be trusted to get behind the wheel of a car where you are constantly making decisions then you should be old enough to be tried as an adult. 

Lock them up and throw away the key, they can't fight over a man in prison.

Also, did anyone see the dildodrone? Shit is weird.

regarding the "back in my day" rationale.. there's far more laws/penalties now than there was in your day, than there was in my day. When I was in elementary school, you could bring a toy gun to school without incident. Now, if you draw a gun, you can get expelled. HEH. Also there are much tougher penalties in place for bullying and assault in schools. Young kids are being tried as adults and such; law enforcement steps in at these K-12 schools to handle fights and such.

To illustrate my point.. in 1998 I had a teacher who was high (apparently on crack) in the classroom, several times. She'd fall asleep while teaching us. You're not going to see any cell phone footage of it, or any news stories.. because "back in my day" (lol) there wasn't any cell phone cameras or facebook's to share it on. 

The only thing that's changed between "back in your day" and "back in my day" is the media (online and tv) saturation of all of this stuff. It's like when my mom talks about how it was "safer" back in her day. Meanwhile, kids were getting abducted left & right, serial killers having the time of their life. For example, people think it was "safe to hitchhike" in the 1960's.. It's probably safer now. No one knows what the hell was going on back then, no cell phones, no traffic cams, no sex predator lists etc. People just went missing and no one outside of their local community ever heard about it. Now that's eerie shit. They had to put faces on milk cartons.. that was there facebook. lmao.

dem stats.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

rape is way up.

i imagine changes in prosecution (of everything on that stat list) influence stats over time.

pc!

wrecked toe bros 

ya.. 4 black/destroyed toenails, ingrown toenail on left big toe, old left pinky toe which was completely dislocated and now barely moves correctly.. lol

and you got that toe arfritis.

this shit hurts so fucking bad.. HEH.

 

Definitely, the question is - was that rim 10 feet? Because if so, even with the angles and so on, definitely head over rim there. 10'6"? I don't know.

The point I was trying to make is that he's definitely at ~48" or so. But 53? Hard to say, it's exponentially harder to cover these 5 inches from 48 to 53 than it is from 20 to 25...

sure, but look at that video I posted. He hits his head on the way down, and still hits the top of his forehead.

and ya I definitely am not minimizing those ~3" from 50-53.. It's astronomical - olympic level record gap. I just think that if there's anyone out there who can make the case, it's myree (and t-dub). Most of these dunkers are several inches taller than they report and don't get up anywhere near how high he gets up. If you took all of his vids and searched for legit 50", you'd find some (like the vids you and I posted).. and for 53"? the one I posted seems pretty close.

all of this depends on legit 10' rims though.. he's gotten up crazy on so many rims that i'd believe he's hit at least legit 50" several times in his life.

pc!