NeedHolidayNeeeeeedHolidayYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. I'm flying to Venice tomorrow. It sounds like a good thing, and I should be excited, but really, at the moment all I am is stressed. Oh, there is no doubt about the fact that I'm looking forward to it. Four warm days finally in a new city, in a new country, with good friends sounds like total bliss. The villa we've hired is fully kitted and self-catering (although I'm a little leery of what the terms 'villa', 'fully kitted' and 'self-catering' will prove to be), which is good since eating out in Venice is not the cheapest. We're also going to make sure we have an appropriate stock from the duty-free on our way through Stansted. I have no idea how Monday/Tuesday is going to run. Our return flight lands fifteen minuted before midnight, well after the tubes have closed, and at best it's going to take two busses and a train to get me home (sometime after 2am...) At worst, I just won't make it home. It means though, that I'm having to take so many hours out of work over the next few weeks (since I also have to collect the parents fom Heathrow airport next Thursday) that I really feel like I'm taking the piss. I don't know if my accrued over-time will over the hours I'm going to be out of the office. Sigh. I was doing jitsu this weekend from 10am till 5pm with two twenty minute breaks. But the time we got the second break I'd managed to get a bad case of the shakes and only a lucosade and a cereal bar revived me. I was finished by the end of it and I've got some fair bruises up my arms. At least I feel a bit better about grading. However, I'd been intending to make up for the Friday sessions I'm going to miss by going to the Westminister club on Wednesdays, and I have now learned that that class is cancelled due to exams at that uni, until the 14th or so which is the week before my grading! Arg! Now I'm going to have to spend next week phoning every club I can hunt details for of the London website to find out when, where, and how much - and, of course, if that club will allow non-students to attend (since most of the clubs are affiliated to some university or the other). Just another thing to stress about! Still no signs of a new job on the horizon, either. Comment: brazilian (by ToothpasteDealer? on 2005-06-01 15:09:35)I want to start doing ju jitsu again so i started looking up sites. I then realised that there's a brazilian ju jitsu school or two in london, so there's no way I'll do another kind. It's taught by Gracies! come onnnnnn, brazilian! Comment: Re: brazilian (by LothrielPixie? on 2005-06-02 10:56:39)Hmm... brazillian. Nope, sorry, gound-fighting holds no appeal for me, plus with my strength / weight ratio (being low in both) I'd be useless at it... In fact, one of the many reasons I love my club is that my sensei hates ground-fighting. I didn't even know that Ju-jitsu involved ground fighting until I went to a class at another club! Plus I've read a portion of "My Judo", written by the guy who taught the Gracies judo! OMG, what a psychopathic nutter! Noooo thank-you. Comment: Ground-fighting (by GraveRobber? on 2005-06-02 12:55:05)The entire point of it though, is not to use strength. At least, that's what I was taught - the smaller you are, the faster you move and the easier it is for you to squirm out from underneath people. Being rather on the small side myself - and definitely smaller and weaker than you - I must admit that I much prefer the ground-fighting! Comment: Re: Ground-fighting (by ToothpasteDealer? on 2005-06-03 10:42:48)yes, that's what I've been taught so far in my 1 and a half years of on-off ju jitsu at UCT. well, the bit about technique being more important than strength,and the bit about preferring ground fighting. I don't know about the bit about moving faster if you're smaller and being able to wriggle out if you're smaller. Let's see next time I'm in CT. It may prove embarrassing (sp) for me. |