Woman poses as daughter to become chearleader

[SmileBugMG]

Right after I graduated college (undergrad), a lady in our choir (who is old enough to be my mother) asked, "Do you still have that dream where it's the end of the year, and you have to take a final for a class you didn't know you were supposed to be in?"

I was surprised; I hadn't known it was that universal.  I admitted, "Yeah, I do."

She smiled and said, "Don't worry.  It goes away.'

That was 13 yrs ago, and I'm about to start on a PhD program, and I'm still waiting... 

I've had that dream, too!

[ggreg]

My last two years in high school were the worst in my life. And the after effects from those years have shadowed and shook up my life ever since.

God forgive me, I can't even think of the number 17 without remembering the crap I went through at that age.

Because of bullying at school I took up boxing at 13.  Within six months of classes, one hour twice a week at a good London boxing school, I was probably slightly below average for the group (at least 4 boys my age could regularly beat me in sparring) but I knocked seven shades of crap out of the 2 boys at school who up to that time had been ganging up on me and giving me hell most days.  At one point both of them were attempting to fight me at the same time.  I put one of them in hospital for 3 days after kicking him in the head.  The other one's parents threatened to sue (empty threat).

Never had any more trouble at school after that and any fear or psychological damage that I had had up to that point was cured as a result.

Learning to box is good for boys, because a boxer is always going to beat a non-boxer in a street fight or schoolyard punchup and the basics of avoiding a punch and throwing an accurate combination are never forgetten (like riding bicycle).  I'm even teaching my girls to fight.

The key to fighting is not getting hit hard, hitting accurately (full force is not necessary and will likely break your fingers) and most importantly staying calm during the fight as the following video shows.  When you've spared with someone who wants to knock you down but has no malice towards you then you feel much more comfortable in a fight.  Before then the idea of fighting used to scare me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iDlzL7zrNU


 

[Mhoram]

Are they that stupid?  Is it just political correctness at work?

Both.  Those two things are mutually nourishing (to the extent they aren't identical).

Whenever I dream about high school, I seem to be trying to track down a murderer before he gets me, sort of like a Mike Hammer story.  The buildings and grounds are the school, but the people and everything else are from adult life or fantasy.  I guess the buildings were the only part of school I didn't despise.  No wait, the buildings generally sucked too.  Go figure.

[Spooky]

 Every time I dream that I'm in high school, I can't find my stupid classes or my locker or if I do I can't remember my lock combination.

That happens a lot in my dreams too; I'm trying to remember my schedule from 20 years ago.

[Tulkas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iDlzL7zrNU

That video is quite popular on the Martial Arts sites I am on.  It has shown to many that Boxing is probably the best for multiple attackers.

Right now, I have my children in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  The groundfighting is not good for multiple attackers, but if the fight had to go to the ground BJJ is the best, and for my girls it is the best to get an attacker off of them.  The club is MMA, so they might teach boxing later, but for now they are going the traditional BJJ belt rank route for the kids class.

I have two bad knees due to Chrondomalacia.  I have been out close to a year from Judo, and not sure if I would go back given all of the injuries I had from being thrown down so hard so many times.

If I ever get my knees better, I wanted to take up boxing.

Please pray for my bad knees.  Having two bad knees with constant pain and 7 young children has been quite hard on me.  It drives me crazy some times.  My orthopedic surgeons say there is nothing they can do.  I have been praying to the Infant of Prague for a miracle to take away the pain.

[ggreg]

Will do Tulkas.

Ran marathons as a teenager so know a thing or two about bad knees.

Luckily I stopped in time but I have the odd strange twinge now and again when I climb the stairs.

[TheTalentedMisterR]

My last two years in high school were the worst in my life. And the after effects from those years have shadowed and shook up my life ever since.

God forgive me, I can't even think of the number 17 without remembering the crap I went through at that age.

Because of bullying at school I took up boxing at 13.  Within six months of classes, one hour twice a week at a good London boxing school, I was probably slightly below average for the group (at least 4 boys my age could regularly beat me in sparring) but I knocked seven shades of crap out of the 2 boys at school who up to that time had been ganging up on me and giving me hell most days.  At one point both of them were attempting to fight me at the same time.  I put one of them in hospital for 3 days after kicking him in the head.  The other one's parents threatened to sue (empty threat).

Never had any more trouble at school after that and any fear or psychological damage that I had had up to that point was cured as a result.

Learning to box is good for boys, because a boxer is always going to beat a non-boxer in a street fight or schoolyard punchup and the basics of avoiding a punch and throwing an accurate combination are never forgetten (like riding bicycle).  I'm even teaching my girls to fight.

The key to fighting is not getting hit hard, hitting accurately (full force is not necessary and will likely break your fingers) and most importantly staying calm during the fight as the following video shows.  When you've spared with someone who wants to knock you down but has no malice towards you then you feel much more comfortable in a fight.  Before then the idea of fighting used to scare me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iDlzL7zrNU

Not that I am against boxing or martial arts, but the only problem is that so-called "streetfighting" is rarely "clean".  Boxing skills or martial arts are useless against a guy packing heat (it's not like TV where the "hero" will kick the weapon out of the perpetrator's hands, most of the time that doesn't happen).  Even a knife or a baseball bat gives a decided advantage to the opponent.  I once read a story about a black belt who went into an alley to protect a girl who was being attacked, and he karate chopped right into the attacker's knife.  He lost most of the feeling in that arm.  People who are into violence don't fight "clean".

[Robhaidheuch]

Who cares about diplomas!  My oft-recurring dream is finding myself on a busy street and realising I'm naked from the waist down.

[Bummer]

I actually liked high school.  Boot camp, too!

How can you even mention high school and boot camp in the same sentence lol!?


Bummer

[Tulkas]

Not that I am against boxing or martial arts, but the only problem is that so-called "streetfighting" is rarely "clean".  Boxing skills or martial arts are useless against a guy packing heat (it's not like TV where the "hero" will kick the weapon out of the perpetrator's hands, most of the time that doesn't happen).  Even a knife or a baseball bat gives a decided advantage to the opponent.  I once read a story about a black belt who went into an alley to protect a girl who was being attacked, and he karate chopped right into the attacker's knife.  He lost most of the feeling in that arm.  People who are into violence don't fight "clean".

Then get a concealed weapons permit.  I swear that the only reason that Seattle has a low murder rate as compared to other cities because they allow concealed weapons.

I need to get one and get a gun, I just been too lazy.

Really though, you need to deescalate the confrontation and retreat if possible.

Yeah, the stupid knife blocks they taught in Karate I always thought were dangerous to use.