(January 22, 2016 at 11:47 am)robvalue Wrote: I did some Judo as a kid. I was pretty good at it. Well, I was good at beating most of the kids my age. I even won a few medals in little tournaments.
I only used two moves, but they were effective. I used to be quite strong for my age. Makes me laugh to look at myself now, hah!
Mind you, I still do a wicked rolling break fall. A technique which has saved me from injury several times when I've tripped/been tripped.
The late, great Sir Patrick Moore was, among his many other accomplishments, an amateur cricketer in his youth. He used to say that he had two batting techniques, which he used in strict rotation - flailing wildly like a windmill, and what he termed "the desperate forward swat".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
