Thread: Get off your arse & actually play some sports!

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

This was tens against a bunch of drunks from Saigon.

Mine will be tens with a drunken Welsh git (who embarrassingly enough is fitter than me).

Darts is a sport.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Originally Posted by kmart

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Muay Thai training is a great, brutally intense work-out- it pushes you to work in an anaerobic state, so even if you do regular cardio (running, biking, etc.) you will improve in a range you probably don't ordinarily reach- I do three one-hour lessons per week.

Where do you train? There was a boxing / muai thai instructor local to me at a fitness centre in Rayong until recently. I used to box and enjoyed training with the guy, but he fell out with the manager at the place and left, unfortunately. Now don't have a venue to train around here after work..

I move around a bit- I have gyms I train at at a couple of places (not that I'm any great practitioner of the art- I love the work-out, though)- a decent trainer can assess your ability pretty quickly (and, if you've trained before, you'll be able to tell a decent trainer right off the bat)- there are gyms pretty much everywhere, though- there must be a few near your current location.

Yep. Thanks for the reply. I found another place near my office in Maptaphut. The place is a pretty hardcore Muai Thai gym and stable for boxers; but one of the trainers can give me a decent sparring and focus mitts session. Doesn't charge much at all, too.

Anybody notice what a popular thread this is? And darts is not a sport.

Today I'm going for a run with the boys. Boat ride out, run to another spot, boat ride back. about 7 km can walk if you want.

Meet at the pier behind Ramada - Maenam Riverside Hotel on Charoeng Krung Road boat leaves at 3.30 pm

Thanks for helping wake this thread up Neal because I want to put a plug in for mountaineering and rock climbing (terry57 already knows what I'm talking about).

Check out this FB link everybody: https://www.facebook.com/groups/782287981862494/

We'll be running/walking west of the western outer ring road this week, if anyone lives out that way.

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Thanks for helping wake this thread up Neal because I want to put a plug in for mountaineering and rock climbing (terry57 already knows what I'm talking about).

Check out this FB link everybody: https://www.facebook.com/groups/782287981862494/

Some cool pics on there.

My oldest son and i have recently got into the sport after reading a couple of books and him doing a project at school on the subject.
read the death zone and in to thin air (both about the 1996 expeditions on Everest)

i took him rock climbing up a 25ft face last weekend as a starter..
No ropes and flew up it like spiderman..

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Thanks for helping wake this thread up Neal because I want to put a plug in for mountaineering and rock climbing (terry57 already knows what I'm talking about).

Check out this FB link everybody: https://www.facebook.com/groups/782287981862494/

Some cool pics on there.

My oldest son and i have recently got into the sport after reading a couple of books and him doing a project at school on the subject.
read the death zone and in to thin air (both about the 1996 expeditions on Everest)

i took him rock climbing up a 25ft face last weekend as a starter..
No ropes and flew up it like spiderman..

OK, what follows is the Yosemite Decimal System, which is how routes on rock are rated in the U.S. (see Yosemite Decimal System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):

Class 1: Walking with a low chance of injury.
Class 2: Simple scrambling, with the possibility of occasional use of the hands. Little potential danger is encountered.
Class 3: Scrambling with increased exposure. Handholds are necessary. A rope can be carried but is usually not required. Falls are not always fatal.
Class 4: Simple climbing, with exposure. A rope is often used. Natural protection can be easily found. Falls may well be fatal.
Class 5: Technical free climbing involving rope, belaying, and other protection hardware for safety. Un-roped falls can result in severe injury or death.

Information about the difficulty of a summit block is sometimes added. For example a rating of 3s4 means that most of the climb is class 3 but the summit block is class 4.[5]

The original intention was that the classes would be subdivided decimally, so that a class 4.5 route would be a climb halfway between 4 and 5. Class 5 was subdivided in the 1950s. Initially it was based on ten climbs of Tahquitz Rock in Idyllwild, California, and ranged from the "Trough" at 5.0, a relatively modest technical climb, to the "Open Book" at 5.9, considered at the time the most difficult unaided climb humanly possible. This system was developed by members of the Rock Climbing Section of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club.[6]

Increased standards and improved equipment meant that class 5.9 climbs in the 1960s became only of moderate difficulty for some. Rather than reclassify all climbs each time standards improved, additional classes were added. It soon became apparent that an open-ended system was needed and further classes of 5.11, 5.12, etc. were added. It was later determined that the 5.11 climb was much harder than 5.10, leaving many climbs of varying difficulty bunched up at 5.10. To solve this, the scale has been further subdivided above the 5.9 mark with suffixes from "a" to "d". As of 2013, two climbs are considered to have a difficulty of 5.15c. Change, first climbed by Adam Ondra in October, 2012 and La Dura Dura first climbed by Adam Ondra in February, 2013 and repeated by Chris Sharma in March, 2013.[7]

Ok, so safety first, right? Do you have any idea what class the route with your son was rated? 25 ft. is a little too high for a fall w/o injury. Note: I belong to the club mentioned in the wiki article:

This system was developed by members of the Rock Climbing Section of the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club.[6]

It is now called the Southern California Mountaineers Association: SCMA for short.

Using the scale i'd say a class 3, it was just a taster and a bit of fun.

We are going to an indoor climbing centre at the weekend to try some climbing with ropes and a harness.

Early stages yet but looking forward to it all.

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Using the scale i'd say a class 3, it was just a taster and a bit of fun.

We are going to an indoor climbing centre at the weekend to try some climbing with ropes and a harness.

Early stages yet but looking forward to it all.

Thumbs up.

You can experience class 5 climbing in a rock climbing gym as your next step. Just make sure you use one of the employees to help you with the basics: gear (shoes-they provide-rope and belayer) and instructions. Take a class at the gym first, which also might include a little climbing indoors. I'd take a fall or two when you're on the wall. Nothing like experiencing a fall when you know it will be safe.

Whenever you want, after the gym, you'll know enough to buy your own gear and find expert climbers to lead you and son whilst roped together.

Originally Posted by wjblaney

Anybody notice what a popular thread this is? And darts is not a sport.

Took the opportunity to red MTD and CMN ...