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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by mattheww »

robryan wrote: post #35
terryjsmith wrote: post #32

I would like to get my black belt in Taekwondo by the age of 30 (turning 23 in August) and fight at a Canadian national or Ontario provincial competition. I am currently a yellow belt (started about a year ago) but have won a gold and a silver at two recent invitational competitions. I had an excellent teacher in Thunder Bay, but just moved to Toronto a month ago to be in a more tech savvy town (I'm a developer) and…

I've considered joining Taekwondo for some time but worry that the lower belts will be to caught up in teaching very basic moves and the traditional aspects of the sport. I understand the need to learn the basics just wondering if you found this time a drag at all or it was all interesting and I'd have nothing to worry about?

It's definitely not a drag! If you're anything like I was when I started, it will take a lot of work to get the basic moves right. There are reasons for how each technique is performed, so it's important to understand them. Your form noticeably improves the more you practice. Martial arts are one of those things that you naturally improve at the longer you do it.

Plus most classes will mix up the basics with other stuff like forms and different kinds of sparring, so you won't spend the whole time doing repetitive exercises.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by [deleted] »

araneae wrote: post #71
Rod wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the rush? It's not like you're gonna be impotent at age 40 or something. The pressure to "do or die" in one year only is likely to jeopardize your effort... unless you date single, childless 40 year old women. But what self-respecting man would do such a thing when there are so many younger, hotter women?

carry my child If they're a woman, they're a lesbian. I'm pretty sure men can't bear children.

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Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by chunkyslink »

dhyasama wrote: post #87
chunkyslink wrote: post #54

I'm training for the 'Yorkshireman Marathon' in September in the UK. Its 26.6 miles of hilly off road tracks with over 3000ft of ascent. I don't just want to finish it, I want to get in between 3.30 and 4 hours. The biggest problem at the moment is finding the time to train. Ideally I would like to be out everyday but I can only manage 4 days a week. Each training run is lasting upto 2.5 hours and finding that time e…

In general terms, you may need less sleep when you are healthy and fit, but if you are doing 2.5 hour runs you really should be getting extra sleep. Distance running takes a huge toll on your body and you need to do everything you can to help it recover. My favorite long run recovery technique is an ice bath, ibuprofen, and beer (carbs!).

Thats the catch 22 of it all. I get plenty of sleep, at least 9 hours a night. So when I'm up I'm full of it an could easily do a long run as I'm fully rested and ready to go.

The only way to find more time to run is to sleep less which is obviously bad.

I've never tried the ice bath, ibuprofen and recovery but I've certainly had beer. Thanks for your advice.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by huherto »

weirdwonka wrote: post #73
jeb wrote: post #4

I'm planning to identify a suitable candidate to get married to, and who is genetically appropriate enough to give me good quality kids, then convince this person to marry me and carry my child, within the next year. Difficult, but I assume interesting.

choose as much exotic race as possible with highest possible iq + looks Such as if you are White I suggest a good looking Indian girl who is pursuing PhD in CS or some such

care to explain?

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by chollida1 »

ronnier wrote: post #37
lionhearted wrote: post #2

I'm going to design my first article of clothing for myself next month. I'm going to Vietnam, and I'll do it in either Saigon, Hanoi, or Ho An. I'll be in the first two cities anyways, I might go to third just for its reputation as a tailor and fashion city. I've got a shirt I used to like a lot that's worn out, going to have a tailor use it as a model to make another. Going to get two shirts made. Depending on how t…

I visited Vietnam three times over a 3 year period. Is it your first time? Since my last visit, laws have changed that require you to wear a helmet while on a moped. One of the things I enjoyed the most was the freedom in riding a moped around a huge crowded city for hours, not knowing where I was going, or where I'd end up. It's somewhat ruined now with the helmet law. Nearly 100 degree weather wearing a helmet isn'…

I had a close friend die from a crash on a moped due to him not wearing a helmet.

I suggest you suck it up and wear one regardless of the heat if you either: use your head for a living, or just value your life.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by masterj »

ebun wrote: post #9

Hitchhike across southern Japan (Honshu mostly)

I hitchhiked around Argentina and Chile 2 years ago, and the experience has been far and away the best thing I've done in my life. I'm currently gearing up for a much longer trip, if I can just figure out where.

My old roommate spent a few weeks hitching around Japan and loved it. He had no trouble at all, and the people were all really nice.

You might want to read Hokkaido Highway Blues if you haven't yet.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by ananthrk »

felideon wrote: post #40
ananthrk wrote: post #33

Becoming a better programmer. Roadblocks: Lack of self-discipline and commitment (day job providing good money)

Maybe you've seen this from being on HN, but www.structuredprocrastination.com. Try to get busy with "important" things, and you'll find yourself programming more. One thing I'm starting to do, since I also have a day job, is going to the library for my lunch break (I eat lunch real fast right before I go) which is luckily a few blocks away, with and laptop loaded with Ubuntu to force myself to do some more lisping.…

Thanks for the link. My current structured procrastination is reading HN and lot of technical articles. I think I should stop doing that and start coding more.

Re: Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?

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Post by abstractbill »

I'm trying to figure out: (1) how much time a newborn will actually demand from me and my wife, and (2) how we will fit in all the things we have decided must continue to happen (e.g. me still having a fulltime job, both of us getting regular exercise and a bit of downtime, etc).
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