Military fitness is FAR from individual. You have to do a lot of the exercise in pairs, encourage people to push themselves and you also feel a sense of camradery because your all dying together. I met at least 5 people last night that I now know by name and will see next week. Better than the gym where its ipods on, trying to look trendy, watching MTV and then slipping into the silent sauna. No?
Clapham Common is terrifying and full of lunatics.
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Military fitness is FAR from individual. You have to do a lot of the exercise in pairs, encourage people to push themselves and you also feel a sense of camradery because your all dying together. I met at least 5 people last night that I now know by name and will see next week. Better than the gym where its ipods on, trying to look trendy, watching MTV and then slipping into the silent sauna. No?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Ah, I'll remember that my mates and I are braying idiots for playing frisbee in Brockwell Park and CC from now on.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Is this like reverse elitist snobbery or something??
I think it's just a bit of tongue in cheek fun..
though it could turn.....
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Oh rly? *perks*
Where is this place again?
Stop off at mine on your way to Brighton and I'll take you there...
Yeah, but you're comparing it to the gym/health club, which is perhaps the worst example of individualistic sports. I hate the gym too fwiw - strictly for pre-season only, a means to an end... and with a training partner for encouragement/motivation as well.
Team sports build far more teamwork skills unsurprisingly. I can your points about uniting to push yourself and through a need to survive (our old conditioning coach was called 'Wanker' for a reason...) but it's little different from a circuit training course in reality. Only you're paying for an 'officer' type figure in camo to shout at you and keep you in line.
But we're not allowed to engage in team sports like rugby, frisbee or football are we? Just in case we get called a middle class braying twat.
Kanda
Diving wanker
I stumbled across one of these which was pretty terrifying!
Keeps them off Public Transport. It's a good thing
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I'm sorry but people who go around ridiculing other people's choice of activities strike me as really sad. Ridiculous as it may be to you, at least they're doing something they enjoy.
How sanctimonious!
What happened to 'each to their own'?
Exactly what activities are acceptable and which ones are not, and who are you or anyone else to judge?
what a load of crap this thread is.
How sanctimonious!
What happened to 'each to their own'?Exactly what activities are acceptable and which ones are not, and who are you or anyone else to judge?
what a load of crap this thread is.
But we're not allowed to engage in team sports like rugby, frisbee or football are we? Just in case we get called a middle class braying twat.
Don't self-label now. Did I ever mention football, and I'd still argue that rugby clubs are far more democratic around here than people realise.
I think I'm on safe ground with the frisbee and military training. If I ever hear a Diamond Dave down the pub shout about going to throw a plastic fun disk dahn the park, or pay to have an ex-officer shout at them, then I'll be the first to admit my mistake.
If I ever hear a Diamond Dave down the pub shout about going to throw a plastic fun disk dahn the park, or pay to have an ex-officer shout at them, then I'll be the first to admit my mistake.
And 'Diamond Dave' is who? An overweight smoker who hasnt done a day's exercise since school? Cornorary on the way, skin like a milk bottle with a heat rash and thinks that the outdoors should only be seen looking through the window of a pub? Or better still looking at it on the telly in a pub?
Possibly, but good to see the class stereotype from the other side. It's possible to be fit and a working man after all
Still, old DD playing 'competitive frisbee' down the park in coloured singlets. Not a bleeding chance.
No chance of Military Fitness courses either. Unless, of course, he was actually in the army first, when he had real public schoolboy officers shouting at him.
Still, old DD playing 'competitive frisbee' down the park in coloured singlets. Not a bleeding chance.
No chance of Military Fitness courses either. Unless, of course, he was actually in the army first, when he had real public schoolboy officers shouting at him.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Keeps them off Public Transport. It's a good thing
and it gets them fit and they get to meet other people etc
but the one I found was doing jogging, about 30 of them with their buggies. I'd never seen anything like it before.
Possibly, but good to see the class stereotype from the other side. It's possible to be fit and a working man after all
I was working on your 'down the pub' comment, not on any class based assumption. However, I could also point out that is possible to be middle or upper class and be unfit. Lets not go down this tiresome road again, though.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
You Londeners don't know you're born! Northampton parks are no go-zones patrolled by gangs of knife wielding feral hoodie teens, high on White Lightening and soapbar.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
and it gets them fit and they get to meet other people etc
but the one I found was doing jogging, about 30 of them with their buggies. I'd never seen anything like it before.
a friend of mine did that. costs a tenner!
clandestino
no llevar papel
CC is just a characterless patch of grass really - it's just too big and open and flat. I don't have a problem with people using it for team sports - in fact, that's probably the best use for it.
BP in comparison has tons of character - simply because of its slopes and interesting nooks and crannies, from drinkers corner to the lido and the house in the middle and the walled gardens and the paddling pool and so on. It's one of the best parks in London and I'm constantly thankful for its existence - it saves my life practically every week.
BP in comparison has tons of character - simply because of its slopes and interesting nooks and crannies, from drinkers corner to the lido and the house in the middle and the walled gardens and the paddling pool and so on. It's one of the best parks in London and I'm constantly thankful for its existence - it saves my life practically every week.
clandestino
no llevar papel
and it gets them fit and they get to meet other people etc
but the one I found was doing jogging, about 30 of them with their buggies. I'd never seen anything like it before.
I had a very funny chat at the last Offline with an Urbanite who'd accompanied a friend during a ... I think the phrase was powerstroll! It does seem a little ridiculous - as if pushing a pram isn't exercise enough!
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
I yield to no man in my ability to slag off Clapham or the pleasure I get from that.
But the common is alright, I was up there for the first time in a while on Sunday and circumnavigated the whole thing on my bike. Apart from the strange people spending the day sitting in traffic jams in their cars down the western edge it was an uplifting and enlightening experience.
A South American football football league was being played on the cinder pitches, high class football, the smell of ganja and barbeque mingled with the dust cloud kicked up by three games. Salsa music was playing. At a pond, solitary Englishmen sat by their fishing rods inscrutably sipping cheap tins of lager, each with a tent for ? who knows what purpose. At a second pond model yachts with radio-controlled rudders sailed peacefully in the breeze. I had been watching for a good 5 minutes before I realised they were racing each other round a course marked by little orange buoys and the serenity I had imagined was actually a race in deadly earnest. Skateboarders skated on the little park, I watched them too - very cool and friendly towards newcomers, stoners and boozers lay about in numbers but relaxed and amiable. The bandstand gathers a little hub of cake-eaters and tea-drinkers. I checked out "Schmidts" - the newly revamped cafe by the skatepark - a slightly poncey menu instantly triggered my Clapham-Wanker radar, as did the casually-dressed Mummys and Daddys eating and drinking - but no! It was a nice gaff, a tad pricey but really nice people working there, mixing decent drinks, friendly attitude - and the other punters were utterly unannoying...even their children....
There is something about a common, unfenced, open to all and ancient in - hmm, atmosphere if not in legal reality - that creates a uniquely democratic spirit, rarely found elsewhere in England except perhaps on a beach.
Clapham Common, I salute you!
But the common is alright, I was up there for the first time in a while on Sunday and circumnavigated the whole thing on my bike. Apart from the strange people spending the day sitting in traffic jams in their cars down the western edge it was an uplifting and enlightening experience.
A South American football football league was being played on the cinder pitches, high class football, the smell of ganja and barbeque mingled with the dust cloud kicked up by three games. Salsa music was playing. At a pond, solitary Englishmen sat by their fishing rods inscrutably sipping cheap tins of lager, each with a tent for ? who knows what purpose. At a second pond model yachts with radio-controlled rudders sailed peacefully in the breeze. I had been watching for a good 5 minutes before I realised they were racing each other round a course marked by little orange buoys and the serenity I had imagined was actually a race in deadly earnest. Skateboarders skated on the little park, I watched them too - very cool and friendly towards newcomers, stoners and boozers lay about in numbers but relaxed and amiable. The bandstand gathers a little hub of cake-eaters and tea-drinkers. I checked out "Schmidts" - the newly revamped cafe by the skatepark - a slightly poncey menu instantly triggered my Clapham-Wanker radar, as did the casually-dressed Mummys and Daddys eating and drinking - but no! It was a nice gaff, a tad pricey but really nice people working there, mixing decent drinks, friendly attitude - and the other punters were utterly unannoying...even their children....
There is something about a common, unfenced, open to all and ancient in - hmm, atmosphere if not in legal reality - that creates a uniquely democratic spirit, rarely found elsewhere in England except perhaps on a beach.
Clapham Common, I salute you!
Its an organised league. SA AUS and NZ teams take part
LOL @ this thread, you English and your strange obsession with class
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I'm sorry but people who go around ridiculing other people's choice of activities strike me as really sad. Ridiculous as it may be to you, at least they're doing something they enjoy.
How sanctimonious!
Exactly what activities are acceptable and which ones are not, and who are you or anyone else to judge?
what a load of crap this thread is.
Having a little chortle at this thread is an activity I enjoy.
I judge it to be acceptable.
Kanda
Diving wanker
It's a bivvy. They're Carp fisherman, probably there all day and night for the weekend.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I believe the traditional response is ''coffee/keyboard''. you are a bad, bad man and will surely rot in hell for your many, many threadstarting sins.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Actually it may be full of lunatics.
If there is a mental hospital nearby, as patients become better and more trustworthy but before they are deemed well enough to go home, they are permitted half and full day leave to roam around the local community. Note: these are people who are not well enough to go to their own homes but they are well enough to roam around other peoples, aimlessly, wandering and wondering, when can I go home ! !!
If there is a mental hospital nearby, as patients become better and more trustworthy but before they are deemed well enough to go home, they are permitted half and full day leave to roam around the local community. Note: these are people who are not well enough to go to their own homes but they are well enough to roam around other peoples, aimlessly, wandering and wondering, when can I go home ! !!
Although, if my recollection of fishing youth around here remains clear, they're more commonly known as 'skinning up huts'
'Yeah mum, I'm off carp fishing. All night, yeah.'
