I thought you would love mashing.

Probably as much as you love tracing, I would think.

Mashing, yes...when I still had free time and free access to a combatives room on campus, me and a friend used to practice groundfighting and takedowns after working out. That is a form of mashing, I think.

Working. I like my job, I like money, I like overtime. I like not working 9-5. I'm planning on going back to school for nursing so I can do what I'm doing, except better. And paid more.

Working out. I'm improving pretty steadily, I'm hoping that I can keep motivation.

Video games. Unfortunately getting less and less time for that.

It used to be cooking, but I'm more concerned with my nutrition than how the food tastes lately.

I meant like potatoes.

Such distractions of youth have regretfully fallen to the wayside.

5.7l V8

5 speed

nuff said

Are you an Italian?

Natural History. Most weekends I'm out in the woods, marshes, fields etc bird-watching or botanising or IDing insects. With this long winter it's been just bird-watching for quite a long time now. Still, it's a nifty hobby because you can do it pretty much anywhere, crossing Westminster Bridge during my lunch breaks I can watch out for the rare Mediterranean gull and see other wetland birds flying down river.

Outdoor sports - hiking, climbing, kayaking and mountain biking. Kinda meshes with the natural history stuff. I don't have a car so I catch a train and then hike to and around whatever reserve/habitat I'm visiting. I just got back into climbing after a 9 month hiatus. Also thinking about a 2 day kayaking trip with my bro this Easter

Reading. (Currently on The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and it's depressing as hell)

Lacrosse is my biggest. I play, coach and ref. I'm also lucky enough to consider my job a passion as well. Sucking smoke out in the woods is freaking awesome.

Anything related to the world of Econ I'm all over.

That and playing guitar

Like Brian said, my main passion in life is Parkour. More abstractly though, any sort of movement. Gymnastics, rock climbing, juggling, spinning poi, ice skating, waterskiing (a bit of wakeboarding, but our boat isn't the right kind of boat to be able to trick off of it. Much to my dismay. Then again, our boat is also dead now...), etc.

I like to study new movements and figure them out. Figure out how and why they work, and then work to be able to do them. My most recent interest is figure skating. I watched a TON during the Olympics, and I've gone out and skated a few times since then and really figured out quite a bit about spinning (which is one of my two favorite things in the entire world: Spinning and sliding).

Brian (based on your Pokemans thread) - I totally get where you're coming from in your argument. I used to be a kid who really just kind of sat in front of the computer or watched TV all the time. I really enjoyed reading, but didn't do a lot of it. I really just kind of wasted a fair bit of my childhood, and I really regret that. Now I don't even own a TV (although we're using one we found as a divider in my room), and while I still spend (probably still too much) time on the computer, it's more productive and I spend probably an equal amount of time outside.

When I have kids, (other than using them as behavior and psychological experiments) I really hope raise them in a way where television really just isn't a part of their life, and where all the values we seem to have lost (physical play, exploration, building things) are emphasized.

I think a lot of kids who fall into that situation just have to find something they are passionate about, and then it can start to change their life.

Much like Geb's, I guess mine's no surprise. I love reading and writing SF fiction, and am also very much into PC video games. It's not easy to find time for either between work and family, but I try.

Dash your car has come a long way and is looking great!!

- Video Games
- Writing/drawing (Art)
- Playing drums
- Mountain Biking
- Kayak

Happydud, I can't say I really agree with you on how we've lost 'values'. Its all part of personal choice, taste and what makes a person happy. I don't think a person is worse than another because he doesn't move/do sports/spend as much time outside as another person does. I do think you have to go with what you like, and what makes you happy above all else. A happy person is better than a sad/depressed/bored person anyway you look at it. Some people are simply unhappy doing sports. Others are poor at it. Others prefer to work their minds. Gaming trains the mind at problem solving. Watching a movie or show from time to time will help relaxe and entertain.

Now, with that said, I do think that people who spend every work day evening exclusively in front of their TV screen is a ****ing drone. That is no life, you are not even using your brain actively. You are simply sitting there, letting your brain analyze what it sees. Thats it. No interaction. No problem solving. No active movements. Simply leaving on idle mode to assimilate what is viewed and generate emotion.

Through and through, I just cannot abide people who say that some people are worse off being gamers than athletes, or how private, solitary people are worse off than social people. Its just society speaking. The same society saying women should look skeletal with silicon breasts.

In the end, we do what makes us and those we love happy. That is what matters in life, and you wont be better off being the best athlete in the world if you're unhappy.

Hockey

I play recreational level hockey and enjoy watching pretty much any high level hockey. Play 2+ pickup games a week in the winter, and usually still squeeze at least one in per week in the summer. Hoping to join a men's league team soon. Mostly want to improve my skating and shooting. Managed to break the glass at my college's rink, so that may indicate some progress in shot power, but more than likely just crappy and worn out glass.

jogging, marathons

Cricket.

Nothing really. There are plenty of things I enjoy, but not enough to make the effort to do them. I'm starting to think I have some kind of dopamine imbalance...

Emergency Management sounds interesting. This may be common knowledge here, but where are you going to school? Do you have a career plan, or is it just a degree you can pursue without :suicide:?

I go to school at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. They have a world class fire protection and safety school here. I don't really have a career plan yet, I'm just doing fire protection with a minor in emergency management because it's interesting, but there are tons of opportunities. I'm starting to lean towards something like fire marshal and/or local emergency management, though. If you're interested in it, FEMA has some free online certifications you can get for NIMS (National Incident Management System) and ICS (Incident Command System). I just had to get the first certification for my Industrial Safety Organization class, and it's a pretty neat system.