How do you maintain your perfect physical specimen so they keep drooling over you? ;)

[GoktimusPrime]

I gotta ask dude - does your army training come in handy when you play 1st person shooters (e.g.: Counterstrike, Halo etc) or when you play Laser Tag or paintball skirmish? The problem with playing 1st person shooter LANs is the lack of cohesive teamwork. Everyone's trying to be a hero. It's funny when you sometimes go to a net café and you happen to be lucky enough to join a team where every decides to work as a team and you end up royally pwning your opposition, or when the other team has better teamwork and they end up completely thrashing your side. It happens very rarely though. Most players are too busy trying to be heroes - the idea of tactical strategy just flies out the window. (-_-)

[Geminii]

Ten years of junk food, a desk job, and no exercise hath taken its toll. Ironically, a recent diabetes diagnosis has forced me to lose weight and take up exercise, although I've seriously slacked off on the high-impact stuff and now just do Tai Chi, Pilates and yoga once a week. I do have a weekly appointment with the local uni badminton club but I haven't been for a couple of months - two or three hours of jumping around really does make you aware of every single excess kilo you're carrying. Ouch.

I should force myself to go back to swimming as well. It's cheap and the half-shaded pool area means I get tanned without my usual lobster impersonations.

To be honest, though, I don't know if even the previously mentioned holy grail of 'fit, rich, intelligent' would work for those of us not overly graced in the social skills department. Buff rich Casanova still beats out buff rich geek.

Maybe everyone could get hardbodied, win Lotto, and wear muscle shirts to BotCon that said "Single, rich, clueless"

[Soundwarp]

I gotta ask dude - does your army training come in handy when you play 1st person shooters (e.g.: Counterstrike, Halo etc) or when you play Laser Tag or paintball skirmish? The problem with playing 1st person shooter LANs is the lack of cohesive teamwork. Everyone's trying to be a hero. It's funny when you sometimes go to a net café and you happen to be lucky enough to join a team where every decides to work as a team and you end up royally pwning your opposition, or when the other team has better teamwork and they end up completely thrashing your side. It happens very rarely though. Most players are too busy trying to be heroes - the idea of tactical strategy just flies out the window. (-_-)

Dude it actually works against me.
If i play like i fight then i loose, so i ahve to completley forget about my training

[GoktimusPrime]

Heh, yeah - I find Eye Toy Boxing and Wii Sports are like that too.

Geminii: which style of Tai Chi do you do?

[Geminii]

Hmm, not entirely sure. The website doesn't state which style they teach in, and if the teachers mentioned it, I wasn't paying attention. There are some ads around the place that say it's modified Yang style, though.

[Geminii]

Dude it actually works against me.
If i play like i fight then i loose, so i ahve to completley forget about my training

Darn that military training, I bet it doesn't even cover rocket-jumping or the finer points of respawning.

[GoktimusPrime]

I heard of a guy who was an ex-Army sniper who would always cream everyone else in paintball skirmishes.

Geminii: how is it modified? Are you taught fighting applications or is it only taught as a form of exercise? (I suspect it may be modified to be purely a form of exercise/fitness)

The three main styles of Tai Chi are:
Yang
Chen
Wu

Some basic fighting applications for Tai Chi (Chen style)

[Demonac]

I heard of a guy who was an ex-Army sniper who would always cream everyone else in paintball skirmishes.

Those paintball's never fly straight. I'm a reasonably good shot, and I find those paintball guns infuriating... No 2 shots EVER hit the same spot! I guess it's due to the lack of conformance with those 'pellets'

[sifun]

paintballs are painful.. lol always wear thick clothing!

man so sore from gym yesterday, i can hardly move.

[STL]

man so sore from gym yesterday, i can hardly move.

Weak.