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Training is quite intensive. It comes divided into 4 preliminary phases: running, shadow boxing, rope jumping and body weight resistance exercises. The fighting session which follows includes training with a coach on Thai pads, focus mitts, heavy bags and sparring.
« Flat Sri Klong Toey » is one of the most interesting camps I have visited in Thailand. The Nak-Muay who train there all live in the camp. They are aged 14 to 16 and practice 5 to 6 hours a day, early in the morning and at the end of the afternoon, attending school in between.
Most camps in BKK are located in peaceful areas surrounded by grass and shady trees whereas Flat Sri is right in the middle of a crowded street, under a multi-level roadway which is used as a roof for the ring (!). A city within the city, Klong Toey is BKK largest slum ; its inhabitants suffer from many diseases : drug traffic, prostitution and one of the highest HIV positive / AIDS rates in town. And yet, whenever I visited Klong-Toey I would be greeted with such a genuine warmth by the people living there
Indeed , the Tourney is about to start and Sir Fights Alot will be taking on Sir Chops Alot !!
That is really their names as sold by English Heritage .
We saw these two characters whilst visiting Pevensey Castle and with our family history could not resist them .
Tournament, also called tourney, series of military exercises, probably of medieval French origin and confined to western Europe, in which knights fought one another to display their skill and courage. Tournaments had become more pageantry than combat by the end of the 16th century, and the term is still used somewhat in this sense—for instance, in the Royal Tournament, an annual naval and military display held in London, and the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California.
In the early 20th century, the word tournament also came to be applied to certain methods of conducting sports competitions. In the most common modern tournament, the contestants are matched in pairs, with the losers in each test eliminated and the winners paired anew until only one remains as the champion of the tournament. In some tournaments, called double-elimination tournaments, the contestant is not eliminated until defeated a second time. In a third form, called a round robin, each contestant opposes every other contestant and the one with the highest percentage of victories is declared the champion.
The tournament in its earliest form apparently originated in France about the middle of the 11th century. Several chroniclers credit a French baron, Geoffroi de Preully, with having invented tournaments.
The early tournament was a mock battle between two bodies of armed horsemen and was called the mêlée. (This term is also applied to a predecessor of modern football [soccer]. See mêlée.) Later came the joust, a trial of skill in which two horsemen charged each other with leveled lances from either end of the lists (the palisades enclosing the jousting ground), each attempting to unhorse the other; the mêlée, however, continued side by side with it.
About 1292 a Statutum Armorum (“Statute of Arms”) enacted that swords with points were not to be used (nor were pointed daggers, clubs, or maces). Fallen knights were to be helped up only by their own squires, wearing their heraldic device. The squire who offended was to lose horse and arms and be imprisoned for three years. Disputes were to be settled by a court of honour of princes and earls.
Some tournaments were harmless and some rough. For the Tournament of Peace held at Windsor Park, England, in 1278, the sword blades were of whalebone and parchment, silvered; the helms of boiled leather; and the shields of light wood. At others, however, contestants were often killed or wounded. Blunted, or rebated, lance points came into use early, and by the 14th century a crown-shaped coronal head was often fitted in place of the point.
By the 1400s, jousters usually ran their courses separated by a cloth-covered barrier, or tilt, to prevent the collision of their horses. Armourers began to devise special armour that was heavier and less flexible than armour for the field, being used only for tilting.
In the 16th century, fighting on foot at the barrier with short spears became popular. Poleaxes also were used, and there were mounted combats with swords or maces. Prizes were presented to the victors by ladies.
In continental Europe, lists were jealously closed to all combatants except those of noble birth. In the German lands, questions as to the purity of descent of a candidate for admission to a noble order were often settled by appeal to an ancestor’s having taken part in a tournament.
The tournament eventually degenerated into the carrousel, a kind of equestrian polonaise, and the more harmless sport of tilting at a ring. In modern times there have been occasional romantic revivals, the most famous perhaps being the tournament at Eglinton Castle, in Scotland, in 1839, described in Disraeli’s novel Endymion (1880). Later tournaments were theatrical reenactments.
William Marshal " The Greatest Knight of All Time " excelled at The Tourney and played a part in English history , he played a part in Magna Carta , repelled an invasion from France and ruled as Regent after the death of King John , quite a man . His is buried in Temple Church in London where his tomb can be seen .
This was taken during the commencement exercises for the College of Engineering at Brigham Young University. The celebration was held in the Smith Field House, which is usually used for Volleyball games, see: www.flickr.com/photos/aaronrhawkins/24621470050/
You see a lot of graduation pictures from the point of view of the crowd but this one is from the point of view of the people sitting on the stage. I'm the one handing out diplomas at that moment. This posting is for my mom.
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Pilates is an amazing exercise type during pregnancy. Regularly practising pilates help expectant mother in staying healthy and strong, assisting them in staying tuned with the changes in their body
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My 24 year young horse Duke, getting down for a roll.
We decided to head down to Nellis AFB near Las Vegas for the Red Flag 21-1 exercises once the wife heard there were going to be some B-1B and B-2 bombers there. Good choice. We were there for three days; the first day was horrible for photos - very gray drab sky but things were busy. These are some photos from the first day - not the best quality but we did have a good time! I took these photos at the beginning of February 2021.
She is doing her exercises in the park; a bit of running and a bit of stretching. All done while looking magnificent in her colorful shiny shorts.
Photos from my 2nd day at the 22-1 Red Flag Exercises held at Nellis AFB outside of Las Vegas. The morning was very slow but things picked up shortly after noon. A number of fighters took off, followed by 2 B-52s, 3 B-2s, and a number of support aircraft. A major wind event was coming into Las Vegas and I think that led to a lot of last minute Flex West departure cancellations. It also made things very dusty, gritty, and hazy. For recovery operations everyone made a beeline to the Cheyenne Avenue spots. Excellent day but it was freezing by the time the last B-2 landed shortly after sunset. I took these photos on 2/1/2022.
or, falling from the sky,
back cover, 90ºccw,
Edenton Street Sunday School, Methodist Episcopal Church South, Raleigh, North Carolina,
opening exercises in new building : Sunday, April 28, 1912
source (archive.org)
looking up Susan Franks Iden (1885-1944), one of the 16 (?) writers featured in A. C. Haeselbarth's series “Newspaper Women of America” in Editor and Publisher (1913-1915), her profile in the January 30, 1915 issue : 668 : link (hathitrust)
Susan Franks Iden wrote the Historical Sketch Commemorating the Opening of the New Sunday School Building , April 28, 1912,
Edenton Street Methodist Sunday School, Raleigh, N.C.
link (archive.org, Duke Divinity School Library)
Title: Calisthenic Exercises
Creator: Unknown
Contributors: H.H. Stratton, Chattanooga, Tenn. (publisher)
Date: ca. 1910-1915
Part Of: American border troops and the Mexican Revolution
Place: Mexican-American Border Region
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We decided to head down to Nellis AFB near Las Vegas for the Red Flag 21-1 exercises once the wife heard there were going to be some B-1B and B-2 bombers there. Good choice. We were there for three days; the first day was horrible for photos - very gray drab sky but things were busy. These are some photos from the first day - not the best quality but we did have a good time! I took these photos at the beginning of February 2021.
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