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tinfoil hat timmy said:
Zero kicks.

Scebun punched. Sparred my last two rounds with gauze falling out of my face.
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I remember my belt exams.

We fought way too hard.

Only later did I realize that what I was doing wasn’t really taekwondo at all.:rolleyes:

We were hitting with knees and elbows.

It was basically Thai boxing.

But I trained in a basement gym.

It was completely free.

My coach was an old dude who taught all kinds of martial arts. He didn’t separate them — it was just discipline, tons of physical conditioning, and we fought with kicks, elbows, knees, and did a bit of wrestling.

It was a mix of taekwondo, Thai boxing, and something like sambo.

But officially, it was called taekwondo.

In the Soviet Union, they used to ban him from training people.

In 1984, the USSR Sports Committee Order No. 404 officially banned karate as “alien to ideology, cultivating cruelty and violence.” They shut down clubs all over the country.

They called anything “karate,” lol.

By the time I was training, it was already fully legal. We didn’t pay anything, but some guys were constantly donating money to keep the basement gym running.

It all ended when the coach passed away — he was already quite old.

It was all extremely fun and weird, lol.

A lot of people got injured, some even broke bones.

I remember the older guys just beating me up regularly.

I still lose any fight I get into. 😅

But most likely, discipline is the most important thing I gained from it.

And a huge pile of ass-whoopings. 😅

I’ve never fought anyone outside the gym or competitions.
 
I have to say I am impressed with a product called VersaChem Windshield Repair Kit. I got a nasty chip in my windshield yesterday from a rock at highway speed while returning from my cabin. Of course the glass repair centers are all closed for the weekend, and I wanted to prevent it from cracking further. $24 and following directions- it looks as good as a glass repair place has done. I am going to pick up another kit to keep handy.
 
Working on some jackassery today.
The guy in the office next to mine likes perfect silence and gets hilariously angry if distracted by noise from my office...

I calculated the fundamental acoustic frequency of our offices in the side-to-side direction. 59Hz, call it 60. Tones of 60Hz, or overtones like 120, 180 etc, will transmit efficiently and light up the room modes in his office. Hard to pinpoint the source when the resonances are hit.

A single tone isn't nearly as annoying as what is possible. Combining some closely spaced tones creates beat frequencies that are very unpleasant. My computer speakers don't put out much power at 60Hz, so I'm testing around 120 and 180. So far the most headache inducing sound I've come up with is 3 combined notes, such as 117, 120, 124 Hz, each with a sawtooth wave profile. The spread stays within the width of the room mode which should be 5-10 Hz.

Hopefully he'll attack me.
 
Richard338 said:
Working on some jackassery today.
The guy in the office next to mine likes perfect silence and gets hilariously angry if distracted by noise from my office...

I calculated the fundamental acoustic frequency of our offices in the side-to-side direction. 59Hz, call it 60. Tones of 60Hz, or overtones like 120, 180 etc, will transmit efficiently and light up the room modes in his office. Hard to pinpoint the source when the resonances are hit.

A single tone isn't nearly as annoying as what is possible. Combining some closely spaced tones creates beat frequencies that are very unpleasant. My computer speakers don't put out much power at 60Hz, so I'm testing around 120 and 180. So far the most headache inducing sound I've come up with is 3 combined notes, such as 117, 120, 124 Hz, each with a sawtooth wave profile. The spread stays within the width of the room mode which should be 5-10 Hz.

Hopefully he'll attack me.
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A thousand years ago I had both a fourth and a sixth order bandpass subwoofer enclosure design that was ‘happy spot’ centered on 60hz. I’m sure there are plenty of drivers made now that you could duplicate a comparable design for, sixth order offering considerable amplitude gain with minimum power requirements. Granted, the rolloff up and down is like a brick wall, so you won’t get your harmonics the way you’re targeting, but just leaving the thing running an oscillation while you leave for an appointment could cause him to hemorrhage out, maybe.

Worth a shot.
 
bluemax_1 said:
They also sell small coin battery devices whose sole function is to emit a little beep/chirp at random intervals. Easy to hide. Hard to track down/pinpoint when you just get one random chirp every 5-30 minutes. 😅
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I was at my buddy's house in highschool and he showed me his little cube alarm clock that was super loud. I set it for 4:30am and slid it way under his bed. lol
 
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