What are you hobbies outside work / study?

Do you prefer hobbies that somehow enrich and support your work or things that help you escape from them?

Most of my 'free time' during the week involves gym at 6am before study or work and mma classes mon-fri at 6pm but these days I usually do an extra hour of training now so free up by 8 by which point when I reach home i'm exhuasted, do some recovery work take a shower and go to bed. Weekend is supposed to be free for family and my partner. I usually find i'm stil busy though witth extra study commitments or running errands but I try to make time for social occasion on the weekend.

I also try to get in to a variety of various other interests - financial trading, property develeopment, some spiritual stuff like astrology and so on but I just don't have the time lol.

What do the marketing / IM community like to do in their spare out of hours time?

Gym around 4-5am depending on the day it's part of my work cycle so don't class it as a hobby.

Currently teaching my son martial arts and really enjoying that.

I drink. Like to shoot. Hunt. I like to game.

Don't do anything special I learn two skills a year guess that's a hobby.

Welding and tracking. Foraging and mechanical work.

Anything like that.

I cook everything as well so tend to do a region or area every year and pick up dishes I'd not normally eat into our weekly meal plans.

Astrology now that's something of interest for people here in India

I too am into spiritual stuff way beyond pranic healing it's astonishing how far science is when it comes to catching up but they are getting closer

I do Indian form of martial arts and now when I get my hands on PS5 hopefully I get to multiplayer with my bhw peeps

TheVigilante said:

Astrology now that's something of interest for people here in India

I too am into spiritual stuff way beyond pranic healing it's astonishing how far science is when it comes to catching up but they are getting closer

I do Indian form of martial arts and now when I get my hands on PS5 hopefully I get to multiplayer with my bhw peeps

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Kerala? Or Pan-India assume it's that most Indians I know and trained with have studied Pan-India if I got the name right

t2van said:

Kerala? Or Pan-India assume it's that most Indians I know and trained with have studied Pan-India if I got the name right

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Yeah Meipadam + Karlakattai

Its also called as the healing wood known as Mudgar

It's said that if you practice with the wood then the properties of the wood get into your body not sure if am interpreting it correctly

I play the guitar and a few other instruments, I like music production too.
I like reading as well but I don't get to spend much time doing any of them, at least not in the last couple of years.

TheVigilante said:

Yeah Meipadam + Karlakattai

Its also called as the healing wood known as Mudgar

It's said that if you practice with the wood then the properties of the wood get into your body not sure if am interpreting it correctly

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Is that why you have large families?

All the men got constant wood?

t2van said:

Is that why you have large families?

All the men got constant wood?

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Nono no connection

No no wood it's what wrestlers during old times used to use to stay fit but some people have preserved the traditions and now they offering it as a coaching but believe me it's as solid as they come and focuses mainly on your mental and physical strength

This article basically sums it up

There are more than 1k movements

My posture has improved and the movements are 360 degrees you don't get to do that in gym(no offense)

TheVigilante said:

Nono no connection

No no wood it's what wrestlers during old times used to use to stay fit but some people have preserved the traditions and now they offering it as a coaching but believe me it's as solid as they come and focuses mainly on your mental and physical strength

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Missed my joke totally..

TheVigilante said:

This article basically sums it up

There are more than 1k movements

My posture has improved and the movements are 360 degrees you don't get to do that in gym(no offense)

The ‘mudgar’ and traditional Indian fitness training | Mint

Once a part of various Indian martial arts traditions, more people around the country are discovering the joys of training with a 'mudgar'

www.livemint.com

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Depends what you do in the gym?

I'm all for martial arts mate I'm old school kyokushin with other things thrown in

t2van said:

Missed my joke totally..



Depends what you do in the gym?

I'm all for martial arts mate I'm old school kyokushin with other things thrown in

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Martial arts anyday way better than gym

Your chakras too get activated that is next level stuff

It's just amazing

Glad your son is into martial arts

t2van said:

Missed my joke totally..



Depends what you do in the gym?

I'm all for martial arts mate I'm old school kyokushin with other things thrown in

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It's basically hand wood the hand is always superior

TheVigilante said:

Martial arts anyday way better than gym

Your chakras too get activated that is next level stuff

It's just amazing

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Nah any exercise is better than none.

Can't say 1 is better than the other as it depends on the goal.

I could argue chakras just endorphins from exercise being released.

Understand your point. Just think what your saying is a little wrong.

Anyway not to derail the thread to fitness bashing.

Agree any movement better than none

t2van said:

Nah any exercise is better than none.

Can't say 1 is better than the other as it depends on the goal.

I could argue chakras just endorphins from exercise being released.

Understand your point. Just think what your saying is a little wrong.

Anyway not to derail the thread to fitness bashing.

Agree any movement better than none

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You are right

Just got too excited and emotions took control of me

TheVigilante said:

You are right

Just got too excited and emotions took control of me

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Don't matter. Nothing wrong with passion don't be sorry for it.

Fuck me. Fuck them. Fuck em all

t2van said:

Is that why you have large families?

All the men got constant wood?

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Fook sake lol

TheVigilante said:

I too am into spiritual stuff way beyond pranic healing it's astonishing how far science is when it comes to catching up but they are getting closer

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You should make the most of the knowledge you get if you're native Indian. I think it's amazing. There is a reason why everyone from jesuits to the third reich used to obsess about indian and himalayan esoteria.

I personally like to learn about vedic astrology and dakshinachara tantra myself.

ggmopa said:

tantra myself.

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its called masturbation

t2van said:

Gym around 4-5am depending on the day it's part of my work cycle so don't class it as a hobby.

Currently teaching my son martial arts and really enjoying that.

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Traditonal martial arts are well underrated mate! Kyokoshin and Shotoka are solid bases. I'd love to do them and mix with wado-ryu and the legendary kishimoto karate too if I had the time. Alas I don't luckily someone at my gym did come from karate background so I can see for myself there efficecies

ggmopa said:

Traditonal martial arts are well underrated mate! Kyokoshin and Shotoka are solid bases. I'd love to do them and mix with wado-ryu and the legendary kishimoto karate too if I had the time. Alas I don't luckily someone at my gym did come from karate background so I can see for myself there efficecies

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What style?

Personally I rate my own it's old school but Goju-Ryu is up there, depending on who your instructor is that can be a serious bit of training to get fucking around in. Other karates styles I don't rate personally.

I done a bit of jiu-jitsu, systema, hapkido, tae kwon do (just for the kicking really WTF style) but wasn't till I got into Silat specifically Pencak Silat did my eyes open. That stuff is just plain nasty.

I've dabled in other art forms over the years but my base is karate (5th dan) and its then heavily influenced by silat my core base is now.

what I liked about our training is you just got taught to walk straight at the guy, no flinching none of that shit (if you did it would go after a month of kicking the shit out of each other) grab the Gi and just batter the shit out of each other till the other person gave up, its not like that so much now (depending where you go)

But that kind of training at a point of my life when I needed, it taught me not to fear anyone, once you know what you can take, give and do to someone, a switch flips and being scared of people or getting hit isn't really a thing anymore (to a degree, most issues of getting scared is more to do with coping with adrenaline pumping through you)

t2van said:

What style?

Personally I rate my own it's old school but Goju-Ryu is up there, depending on who your instructor is that can be a serious bit of training to get fucking around in. Other karates styles I don't rate personally.

I done a bit of jiu-jitsu, systema, hapkido, tae kwon do (just for the kicking really WTF style) but wasn't till I got into Silat specifically Pencak Silat did my eyes open. That stuff is just plain nasty.

I've dabled in other art forms over the years but my base is karate (5th dan) and its then heavily influenced by silat my core base is now.

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Most full contact Karate styles aforementioned at least, judo, tae kwondo like you said for the kicks, bjj, baji quan and even suno. It sounds like a joke. But bouncers would appreciate it. I did a class on Doncaster. Sadly it's just way too far to go regularly for me and there's nothing round here.

ggmopa said:

Most full contact Karate styles aforementioned at least, judo, tae kwondo like you said for the kicks, bjj, baji quan and even suno. It sounds like a joke. But bouncers would appreciate it. I did a class on Doncaster. Sadly it's just way too far to go regularly for me and there's nothing round here.

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I only enjoyed the flashy side of the kicks really. I was always taught just go for inner thigh which is a killer as its not used to taking any kind of punishment (funny how from a baby your outer thigh becomes used to knocks but the smallest of taps inside the thigh can make a grown man cry lol) and then is knees and shins to take the legs from under someone.

TKD I just liked the high flashy stretching stuff side kicks 5ft+ up in the air and so on. Although after my crash all that seems to have been pointless.

My mate done alot of judo, was never my kind of thing did like some of the hip throws but you learn them in karate anyway, then when you mix in the bjj element you can figure enough out. I'm good enough ground work to control someone who has no clue any brown or black belt could probably do me over on the ground.

But if it got that far id be fucked anyway. I keep my hands sharp daily, I think I'm quicker and sharper than I've ever been in my life, if I could chuck what I know now in my 18 year old self and lose the super man attitude ... damn

ggmopa said:

Fook sake lol

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You should make the most of the knowledge you get if you're native Indian. I think it's amazing. There is a reason why everyone from jesuits to the third reich used to obsess about indian and himalayan esoteria.

I personally like to learn about vedic astrology and dakshinachara tantra myself.

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Wow you seem to know a lot about tantra

See if you can also learn energy work as that is something magical