Rode the Talladega National Forest yesterday with a Land Rover and 2 built LJRs (both owned by the same guy!)
What did you do to your TJ today?
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Kiwi TJ
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Probably is, out of my 4 TJ'S none have had locking caps, go figure.
Kiwi TJ
I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute
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Drove her 4.5 hours from Indiana to Illinois to give her a new home with my twelve year old son and dad. Looking forward to getting her the way I want with my kids.
Technically yesterday, but made some simple clean aluminum a pillar brackets and finally got the lights wired.
Went with some KC's today
WestCoastDan
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I did this.
I swear I used the factory holes.
Got damned near the whole side repaired now.
I swear I used the factory holes.
Got damned near the whole side repaired now.
Nobody steals fuel in OZ but we all got locking caps? lol I think its so you dont leave your cap behind at the pump
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Yep the same! perhaps its because we can multi skill a bit better than the yanks? Afteral they stop in sixth and then put it in first lol
a keyed-alike locking gas cap was a factory option in the US
IKR SMHI know right, forgot you ain't up to speed on all this texting lingo.
Seeing as I don't text - and this isn't a text conversation, you're right! I'm not a teenaged girl...I know right, forgot you ain't up to speed on all this texting lingo.
Seeing as I don't text - and this isn't a text conversation, you're right! I'm not a teenaged girl...
What's more important is How do you identify?
As an increasingly tired, old dude. And definitely increasingly grumpy!
I heard wearing them belly dancer outfits will do that to a guy!!!!!As an increasingly tired, old dude. And definitely increasingly grumpy!
10, 20 years ago, I could walk into a class, strike a pose and start dancing. Starting about 5 years ago or so, I found I had to stretch, warm up, and all kinds of crap like that. What's up with that?I heard wearing them belly dancer outfits will do that to a guy!!!!!
It has been my honor to sit at the knee of any number of old crones to learn as they all had BTDT. Now *I* am the crone, and passing wisdom down to the next generation. I don't know how many more years I'll be able to do this - most dancers seem to retire around age 70, not sure I'll make it that far.
I've got a question while you're here. I've been dealing with back issues off and on for a bit, and researching recovery let me do Dr. Stuart McGill (I highly recommend his "Back Mechanic" book). Anyways I was listening to him in an interview and he talked about the tradeoff between flexibility and stability/strength. On the stable end of the spectrum he talked about strong-man competitors who struggled to tie their own shoes but could lift and carry tremendous weight. On the flexible end of the spectrum he brought up belly dancers with super supple spines, but they had so little core stability that they couldn't do a single sit up.
So I'm wondering if that's true? Can you and your fellow dancers do a sit up?
He's certainly right about weight lifters and similar having flexibility issues, but I don't know where he got his info about Belly Dancers as the dance form increases core strength. The "sweet young thangs" usually have ab strength that is just incredible. A story: A lot of dancers can do what's called a layback (backbend and further back with the legs), and then they'll slowly lower themselves towards the floor, and when they reach the edge of their strength, they'll drop down into a Turkish fold (laying on back but with calves folded under thighs - sitting on heels basically). The stronger ones can get lower before dropping, and the drop is controlled. Ok - so there was one dancer who was doing this at a show I was at. Only she never dropped - she just lowered herself all the way down very slowly, then did some snakey movements down there without her shoulders/back ever touching the floor. The hall went nuts!
THEN ....
SHE CAME BACK UP! Incredible knee, thigh, calf, and core strength. The hall went INSANE!
So yea, if the dancer does any kind of floor work, they'll have a very strong core. As for myself, my core strength is the best its ever been in my life - BUT - I've always had problems with situps, push ups, and pull ups, although of the 3, situps have always been the easiest. I've never been able to do a single pull up in my life, and my arms tire quickly with any kind of overhead work - dancing or otherwise. I'm working on it - I get my ass kicked weekly by "Bianca" who has us dance with hand weights. Its tonite...
WITH ALL THAT SAID: I had a dance sister who developed some kind of strange ligament condition and had to give up dancing as a result. Her ligaments apparently became loose/stretched out - some kind of congenital defect I think - so she had to give up dancing so that her muscles would tighten up and take the load. It really sucked as she was a beautiful dancer, and actually the gal who first got me interested in Belly Dance.
A lot of Doctors actually recommend Belly Dancing for people with bad backs - I can't begin to count the number of dance sisters I've known who started on the rec from their Doc. We even had an older male in one class who was there for that reason. His doc had told him that "If you were a woman, I'd send you to a Belly Dance class" - he apparently replied "I don't care, if it'll help, I'm there". He didn't perform or anything, but he was there every week - Hell, he probably still is. Told me it helped him immeasurably. I too had some back problems from a repetitive motion injury right about the same time I first started. I demonstrated a "Camel" or "Full body undulation" to my Chiropractor. "You keep on doing that and you'll never have back problems again." So far, he's been right and that was 21 years ago!
I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on the Internet. So talk to YOUR doctor and see if a Belly Dance class is right for you!