Whats your hobby?

Hello mates!

Everthing is fine for you? I hope so

I want to introduce my hobby to you. I do this not so long like the ppl on the video, but i will soon take part at my first tournament which is really fun and i am already excited
I train around 10 hours per week and together with nexuiz its THE hobby i have


Taekwon Do


Things like the breaking of wood pillars on my neck is not what i am actually doing *lol* Otherwise i couldn't post here anymore
Enjoy it and show your own hobbies aswell

Cool hobby Marc. 10 hours per week is quite some dedication too, keep it up.

Skiing & Mountain biking is what I like to do. Not skied for almost a year now, hopefully get a week or two sometime this winter.
I also enjoy endurance cycling like coast to coasts & 100 mile races, tho that can wait 'till spring - too damn cold & dark now.

So getting fat seems to be my hobby for the winter.

Good luck with your tournament m8

Growl/Splash/whatever wrote:

show your own hobbies aswell

ohh bad question...
I guess for having a hobby you need at first a life?
*just kidding*

My hobbies:
- Tabletenis (Active in a tt-club since 4 years)
- Allt hings related to Computers (Surprise,surprise )
- cause I have (in oppostite to some guys ) the abillity of reading: Books (mostly fantasy)

cu.

P.S: it still takes some time with the "hi-bot" - be patient for some days [weeks]

lost wrote:

Skiing & Mountain biking is what I like to do. Not skied for almost a year now, hopefully get a week or two sometime this winter.
I also enjoy endurance cycling like coast to coasts & 100 mile races, tho that can wait 'till spring - too damn cold & dark now.

I never tried skiing in my live yet, but it must be a nice feeling. Problem is that i live in part of germany where we don't have much snow(almost never) and no hills/mountains for skiing
If i haven't had to buy the equibment i will try it out next year maybe
I can do a bit of skateboarding, maybe this helps me when i stand on ski or snowboard.

Endurance cycling is a also a nice hobby, but how long it takes you to drive 100 miles ? That must be some hours??
I have a racer(the bikes with thin wheels^^) myself and drive it when i have time and the weather is nice

lost wrote:

Good luck with your tournament m8 Cool

Thanks Tony, I will do my best

Brecht van Bommel wrote:

Tabletenis (Active in a tt-club since 4 years)

I also played tabletennis in a club 10 years ago, but then i became interested in girls/parties and to hang around with myfriends. I think you can call it
Puberty and the training weren't so important anymore. But it's fun to play when u are good, wich ligue you play?

Any tips for fantasy books to read? I like them too(lord of the rings, Anne Rice books of the Vampire Lestat etc.) and I have lots of time while i am stretching legs and stuff for Taekwondo and withput a good book it gets really boring

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but how long it takes you to drive 100 miles ? That must be some hours??

With a few good climbs it's about 6 hours, with a few mountains it's a little more. I'm happy if I can average 16mph over such distances.

^ not much when compared to the >20mph that's seen on the tour de France tho.

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But it's fun to play when u are good, wich ligue you play?

not really good Its enough for the 3rd ligue ("3 Kreisliga Herren Oberfranken" to be exactly ). Its just a hobby for having fun.
Books:
Tip: Hohlbein is my favourite author....
you should try these one..I liked them
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_(Hohlbein) (<- you should fill the complete link in your URL-bar, automatic linking didnt work )

you german right Growl?

If you are the book Drachenmeer is really nice

if you are having more the clan of the otori series are even better than this

well, my hobbies are very usual

football and tennis^^

Nexuiz is my hobby
I like to read books , one of my favorites are Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Brecht van Bommel wrote:

Tip: Hohlbein is my favourite author....

I already read something from Hohlbein before and it was a nice story, but it was a book of another series of him and i only read the middle-part oO
A bit confusing.
I ordered the first part from the Anders-Series from Amazon right now. I will give it a try soon

lost wrote:

not much when compared to the >20mph that's seen on the tour de France tho.

But i think u don't take drugs to higher your power Except 3l of Coffee per day
Hope this doesn't hurt your sportive mind...i know some bike-fans don't like it when u talk about the dark side of tour de france

N4t4s wrote:

Yes, i am german we already talked ingame, didn't we?
I will give the drachenmeer book a try after i read Spohst suggestion...or maybe not if the Hohlbein books are so great i will consume the whole series in no time

You have enough time for 2 sportive hobbies? I always thought tennis would be easy, but it's a lot faster in reality than on TV To be true mostly i didn't hit the court most of the time

@banshee
Terry Pratchett is also fantasy? Sci-Fi maybe?

yeah Terry Pratchett is fantasy writer, I like his sense of humor

I am just back from my tournament and i make the 3rd place
And i am very proud about this, thats why i post it here^^

I was fighting with the other noobs(7 people in my group), so the tough guys are fighting in own ligue/dimension *hehe*

I look like this now but it was fun:



Maybe my shorts have another look^^


I bought myself the book "inkheart" where the movie comes out now...i have good hopes that it's a cool book to read.

You took a wrench into a Taekwondo tournament & came 3rd? What did the other guys have, sledge hammers? Taekwondo must have changed since I last watched it on TV...

Seriously tho, nice work Marc.

Any future tournaments on the cards?

I don't read the genre but that book has some great reviews, hope you enjoy it. I picked up 'The Wood' by Harlan Coben today, should give me something to do at work next week...

There are too kinds of Taekwondo, WTF and ITF.

I think you watched WTF at the TV, it's nearly 100% fighting with the legs, because u aren't allowed to hit the head with your fists.
So WTF looks pretty cool and have a lot more usefull kickmoves, because u arent in danger that someone knocks u when u are turning around.

ITF is what i do:
You are allowed do kick and box to everywhere over the belt(just not in the back), it's around 70% to 30% more leg-action than with the fists.
We have a smaller repertoir of usefull moves(it becomes more if u get faster) but u can make points with the fists, which is more realistic in my opinion. That's how i got a black eye: one kick and a fast box to the head oO....well, i was slow

I will take part at the german mastership and the regional championship in Hapkido, which is similar to taekwondo...i train both sports, because it's a nice addition.
I don't know if i take part at any other tournaments in the next taekwondo-future, need to train more first

I read an excerpt of "The woods" and it sounds good. Maybe i will read it soon, if i don't forget. I need a good book in english, because my english isn't getting better atm^^ Need to improve a bit

wow, congratz M, nice

Congratz m8, i think i wouldn´t make this don´t like getting hit.

on ltlle question where is Hapkido?

sounds like asia

Thanks

Hapkido is like Taekwondo a koren martialarts-system. It is mainly a selfdefense system and consists in (sry i need german language to describe it): Kicks/Boxen/Hebel/Nerventechniken/Würfe/Feger(Low Kicks)/Fallschule etc.
Tournamens are rare and participants even more

wait Nerventechniken?

Sounds painful^^

Lucky im not having a dangerous sport
staing at football
there is a cruciate ligament rupture(Kreuzbandriss) watin for me^^

Oh it is painfull, but it's always i nice feeling the pain is getting less

Football is one of the most dangerous sports i know...

How long do you play?

Do u actually have a cruciate ligament rupture(Kreuzbandriss)? Kreuzband braucht ja ziemlich lange zum heilen -.-

hm... know the feeling when the pain gets less^^ really nice feeling

hm football wait since im 5 so 9 jears now

ne hatte noch keinene Kreuzbandriss(zum Glück) n paar freunde hats scho erwischt

hatte bisher nur nen augenhöhlenbruch und war halb blind weil mein auge zugeschwollen war

How the hell u got an augenhöhlenbruch? eye socket fracture?

Which position do you play?

hm well in the time i got it i was goalkeeper-.-

this is kind of mebarrasing

i wanted the ball bouncing of my fists but the shot was harder than i thought so I hit myself with my fists in the eye

Now im in an other club and there im playing defensive midfield

much more fun

N4t4s wrote:

hit myself with my fists in the eye

ouch

Okay honeys,

I had my first rated tournament today in Hapkido-fighting

The 2nd place went to Growl(prophets)

Now i am vice champion of the german state nordrheinwestfalen (equal to Texas in USA ^^) in the category men below 142 pounds



My head is aching a lot and it hurts when i want to eat something cause I got some hard kicks to the head....but i am happy and wanted to say it


I share my live with u

Nice going m8.

Ur rly below 142 pounds? You don't look Chinese

Hope your head recovers soon m8.

woah gratz M
and I wish Ya recover fast m8