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I run a martial arts gym for 5+ year olds. I have about 600 sqft of unused space in my studio. Some of the parents have suggested to convert that space into lounge/flex work space, so the parents can get work done or just have a space to relax, instead of waiting in their cars/ or in the gallery. This maybe especially true for parents who pick up kids at 3:00 and would like to bring them straight to my class.

I will incur some renovation costs on this undertaking and the only way to recover is to charge some kind of a membership fee, a small fee like $50/month.

What do the parents in this group have to say – would you pay this fee to access a lounge/flex working space, while your kid is attending martial arts class that typically runs for about 45min. Parents are of course free to use the flex space beyond 45 min of class time or as long as they want.

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Read at your own discretion.

I understand team ninja normally puts their characters in some of the newer titles to normally reference something.

I think Williams being in the game references the end of the Nioh series....

Because no Spirit arts,he still uses his sword martial arts after all it's named after the series.

So much of a word as he just straight up attacks you I don't know if there's a way for you to spare him but I think this man has damn near hollowed..

After all this is taking place possibly after his final DLC with the sanada clan...

(I could be extremely wrong, cuz if I remember correctly William is neither living nor dead... As I'm pretty sure he could fold us like an omelet if they didn't nerf him to our level)

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I am 23. I love the sport but I have only trained it few times. I would love to start putting a lot of effort into the sport and take it seriously. I love the idea of competiting but I feel like it might be too late for me since I don't have martial arts background etc.. However I have trained tricking for like 6 years (backflips, twists, kicks etc...) so I would say I have pretty good body control which would probably help with Muay Thai(?).

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I'm on mobile so forgive any errors. This is the one battle I couldn't win. I've been doing martial arts since I was a kid. It's saved my life on a few occasions

But now I'm just done. I have no motivation anymore. All my research feels meaningless

Staring at my black belt is painfully and I'm honestly thinking I should chuck it with my gloves and my old uniforms

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As the title says I'm curious if martial arts a viable option for getting a femme body? If so any particular type?

I have been on HRT for 3 years with minimal results, and frankly just working out by myself isn't fun or enjoyable for me, and personal trainers are expensive. I used to do taekwondo, but feel of it in Highschool. Lately I have been getting an ich for martial arts and have been thinking about getting back into it.

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Ramon seems to give me lu tian vibes

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Hi friends, I have a question for you all but it requires some context. I was born with cerebral palsy, I use an electric wheelchair. I am not what you might expect when you picture the stereotypical image of someone in an electric wheelchair . I'm still incredibly mobile and have decent core control and great use of my arms. I have been training in taekwondo since I was very young. I know, it's ironic, the person that can't kick ends up training in the kick-focused martial art haha. Let's just say I wanted to do everything my brother did. My instructor is like a second father to me. Over the years, we developed sort of my own take on the martial art, using hand techniques and the weight of my wheelchair itself in sparring matches. Yes, I don't have lateral mobility, that is true, sidestepping is nearly impossible. I have to drop a hand to move because I use a joystick. What I do have however, is a 300 lb machine underneath me that can be used to control movement and push someone towards an Environment where lateral movement is not as possible . Takedowns can also be really easy if you get folks in the right place as I can put more force behind using the wheelchair, as opposed to an average person using their own body. I get to use both. Drawbacks are the obvious lateral mobility and hand dropping issues, currently working on that in terms of seeing what other drive modes are out there and also difficulty with hip rotation from a seated position. Consistently working on that as well. The time has come for me to cross train in another martial art. I was looking at wing chun as I know it can be a really good supplemental martial art when you already have extensive experience in terms of training, sensitivity, etc. in addition to the fact that I will always be fighting at close range given my situation, which is the optimal range for that martial art as far as I know. I just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were on maybe a good martial art for me to go to next as I'm at the crossroads. And please spare me the ableist comments of it would never work. And why are you doing this? I'm doing it because I want to and I know it does work. I've encountered more ableism than I can think of in the martial arts community, especially at tournaments. If you're still reading, thank you so much and I'm looking forward to hearing the responses.

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Since the dawn of storytelling, every type of story began as a short story. Being between 1.5k - 7.5k words, the short story was only called that after the normalization of novels. Before we could write things down, every story was told orally, passed down through generations, and was told in order to have a point. The words had to be remembered, forcing each word to hold more weight and require more symbolic power. The former norm of short stories is now treated as the abnormal way of making a living from storytelling.

Novels are popular. People will say they’re writing, then say they’re writing a novel, as if this is nothing to shake a stick at. 60k - 100k words means the novel is between 13 - 40 times longer than the short story, requiring 13 - 40 times the effort, yet bringing not much more in profit when both are ignored. The waste of time the novel becomes is far more disastrous to the morale of a writer than the time sink of a short story. The biggest killer of art is attrition, due to a missing desire to continue going, caused by the missing profit.

My writer’s journey began at the age of 12, making crappy little webcomics that will never see the light of day. Naturally, these stories were silly and childish, but held the building blocks I needed in order to understand storytelling. Ever since, I have expanded into serials and novels, but the short story is where I always fall back on. I don’t have one thing to say, or one world to examine. I have many places to explore and many things to say, because I am a human who’s into art for the sake of art itself.

You might say there is more money in novels than short stories, because you can always sell a novel. Put money into a cover, put it on paper, and you’re set for passive income. Unfortunately, novels take months to write, if not years, depending on how much is practice vs competence. If I told you to go to a casino with a month's worth of wage, and you’ll see your results after several months of gambling, only to come out with a day's worth of wage, you’d tell me I’m crazy. If an artist stayed in front of their computer and did it with a novel, they’d say something went wrong that was not their fault.

Short stories are faster at coming out and getting feedback. They are more appealing to our population that’s increasing in ADHD, both for the writer and the reader. There are many places you can post your short stories to have random people find them. People are even willing to voice act for short stories when they have a narration focus to them, such as creepypastas or silly stories that become memed. Ironically, the more profitable choice between novels and short stories is the choice that makes you spread it around for free.

The more indirect ways you can get paid, the better.

Like the fables of Aesop, you’re able to say the same thing in many different ways. With only 7 plots and so few options for genres, our choices are narrowed down to very specific stories that work. The short story allows a writer to figure out what that is, faster than a novel would allow, and they can then understand their strength. This is a critical step for a writer to understand, because there is no profit to be had until a positive reaction is gained from something they made. I don’t mean your mom likes your writing or your friends pat you on the back.

You need to have your writing approved by random strangers and treated like it’s a new drug they just found.

The short story writer is a production machine, creating a formula for every story. Their system is to be time efficient, focused on specific plots of specific genres, following the appeal of previous stories before them. They make sure trends are their friends, while making sure to take different tropes from different areas to test the waters. They do not subvert for the sake of being special, but instead obey the rules established by a historical line of success. The short story writer is willing to repeat themselves over and over again, going through the same act of opening and the same act of closing until it’s second nature.

The novel writer works out while the short story writer performs martial arts. Both of these strengthen our muscles, but the short story strengthens our muscle memory much faster. Both bring celebrity, but the short story brings utility. The goal of writing in the beginning is to make sure you don’t lose your money, staying away from as much loss as possible. The short story writer is able to do this, by avoiding the pitfall of the novel's time trap.

Short stories are fueled by their genres, mostly related to the exploitation of things like erotica and horror. Fiction is led by what people buy, which is fueled by emotional moods that people want to feel for the time being. Even the fantasy and crime dramas of pulp were influenced by the demand of bombastic escapism. But the mundane is almost more appealing for how familiar it is to the reader, with slice of life stories finding their place as well. No matter the genre, always make it a mix of what you’re interested in and what people are reading; making the story as close as possible to what is sought.

Stay relatable, even when you’re engaged in a niche. You must love the genre you enter, with a passion for keeping it intact. Try to wedge yourself into a place you don’t belong and you’ll stick out. Do not believe the other writers in your genre, because they are either equally clueless or intentionally committed to ill will. The only things you can trust to follow are numbers, logic, and money.

Writing short stories, as often as you can, will bring you your writing voice faster than anything else. Your voice is important in creating your flavor, which is your signature, allowing you to be you. The reader should know it’s you and care that it’s you, because that’s how you create celebrity. A lovecraftian story was not called such because Lovecraft was chaotic and random. We knew it was him from the type of story it was, because his voice was firmly established and easily recognizable.

Many writers will demonize formulas and outlines, calling them stale or restrictive. This is an excuse for being chaotic and nonsensical, as well as a way to ignore the audience entirely. The fact that you’re no longer dedicating months of your life to one story is the fact you need to shift into a more formulaic mindset. The most popular TV shows are the most formulaic, always shifting the slightest things and keeping everything else. Money comes to you by being familiar and easily recognizable, not by being obscure and esoteric.

Writing stories for free is the best way to market, because it shows you the unrestricted peak of possibility. The paywall is a deterrent for the customer, which is why people are not willing to pay something like $1 for a short story, unless it’s something like a highly niche erotica. However, the short story becomes a formidable power when you open it to other avenues. You can sell them, narrate them, turn them into comics, combine them into collections, make a steady stream of them on a substack, get money from advertisement. Become popular enough and you can make a patreon that is powered entirely on your constant short story creation, being treated as a daily or weekly form of entertainment.

The goal is to engage in all of this until you are a master of your field. Once that happens, what’s stopping you from buying the short stories of others and making your own publishing house? Are you afraid of uncertainty when you’re already well versed in what sells? Artists make themselves trapped in the rat race due to the rejection of going from worker to owner. With so much knowledge and ability, and for all of that to go to waste once the artist quits, is a shame. There is nothing to worry about with a publishing house as long as less money is spent than what is earned.

If anything, people are unaware of the option of making an LLC and starting their own line of writers. For most people, it’s the idea of having to be in charge that feels intimidating, especially if they are not the leader type. Pulp magazines of the past required a massive amount of investment in order to stand a chance, because of how much physical product had to be produced. But in the digital age, that is not a concern in the slightest. In fact, so many companies are converting to becoming solely digital and subscription based, sticking to a Netflix-style method of operation.

Going from doing things for free to freeing yourself feels like a pipe dream. This is because the world requires more than what it gives back… in the beginning. Similar to how a baby takes everything their parents give and doesn’t work for a wage to pay it back, any creation requires time for it to reach that “working age”. The fruits of our labor must be watered, must be given nutrition, and given time to grow. For many, those months or years of labor, only to come back with nothing, seems like torture.

But to the successful artist, who holds the mind of a business owner, they understand that investments are that way in every department. No true fiction writer has only one story. Give a short story writer infinite time, and they will crank out infinite stories. It’s not a market problem, it’s a mentality problem. That’s why making money with short stories is not just the easiest, but it’s the easiest one to do for free.

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I'm not too fixated on what style. BJJ, Wrestling, Muay Thai, whatever. I just want to get more active. Something that involves sparring would be preferable. I have no illusions about actually learning to fight from this.

I want to add that I'd like this to be fun as well and want the vibe to be somewhat social if possible. I used to go to torontobjj back in 2017 and that was nice enough. Back then I was having back ache so I stopped. So it's one place to consider. More recently I was practicing elsewhere but the guys there were just way too serious. It's like they were practicing for war.

Please let me know your suggestions. If you could include the major intersection that would be helpful though of course not necessary.

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Looking for a show I watched when I was a kid. It was an asian martial art show (I think either Chinese or Vietnamese). The characters has the queue hairstyle. I remember the mc is like a really powerful martial art guy and he has a student with him. At the end of the series, there was a big battle with all the good guys and all the bad guys. It was pretty gruesome and most of the good guy died. I think only the mc and one girl lived post battle.

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Hey guys. Getting back into Kenshi after 2 years after going on a Kenshi Youtube binge. I'm currently on day 25 on the 20,000 bounty + random good sword skeleton start and have amassed myself a nice little fortune of 75k, and I've also just recruited sadneil. I currently have one shack in the Hub and a longhouse in Squint. Here are my two bois' stats and here's a nice little collection of goods I've (definitely legally) requisitioned.

I definitely want to have my main guy (Apollo) be a crossbow master and hopefully a martial artist as well, while I've put Sadneil on Saber/damage sponge/research for now. Aside from strength/toughness/thievery training for Sadneil, what are some things I could do in the immediate future? I could resell all the weapons I'm sitting on for easy money if needed to start my own base, but I'd rather keep them for the army I plan to recruit and I'm a bit intimidated by what that would entail, and because of my UC bounty and being a skeleton I only have Shek lands to choose from. Ideally, my goal is to have an all-skeleton crew (best race in the game can't change my mind) and start a hashish farm with a clothing business as a front (just for rp purposes), with all my dudes robbing every single faction blind while they're not working.

Also would be open to bounty hunting as well. Accidentally aggro'd Tora's whole camp while exploring and cheesed all of them with my crossbow lol

I'd appreciate any cheesy tips to train martial arts fast as well. Don't want to get my shit kicked in by starving bandits for 50 more in game days when I could just take on two whole groups with the crossy

Thanks y'all!

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Hello there! I'm Lewis from Scotland. I'm 28 and an avid traveller. I've been all over the world to every continent except Antarctica (yet). Do let me know about your own adventures, where's the best place you've been or what's your dream destination?

I also love the outdoors and nature in general. I love cooking and baking, martial arts, sports, reading, writing, video games and much more.

I'm really interested in travel, culture, history, space, science, psychology, true crime, unsolved mysteries and all sorts, so feel free to talk about whatever takes your fancy, I enjoy hearing about people's passions and interest.

I'm looking to make some new connections with thoughtful people from all over the world. I'd like to chat a bit see where things develop. Ideally looking for friendship or short term conversation. Location and age is no issue for me.

Feel free to reach out with a message or a chat request! You can ask me anything or tell me all about yourself.

Hope to hear from you soon.

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