u/FutureLynx_

I have a capoeira master who told me to never stretch anything significantly before training. Just a 1 little quick stretch and thats it, because you are risking injury.

I have been doing this since then, and it seems better.

I only stretch seriously after training at the end.

Not the best RTS, of your favourite RTS, but the ones that will be played even in 10/20 years.

These 3 by order:

1- Age of Empires 2 DE. Reasons are obvious, its overall the best multiplayer RTS game, ever.

2- Starcraft. Although i dont play it, i can tell why it will always be a top choice.

3- OpenRA / Red Alert 2.

And if there is a Rise of Nations 2. It will surpass all of these.

Is it good in terms of combat? I play Rise of Nations for the Modern Age specifically. Tanks, planes, artillery. Rise of Nations is a fantastic game, but i was wondering if i can find an alternative that is more focused in modern warfare but keeps the same essence of the classic rts games.

I tried Company of Heroes and didn't like it. All Red Alert games except for 1 and 2 i dont like the graphics and the camera perspective. So I was thinking maybe 9 bit armies is a good alternative.

Anyone agrees? It just doesnt click with me the graphics of the other games.

For me peak rts graphics are Stronghold Crusader, AoE2, Rise of Nations, Cossacks 2, Red Alert 2. And i play a lot OpenRA.

When they go 3D, its always a mess.

Anyone agrees? It just doesnt click with me the graphics of the other games.

For me Peak rts graphics are Stronghold Crusader, AoE2, Rise of Nations, Cossacks 2, Red Alert 2. And i play a lot OpenRA.

When they go 3D, its always a mess.

É da marca vatel. Vem com aquela cor rosa natural do sal dos himalayas. E não tem aditivos... Mas é barato demais para ser verdade...

Would be a good way to keep some of us old b-boys wanting to come back. Would be very motivational.

Im very put off with the idea that i will battle some 20 year old

You look at other sports, you see all kinds of people of different levels practicing. Lets say football (European Soccer). You see old people playing it, kids, fat people. It doesnt matter if you are good or bad, there are people who play no matter their level. And most importantly there are a huge portion, the majority should i say of admirers and football fans didn't play for a decade, and these compose the bulk of the supporters/fans.

Look at the fans when a game is about to start in a stadium, all pot belly, drunk, drinking beer. These people dont play football. Do they even understand football?

Now if you look at a bboy event. like 90% of the people attending, are bboys, or at best ex-bboys. Or a close friend of one of the competing bboys.

My theory is that Bboying being super inclusive, it ends emphasizing other parts. It becomes selective and brutal in regards to those who are not b-boys, or are lesser level. If you are not training you are no longer a b-boy.

Nobody cares about your color of skin, or you gender or your culture, right? But they do care about your status and skill... A bit too much for our own detriment? This could be also because of battle culture, and bboy ego.

In high school i used to know many kids who were not into football as a sport, but they were watching all the games, knew all the players. And spent hours debating last night game.

Imagine if we had that in breaking?

But what happens if a bboy stops training, he might as well leave the scene entirely. Because what is he gonna do? Go to an event and feel bad about himself? Thats not necessarily the case. But i think thats how a lot feel.

I remember the first time i got injured. My crew at the time had 0 tolerance about it. They just started saying im training less, and im lazy. The 2nd time i got injured i didnt even show up anymore... see?

TLDR: We should value bboys who are no longer practicing. Should appreciate people who dont want to practice.

I like to push things to the limit.

So i first train with my heaviest weight and do as much as I can.

Then instantly i pick up a low weight and do more with it, and feel it really burning. I really like to do this.

The muscle also gets really pumped doing this.

I do this also with handstands. I train handstands. And then after i need to stop. Right after i lift a weight above the head.

Also feels great and pumps the arm muscles a lot.

I read a comment saying that even top b-boys are eating ramen noodles for dinner. I know this an exageration, but this was one of the main reasons that i quit when i was young.

In my crew I was the wealthiest, and i was the one quitting, a lot due to the fact i needed to study hard and work hard. I had this feeling that I was being childish and postponning the inevitable end.

B-boying is by far the most intensive and time demanding sport/hobbie i have done in my life. It requires you to be a dancer, but also be creative, strong and flexible. And then we have battles.

Compare it to someone who practices yoga. You dont have to be on the beat, you dont have to be creative, and you will not have battles. Orders of magnitude easier, and much less time consuming.

So this is why i decided to abruptly cut it off, than just trying to half ass it. Half assing b-boying means you will be less than mediocre. But you will still spend enough time and mental time in it, that it could probably make me distracted or bored of my actual career. That way i would not have a career and still be average.

My crew kept going. But i heard them in the last years complaining about money, and how this show here, and this event and that event is not worth it.

I was always an average b-boy. Toprock, footwork, freezes, flare, turtle, not much else. But i have a ton of other life experiences, because i quit b-boying. This is the truth. During the time I was a b-boy, I was almost fully into it, and nothing else.

B-boys are like dreamers, warriors, gladiators.

One thing i can tell you, a little side note. The closest archetype that i met in the professional world, in terms of personality, are Gamedevs.

Gamedevs are also driven by passion, intense belief that they will make it against all odds. They struggle too, because it barely pays, and its super competitive, because there are a ton of gamedevs in the world, and a lot work for peanuts. Very skilled people, very determined and dedicated.

In terms of personality, Gamedevs are just as cool as b-boys. And that contrasts with other professionals i came accross, for example architects (that have sticks up their asses ahah). They are very openminded, chill type of people like b-boys. A lot of times helpful, and they help each other a lot. I didnt see this in other fields and other professionals. B-boys and Gamedevs were the best people on average i have met in this life. I have been everywhere, and everyone else falls short. Angry, problematic people exist everywhere, but b-boying and gamedev is where i found it to be the most inclusive and coolest of all.

Anyways, i digress. I wish i was billionaire, and created a fund, to pay for all your food etc... And a facility for you to live and train. All you would need to do, is train hard. Wouldn't that be cool, if some of us became billionaires and stood up for our own...

I just try to push it to the limits. Then become sore.

Last training session i did as an example, 40 babyfreezes, with sets of 10, One after the other, like gym sets. Then many other exercises, airbabies, airchairs, handstands, footwork etc... Training session lasted 2 hours and half, and it was non stop.

Now im quite sore. So im resting for 1 day or 2, because i know during recovery, if we train again, it might be counterproductive.

Just want to know if im causing harm by overdoing it, and why would it? In my mentality the more the better, to create both psychological and physical resistance but i dont know...

Is it because they barely have any weight? I see some bboys look so weak, with barely no arms. Like they are skinny fat. And yet, they can do flares, and freezes that are hard. Will they lose these if they gain some weight? Even though i can see my abs, im a bit bulky. For me to do those i have to train a lot because i weight more i think.

I think bboying is easier for shorter and skinny guys, like bboy pocket. The others have to work 100x more to get the same.

I know this is real, because i was sick once, and lost a lot of muscle and weight. And it was easy to do everything.

Do we gain flexibility back if we lose muscle/weight?

It is more fun. Graphics are better. Has different ages, so you can play classical, medieval, enlightment, modern age.

Its the only decent standard RTS with modern historical units, if we dont consider COH.

Armies behave more like armies and need to form around the general, so its more tactical.

It has territory borders, and attrition. The economy is more simplified and better.

The cavalry archer behave like cavalry archer and shoot while they move.

Buildings have inflation so you dont just build as much as you want of one building.

Has wonders that actually make sense.

And many other things.

It is a very well executed concept.

In my dream, we were paid to battle. But we had to battle every week and train everyday almost 24/7. A lot like Dragon Ball Z.

Thats it all we had to do was training, eat, sleep, battle. All my injuries were gone, and I was young again.

What a beautiful dream. Then i wake up here where i can barely train again and im in my late 30's.

So yesterday i did 50 airchairs minimum. 5 sets of 10 archairs. Did the same for elbow freeze, handstands, airbaby, baby freeze.

Did weights too and a lot of conditioning exercises.

After that i did a bit of footwork and toprock.

Now today im very sore. So i have to rest today, and maybe tomorrow i have to rest again.

I was wondering if instead of doing so much, i should do less, so that i can train everyday. Instead of pushing myself to the limits and then recover for 2 days...

What do you think?

im looking for a trailer that had the music of Fools Garden - Lemon Tree (Isolation is not good for me) as background music. The b-boy was asian. I dont think it was b-boy Pocket, though im not sure. It had a lot of conditioning exercises that work the shoulder and the arms, good for freezes and combination of freezes. It was mostly him training in his room, these conditioning exercises, and not much else.

The video was between 2011-2015. It was very motivational and inspiring.

Please if someone knows the video, or the b-boy in the video, let me know.

My friend is telling me to breath when i do the freeze. Is this correcT? Its hard for me to breath when i do these freezes cause they require strength. So maybe this is an old habit?

Do you really need to breath? And if yes how do you do it? Do you inhale while doing it or do you exhale when doing it?