u/Gaheli1

Am wondering how many people experienced this. It goes like this.

New trainee is training mits with coach. Coach advises to keep their hands up. Trainee does for a bit, then gets tired and gets sloppy. Coach says keep your hands up and starts throwing annoying but firm jabs to the openings. New trainee corrects for a bit, but gets sloppy after a while. Coach throws a haymaker and says that’s why you keep your hands up. New trainee finally internalizes the message and makes major long term improvement on not dropping hands.

Anyone else or just me?

*edit, this is not day one of walking in the gym, but a few months of regular training and being told to keep your hands up

Any ISM people here? For those unfamiliar, ISM denominations are small (sometimes tiny) independent collections of churches that practice the sacraments and liturgies in the style of larger denominations but with their own separate beliefs and culture, without rule or acknowledgement from major denomination.

Not all are, but there are many ISM groups that are very LGBT friendly, allowing full ordination for all who are capable and qualified.

Most have little financial resources and unpaid clergy. Most parishes rent churches from a larger denominations or hold liturgy in house church settings.

There are some ism denominations that have all the same harmful ideologies of major groups, but many are very progressive. A quick look around the website usually paints a good picture.