After a certain age, you have to pay for non-softplay.

Bushcraft eh?

I did fencing at school. I highly recommend not doing it.

I'd say it's worth having a stab at, you might enjoy it! Me? I don't always see the point

I do all types of bushcraft. Groupon is the way to go for that llolololo

Read that as skid pant testing.

I never went bothying, that's still on my list.

How about an experience that is altruistic rather than hedonistic?

The beer sounds fun. The rest, not so much.

Liveinadive wrote:

The others I have done are 40% health and safety lecture, 20% experience and the rest watching other people's experience.

And the car ones have you on limited revs, while their instructors get to ‘show you how it's done’ in their lap cars. You're paying to give them a licence to have fun, as you're talked down to and made to potter around. I did one as an intended warm-up before a race (in a FF1600), and it was a complete waste of time and money.

If there's anywhere that just sticks a bunch of cones on an airfield and lets you tear around in your own car, you can learn a lot more doing that. You don't need a fast car at all — just a permit to push whatever you have without old Captain Tut.

Mine shouted ‘Brake! Brake! Brake!’ approaching a chicane, causing me to lose the first apex and screw my exit because I was braking for too long to satisfy his order. I could've easily hit it by easing off and carrying more cornerspeed. Exits were always my weakness*, but I was decent at braking and had good cornerspeed.

*The general rule of sacrificing entry for exit's only written in stone when a longish straight follows, whereas maximising your entry if it's followed by a short straight can sometimes pay.

The arguments come about when there's something like a chicane into a short straight, followed by a medium turn into a long straight. My belief was that if you have to brake slightly for the medium following a fast exit from the chicane, you should maximise chicane-entry until you're just at the point of not having to brake for the medium. But many instructors believe that you gain from a fast chicane-exit with some left-foot braking for the medium. Either they're indoctrinated by the slow-in/fast-out rule, or those of us who question them — other instructors included — are wrong.

Whatever the case, I've never taken blunt instruction well when it comes to racing. Even if something's best on paper, it might not be best for a given driver. Balancing the car on entry was my strength, so I was prone to running a little bit hot at times. But I knew that.

Wookienopants wrote:

If you want an experience unlike any other come join us for our annual fight camp in three weeks time. 2 nights and3 days of martial artists campingout under the stars, fighting all day long and drinking beer round a fire all night. It's brilliant. Best getaway from the family ever

If everyone's wearing head guards and those padded sumo suits I'm in.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

If you want an experience unlike any other come join us for our annual fight camp in three weeks time. 2 nights and3 days of martial artists campingout under the stars, fighting all day long and drinking beer round a fire all night. It's brilliant. Best getaway from the family ever

If everyone's wearing head guards and those padded sumo suits I'm in.

Nope.


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Are you sure they're fighting?

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Are you sure they're fighting?

There was the occasional teabagging incident

Wookienopants wrote:

Dino, have you tried indoor skydiving?

DOen't last long, and the landing is painful