If you’d actually watched any gymnastics at all, you’d know the women would absolutely crush the men, and the men would have...problems...on beam...

I’d kill for someone to perform to Ofra Haza

Medieval Times doesn’t allow women to become knights. A friend of mine who can ride, fight, and ride and fight can’t apply because they do not accept women.

This is lip service only.

The judge is a military vet herself.

Banning words like fetus and transgender is extremely misogynistic and bigoted and dangerous for women and trans* people, but banning evidence-based and science-based is extremely dangerous with repercussions way outside the CDC’s purview. It’s fucking terrifying.

The Stadium in Reykjavik can seat 100,000 - or about a third of the entire country.

That would be awful. Certainly hope that doesn’t happen...

Isn’t first degree murder a death penalty crime in MO anyway?

Yep. I mean, Oly fencing has lights for a reason. Hell, HEMA exchanges are hard enough to follow, and we don’t have replay. It makes judging....hard.

here’s a match from one of our most prestigious events. (I competed, but did not do very well at this particular tournament)

The guys at our club (I’m a member of the club in the video although I was out of town on that day) are cool dudes, and a number of them are military vets with combat service so....

Also, 30 seconds is a looong time for an exchange.... (an average tournament fight runs around 3 mins and can have anything from one or…

If you send me a PM I can give you better advice, but generally I’d recommend checking it out. Even if the distance is too far to stick around, you’ll get familiar with the basics and be able to meet other people in the community who’ll do what they can to help you out!

https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-finders/

We also encourage people to start their own clubs!

Heya - I’m a student at this club. Feel free to ask me any Q’s about HEMA =D

holy shit i feel old now. thanks mid-90s babies....

Not yet, but I’m definitely reading more about it this cycle than last cycle

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned and I’m too lazy to dig through 710 comments - Pharma is one of NJ’s biggest industries soooo. (no, not defending him.)

It’s a pretty well known joke in the Jewish community

This was a hugely insensitive error but please keep in mind it’s editors that choose the headlines, not the writers. So your anger should (rightfully) be directed towards them.

Seda was actually in third going into beam.

The first Russian you saw, Aliya Mustafina, had been, up to that point, in a close battle with Aly Raisman for silver. She was the reason Aly lost out on bronze in 2012. If you didn’t know anything about gymnastics - which is a lot of the primetime audience - Mustafina actually led everyone, including Biles, going…