How do you get your adrenaline pumping?

[hpracing007]

@zidhai

@hpracing007

I think electric karts are good for beginners (that’s what I’m racing). They go about 45 mph and since there is not as much noise, you can really focus on shapening basic skills.

Yes, a better option I feel would be the gasoline run automatic karts

@hpracing007

read a book on it before

Sceptical, any recommendation?

I bought this book a while ago but I need to make myself read it this week for a race on sunday.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Speed-Secrets-Complete-High-Performance/dp/0760340501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414504610&sr=8-1&keywords=ultimate+speed+secrets

[system]

@hpracing007

@zidhai

@hpracing007

I think electric karts are good for beginners (that’s what I’m racing). They go about 45 mph and since there is not as much noise, you can really focus on shapening basic skills.

Yes, a better option I feel would be the gasoline run automatic karts

@hpracing007

read a book on it before

Sceptical, any recommendation?

I bought this book a while ago but I need to make myself read it this week for a race on sunday.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Speed-Secrets-Complete-High-Performance/dp/0760340501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414504610&sr=8-1&keywords=ultimate+speed+secrets

Hmmm, it has excellent reviews.

Ordered for curiosity’s sake. Let’s see if it can help shave a few seconds off. Thanks.

[Analti_Calte_Equity]

@zidhai

@hpracing007

I think electric karts are good for beginners (that’s what I’m racing). They go about 45 mph and since there is not as much noise, you can really focus on shapening basic skills.

Yes, a better option I feel would be the gasoline run automatic karts

@hpracing007

read a book on it before

Sceptical, any recommendation?

Or the street legal go karts : Lotus Elise — fun to drive, corners like a go kart, very high skid pad

Nissan GTR would be an adrenaline rush - 0 -60 in 2.7. I haven’t driven one before though

[former_trader]

@Kan-yeezy

@former_trader

He is almost 50 and asking for 50 in damages.

Its quite an interesting case with social media blowing up on both sides… It will be interesting to see when/if all the facts come out.

Wont lie though, had no idea who he was until this weekend and I work down the street from the CBC. But sleeping with girls 20 years your junior, impressive in and of itself.

When you’re a BSD and a good looking, stylish guy (no homo), you can get away with murder. Literally.

[former_trader]

@mk17

^word on the dating scene is he’s a huge creep. Had no idea who he was before Sunday

Apparently, he became “famous” after this interview with Billy Bob Thornthon. That was his Jim Rome/Jim Everett moment.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqphsCX59ro]

[PalacioHill]

@ohai

I did martial arts for like 10 years while growing up and competed up to national level, until I dropped out due to injuries. The thing is, it gives you a false sense of confidence when getting into a fight. I could probably beat up some random guy - but this has as much to do as much with being physically fit as it does with learning techniques. Some basketball or football player could probably beat up random people too. However, in real life, some guy might have a knife, and I might be over confident and try to grapple the guy like in sparring, and then I get stabbed and die. The best self defense is to just hand over your wallet and get new credit cards.

I think martial arts is great in improving general fitness, since you work all parts of your body and the competitive setting motivates you to push very hard. It probably doesn’t matter which specific one you do; all practices share these benefits. However, at the same time, I think it’s sort of a young people sport. Now that I am in my late twenties, I don’t think I would want to keep doing martial arts, even if I could. The risk of long term injury is just too high. This is what motivated me to try endurance sports like running very far or triathlon.

Driving go kart seems fun. The other thing I want to try is to buy an old Miata or similar car and go to autocross. It seems like this would be a money pit though.

Ohai, in which martial art did you compete? I competed in Olympic Style taekwondo at the national level. Won a silver at the US Open and a Gold in the Junior Olympics back in my hay day.