A little boxing collection

3min pad drill with Steve, focusing on holding the centre of the ring brightonfit.co.uk


Touch spar with Mark....the good old days! brightonfit.co.uk


3min bag work brightonfit.co.uk


Stance change and jab off that foot drill brightonfit.co.uk

Snowmen, slippery foals and time machines

Two days and Brighton is still showing no signs of heating up enough to melt the hefty snowfall. Now I'm not one to talk about the weather as a subject of debate, but this snap has brought a couple of points at a tangent to the weather to the fore. Firstly what has the council done with our grit? I heard they sold it all for a few bob? And secondly what exactly does being snowed in mean?

People are slipping over and breaking bones on the streets every few minutes, the thud a body makes in a big winter coat on a ground of packed ice is instantly recognisable. Sometimes the bodies don't move much after impact the pain is so great, other times they writhe about a little or try to stand but slip about like a new born foal. So as much as i loathe the fair weather minded, i cannot see how there is much more of an option given the penalties for aimless wandering. The grit would add a new dimension...this could allow folk to get about their duties risk free...and the buses to perforate more remote city destinations....maybe even more trade, and money for the city than they sold the grit for?! Which links to the second point: To be snowed in, as my friend Sammy so aptly puts it "is stating that your door will not open for the snow" And none of us have had that degree of inconvenience, so plan your trips with extra time and attention to travel method but if you decide not to go out or to work why not just own it and say you don't want to risk slipping rather than saying you are snowed in?

The extraordinary seems to give us reason to not do things we don't like to do. Would we behave like that if time went backwards or our pets started speaking?

Penalties

Q: What is the purpose of a traffic warden?

A: A traffic warden polices vehicle parking to ensure no danger to other road users.

....Or at least that would be the way I'd like my council tax money spent.

I have had my share of traffic warden incidents in the past but today nearly exploded my toleratometer in an example of pure power crazed bureaucratic impersonable blinkered idocrasy!

Cycling down Brighton's promenade (which i do know is an "offence" in itself) soaking up the most beautiful morning at mid tide, blazing sunshine, crisp, clear view out to sea for eons of miles when i notice a builders van pulled tight up to the side of the King Alfred building directly underneath scaffolding....Im not renound for the size of my grey matter but id say the builders probably had something to do with the scaffolding job. At that point in the promenade you have probably got 20 meters in breadth. The van maybe took up 2 metres, leaving 18 metres in case 9 fire engines needed to come down side by side!

So what the sodding hell was nobby doing writing out a ticket? How exactly was the vehicle causing an obstruction and to whom? And why was the warden ruining such beauty with his beastly frame and pungent odor of capitalist shenanigans.

It put me in the kind of mood where had i been spotted cycling over the no cycling signs painted on the ground you would have had to be driving to catch me and i would have asked you which one of us was actually committing the worse crime as at least everything that came out of my exhaust pipe was organic!....And thats not a nice conversation to have with anyone