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50. Understood. My wife's a 3rd degree blackbelt - same sort of floor things.

Mon Apr 1, 2013, 03:59 PM

Apr 2013

She can drop into a full split in any direction, side, front-back, whatever. My daughters are all 2nd degree blackbelts. It's a rough workout, but it keeps them slender and muscular. They're all instructors now as well. Our house is a fucking arsenal of weaponry (not counting firearms, but I've only got ammo for the shotgun).

I just got my wife a new pair of sai (her third pair) with a felt-lined bag to carry them in. She whips those things around like a yo-yo. My middle daughter is the sword master (kumdo). She's got at least six metal swords (lots of wooden and bamboo ones, some of which I made), one of which is a really sharp double-blade.

I'm not completely out of the loop. One of my canes has a 20" blade concealed in the shaft and I've got a butterfly knife. I've also got a spider necklace that holds a 3/4" blade that's so sharp I won't even test it with my finger, and that's saying something. It sliced me open the first time I tried.

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I have always wondered this about women, what's up with the shoes thing.... [View all] WCGreen Mar 2013 OP

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what I've heard BainsBane Apr 2013 #29

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My wife only has two pairs of pumps. One white (wedding), one black (forget). talkingmime Apr 2013 #23

Hammer toes libodem Apr 2013 #37

Thank you. That's the term I was after. Did you wear pumps a lot? talkingmime Apr 2013 #41

No, but I took ballet libodem Apr 2013 #44

Ouch. talkingmime Apr 2013 #45

Foolish libodem Apr 2013 #46

Not at all. Ballet is amazingly good exercise. It is rough on the feet though. talkingmime Apr 2013 #47

I was very limber libodem Apr 2013 #49

Understood. My wife's a 3rd degree blackbelt - same sort of floor things. talkingmime Apr 2013 #50

when I was a girl my grandmother told me not to wear narrow BainsBane Apr 2013 #51

Curiously the same is true with cowboy boots. I only wear square-toe ones. talkingmime Apr 2013 #52

that's because the human foot isn't pointy BainsBane Apr 2013 #53

It's the western's world equivalent of foot binding. Feet get LARGER toward the toes. talkingmime Apr 2013 #54

Keen Sandals, Flip flops and that's it. cliffordu Apr 2013 #24

I don't know but I've always found it attractive when a woman has many shoes Taverner Apr 2013 #25

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