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I think this pretty well covers it...

Holy **** ...

I am so sorry ...

:(

*edit*

I mean, I am sorry you got cancer ,,, that's a :( too ..

I was seriously trying to be empathic about having to deal with people who love you but give you advice like " well just eat six almonds a day " .

You can't punch her ! She is your mother ... that must be seriously frustrating

It would be pretty funny to me if it wasn't my own mother. I asked her why she didn't tell me about the almond thing BEFORE the cancer. She actually apologized like "yeah, I should have, I'm really sorry".

I was being sarcastic and she just totally missed it. Stupid hippies/moms.

MMA is defined as Mixed Martial Arts. It is a full contact combat game that authorize a wide variety of war techniques, from a mixture of usual wrestling, to be used in opposition.

MMA is defined as Mixed Martial Arts. It is a full contact combat game that authorize a wide variety of war techniques, from a mixture of usual wrestling, to be used in opposition.

I cannot wait to hear what else you have to add to the discussion. I seriously lol'd so hard at the fail in this post that I thought I was in sheerdog.

Go ahead, angela, enlighten us further on this "Mixed Martial Arts".

i am new to this forum...please can anyone provide me complete information.

Go to the newbietown forum here: Newbietown - No BS MMA and Martial Arts (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=64)

Start a thread about yourself and ask your question there. DO NOT POST ANYWHERE ELSE UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE THIS OR I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE YOUR STAY HERE IS UNPLEASANT.

MMA is defined as Mixed Martial Arts. It is a full contact combat game that authorize a wide variety of war techniques, from a mixture of usual wrestling, to be used in opposition.
**** it while we are off topic am I the only one that finds it odd that cage fighting is reffed to as MMA vs that of No Holds Barred?

And that they wear gloves but have no honour.

War techniques... Lesnar should have called in an air strike.

Hey I end up at Rolfing actually sounds kind of pleasant not that it would cure you of anything


Actually, I'll back up Rolfing. I had it as supplemental PT for an elbow and hip injury, and it helped me get my range of motion back. It's basically a massage methodology focusing on muscle group and adhesions between muscles and fascial planes (things that actually, you know, exist), and has a PT element to it as well. Works nicely, but won't cure you of the sniffles or anything.

The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration states that Rolfing is a "holistic system of soft tissue manipulation and movement education that organized the whole body in gravity".

Yeaaaaah.... no.

Ya, ignore the fluff. Rolfing is one person's school of structural integration therapy, which is a type of massage. STI works well, Rolfing is nearly the same but branded, I suppose. It seems to work for what it is designed; getting locked/stiff muscles to unlock, basically.

Ya, ignore the fluff. Rolfing is one person's school of structural integration therapy, which is a type of massage. STI works well, Rolfing is nearly the same but branded, I suppose. It seems to work for what it is designed; getting locked/stiff muscles to unlock, basically.

Structural Integration Therapy, referred to as STI?

Still sounds like homeopathy to me.

It's just a type of massage. If I told you massage helps your muscles relax, would you believe me? It's simply a methodology and way of deciding how to perform said massage. Swedish vs deep tissue, that type of thing.

I read about Rolfing in a book about various extraordinary human phenomena (mostly yoga and junk)

It sounded like a slightly more brazen Swedish massage from the description. That doesn't sound too woo-woo to me.

edit: The book was called POWERS OF THE MIND. It was written in the late 80s if I recall and I can't find it on Amazon.

It's just a type of massage. If I told you massage helps your muscles relax, would you believe me? It's simply a methodology and way of deciding how to perform said massage. Swedish vs deep tissue, that type of thing.

I believe YOU about the fundametal principles of massage, rolfing and STI working.

It's the claims made by others that I find extra-ordinary. The instant fixing of chronic back pain, sudden cessation of X symptom, etc. have all been claimed by proponents of rolfing. Take a survey at Weaver Street Market and you'll find dozens of people who will make outlandish claims regarding what their rolfer (?) accomplished just by jamming an elbow into their spine.

My mom (see almond anecdote above) is one of those goofy Chapel Hill homeopaths that fully buys into rolfing. So if STI is in the same vein, I suppose I just see guilt by association.