Shiggi

I scrolled to the third page of SoMe apps on my phone and remembered this exists.

Hi 🤣

Why do the best things come from the most GHETTO of places 👀

As Threads becomes a Txitter cesspool that seemingly ignores any attempt at recalibrating...I come here and there's an instant flood of nature things 🦋 finally I can grin again at how wild this planet is when humans do their job and observe things ❤️

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As I say in the garden, enjoying the morning sounds of birds and the rushing river a voice enters my head as it does from time to time, "you've forgotten yourself again" to which the opium toating caterpillar chimes in with...

Just gonna drop in and say I've been on TV talking the good word of self defense for women, and been hired as a short term assistant gym manager in the interim of the BJJ gyms expansion 😬🫡

Ok byeeeeeeeee

Oh hai. So...I'm officially a coach leading the women's self defense and BJJ programmes at Nairobi Jiu Jitsu Academy 🫡 and got featured in the local business paper for self defense tings.

Sometimes honestly, same

When people say repeat posting/awareness is absurd or unnecessary, they are clearly uncomfortable...therefore we post MORE OFTEN AND LOUDER.

It's finally starting. After spending 2024 travelling Europe visiting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gyms I returned to Kenya with a view to support and create a women's self defense and BJJ community.

The inaugural women's self defense workshops sold out and happy doesn't even cover how I feel 🔥🔥

Oh shit, when did we break 300 here?! I said if it broke 300 I'll actually put some effort into showing up on here and somehow we're at 312 already.

Uh, howdy, I guess 🤣

But of course 😅 gotta have a BJJ SoMe refuge too

People don't talk about "reverse" culture shocks enough. I come home to Kenya after 23 years to discover it's adopted a very American "Car everywhere" mentality which farts in the face of my European public transport and walking upbringing
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Oh we're nearly at 300. Neat.

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Nearly 2 months in Kenya and the main thing I am disliking the most but if course slowly tackling is having to finally sit with the questions:

Who am I
What do I want

Can't I go support everyone else like I've done for the last 30+ years? This sh*t's scary 🤣

The closest thing the UK almost had to a chance was Jeremy Corbyn and his own party freaked 💀😬 that pretty much tells you the UK is stuck in a perpetual Tory grinder...just at different speed and hue (Labour just looks like Tory-lite)

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BJJ long game includes listening to your body when it tells you you're about one bad takedown away from actually needing to get your slightly frozen neck checked, so opt to taking 2 weeks off 💀

But we all know the itch to go to the mats never goes away that entire time.

549 BJJ sessions done. Nairobi Jiu Jitsu Academy looking beautiful 🫡🫡

Independent thought and critical thinking?! THINK ABOUT THE CHILDR.....oh.

I'm no longer galavanting across Europe, visiting gyms and just vibing with the culture. I'm now completely isolated from a plethora of high level gyms and getting after it in Kenya with the few gyms here. So the BJJ journal is coming back.

If you "journal" what kinda things do you note down?

Everytime I see these, a song called History Repeating starts playing in my head 🤣🤣🤣 (it came out in 1998 - might as well have come out yesterday)

The meme I didn't know I needed

An injury free off-mats companion to BJJ rolls that'll help with your cardio?

Airbike+Kettlebell Swing intervals 💀🤮😂

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Preaaach 💀🫡

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Good weekend for the boys! Norman won his Muay Thai fight even though the temptation for Judo takedowns was strong in him. Ouhsummer debuted and won his MMA fight in Kampala with an inverted armbar in under 2 mins 🔥

Oh snap, this is why my phone has been pinging today 🫡 honoured thank you.

"Respawning" back home means reconnecting with family but losing your in-person friend set and hobbies that kept you sane. But what's life without challenges 🫡🇰🇪

Ok what list have I been put on...👀 I see zero commonalties with the tiny flurry of new followers.

I've had this account for a while. Still don't quite get what's going on here but whatever. Hi.