Car porn mud wrestling

[fbhjr]

First, your weekly car porn.
This week, due to high temps, in the mud! Oooo....


Now, on to the stuff I care about:

My wife had some new costuming made. There was some debate over her “projections” and if they were large enough to support a mug.
perrin_o_ravnos was kind enough to indulge my wife’s curiosity on the subject. (I had nothing to do with it other than grabbing the camera when I saw what was going on.)


I guess #2 is a positive result, but I think her having to lean back that far says it isn’t her projections doing the support.

Perrin did get his later for trying this experiment.


But, as long as he doesn’t pick up my wife and walk off with her as he does with blue_micha, I’m OK with it.


Today we had a guest panel of judges.


I hadn’t planned on this. The last few big faires we’ve done this a couple of weeks before the show.
blue_micha’s parents have been the judges in the past. Her father, from whom we rent the practice space, asked if we were going to do it this time. I told him I didn’t think we had the time to put one together.
When we got there today, he had invited some relatives to come see it. I really think it helps having out people do fights in front of an audience. Especially one most of them don’t know. So, this was quite the boon for us.
Our people didn’t seem quite as happy about the surprise inspection.


But, these did fairly well when the heat was on.



I admit, I’m not feeling we’re totally on top of it going into this show. I don’t think it is totally messed up either. I took the scores from the review today and did the statistics. By far most of the fights come out in a nice average range. But, the judges did still say they could tell who was new to it and who had been doing it for years. It would be nice to even that out some more. But, I don’t think we can with just 1 more practice.

Comments

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

These pics are uber-dynamic. Fun!

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I think that you'll do well and wow them in FL

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

just the same, even with the influx of less experienced, but much needed new blood. It is good to be able to be critical of yourselves and of your performance, but also keep in mind that very few watching you will have the insight on fight choreography and all the other entertaining things that you do. As a whole, they will be very happy.

As with one of the large concert bands that I play in, we've added many new members and when everyone shows up, we're almost 80 musicians in the group. However, the overall skill level of the group has dropped with this influx of less capable/experienced players, such that we cannot perform some pieces that we used to be able to do several years ago. This makes alot of us "old soldiers" in the group a bit disappointed, but on the other hand, we've enough members in all sections now that things aren't a crisis if any one member can't make a performance. And 90+% of our audience cannot tell the difference that we're performing grade 4-5 pieces now instead of grade 6 for our shows, and they still enjoy it. Now, when we play in Boston for the Metropolitan Wind Symphony festival, it is more noticed as at least 50% of the audience are fellow musicians who are also performing and at least some of them could tell. But still, we perform as a group well enough to still get invited by them to come back very often , and they are quite selective, so overall we still must be doing OK.

Re: I think that you'll do well and wow them in FL

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the vote of confidence. You're probably right. And, having a lot more people has given us a lot of flexibility. One of our "old guard" hurt herself and work and can't do her fights. Even last year that would have been an issue. But, this year we've still got more fights then last year even after hers were removed.

And, I keep a tape of our first year there.
Nothing has come close to that bad. So that's good.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Great pics! :D