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Soldato
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Just bought it too. I love a boiled sweet. My local shop charges about £2-3 for 150g. It’s a no brainer at this price.
Yeah, that was my thinking. I just wish there was a bit more variety as I'm not too big on the minty/aniseed type flavours.

When I was a kid there was a sweet factory 2 mins from my house and you could go in and watch them making them. They had a little table set up with loads of them big sweet jars and you could pick and choose what you wanted for like 10th of the shop price. They also made cinder toffee for Alton Towers and you got a giant bag for like 20p, whereas AT were charging more like £1.50.

Probably why I have so many fillings now though :(.
 
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I have two daughters on brown belts. Where does the grey white belt come from, I don't remember them getting that one.
There's no brown belts for kids.
Are you sure it's Ju Jitsu as my daughters are both under eighteen and have brown belts, it's the black you can't get fully whilst under 18, although you can still get the junior black.
Then I'd suggest it's your daughters that aren't doing jiu jitsu or at least not in an official capacity. The official sites all make it clear brown is an adult grade only.

You guys are probably just citing different experiences with different organisations or even different martial arts.

Jiu Jitsu is a Japanese art form - maybe mollymoo's kids are learning the traditional Japanese art?

it is also supposedly taught as "Jitsu" at various university clubs in the UK - though this is pretty terrible and mostly consists of lots of LARPing.

I presume, from the blue gi, Maccapacca's kid is learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - this is a rather more effective and useful art form derived from Judo - most professional MMA fighters will have trained in it.

Though even if both are learning BJJ there are different organisations/ranking systems for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu_ranking_system

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mentions IBJJF rules stating you need to be over 18 for brown - ties in with what Maccapacca has said

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_jiu-jitsu_ranking_system

^^^
a different ranking system where you can get brown under 18 (over 16) but need to be 18 for black - ties in with what mollymoo has said

ergo you're probably both right about the ranking system you're each referring to but are likely just citing different systems - hopefully that resolves it :)
 
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You guys are probably just citing different experiences with different organisations or even different martial arts.

Jiu Jitsu is a Japanese art form - maybe mollymoo's kids are learning the traditional Japanese art?

it is also supposedly taught as "Jitsu" at various university clubs in the UK - though this is pretty terrible and mostly consists of lots of LARPing.

I presume, from the blue gi, Maccapacca's kid is learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - this is a rather more effective and useful art form derived from Judo - most professional MMA fighters will have trained in it.

Though even if both are learning BJJ there are different organisations/ranking systems for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu_ranking_system

^^^
mentions IBJJF rules stating you need to be over 18 for brown - ties in with what Maccapacca has said

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_jiu-jitsu_ranking_system

^^^
a different ranking system where you can get brown under 18 (over 16) but need to be 18 for black - ties in with what mollymoo has said

ergo you're probably both right about the ranking system you're each referring to but are likely just citing different systems - hopefully that resolves it :)

Thank you for that. Yes my kids are learning the Japanese form of Ju Jitsu so that would explain the difference.
 
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3kg of diabetes. Currently on offer for £6.99 on Amazon, with free delivery. Sadly there are no strawberrys and cream sweets, which are my favourite.
Found and ordered these earlier when I saw your post. You will soon become well acquainted with my dentist, after I send you the bills :p:D
 
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@Raymond Lin, would you mind telling me where you sourced that - I'm not sure the one I've googled the same quality unit from your pics.

This would be a great additional surprise for my sons b'day - plus I would enjoy the chance to help him build it...

Sure, it's this one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MK1-ARC-...var=522246864533&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

I picked the Aluminium one so as you can see, the centre part is metal. There is also a case that you can buy.

There is 1 downside, the copper wire that it came with is too thick to do a wrap around, I had to source some separately.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd_r=JADT54SEWHGK65YGJXK1

I needed 10 rolls in the end, essentially 1 roll per section on the model. You will also need some superglue too.
 
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Thanks @Raymond Lin, really appreciate the additional tips and source for materials.

I find myself in a dilemma, although he has a birthday coming up soon, i really want one as a shelf/desk ornament for my study. That's the trouble with kids getting older they start stealing your toys...

"Hey son, happy birthday! let's build it together!"

"now that it's finished, won't it look great to put it in this display box that Tony has in the movie that daddy have in his study?"

:D

p.s. it is USB powered, that pin cable is a dummy cable. There is a real one that comes out the back. It's actually quite long, about a metre with an on/off switch.
 
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