April 2010
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Pale Blue Dot
Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of...
March 2010
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funktionality:
nujabes feat. giovanca and benny...
February 2010
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Inside the Gi
“ I just know there’s something dark in me and I hide it. I certainly don’t talk about it, but it’s there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he’s driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don’t fight him, I don’t want to. He’s all I’ve got. Nothing else could love me, not even… especially not me. Or is that...
One for the Weak
It’s hard to write this because currently because I’m trying to balance a huge blue ice pack on my shoulder while typing. My shoulder injury feels very unnatural, because my left pectoral muscle feels permanently bruised and there are numb pains that shoot up my neck to my scalp when I raise my arm. This nagging condition has got me thinking about old age a lot, and I’m beginning to see just...
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Ibex
Two nights ago, my dad was watching a Planet Earth marathon on the Discovery channel. I started watching extra intently when the program covered an animal called the Ibex, an incredible goat capable of surviving on the steepest mountain terrain. To survive in mountainous areas with a nearly vertical incline, ibexes possess cloven hooves, extreme agility, and uncanny balance. Alpha male ibexes...
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New Threads Hunt →
I’ve been on the market for some new jeans. My friend swears by denimbar, but these guys seem pretty cool. The company is called “Self Edge,” specializing in Japanese denim, and pre-1950’s style cuts. They have a kind of wine connoisseur take on denim - that it should grow finer with age.
January 2010
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Wily Stratagems
People call it by a couple different names (at least from what I’ve heard): “slow rolling,” “chess match bjj,” or “move-to-move” style jiu-jitsu. I like to call it “ratio-rolling.” This conceptual style of jiu-jitsu training focuses on the game as a series of moves, and it is played much like a game of chess. Each player executes one...
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Cognitive Jiu-Jitsu
The following is a great article from my teacher, Wander Braga brown belt Tim Peterson.
Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
In this article, I will discuss three ways in which Jiu Jitsu Brasileiro students receive information from their instructors. I hope this discussion will help instructors generate lessons as well as streamline the delivery of technical information. Similarly, the amount...
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Swimming for Jiu-Jitsu
Intro
The first time I ever stepped onto a mat to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was my freshman year at UCLA. As soon as I began to learn the concept of the jiu-jitsu guard, it struck me that some of the movements regarding hip movement and legwork seemed natural, almost familiar in a way. Today, I am convinced that the reason for my natural inclination for jiu-jitsu is because I spent many years...
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"se-MMAntics": A Combative Trinity of Mind, Body,...
The past few days I have been reading Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” a New York Times best seller essentially about semantics – how words and language have shaped our ideas, cultures, and our lifestyles. The book points out all sorts of interesting oddities about the nooks and crannies of our speech and what these small details reveal about us as human beings. Parts of this...
Beginnings
I just watched a movie on Hulu called “Lemonade.” It felt more or less like a documentary version of George Clooney’s latest blockbuster “Up In the Air,” except it was a lot more feel good. A lady in the movie has got this great line : “Don’t be the person looking for a job. Do something interesting.”
Shit, that line was good enough to get me...
December 2009
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