Some more martial art videos

Raymond Daniels - Wade Taylor

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He is braggin around, but he is really good. Some very nice moves :).
Here he is again:


And another one of him, with an awesome double jump kick.

Kendo vs Escrima

Yesterday I got directed toward some Kendo vs. Escrima videos:




They are very intersting to watch and among the comments there is one which I think in general should stand out to all "cross training":

zvyej: who won?
zukuru: on experience ? .. I think both - the purpose is less to win than test the skills against non expexted and non trained situations.

As I mentioned in the discussion yesterday, both fighters tend to fight according to their tournament rule set, which naturally to the safety of the combatants, includes forbidden moves.

So the common "brute" argument is "with real weapons it would like ...". Well as nobody really wants to test that out with real swords there is still an other option to "see" if one combatant is superior to the other, which in the end still says nothing about the superiority of the different styles: paint and colored markers on white clothes/armor.

An example of how it this works, is using text markers/high lighters eg. in a knife defense/offense training. Each cut leaves a marking on your arms and cloths and you can very easily see that if you ever get into a fight and sobody draws a knife that it's much wiser to run rather than stay and fight. As one trainer during a knife defense workship once said, knife defense is not to learn not to get cut but to be able to decided where you get cut.

Looking further zukurus other videos are also very interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/user/zukuru

Girl + Gamer

English:
"Intimate Controler"

German at Golem:
Spiele-Controller im BH als Masterarbeit

o.O

Ketchup

This mighe be a little in a-propriate, but it is really funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRP-xhQivQ

Don't know what original language it is, but the subs are german, I guess it might be swedish or dänish ?Anyway even without understanding the language, I guess you ll understand the "point" .

So, if you're "mature" enough, have a look

Fallout 3 Trailer

Unglaublich aber es sieht so aus als würde es Fallout 3 wirklich noch geben:

Fallout 3 Trailer

Schau'n wir mal ;)

edit:

Ehrlich gesagt, dies sind auch ziemlich coole Headlines und alle fast hintereinander weg:

World of Darkness MMO In 2011?

StarCraft Pops Back on Top Ten List

Hey, SimCity, Welcome Back

Overkill madness

Ships shows up, go boom!

Nice!!

Battlestar Galactica Vs Star Wars Vs Star Trek Vs Babylon 5


No Peace: Babylon 5 vs Star Trek vs Star Wars vs Galactica

It's out: Starcraft 2

http://www.starcraft2.com/

There we go, no MMO, "just" another RTS.

I'll gonna have a close look on this ;)

Gameplay video footage preview:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/chock-full-of-starcraft-2/clip-starcraft-2-gameplay-footage-261850.php

Cat videos are funny

... but this isn't a cat



and neither are these

Flugangst ?

Lightening Striking All Nippon Airlines, Osaka, Japan

Handy

Drumming ...

My poor drum set is in the basement, but I'll have to make just a little bit more room and I might be able to build it up in my appartment.

I realy need some practice again especially looking at ppl like Dino Campanella .

Thanks to tante for the links!

Karate vs. Kendo and Judo

I was looking for something different but stumbled upon this:



It doesn't have to reflect the reality, it's just intersting to watch :)

Wiiiiiiiii

Ailoovi posted this:

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Don't ask me what it does ...

Röyksopp

Not much to say

So far, still looking for an appartment.

I hoped I would have found something by this time but appearantly I became rather picky in choosing something that would suit me.

Everything is still open but Kendo rocks.

So just for the fun of it:


Clips: Girl. Bikini. Wii-mote.

Applied physics

Kinematics

In between ...

I don't have that much to tell, something is going on in my mind but I haven't come to a conclusion yet, so I just gonna toss some random links to you.

First this webcomic I got from Tante: Gone with the blastwave - a single one is kinda weird, this one being one among my favourits but if you start reading them from the beginning you'll get the "full experience" of it's awesomeness ;).

Another link I got from Tante during the last few days is: McDonald's puts patent on sandwiches - yeah, so becarefull or they are gonna sue you next time when you prep your meal.

Also another google tech talk: Human Computation - also very very interesting. It's how you can get people to solve problems for you, which computers can't.

Another google tech talk

Scrum et al

I'm not allowed to talk about what's going on in side my company - naturally - but this talk as uneasy as it is, is more describing exactly, what IMHO went wrong, even though he is "just" talking about the Scrum Methodology of developing software.

Random: Halo Music Video

I found this realy funny halo video and I just had to link it:

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less

This is a realy awesome lesson about choices. I mean, awefull awesome. I mean ridiculous simply awesome.

The Paradox of Choice Why More Is Less

Just start it, it's intriguing how right he is.