Happy Thanksgiving 2008

From wiki:Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is primarily a North American holiday which has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention. Though the earliest attested Thanksgiving celebration was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint...

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Wesley Snipes - 52 Hand Blocks

I've not seen this movie, but in the new issue of Black Belt (January 2009), a columnist reviewed this movie which is out on dvd and mentioned some points of interest: In Betrayal, Shaw has retired from the spy game and is mourning the death of his martial arts master, a cross-dresser named Mother whose fighting system is never mentioned but resembles a type of silat. [snip] ...Shaw uses the exact same moves against an assassin that his instructor...

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1 TiddlyWiki (TW) project I have in mind

Here is one project I had in mind in addition to the Martial Arts Magazines Index -- MMA events, fighters, records...Not sure if TW can tally up some numbers to come up with a record, but I run into this all the time... which UFC did Matt Hughes get a standing back mount and RNC'd Frank Trigg? Where did UFC 1 take place? When did it take place? Who did Randy Couture fight?Sure I can probably find the answers over the internet via Kirik Jennings' site or sherdog.com even... but the beauty of the TW is that it doesn't need to be online, i pop open...

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Turned-on, Titillated and Tingly over TiddlyWiki

There goes my cheesy alliteration again :-)So I have a few hare-brained ideas for projects I want to work on. Some of them are started, some of them never come to fruition. Most of the time, I feel like George Lucas. He didn't make the Star Wars movies fast because he felt the technology of the time would not match his vision. I am like that somewhat. I felt that a website/html would be too much work to cross-reference the stuff on my archive. Then...

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VIDCLIP: Bruce Lee playing table tennis with nunchuku

This combines 2 of my favorites, Bruce Lee and table tennis LOL ... enjoy! ...

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Ryan Couture's MMA debut fight

YOUTUBE LINK DELETEDRyan Couture, son of former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture, wins his MMA amateur debut. Couture was able to submit Ricky Perez (1-1) in the first round by triangle choke at the West Coast Fight Club event in Bellingham, Washington. Ryan Couture is in the black and red trunks in the video. If I have the date right, it was 11/7/08.Congratulations Ryan Coutu...

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S.W.O.T. Analysis

Most of us know that Business has used the Military/Martial Arts Classics, Bing Faat (The Art of War) by Sun Tzu and Go Rin No Sho (The Book of Five Rings) by Miyamoto Musashi, to gain an edge on the competition. Well turnabout is fairplay... Martial Artists should be able to use something from Business!I was discussing the pocket stick with my training partner J. In addition to his Shotokan black belt and various experiences in judo, boxing, JKDC, BJJ, Bagua, and Taiji, he has a MBA from a business school. While discussing using various everyday...

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In Memory of Mun Yuen

CAR KILLS CON ED MAN IN BRONX By BRIGITTE WILLIAMS-JAMESNovember 5, 2006 -- A Con Edison employee was killed on the job yesterday when he was hit by a car in The Bronx, officials said. A 62-year-old woman driving a Ford Focus traveling southbound on Boston Road in Crotona swerved to avoid a bicyclist at about 4:30 p.m., according to police. As she made the evasive maneuver, she crashed into Con Ed worker Mun Yuen, smashing him against a restaurant, police said. Yuen, 40, had been working on an underground feeder cable at East 169th Street,...

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UFC 91: Prediction - Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar

UFC 91 is this Saturday. The main event is Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar.I'm a Couture fan, because he uses Panantukan (Filipino boxing) somewhat mixed in with his Greco-Roman/MMA game LOLRandy's savvy/experience/skills IMO is too much for Brock's brute g&p... sure he was All-American, but that's straight up wrestling and not MMA. Couture by takedown repeatedly and G&P and Lesnar taps... or I think Randy knows basic subs like the armbar, RNC, and leglock/heelhook, and as he takes Lesnar down and starts his G&P, Brock gives Couture...

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MAMI = Martial Arts Magazine Index

Another crazy project in the back of my mind that I've been wanting to work on for a loooooong time. It is to be an index of martial arts magazines. There's a few ways I can do this and before starting a project of this magnitude, I want to think through the layout/design/indexing process to make it the most useful it can be... to be able to accomodate any conceivable search variations. Better to lay a solid foundation first than jump right in and end up juryrigging it to add in something that was not foreseen.Suppose you wanted to find all published...

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Happy Veteran's Day

From Wiki:Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. However, if it occurs on a Sunday then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if it occurs Saturday then either Saturday or Friday may be so designated. It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November...

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LINKS: My friend Ausgepicht's site - Spladdle!

Just found out my friend Ausgepicht started a site and forum.Check out the site here: http://www.spladdle.com/Check out the forum here: http://www.spladdle.com/forum/It's a site/forum to discuss: "News & Training Blog for Physical Culture, MMA and Combat Sports!"Ausgepicht loves MMA, is an instructor and very knowledgeable and sharing/giving of his time on the forums... I've archived some of his posts to my site in the past. Here for your convenience are some of the links:Stickgrappling notes by Ausgepicht Krishnamurti Weekly Thread by Ausgepicht...

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Anthony De Longis Bullwhip article in Black Belt magazine

The December 2008 issue of Black Belt magazine, with Cung Le on the cover, has an article by De Longis on the Bullwhip Part 1. here's a short video by him on Black Belt's site. He goes through the various offensive aspects of the bullwhip:http://www.blackbeltmag.com/videos/163 The issue also has the 2008 Black Belt Hall of Fame inductees... De Longis is inducted as Weapons Instructor of the Year. Congratulations to Mr. De Longis on this accomplishment!------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here's...

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My sojourn of septillon steps got 2 steps longer...

...and I realize that 'sojourn' doesn't mean 'journey' but I wanted something to sound like 'journey of a thousand steps' and have an alliteration with "S" because of 'stickgrappler' so I came up with Stickgrappler's Sojourn of Septillon Steps... LOL @ me.So my journey of a thousand steps/sojourn of septillon steps got 2 steps longer, yes, not shorter, but longer! About a month or 2 months ago, 2 separate discussions just clued me in on how clueless I really am in the life-long journey of the martial arts.The first discussion was with my friend,...

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