Fit for Combat – Routine #1

Warm Up Exercises for Martial Training & The Push Shuffle Drill

A warm up should be performed before participating in technical sports, exercising, or stretching, and Combative training is no exception. Warming up generally consists of a gradual increase in intensity of physical activity. This increase the heart rate, which in turn increases blood flow to your muscles and raises your body temperature. Warmer muscles are more elastic and less susceptible to injury. It is important that warm ups should be specific to the exercise that will follow, which means that muscles used in the warm up are the muscles required for the following activity. In the case of martial arts, where all muscles are being trained to react with speed and power, all major muscle groups should be warmed up with special emphasis on the feet and legs.

Martial Wallpaper – A little reminder as you go through the day

K.W.I.C – Having No Way As Way:

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Bruce Lee’s Phases of Jeet Kune Do Learning:

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Martializing Martial Arts – Article #1

The Basic Principle: Interception is Integration

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object head-on?

Here’s a better, or at least a more answerable, question: why should they meet head-on at all? And if an opponent’s fist is substituted for the irresistible force, and your jaw for the immovable object, I bet you would agree they should never meet head on. The question then becomes, what are your options?

Once such a force is on its way, there are four basic options:

Information Level: Basic

Happy New Year to all of you. Now, start the year off right, and make sure you have a backup of all your important data.

REMEMBER:
1. All of your irreplaceable digital photos, your mp3 music collection, your college papers and/or office documents, and your business/financial information, is stored on what is basically a glorified cassette tape! The hard drive is susceptible to magnetic, electronic, and physical damage… not to mention the motor may simply burn out.
2. Archiving is NOT the same as backing up. If you simply archive your data by moving it from your computer hard drive to an external storage medium, it is still only stored in ONE PLACE, and that one place may break in any of the aforementioned ways, or just get lost.

Information Level: Basic/Intermediate

In The Short List I recommended Sunbelt Personal Firewall (free version) as my firewall of choice. I have since discovered two problems with it: 1. It presents a nag screen every once in a while, asking you to upgrade to the paid version, and 2. It does not work with Windows Vista (don’t know about 7). PC Tools Firewall Plus has neither of these drawbacks, and is still effective and light on system resources.

All good, all free. Everyone running Windows should try out this software. Period.

Well, I am impressed. The latest entry in to the realm of free (as in beer) antivirus software, Panda Cloud Antivirus, is closer to the Platonic Ideal of AV-ness than any I have seen before. Here’s why:

In honor of the recent release of The Gathering Storm, 4 new designs have been released on CafePress

http://www.cafepress.com/wheelturns
http://www.cafepress.com/aieloath
http://www.cafepress.com/feathermountain
http://www.cafepress.com/dragonsworn

And to anyone who is a fan of fantasy, and not familiar with The Wheel of Time, I say this:

It is the greatest High Fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings, it is 13 books long, so far, and you should read it!

New Jeet Kune Do based designs are up on VV Tees! Check them out, and send me some feedback.

As I continue to set up my one man show, this post has come to my attention…

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/10-annoying-hab.html

And with such entertaining articles to consume, it is ever a challenge to make time for the creation of content…

Over and out,
VV

It is now an Obamanation – with Barack Obama the new President Elect and democrat gains in both houses of Congress, the next four years will see what this changing of the guard really changes for the country… but what does it change for you?

Everything… and nothing.

That is the message of this, my first blog entry for iNeed.to/integrate; that the decisions made this night by the electoral college will have far reaching consequences for the world, and at the same time, all that anyone can do is chart their own course – change their own life.