MMm. The old martial arts masters typically knew fewer forms/kata, fewer techniques than those of today but spent more time on them. Plus, both attacker and defender are humans with human bodies. They only move in so many different ways. A punch is a punch, a throw is a throw, a kick is a kick. etc.
In reality most martial arts are almost identical when it comes down to using them on the street. The perceived differences between styles are largely ego or misunderstanding about what's actually happening. The bigger difference is between reality based training and sport based training.
Practicing with rules can result in people developing blind spots to banned techniques. But at least they learn a few techniques well enough to actually use them. In the ring. Look at sport karate... Compare it to the original self defense system. They look completely different, the strategies and primary techniques taught are completely different. Sport karate attempts to launch punches, kicks to the head from 10 feet. Street karate you're 18 inches away from the opponent trying to kick his knee joint out. They're really different martial arts despite the common name.
Look at BJJ and in fact Judo. The first thing they try to do is go to the ground! That's an insane strategy in real life, you'll get your head pounded to a pulp by the other guy's pals. The original Ju-Jitsu strategies don't go to ground nearly as readily for exactly that reason, and they usually smack you about first too. The primary techniques used and trained are different, despite the common history.
The difference? Competition. Rules.
Now, yes, I absolutely do agree that you have to practise as realistically as you can. Yes, hit as hard as you can, practise grappling techniques against non compliant partners. It's an ongoing problem with any martial art; How do you practise realistically and regularly without ending up in hospital? I also agree that the MMA guys are pretty bloody good at what they do, they really are strong, in their environment. But you have to get rid of the rules when it comes to real life.
I assume you mean, "I would bite, gouge, fish hook,...." or "I bite, gouge, fish hook, etc. on something other than a training partner resisting me with 100% effort." If not, well, you're fortunate in what your training partners will put up with. They're doing it for the same reason I am, and understand the reasoning. Obviously we stop short of actually hurting one another, as mentioned above, with the associated problems of stopping short.
It takes hundreds of tries to learn to hit a real, moving person with a decent punch; why in the world would you think small joint manipulation or grabbing the clavicle is any different? I don't... I agree with you...
Through lots and lots of experience, I know that I have very little chance of successfully executing a technique in a real fight unless I've done it in practice a hundred times at full power and full speed, against a real opponent. It's actually worse than that. You have little chance of executing a technique successfully at all, in a real fight, even with lots of practise. That even includes simple things like smacking someone on the nose. All you get is maybe a bit of probability in your favour.
Ummm, no comment on this guy except that I recognize that level of paranoia and fantastic thinking, and in my experience, it isn't consistent with the amount of common sense needed to buy a good used car, much less evaluate the worth of a fighting technique. Sorry, it was the only reference I could find for "Animal Day". Geoff Thompson's a 5th dan black belt in karate (last time I looked), has a bunch of other martial training and spent 10 years working as a bouncer where he ended up fighting for his life on a regular basis. You'll have to read his book to understand why he did. The idea around an "Animal day" is a completely no holds barred day, it attempts to be as realistic as is possible without permanent harm to anyone involved.
I've never met anyone who kept talking like that after a month of judo, because that's how long it takes to demystify toughness, pain, fatigue, and winning and losing. He also holds a 1st dan in Judo, training under the UK, Olympic and World champion (Neil Adams).
Sorry... That's the reality of violence, as opposed to what we do in the gym, octagon or dojo. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's very, very unpleasant and it's completely unfair. If you don't recognise it, you're just hiding your head in the sand.
Techniques that can't be practiced in balls-out unrestrained competition For a start... There is no such thing. How exactly do I practise breaking someone's neck in "unrestrained competition"? All training has to be restrained, by definition. It's training, not real life. All competition has to be restrained, by definition. It's competition, not real life.
Now we have that out of the way, I agree, the more realistic the training the better the practitioner will perform. Hence things like "Animal Day". And other forms of non compliant training.
Sport styles are not the antithesis of practical self-defense styles; they are the practical self-defense styles. Sorry to burst your bubble, but, no they are not. If it has rules, the training is inappropriate for the street. You have to get rid of the rules, which makes the training inappropriate for competition. UFC for example specifically prohibits the following... So the fighters simply won't practice the techniques.
1. Butting with the head. 2. Eye gouging of any kind. 3. Biting. 4. Hair pulling. 5. Fish hooking. 6. Groin attacks of any kind. 7. Putting a finger into any orifice or into any cut or laceration on an opponent. 8. Small joint manipulation. 9. Striking to the spine or the back of the head. 10. Striking downward using the point of the elbow. 11. Throat strikes of any kind, including, without limitation, grabbing the trachea. 12. Clawing, pinching or twisting the flesh. 13. Grabbing the clavicle. 14. Kicking the head of a grounded opponent.
I'll stop quoting the UFC rules here, because it reads like a list of the "vital points" that a martial artist who's training for self defence will attack given the slightest opportunity. Eyes, throat, groin, my first three targets. And it isn't just me. Have a look at the Bubishi, hundreds of years old and they were aiming at the same targets then. Yes, I bite, gouge, fish hook, I strike down using my elbow with my full body weight and power on ribs, backs, necks, just anything I can reach.
So, not exactly his fault, but perhaps unwise to be supporting someone who the EU, Denmark and UK had warned they would stop aid to if corruption wasn't dealt with. It seems that the magical "Support for the War on Terrorism" phrase was used.
The result is that most of the transmission has been oral Kata are physical. However yes. Many of the techniques are now "hidden" in the kata, with very few people knowing what's really going on.
The other complication is that most martial artists never fight real fights. (Point sparring doesn't count.) It is possible to spend years working on a given martial art and then discover that it is absolutely ineffective against the average street punk. Indeed. Over the last few decades, the training has been largely sports based. Playing tag in the ring. The original self defence training which was practised has largely been forgotten... Hell, most black belts don't even know what hikite is for and many have never performed a throw.
However. There's a definite realisation of the problem and move back to reality training, which the traditional methods were based on.
See books by Lawrence Kane, Peter Consterdine, Ian Abernethy, Geoff Thompson. Particularly Abernethy's "Bunkai Jutsu".
I'd take a Navy Seal against your "Sifu" anyday. Eh... What makes you think the techniques used by the navy seal are any different from the ones used by a martial arts master?
The martial arts... Karate, Kung-fu, ju-jitsu and the rest were never designed as competitive sports. They were self defence systems. And they were and are brutally effective if trained and practised that way. The very idea that one is better than another is complete bullshit, they were never meant to be used against other martial artists, they were meant to be used against aggressive but largely untrained attackers.
However, the last hundred years many of them have turned into sports. You are no longer allowed to gouge out your opponent's eyes, fishhook their mouths or attack other dangerous points like the neck, throat, groin, back or stamp on them on the ground. Instead you score points, playing tag in the ring. This pretty much leaves you with punches and kicks. The original techniques that are encoded into the forms or kata are either hidden, forgotten or simply not trained.
Now, the concept that karate and Kung-fu are purely striking systems is utter, utter bollocks. The forms and kata of both systems have joint locks, chokes, strangles, throws, gouges built in for all to see, if you know what you're looking at. Yes, much of which can be used on the ground. You just have to recognise them and practise. Ju-jitsu originally had a fair level of striking in it as well.
If you're practising karate, kung-fu purely as a striking system then what you are practising is kickboxing, not karate, not kung-fu. Practising ju-jitsu without kicks and punches it's not ju-jitsu.
WTF do you think all the fancy bullshit "blocks" really are?
Real kung fu isn't what you see on TV or on the movies. That is ballet or gymnastics. Real kung fu is up close, personal and brutal.
The reason they aren't on UFC, it's American, and most of the American kung-fu practitioners have no clue what the movements they're practising really mean.
Get numbers for actual server product lines. As another poster has pointed out, the PSU, case design, RAM configuration, disk config can all make a difference to power consumption.
So, benchmark the whole system. And don't bother with MIPS or FLOPS they're arbitrary and don't allow you to compare differing architectures. So give us SPECmarks per watt or TPC-? per watt as well as per dollar.
Then you can simply choose a particular make/model based on requirements.
I like that idea... You should package it, make it easy to use and see if any Universities, banks are interested. If they are, I want first dibs on UK distribution.:)
It takes much longer than that to think. Bright young things are maybe 1/5 of a second.
If I start "flowing" enough my conscious mind doesn't even get in the way (hence the 'twitch' appellation), that's how I come out on top. Economy of thought. That's how the martial arts masters work. No thought involved. And it's why even if you know and understand the techniques intellectually, you'll still get your arse handed to you by a street thug if you haven't practised several times a week, for years.
Interestingly the flinch reaction is actually faster than the regular reaction time, about twice as fast, 0.15s but the response is hardwired into the brain, you can't do anything about the flinch itself. Many karate "blocks" are responses based on what to do after flinching.
It happens with regularity. If satnav systems simply recorded their average speed and learned how fast they were going they could make more intelligent routing decisions.
Why else would everyone need the latest version? Only partly. Part of it is that they simply can't. Hell even if there's a difference in the installed fonts or a different sized screen, documents have to be reformatted by hand to look good.
Basically, DOC is a shit format for exchanging documents... Actually more than that, DOC files just don't look good at all on screen, and very often even differ significantly from what appears on the printer.
but none of these offer 100% interoperability which is really important when it comes to business. MS Office doesn't offer 100% interoperability. Funnily enough. Similar amounts of tweaking required there between versions.
I suspect that the stuff you talk about will be very rare exceptions, not the rule. Not necessarily the case. All it takes is a good propagandist. Knowledge is power, if you can fool most people into believing a lie then they'll maintain the lie for you. It can take decades for the truth to come out, even if it's relatively obvious that the lie doesn't work.
but in the end, it's just four ordinary motherboards and ethernet. Sure, and I've built similar (bigger & faster) custom systems. But I'm expensive and the knowledge I have is uncommon. Your average Windows admin wouldn't have a clue. This could be a cheap drop in commodity supercomputer.
Hell, the IBM SP was a commodity pre-built supercomputer. This is much cheaper.
but the concept isn't revolutionary No, the concept hasn't been revolutionary for decades, the effect might be though.
One of the problems with supercomputers is that there aren't really very many of them, because of the size and cost. It means that the tools you use to run your supercomputing applications are similarly unusual. The skills to use and develop on parallel systems are then equally scarce. Access to a supercomputer isn't exactly common.
Microwulf could make all of the above common. For the price of a high spec PC. The commodity nature of it could bring super computing and super computing applications to the masses.
Then you can scale your application from microwulf to miniwulf to superwulf with little more effort than installing it on the bigger machine.
Course, they'd have to produce a commodity pre-built system.
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MMm. The old martial arts masters typically knew fewer forms/kata, fewer techniques than those of today but spent more time on them. Plus, both attacker and defender are humans with human bodies. They only move in so many different ways. A punch is a punch, a throw is a throw, a kick is a kick. etc.
In reality most martial arts are almost identical when it comes down to using them on the street. The perceived differences between styles are largely ego or misunderstanding about what's actually happening. The bigger difference is between reality based training and sport based training.
Look at BJJ and in fact Judo. The first thing they try to do is go to the ground! That's an insane strategy in real life, you'll get your head pounded to a pulp by the other guy's pals. The original Ju-Jitsu strategies don't go to ground nearly as readily for exactly that reason, and they usually smack you about first too. The primary techniques used and trained are different, despite the common history.
The difference? Competition. Rules.
Now, yes, I absolutely do agree that you have to practise as realistically as you can. Yes, hit as hard as you can, practise grappling techniques against non compliant partners. It's an ongoing problem with any martial art; How do you practise realistically and regularly without ending up in hospital? I also agree that the MMA guys are pretty bloody good at what they do, they really are strong, in their environment. But you have to get rid of the rules when it comes to real life. I assume you mean, "I would bite, gouge, fish hook,
Sorry... That's the reality of violence, as opposed to what we do in the gym, octagon or dojo. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's very, very unpleasant and it's completely unfair. If you don't recognise it, you're just hiding your head in the sand.
Seems like nobody's done one for the costs of hiring a couple of engineers to reverse engineer or re-implement the protocol...
Now we have that out of the way, I agree, the more realistic the training the better the practitioner will perform. Hence things like "Animal Day". And other forms of non compliant training. Sport styles are not the antithesis of practical self-defense styles; they are the practical self-defense styles. Sorry to burst your bubble, but, no they are not. If it has rules, the training is inappropriate for the street. You have to get rid of the rules, which makes the training inappropriate for competition. UFC for example specifically prohibits the following... So the fighters simply won't practice the techniques.
1. Butting with the head.
2. Eye gouging of any kind.
3. Biting.
4. Hair pulling.
5. Fish hooking.
6. Groin attacks of any kind.
7. Putting a finger into any orifice or into any cut or laceration on an opponent.
8. Small joint manipulation.
9. Striking to the spine or the back of the head.
10. Striking downward using the point of the elbow.
11. Throat strikes of any kind, including, without limitation, grabbing the trachea.
12. Clawing, pinching or twisting the flesh.
13. Grabbing the clavicle.
14. Kicking the head of a grounded opponent.
I'll stop quoting the UFC rules here, because it reads like a list of the "vital points" that a martial artist who's training for self defence will attack given the slightest opportunity. Eyes, throat, groin, my first three targets. And it isn't just me. Have a look at the Bubishi, hundreds of years old and they were aiming at the same targets then. Yes, I bite, gouge, fish hook, I strike down using my elbow with my full body weight and power on ribs, backs, necks, just anything I can reach.
As you should too if you want to defend yourself.
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So, not exactly his fault, but perhaps unwise to be supporting someone who the EU, Denmark and UK had warned they would stop aid to if corruption wasn't dealt with. It seems that the magical "Support for the War on Terrorism" phrase was used.
These places are the dinosaurs. They get eaten.
However. There's a definite realisation of the problem and move back to reality training, which the traditional methods were based on.
See books by Lawrence Kane, Peter Consterdine, Ian Abernethy, Geoff Thompson. Particularly Abernethy's "Bunkai Jutsu".
The martial arts... Karate, Kung-fu, ju-jitsu and the rest were never designed as competitive sports. They were self defence systems. And they were and are brutally effective if trained and practised that way. The very idea that one is better than another is complete bullshit, they were never meant to be used against other martial artists, they were meant to be used against aggressive but largely untrained attackers.
However, the last hundred years many of them have turned into sports. You are no longer allowed to gouge out your opponent's eyes, fishhook their mouths or attack other dangerous points like the neck, throat, groin, back or stamp on them on the ground. Instead you score points, playing tag in the ring. This pretty much leaves you with punches and kicks. The original techniques that are encoded into the forms or kata are either hidden, forgotten or simply not trained.
Now, the concept that karate and Kung-fu are purely striking systems is utter, utter bollocks. The forms and kata of both systems have joint locks, chokes, strangles, throws, gouges built in for all to see, if you know what you're looking at. Yes, much of which can be used on the ground. You just have to recognise them and practise. Ju-jitsu originally had a fair level of striking in it as well.
If you're practising karate, kung-fu purely as a striking system then what you are practising is kickboxing, not karate, not kung-fu. Practising ju-jitsu without kicks and punches it's not ju-jitsu.
WTF do you think all the fancy bullshit "blocks" really are?
Real kung fu isn't what you see on TV or on the movies. That is ballet or gymnastics. Real kung fu is up close, personal and brutal.
The reason they aren't on UFC, it's American, and most of the American kung-fu practitioners have no clue what the movements they're practising really mean.
Get numbers for actual server product lines. As another poster has pointed out, the PSU, case design, RAM configuration, disk config can all make a difference to power consumption.
So, benchmark the whole system. And don't bother with MIPS or FLOPS they're arbitrary and don't allow you to compare differing architectures. So give us SPECmarks per watt or TPC-? per watt as well as per dollar.
Then you can simply choose a particular make/model based on requirements.
It's the people buying the things they are appealing to. It's your intelligence they're insulting.
Is that how it's done?
I like that idea... You should package it, make it easy to use and see if any Universities, banks are interested. If they are, I want first dibs on UK distribution. :)
Interestingly the flinch reaction is actually faster than the regular reaction time, about twice as fast, 0.15s but the response is hardwired into the brain, you can't do anything about the flinch itself. Many karate "blocks" are responses based on what to do after flinching.
It happens with regularity. If satnav systems simply recorded their average speed and learned how fast they were going they could make more intelligent routing decisions.
Why else would everyone need the latest version? Only partly. Part of it is that they simply can't. Hell even if there's a difference in the installed fonts or a different sized screen, documents have to be reformatted by hand to look good.
Basically, DOC is a shit format for exchanging documents... Actually more than that, DOC files just don't look good at all on screen, and very often even differ significantly from what appears on the printer.
Clearly he means that he'll have to emigrate to the UK where it's broadcast on TV at 9pm.
Still, if that's what it takes to see your favourite shows, that's what commitment is all about.
It'd be nice if it could be generalised to other sites...
Hell, the IBM SP was a commodity pre-built supercomputer. This is much cheaper. but the concept isn't revolutionary No, the concept hasn't been revolutionary for decades, the effect might be though.
One of the problems with supercomputers is that there aren't really very many of them, because of the size and cost. It means that the tools you use to run your supercomputing applications are similarly unusual. The skills to use and develop on parallel systems are then equally scarce. Access to a supercomputer isn't exactly common.
Microwulf could make all of the above common. For the price of a high spec PC. The commodity nature of it could bring super computing and super computing applications to the masses.
Then you can scale your application from microwulf to miniwulf to superwulf with little more effort than installing it on the bigger machine.
Course, they'd have to produce a commodity pre-built system.
Now Microsoft have their next development target for Office.