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Archive for December, 2008
December Grudge Match.
Monday, December 15th, 2008East African Plains Apes
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008I was just standing in my kitchen, eating a banana, listening to Economics 113: American Economic History, from University of Berkeley, taught by professor Brad DeLong. When he said:
In its native state, if you are relatively poor, the climate of Northern New England is none too healthy. For us, because we are, after all, East African Plains Apes, designed to live in a place where it’s ninety degrees at noon full-time year round. We’re not supposed to be wearing suit coats, let alone winter coats and gloves. We’re supposed to be frolicking around in the grasslands, using our height to look at small animals we can hunt and plants we can eat.
This is what I’ve been saying! Monkey Diet!
BJJ Shorthand Notation?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008I think that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu needs a shorthand notation of the movements and positions.
Too many times I’ve tried to read text-only blog entries about positions and have had them stop making sense halfway through. For example, people will start talking about an attack from side-mount and then talk about moving your hand to attack, but forget to talk about which hand they mean. The one by their opponent’s head? Or the one by their opponent’s hips?
The thing is, I know I do this, too. I take notes on classes and I know that if I passed them to someone else, they would be lost.
I was asking about how ballet teachers write down their movements they make during a dance, and she told me about dance notation.
So, my proposal is, invent a BJJ shorthand notation. Anyone want to help?
This is a type of dance notation. The image is from Wikipedia.