A quote from Beau Young, son of Nat Young, ASP World Longboard Champion 2000 and 2003: Later on, walking across the sand back to the van after an evening session in cobalt blue water over sifted flour sand, I ask Beau what he thinks the main difference between longboarders and shortboarders is. “The difference of…
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Channels and Podcasts I follow
Youtube Channels Absolute MMA St Kilda / Submeta.io These are Lachlan Giles’ channels. The Absolute MMA St Kilda Youtube Channel has a TON of free stuff, I have stolen SO much from here for class ideas, etc. Submeta.io is his recent subscription channel, but he published a lot of free stuff there, some of which…
The Jiu Jitsu Belt System
“I don’t care if I’m a white belt for ten years. want skills not belts”. “I’d rather be a white belt submitting blues and purples than a blue belt getting submitted by whites”. Not really. We all decry “belt chasers”, those shallow souls driven only by the next stripe, the next belt … But avoiding…
Martial Arts: A Post-modern Approach
This came about after I read a long essay on post-modernism in programming by Larry Wall, one of the developers of the Perl programming language. Larry Wall clams Perl is a post-modern programming language. After much reading and listening to Jordan Peterson’s lectures, podcasts, and talks as well as getting older and hopefully a little…