Windows 7 is all that and a bag of chips.
I bought a new computer with Vista and got the 7 upgrade. Windows 7 is much more stable, user friendly, and uses less resources. My RAM usage dropped by 25% and my processor isn't as taxed.
I bought a new computer with Vista and got the 7 upgrade. Windows 7 is much more stable, user friendly, and uses less resources. My RAM usage dropped by 25% and my processor isn't as taxed.
This video is interesting to me because it represents to me what MMA has started to do to traditional martial arts. In this video Faber is talking about how he was jumped by 10 -12 guys with weapons and all he did was punch kick and throw them. I will give the Faber credit as he was smart enough to know that ground fighting is out of the question in a street fight. However, he had a totally sport mind set. I guarantee you that if my instructor, who is about 55 years old, had fought these dudes, there would have been 10-12 dudes either knocked out, dead, or with a permanent injury. I don't fault Faber for training sport, and then of course, in a fight, he fights sport. That is just what happens. Moreover, I am a strong proponent of having a sport aspect in marital arts as it allows for us to develop timing, accuracy, and power while learning the benefits of sportsmanship. However, I have to say that I have seen far too many people who have forgotten that martial arts is ultimately about surviving life and death encounters, or they believe that MMA is a close enough approximation to a life and death encounter. Either way many martial artists believe the ultimate goal of a martial arts is related to what goes on in the MMA ring. I am sorry, but the first time that someone makes a move towards an out-numbered martial artist with a hammer, broken bottle, or brass knuckles, the next part of the story should involve words like crushed, broke, knocked out, gouged, or poked and not cross, knee, jab, and so on. Faber is easily one of the top 50 of martial arts competitors in the world, if he barely made it out alive due to a sport mind-set, what hope have we?
I first started to think about this years ago as I began to wonder why the palm strike has fallen by the wayside in favor of the fist. My guess is that this has come about in part because hitting someone with your fist does not hurt because of padding and wrist wraps that can be used during training. Also, people don't have to fight hand to hand day in and day out for survival so if you break your knuckles you get a cast rather than lose your life because you can't fight the next day.
Are Wing Chun practitioners gong to move ahead or live in the past? Isn't that the real question.
I don't have a lot to add on it. I thought that both candidates agreed on a number of topics; However, McCain's voting record seriously hampered his ability to be convincing or credible.
All I have to say is that I hate loud computers. My quiet fan went out so I had to use a noisy one until my quiet one arrived. The fan was so loud that it was giving me a headache. Also, in the interest of having a quit computer, I recommend the Fatal1ty graphics cards because they don't use fans.
For those of you who don't know, Duke Rufus is an American Kickboxer/Muay Thai expert. I finally broke down and watched his videos. You definitely don't want to buy these as a beginner if you don't know much about this style of fighting. He presents far to much information and it is a little bit difficult to synthesize the techniques that he shows out of movement with an opponent versus the the same technique in the air. However, the strength of Duke's tapes is his insight on how to knock someone the fuck out.
It is interesting. In my hometown that some of the worst martial artists own the biggest schools and have the most "credentials." I had to put credentials in quotes because the credentials that they have are either fake or from a disreputable organization.