So, here’s a video of me doing a Destreza thrusting form with one of my teachers, Maestro Puck Curtis: Understand, this is a form, not free-fencing. (It’s a little bit harder for me to hit Puck when it’s not a form.) Click here for a description of the form, explaining what is going on here. [...]
This is a cool finger exercise for guitarists that helps with alternate picking. Here’s the first part of the pattern in tab: Now, here’s part two, which includes a little bit of string-skipping: A couple of notes to keep in mind: Start the first pattern with an upstroke. As you play each four note sequence, [...]
1) A sword blade is both a lever and a ramp – strong leverage but a bad ramp will quickly turn into weak leverage. 2) If your opponent parries you weakly, stay strong and hit them. If they parry you strongly, yield to their parry and either do a conclusion or hit them with a [...]
Link One: Flavors of heartache. Link Two: Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best The first link is one post from one of my favorite webcomics: Indexed. Jessica Hagy posts all these hilarious and/or thought-provoking graphs and charts on index cards. Check it out. The second link is an article from The [...]
Link One: SureFire’s (Nearly Indestructible) Pens Review Link Two: Llama font – say it in llama I think I want a SureFire EWP-02 – the $90 price tag will slow me down a little, but I’ve broken two pens in my pocket in the last two weeks. (Didn’t get ink anywhere, just cracked the cases.) [...]
I say “you’re a blessing” and it’s true but you are so much more: A perfect jewel endlessly beautiful reflecting God’s light in countless ways my own dear Silmaril delighting eyes heart mind soul Even the flaws (impossible to see without a loupe) do not detract they merely add detail and texture Polished surface prismatic [...]
Rock guitarists can be a pretty insular lot. Ask one about their top ten favorite musicians, and you’ll probably get a list of ten rock guitarists. (If they’re adventurous you may get a jazz or fusion guitarist on the list.) Ask the same guitarist to talk about one of their favorite songs, and they’ll most [...]
Link One: Bloom Like an Artist Link Two: Dunning–Kruger effect Link one is a brilliant webcomic at Jellyvampire. Really highly recommend you read all the way through this – it’s a vertical scroller, but it’s not that long, and well worth it. It’s about pursuing your passion, even when it seems unrealistic. Link two is [...]
Link One: Eye Candy: Porcelain Fighting Figures Dropped And Photographed The Moment Of Shattering Link Two: The Rules of Sagefight The first link is pretty well described in the title – but you have to look at the pictures to see how dang cool it looks. Very interesting photography project. The second link is for [...]
A murder of crows the color of void wheeling against a white sky black branches, barely budded a grid to track their flight below, all is green with splashes of white yellow pink red A murder of crows omen of battle noisy and social low-class cousins of lonely and noble ravens thinking of death and [...]
