Posts by Rich Lock
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Yes, because being called 'hot and sweaty' is always soooo complimentary.
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Well, I'm new to the whole martial arts thing, having been put off for years and years by the whole 'bow to the mat, and once you've done that, we'll go through a sequence of repetitive movements again and again without explaining why' thing.
Oddly enough, having now got into the physical side of things, I'm starting to become more curious about the spiritual or 'zen' side of the whole deal, which was part of what really put me off in the first place.
Aikido.
Flow.
Use their force to floor them.(It does also work in the scrum&punch&kickngouge of - say, a pub fight?)
Nor has any Aikidoka I've met. It's not an art that appeals to brawlers.
One of my current instructors is an (ex?)-Aikidoka. But he enjoys a good 'ground and pound' as much as anyone else.
A diffusion or quick getaway is always best. Rule 1. de-fuse the situation. If you can't, rule 2 applies: run away. If you can't do either then rule 3 applies: kick them in the pills and then apply rule 2.
I never liked the chucking much, probably because it was too easy for me. Far rather the hitting and being hit. Half torn off callouses on the hands and feet and a chestful of good honest bruises... good for the soul.
Well, you need a ground game these days, what with all these MMA and Brazilian Ju-Jitsuists about. But it's hard to apply rule 2 when you're on the ground, so you don't really want to go there if you can help it.
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unfortunately !!!??!!!!
You sound disappointed.
From the mildly hysterical tone of the 'armageddononline' website I linked, I did kinda suspect it might not be 100% kosher.
I just vaguely recalled the story from a couple of years ago and went googling.
Here a couple of more credible links:
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a landslide generated tsunami
Probably not a good idea for me to start talking about the Canary Islands at this point in the evening.
Oh. Would this be an issue?
It would [cause a tsunami wave] far bigger than any wave ever seen for thousands of years. 500 billion tonnes of rock are waiting to collapse into the ocean at terrific speed. The collapse would create nearly 5,000,000,000,000,000 (5 thousand trillion) joules of kinetic energy, which would be converted into a colossal wave 900 metres high with awesome speed - within ten minutes it would have moved 250 kilometres. The landslide would continue to move underwater, powering the wave as it goes.
No coastline in the North Atlantic would be spared. Britain, France, Spain and Portugal would all be badly hit North Africa would be hit by 100 metre waves, but the main wave would travel west. It would storm across the Atlantic in hours, hitting the Caribbean and Brazil badly. However, the real damage would be to the East coast of the USA.
By the time it had travelled the 4000 miles to America the wave would be lower and wider. It would now be just 50 metres high but many kilometres long, allowing it to sweep up to 20 miles in land, destroying everything in its path. Boston, New York and Miami would virtually be wiped off the map. Skyscrapers would be bulldozed as if they weren't there. Bridges would be ripped from their foundations. And virtually every human in these cities would be killed.
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I've also discovered that people are a de-stresser. Possibly on account of too much solo work. They may be tiring, but it's tiring like training. Overtrain and you get fatigued by it. Undertrain and you get fatigued by everything. We need people in appropriate doses.
One of my de-stressers is exercise. Particularly, martial arts and punching things.
Given that Ben has also expressed martial arts love in the past, I am now wondering exactly how he 'uses people as a de-stresser'....
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a decent civil emergency is all NZ needs to push us over the line into a nation of practical gourmets
With fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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I want to know which superheroes we can expect.
Is 'The Free Market' a superhero? He is certainly credited with near-omniscent powers by His bands of devoted followers.
I anticipate we'll end actually end up with this bunch of pathetic Lame-o's
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A supercity needs a superdisaster!
Like the rugby world cup entertainment planning, for example....
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I've lately wondered if GNS staff and media organisations should consider avoiding using the word "wave" to describe a tsunami.
To give them credit, NatRad were actually pretty good about making the distinction on Sunday morning.
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After reading the chapter of Bill Bryson's 'short history of nearly everything' that deals with volcanoes, I decided that the only way I'd ever get any sleep ever again was to do whatever the mental equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going 'lalalalalalalala can't hear you' is.
The volcanoes that create the cones aren't the dangerous ones (well, relatively speaking). The really dangerous ones are the ones that just erupt completely unexpectedly and without warning out of an otherwise innocuous looking piece of flat ground. There are plenty of lakes around NZ that were formed as a result of these types of eruptions. Including Lake Taupo.
Now, have a think about how big Lake Taupo is, and what sort of force would be required to shift all that rock and mud...
Feeling queasy yet?
I read somewhere a while ago that pretty good sized chunks of rock (as in, family car sized) from that particular eruption have been found in Australia. That's quite an impressive sub-orbital lob...
If we get anything that big again, I don't think a few bottles of water in the basement is going to be much use. More like 'goodnight NZ, and thanks for playing'.
Yellowstone Park is quite similar. It has all the features of one of these 'flat' types of volcanoes, but for years geologists couldn't work out where the caldera was. Until the space programme started and they got orbital photos. Basically, the whole of Yellowstone is a volcano. A volcano so big, you can only see the whole thing when you're in orbit. Apparently it's overdue for another blow.