On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 19:36 -0700, Alan Wolfe wrote:
> Man sorry to hear about your health bob that is totally screwed up.
>
> This email is totally off topic you guys...so sorry about that. If
> you want to read up on some cool stuff that doesnt relate to game
> programming keep reading, otherwise stop reading now so i don't waste
> your time.
It relates to game programming. It relates to any activity where the
activity tends to make you sit in one spot for hours and hours and
hours.
>
> Do you still do your shaolin kung fu training? Hows that for a fun
> workout eh? :P
Yes, I do still do it. I am now regaining my conditioning so that I can
get through class... Strength comes back fast, but endurance goes away
quickly and comes back slooooowly.
>
> I'm still training myself but just wanted to say...for all our fellow
> computer nerds, if your lookin to get in shape i seriously recommend
> martial arts.
Yep, nothing like it. The best thing you can do to your body.
> When you first start it seems to not make much sense, but since i know
> you all are coders like me, there comes a point after a couple years
> where things start to make sense and you can take principles you learn
> in one place and apply them in other places to learn things beyond
> what you were taught. It's really cool. I sit on my ass about 14
> hours a day since i program from my house as part of a small 3 man
> company so if it wasn't for karate i'd be a total lard ass but it
> keeps me in good shape just going twice a week for an hour and a half
> (:
Yep. When I started I could only go twice a week because it took half a
week to get over the soreness from the last lesson. The change you will
see it incredible.
>
> This is totally off topic but I have 2 things which might help you a
> bit Bob if you don't know about them already
>
> #1) Go to www.mattfurey.com he has a ton of awesome ways to get in
> good help. His combat conditioning stuff is great, our teacher got
> alot of really cool exersizes from him like hindu pushups, hindu
> squats, and a really awesome one - the back bridge.
What he calls Hindu push ups are called "wave style" push ups in
Shaolin-Do. They are part of the warm up for every kung fu class. When
you get to where you can do them at all, you start doing them on your
knucles and then on finger tips.
The Hindu squats seem to be a combination of reverse squats and frog
leaps. In the reverse squat you lower yourself over a count 10 and then
come up quickly, for a frog leap you drop till you hands are flat on the
floor between you feet (also flat on the floor) and then you jump up,
swing your hands in front of you and kick your self in the back side
then land back in the starting position.
The I Chin Ching include a lot of different froms of back bridges. we
don't do enough of them, really we don't. These are hard enough that if
you try to get lower belts to do them to often they just quit.
>
> Matt furey basically researches fitness techniques and such and his
> information ranges from current all the way back to historic times but
> there is alot of shaolin influence in what he does.
Yep.
> He is also the only white person to ever win the chinese national kung
> fu championship! You can go there and sign up for his free daily email
> thing where in every email he talks about some principles about
> getting in shape or staying healthy etc.
>
> I shit you not...if you do 2.5 minutes of hindu squats, 1.5 minutes of
> hindu pushups, and a minute of backbridging, that is only 5 minutes of
> working out but not only will it kick your ass...if you do that lets
> say 3 days a week you will get RIPPED. I have personally seen people
> do that...drop 50 pounds in 3 months and get strong with functional
> muscle from only doing 5 minutes of workout in 3 days a week (imagine
> if you did it longer or more often :P)
Yeah, I have seen similar effects. On people younger than I am :-). The
older you are when you start the longer it takes.
>
> #2) check out www.shaolinsecrets.com for volume 1 of 10 of the
> origional shaolin manuscripts - filled with history, techniques,
> exersizes herbal medicines, breathing exersizes etc straight from the
> shaolin temple itself. If your wondering about the validity (alot of
> people do, it seems almost too good to be true), my sensei is the one
> in charge of selling those books and making the other derivative
> products from them (not done yet but he's working on them at this very
> moment) like dvds that put into video some of this knowledge. Not
> only is my teacher in charge of selling them, I made the website (to
> his specs....don't laugh at me haha) and 2 of my buddies were there in
> china when the professor passed the untranslated books to the
> professor so it is 100% legit let me assure you. Also, 2 years ago i
> finally earned my black belt after some 6 years of training and the
> monks came out from china to help out with the test (there were a
> couple hundred of us testing), as well as teach us some stuff and put
> on a neat show for us after it was over. The abbot of the shaolin
> temple himself was there as well as 12 warrior monks so it was quite
> an ordeal!
Yeah, that is pretty controversial. The few people I have met who were
trained by Shaolin masters who got out ahead of the communist take over
have absolutely nothing good to say about the people currently running
the original Shaolin temple. OTOH, they get a lot of good press and
people who should know treat it as the real deal. I wish I did know how
to react to stuff coming out of the current residents of the Shaolin
temple.
>
> Anyways that is totaly screwed up Bob about your health, I hope you
> feel better.
>
> And sorry for the spam, I just wanted to share these 2 awesome things
> with you in hope that maybe they can help somehow.
Don't sweat it.
Bob Pendleton
>
> ::cheers to your health!::
>
> On 6/19/06, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 08:29 -0700, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> > >
> > > I have to admit that I haven't been paying that much
> attention to the
> > > list recently. I have been through a lot of drama over the
> last several
> > > months caused by a misdiagnosis and a series of false
> positive results
> > > on medical tests. Maybe we should have a discussion of how
> to stay
> > > healthy while living the high tech high stress life of a
> game developer?
> > >
> > > Feeling like I am back from the dead,
> > >
> > > Bob Pendleton
> >
> > Sorry to hear about your health problems, Bob!
>
> That's the thing, I wound up in the hospital for an operation
> on my
> heart when there was nothing wrong with my heart. The first
> thing they
> did when they got me on the table was to do an angiogram that
> showed
> that all the previous tests were dead wrong. My trust in
> doctors is at
> an all time low!
>
> >
> > So here's a question: How to stay healthy as a game
> developer?
> >
> > Here's an answer: Play dance dance
> revolution! Seriously. I bought
> > it about 3 weeks ago and it's the first time I've ever
> played games
> > that have kept me in shape. Even my wife approves of me
> playing games
> > now.
> >
> > This is not an ad, just my personal experience.
>
> I have heard the same thing from many people. My experience is
> that
> exercise is the key to good health. If you exercise you will
> find your
> self eating better and being more healthy. The problem is that
> most
> exercise is about as much fun as watching paint dry. (I am
> speaking as a
> man who has worn out 2 exercycles, 1 nordic track, 1 tread
> mill, and who
> has a nice collection of free weights. I now practice a
> martial art and
> the combination of mental challenge and physical challenge
> makes me want
> to exercise.
>
> If DDR does the same thing for you, then that is wonderful. I
> do worry
> about the replay value of DDR. How long until you get bored
> with it?
>
> Bob Pendleton
>
> >
> >
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