• Even when playing open guard, whether it's spider/open seated/De La Riva/butterfly, must focus on breaking the opponent's posture. Grab the collar when playing open guard once the opponent leans in. Use the lasso to pull the opponent down. Use a spider bicep control to drive the opponent forward off their center of gravity. Get the underhook and ( Read more... )

Had an in-depth conversation with our new software engineer about OpenStack. It's fascinating that within 5 years, a dramatic shift has happened in infrastructure management. An open sourced software suite is compelling enough of a product that large corporations with thousands of servers are migrating to using this tool instead of propriety ( Read more... )

Geocoding => Translating a description of a location, such as address or name, to the geocoordinates.

Geolocating => Identifying the actual whereabouts of an object; May translate to geocoordinates, an address, or some other identifier of location

In order to maintain a solid half-guard structure, one must lean into the half guard such that one's bottom shoulder is almost "hidden" underneath oneself. This provides the right kind of frame to withstand top pressure and not get flattened. One's torso angles downward instead of upward or even laterally thus making it nearly impossible to get ( Read more... )

Found an interesting writer and techie that wrote a good article on the Buddhist philosophy on desire found here

1) With one's trapped leg extended, grab opponent's exposed opposite knee and then move one's top knee around opponent's head and sit on their chest. While sitting on top, cross other hand to opponent's other knee and take knee grip. Continue onto opponent's same-side hip and secure a grip. Keep twisting in the same direction by tucking one's own ( Read more... )

In deep half guard with opponent high on shoulder with their trapped leg extended, rotate one's hips deeper towards behind the opponent's hips. One's spine should be perpendicular to their trapped leg's femur. Elevate one's hips in order to lighten their foot and scoop it with one's hand under the opponent's ankle. Pull it up their foot up towards ( Read more... )

Opponent has cross-face+underhook ( Read more... )

While one is in a good cross-face+cross-hip side control, when the opponent defends by using their forearm to push against one's neck, take their energy and straighten their arm securing it with one's own head against their tricep. Go to mount, then knee on belly, and then all the way to the other side. Rotate until perpendicular to opponent. NOTE ( Read more... )

Given my unfamiliarity with schools in the Midwest and the South, jotting down the top 100 for easy reference so I'm not so dismissive of some of these schools . .

(Acceptance Rate)

Top 20

• Yale, Harvard, Princeton (< 7.5%)
• Columbia, Stanford, MIT, UChicago (< 9%)
• Penn, Dartmouth, Caltech, Brown, Duke (< 12.5%)
• John's Hopkins, Northwestern, WashU, ( Read more... )