Heute habe ich mir zehn Quadratmeter Matten geleistet um eine brauchbare Trainingsfläche aufzubauen.

Neun Quadratmeter kann ich in der Wohnung ausbreiten, einer ist Reserve. Ein netter Nebeneffekt ist dass meine Tochter unglaublich viel Spaß mit dem herum turnen auf der Matte hat. Da sie für sinnvolles Training aber noch zu jung ist, ist spielen angesagt.

Ich habe vor hier meinen weiteren Weg im JuJitsu festzuhalten.
Ich trainiere seit ca 6 Jahren regelmäßig bei GoRyu - Jujitsu und bereite mich dort derzeit auf meinen 1. Kyu (Braungurt) vor. Weiters plane ich eine Gracie Garage zu eröffnen um mein Wissen weiter zu geben und mich im Gracie JuJitsu fort zu bilden.

Ein Video meiner Blaugurt Prüfung findet sich unten. Meine Performance damals war für mich nicht ganz zufriedenstellend da ich meine Deckung stark vernachlässigt habe. Seither achte ich beim training viel stärker auf meine Deckung. Ohne das Video wäre mir das wohl nie aufgefallen, daher werde ich jede weitere Prüfung filmen um sie danach analysieren zu können.

Sometime during the last few years people started to provide how-tos and sometimes documentation for various topics by uploading a video with audio commentary to YouTube.

Please stop doing that. The average human can read about 250 words per minute - way more than we are capable of speaking.
There are videos for trivial tasks on YouTube that would take only a few lines to describe and maybe a Screenshot or photo. Still, people are producing low quality videos with bad audio which do not get to the point within the first third of the time (see Wadsworth constant).

I appreciate the effort, I just hate the method.

The song Black Flies by Ben Howard describes his view on a friendship that parted ways. It is a strange coincidence that I stumbled over this song just last Saturday. I usually don’t show the public my very personal writings, most of which is done with ink and paper during late hours all by myself, but this time I feel like I have to.

Last weekend, a good friend of mine moved to Berlin to pursue her studies in biology and get her PhD. I encouraged her to go because she described the whole situation as the perfect fit, in terms of coworkers and studies alike. She would have been a fool to let this pass and I would have tried to force her to go if necessary.

But this does not mean that I am happy with the situation. We had a farewell party on Friday, where I realized, upon leaving the party, how much I will miss her and how much of a good friend she is. We share an awful lot of humor, have been in the same sports club for a long time and did a few crazy things together (Who gets up at 7 am on a free day to wield a wooden sword, seriously?). But you only know what lost after it is gone.

During the last few weeks I had some interesting encounters while wearing Glass. Most people react positively and are amazed when I let them try them on. The only place where people wanted me to take them off (which I did ofcourse) was the Metalab. No big surprise :)

Here are some of the highlights that people said:

• I want to let it google ‘glasshole’ but you are not behaving like one.
  I take this as a compliment :)
• OK glass go to .
  This joke is becoming old quicker than anything else. And it actually never worked, no idea why not.
• You have a totally different perspective, you are so high up!
  That was my wife who is about 20 cm shorter than I am. I let hear shoot a video on Glass walking though our flat. It was an interesting experience seeing the world (and myself) from her angle.
• You glow like a Christmas tree.
  Yea, the display turns on a lot when you sit on the sofa and talk to people that walk around the room.
• Those glasses look back, don’t they?
  That sentence made me smile. It’s true, after all.
• Next time, I know where to hit.
  That was about the strongest reaction I had so far. The guy that said it wasn’t one of the smart kind and trying to hit me is not a good idea, either.