post: hacker giude to jiu jitsu: 01 intro

Author: iocanel

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+#+TITLE: Hackers guide to Jiu Jitsu
+#+DESCRIPTION: Use your computer skills to maximize the efficiency of your jiu jistsu studying
+#+CATEGORY: Jiu Jitsu
+#+TAGS: Jiu Jitsu
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+[[./hackers-guide-to-jiu-jitsu.png]]
+* Intro
+
+I am a 40+ software engineer and recreational Jiu Jitsu practitioner, strugglying with vast amount of information related to the sport.
+I decided to make use of my `computer` skills to aid me in the process of taming this new skill.
+
+This is the first post in a series of posts, documenting the process.
+
+* Who is this series of posts for ?
+
+- Jiu Jitsu practitioners with decent computer skills
+- People that are using digital sources for acquiring new skills
+- People that need to become better at learning
+
+  So, you may find interest in it even if you are not into Jiu Jitsu.
+
+  If you ever researched for topics:
+  
+  - Note taking
+  - Second Brain / Mind mapping
+  - Flash cards
+  - Flow charts
+
+  then chances are that you will find similar information here applied in a specific topic.
+
+** What makes Jiu Jitsu a great topic to use for demonstrating learning techniques ?
+
+   It probably sounds oxymoron to use a combat sport to demonstrate things like note taking, learning etc, but is it?
+   If you are not familiar with the sport, let me just say that it has a huge learning curve, due to the vast number of techniques and contexts.
+   It's so vast, that its typical nowdays that super specialized video instructionals are often more than 10 hours long.
+   On top of that it's a constantly evolving domain, which means that all related information should be live (easily accessible and editable).
+
+   So, to summarize:
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+   - Huge domain
+   - Constantly evolving
+   - Video is predominant source of learning
+   
+* Why ?
+
+** Solving practical problems
+
+The main reason is to solve practical problems I was having while studing using instructionals and online tutotrials.
+You may find one or more of the questions below relatable:
+
+- How many times did you find a great resource online but lost it?
+  - Forgot to bookmark ?
+  - Lost bookmark ?
+  - Resource taken offline ?
+- How many times did you find a great tip inside a huge video and it's not easy to find it again?
+  - Video was not bookmarkable ?
+  - Video was in a DVD ?
+- How many times you took a great note, that was then forgotten ?
+  - Lost ?
+  - Never reviewd the note ?
+- Is it hard for you to retain the information you learn ?
+- Have you ever felt that you need a more compact representation of knowledge than the original raw material ?
+
+** Influences
+   
+   [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Danaher_(martial_artist)][John Danaher]] is arguably one of the biggest influnces in modern jiu jitsu. Danaher is a Jiu Jitsu and MMA coach but also a Phd in Philosophy.
+   I think that what makes him stand out, is his background in Philosophy, which he sucesfully applied to the sport giving him a unique perspective.
+
+   Influnced by Danaher, I cannot stop but thinking `How could I apply my unique skills in perspective to gain an agnle in the sport?`.
+   
+   The obvious answer, is `By using my hacker skills to solve the pratical problems mentioned in the previous section.`
+
+   And this is pretty much what this series is about.
+  
+* Format and topics
+
+  The first parts of the series will include short posts related to video processing / playback tools and how the can be used to make the most out of instuctionals.
+  Then I am going to focus on note taking and how to make the most out of your notes and we'll see how it goes.
+
+  All the tools I am going to use are going to be free and opensource tools available in all three major operation systems (Windows, OSX and Linux).
+
+  An example of such tools:
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+  - [[https://www.ffmpeg.org/][ffmpeg]]
+  - [[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/][mplayer]]
+  - [[https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract][tesseract]]
+  - [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][emacs]] 
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+ Feel free to drop a comment with requests, suggestions and feedback! 
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