Strike out all multiples of 2’s:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Strike out all multiples of 3’s:

2 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19

And so on. Here is a C# code that does exactly that:

private static void PrintPrimesTo(int num) {
            var primes = new bool[num + 1];

            // init candidates
            for (int i = 2; i <= num; i++) { primes[i] = true; }

            // cross-out 2's:
            //   2, 4, 6, 8, 10...
            // cross-out 3's:
            //   9, 12, 15...
            for (int i = 2; (i * i) <= num; i++ ) {
                Console.WriteLine("Crossing out {0}'s to {1}:", i, num);

                for (int j = i * i; j <= num; j = j + i) {
                    Console.WriteLine(" * crossing-out: {0}", j);
                    primes[j] = false;
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Results: prime numbers between 2 and {0}:", num);
            for (int i = 2; i <= num; i++) {
                if (primes[i]) Console.WriteLine(" * {0} ", i);
            }
        }

Sample output from calling PrintPrimesTo(100):

Crossing out 2's to 20:
 * crossing-out: 4
 * crossing-out: 6
 * crossing-out: 8
 * crossing-out: 10
 * crossing-out: 12
 * crossing-out: 14
 * crossing-out: 16
 * crossing-out: 18
 * crossing-out: 20
Crossing out 3's to 20:
 * crossing-out: 9
 * crossing-out: 12
 * crossing-out: 15
 * crossing-out: 18
Crossing out 4's to 20:
 * crossing-out: 16
 * crossing-out: 20
Results: prime numbers between 2 and 20:
 * 2
 * 3
 * 5
 * 7
 * 11
 * 13
 * 17
 * 19

1. “TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”
2. “SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
3. “ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”
4. “RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
5. “FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.”
6. “INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.”
7. “SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.”
8. “JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.”
9. “MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.”
10. “CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.”
11. “TRANQUILITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.”
12. “CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.”
13. “HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.”

Franklin wrote: “… [it is a ] bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection”.

Adding lyrics to your songs

You just need to make sure your mp3 files have “lyrics property” populated.

On your computer, open iTunes, right click on a song and choose “Get Info”. You should see this dialog:

Now click on “Lyrics” tab and add your text.

You can copy and paste lyrics text from websites, such as:

• http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page
  

(Also, if you look around you’ll find software that will automatically add lyrics to all of your songs)

How to view lyrics on iPhone:

Once you’ve added lyrics to your songs and synced your phone, here is how you view it: when the song is playing, simply tab the screen once and it will overlay lyrics over album art!

People are patiently waiting to watch the open finals…

My best friend Johnny Goicoechea on the first finals problem … killing it!

waiting to go after it …

Sean McCall sends the 3rd finals problem, the crowd goes crazy.

Johnny and Jamie on the last problems

By the way, to rename all of these picture files, I used the following command in windows powershell:

ls | % {$x=1} {Rename-Item $_ -NewName “stone_gardens_sbc2009_$x.jpg”; $x++ }

(if you have windows 7 it comes with powershell, otherwise you can download it for free)

The desire for significance can be manifested in so many different ways:

• You’re trying to switch lanes in traffic, but another person speeds up (by being in front of you, they forced you to acknowledge their presence).
• It is the fuel behind any career. (Ambition, desire to be great fulfills this need for significance).
• It is also why people become pastors, missionaries and other types of religious workers. (they get this feeling of significance through serving God and people).
• It is also why we bother to document human history! (Historians were typically employed by wealthy people that wanted to be remembered).
• It’s the reason for crime. (By taking something valuable away from you by force, I make you acknowledge my significance in your life).

The desire to feel significant, important, to be connected to others, to be a part of something … is the drive behind reason.

People can channel this desire in a positive or negative way … but they will certainly channel it!

For example, you’re at the DMV.

You get agitated by how long the process is taking. You get to a clerks window and you’re seeing her as insignificant pawn in a government machine, instead of a fellow human being. Surely she feels it though your body language and vocal tonality. After finding that you missed some paper work, she makes you go back to the end of the line to fill it out.

Now imagine you walked up to the same clerk, smiled and asked her about an interesting necklace she is wearing (because you were sincerely interested :) … not manipulative by trying to invoke a particular reaction/outcome). After dealing all day with impatient and rude people, she finds it refreshing. She smiles back and tells you an interesting story behind it. You learn something new. She feels better. Whatever you didn’t fill out in your form, she helps you with.

Two very different approaches. Two very different outcomes. However, in both cases the clerk is telling you (between the lines) that “she is significant to your life”! In the first case she retaliates with whatever little power she has over you because you have hurt her sense of self-worth, her significance. In the second case, she expresses her significance by being helpful because you’ve provided her with an opportunity to do so. Instead of being impatient, you acknowledged her hard work and her involvement in your life without saying much. You said it all (between the lines) by expressing genuine concern. Because you’re sincere, your body language and tone of voice delivered it.

You can’t fake sincerity! Lots of people use charm and flattery to manipulate an event toward a particular result, but a discerning person will always catch on to it. Forget the outcome. Sincerely focus on expressing your genuine love to your neighbor (in how you say things, and what you say). When you’re communicating with people, even if you’re presenting cut and dry scientific facts … speak to the heart first!

Forget about arguing with people at the “mind” level, reasoning with logic and facts. Always go for the heart. If you genuinely make a friend, disagreements will vanish. Often time people continue to argue about something only because they have already stated their positions. Now the pride is involved. If they acknowledge that you’re right it means they are backing down (which hurts their pride/feeling of importance).

Most people are like zombies, they go throughout their day trapped in their world of thoughts, without really paying attention, and connecting with others. Those that can connect heart to heart are very few.

So, as you go about your day, pay attention to how many things are driven by a raw desire for significance…

Super light, tons of torque, handles like a mountain bike!

It has a much lower seat height compared to my Triumph:

Nice and crisp, love the color scheme:

I’ll show you guys a couple of bikes it is highly inspired by…

Here a bigger picture:

Here is a side view of it. It’s just raw! (Not sure about the purple and pink).

I like a touch of copper – goes well with distressed brown leather seat.

black lip, polished pipes, cafe seat:

There are no bad answers … there are only bad questions

The Quality of your questions literally creates your World. It determines the state of all areas of your life: Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, Relationships, Work, Fun and so on.

We experience the World with our thoughts. Our perception of Reality it skewed by many things. We never see things as they really are. I’ll go so far as to say nothing in the World even comes into existence until you observe it.

Thinking is nothing more than a process of asking a question and coming up with an answer. Questions are interesting because they impose a frame within which you attempt to answer them. Questions are like railroads tracks — they have presuppositions. Questions guide our awareness and thinking process.

It’s important to remember that your current state is the result of some questions you asked before. If you’re not feeling well (emotionally, physically, spiritually … etc) it means you’re asking poor quality questions. Thinking is made of questions and answers. Questions box-in your answers. Answers only give birth to more questions. It’s a recursive process. In the very beginning of your life as far back as you can remember … what were you interested in? What did you want to know?

Asking better questions

You don’t have to answer them within the question framework, a presupposition. Reconsider answering a question. The most intelligent, the happiest, most athletic, most inspired, most giving, most <whatever> people in the world differ from common because of only one thing: they ask higher quality questions because they realize it will guide the answers. By asking higher quality questions you get higher quality answers, higher quality thinking, better decisions and actions, faster emotional, spiritual, intellectual development, increased health and emotional control.

Example: Which question is healthier? Which question will produce the desired outcome? Which question would your Spirit ask?

Before giving answers, see your presuppositions. See the railroad. See where this train is heading. See if you need to get out of it and go in a whole new direction.

Cheers,
-Dmitry

Let me backtrack a bit a give you an overview of what this post is all about. My whole life I’ve been asking myself questions like:

• what is success?
  
• what makes people successful?
• what is my purpose here?
• how can I go after things I desire and at the same time bring good to others?
• what is the very best thing I can do with my life and my time?
• and so forth.

I realized that questions themselves define the frame. By frame I mean your mindstate, the frame of mind through which you look at the word. Just by asking questions you essentially placing your mind in a box, a “framework” within which you’re attempting to answer them. Most important questions are outside of reason and logic. I’ll type this really fast, in one shot, so bare with me if you find typos :).

Ghost in a shell and the flashlight

It is much like walking into a dark room with a flash light. The flashlight has some interesting properties. It has a limited capacity of how much light it can emit (measured in lumens). If you concentrate light, you’ll get a very bright but small surface area. If you keep focusing it, you’ll get a laser beam. If you disperse it you won’t be able to see as clearly but you’ll kind of get an idea of what’s in the room. I think Reality is like that. You literally create it by choosing where to look and how intensely you’re looking in any particular spot.

Reality

No one sees the Creation as it really is. Everything we see is distorted by lenses of memories, emotions, senses and its interpretation. Where you look … is what you choose to see! You create your World by your attention and your language.

“Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7)

Words

With words God created the Universe. With mere words men can also create, heal, kill and influence the world. With words I create computer software and transmit logic to electromagnetic machinery. The string theory in theoretical physics is based on the idea that everything in Creation is made of vibrating loops (strings) of sound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory).

But … as you know, most of human communication is non-verbal: its made of body language (posture, gestures, breathing patterns, eye movements), vocal tonality, speed, pitch and so forth. The actual word content in communication is a very small portion of it.

However, your “inner dialog” and thinking is 100% words (and related symbols/imagery). Words are connected to each other with associations. Some words have a lot of associations and strong connections, some are not. The word “Love” has amazingly strong connections and associations, while
“kiwi” might have very few. This brings me to this point:

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8)

Our language has everything to do with our happiness and how we perceive the world. I came to realize (in a very new light) that I should rephrase everything in the positive form because of the way it profoundly directs my attention. The words I use to talk to myself and others pull all kinds of associations and emotions related to them. By speaking and thinking of things that are noble, beautiful, right, true, honest, pure I dramatically affect my perception of the world. And since my perception of the world is my world, I literally change it and how it reacts to me!

Emotions link mind and body. Your thoughts and language also have a profound effect on your body chemistry … and therefore your health.

Balance

To me, the key to staying happy is staying in balance. Mind, Body and Spirit are one. Vital focus areas of Life are one.

Because I am so visual, I prefer mind-mapping to written word to help me “see” and focus. It’s kind of like an outline. The above are (dynamically changing) vital areas of life. If I click on Environment, it expands to the following:

The environment is composed of many “forces” that assert themselves on your decision-making. (I purposely removed some of these forces for this blog J) Some forces are very strong, some are weaker … but how you live is always up to you. No one can force you to think a certain way. Freedom of thought is the freedom you always have!
If I click on Health, I get this:

Body is a temple of Spirit. Mind and body are inseparable. Every day is an opportunity to grow and develop in all of these areas. If I click on physical training, I get something like this:

Nourishment (I do not like the word “diet”):

And so forth…

Each item on this map expands to multitude of sub-screens. The “leafs” (end points of these screens) contain text (in paragraph form). If I was to print it out it would probably be a 50-page book.

At this point I’d like to hear back from you guys, if this stuff is interesting I’ll post more. I might even post the map from which I generated these pictures, the “source code”. Any feedback is appreciated :)

Thanks,

-Dmitry

Getting ready for autocross event.

Safety first

Kevin’s white Carrera 4, and my Evolution MR.

It started to rain! AWD is so much fun on a slippery road.

They brought a water truck and sprayed the course for the “skidpad”. The right side of the circle was very slick. This exercise teaches you that you can turn and control your car just by adjusting acceleration. When you let off the gas, the weight of the car transfers forward, AWD catches on and the rear end gets whipped around. Sometimes you get into an understear (car keeps going forward even though the wheel is cranked to the side). If you smoothly turn the wheel get straight to get the tires rolling again and bring it back to the side, it will catch on immediately.

It’s amazing just how much everything I’ve learned from Aikido applicable to racing. It is the purest application of “Stillness in movement”. You’re keeping your mind calm and fluid while things around you are moving incredibly fast and chaotic.

The instructors also kept talking about “looking ahead” and being smooth, the same way in Budo you do not let your mind get fixated on opponents blade (or any particular thing).

This is where we attended ground school in the morning with driving instructors.

We saw a Mercedes-Benz SLR McClaren supercar at the track. What a beautiful car!

Kevin made a video of the entire event. Check it out: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=606632132181&ref=nf

Agatsu, “Self-Victory”.

Katsuhayabi “Victory right here, right now”.

“If your thoughts are antagonistic toward the cosmos, those thoughts will destroy you and wreck havoc on the environment. I know not how to defeat others I only know how to win over myself!” (Morihei Ueshiba, Creator of Aikido)

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” (Philippians 4:8).

Morihei maintained that the real and most dangerous opponents we face are fear, anger, confusion, doubt, and despair. If we overcome those enemies that attack us from within we can attain a “True Victory”.

“Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:31)

 You only live once. Keep yourself in the present. The past is gone, and the future is unknown.

 Do not try to cut off all your passions. Passions give birth to heroic activity. Fulfill your passion and that will bring bliss.

 Do not think of work — any work — as duty. If it is a duty, it will become a burden. How do you turn a burden into a pleasure? Live respectfully, correctly, positively, and boldly.

 When you rise in the morning, greet the day with vigor. During the day, refrain from thinking or saying “I am confused”, “I’m weak”, “I’m sad”, “I need help”. At night before you sleep, release all thoughts of sadness, anger or irritation. Think of pleasant things.

Do not overwork yourself.

Reflect constantly on your state of mind.

Approach others in a positive bright manner.

Always be grateful, honest, kind, and pleasant.

Speak truly and honestly.

Body and mind form a single entity; life follows basic natural laws that should not be violated.

Your attitude towards life determines its outcome.

The best attitude is based on respect, boldness, truthfulness, and purity.

Foster the life force by being healthy, courageous, decisive, resolute, and vigorous.”

-Tempu Nakamura

This is a great book on some of the basic principles, such as mind and body coordination, strong will, and power of “positive thinking” (this phrase doesn’t translate well).

Here are some interesting quotes from this book: “The brain is always working while you are alive, you cannot eliminate the waves of the mind. It is impossible not to think anything. The waves of the brain, however, can be calmed down by half infinitely.

When the waves are calmed down infinitely toward zero, it is called concentration. “Think nothing” means concentration or calmness. It is a state of mind like a clear water surface which reflects, clearly and without error, everything and every phenomenon of the world.

In this complicated modern age, it must be valuable to learn how to acquire calmness of the mind which can distinguish right from wrong clearly.” -Koichi Tohei

This is the womens finals route … I decided to play on it and see how many holds I can :)

Melissa won and gave me her Prana hat:

Its pretty sweet, very *very* limited edition :) It was made for the 2005 US National Climbing team to compete in Beijing, China (World Cup).

Orbitron is freestyling on the second half of the video.

Listen to 4:23

“… great to see release – my man goes
Dmitry is in the circle — he spins and let goes
with the palm on a hand over jacket
grant stand I can grand slam when I got here
Tip the beat, rock and nod, spot the block, till I get off to my forehead
Ya’ll know where its at, ya’ll spin on a hat …”

My ankle is feeling much better! I can finally start dancing again!!!

As you might know, I am in the process of making a movie with my friend Johnny Goicoechea.

Climbing is a great passion in our lives! We are fortunate to be able to climb during a week and to escape from the city outside on weekends. There is a very strong local crew of boulderers and a great climbing community. It’s a beautiful thing. I want to capture it all on camera … our everyday life, climbing, training and other things that we do. It’s a movie about bouldering in the North West and it is also a movie about our lives.

Training on gymnastic rings at Stone Gardens (Seattle):

Here is some unedited footage:

And some more (random) footage:

Video from Tumtum (Spokane, WA):

Dancing with friends (at club LO_FI, Seattle):

More on our friends: Orbitron and Free (we didn’t shoot this video):

Music from the first two clips: Orbitron, “BBoy Universal” album.

Stay tuned for more clips and actual trailers :)

Any kind of excitement and anticipation make it feel like time is sloooowing down. Think about it. Lets say you’re so excited to do something with your friends on Friday. You have these huge plans. The whole week is going to feel like a month, because you just can’t wait for it to be that day!

I think as people get older, they get less and less excited about Life in general, with an attitude “been there, done that”. Nothing surprises them. Nothing really takes their breath away, or disappoints them. They’ve been through many ups and downs etc. Its all about the same…

Don’t do that! Get excited :)

I think the key to enjoying life is always to be “in the mystery” like its your first day on this planet, to be excited to see what’s around the corner. I think its somewhere right in between of whats called “The beginner’s mind” in Zen, and “becoming a child again” in Matthew 18:1 .

Hope, desire, and passion make Life worth living!

Is there something you always wanted to do but gave up on? Get really inspired and time will fell normal again, just like when you were a little kid.

Stock Wing

So, here is a picture of my car (first pic). I think the stock wing is kinda big and silly, but it is functional … if I am taking 90-degree corners at 160 mph.

This car isn’t meant to be “pretty” — its all purely functional. But I think taking a wing off might make it look more subtle.

Without the Wing

More “grown-up” look :) Less flashy and less attention from cops. Real subtle and clean. The only problem is when you take the wing off, it leaves 4 small holes in the trunk.

No Wing, but with a little carbon fiber lip

I am leaning towards this look, it completes the car lines and also covers up those holes in the trunk that keep the wing on. (BTW, its made by Rexpeed and its called “Type-C” lip).

OK, please take a second and vote or leave a comment below if you like:

Campusing is a climbing exercise or “move” depending on your style :-) where you climb up the wall without using your feet. You don’t have to be able to do this in order to climb — There are plenty of climbers who can climb very hard but can’t even come close to doing what you’re about to see in these videos.

Climbing is not all about power and strength, but it is sure nice to have endless supplies of it!

Todd Meyers’ Campusing Workout: We recorded these videos at Wild Walls (Climbing Gym in Spokane) a few years ago. I just found these videos, so I am sharing them.

Warmup Set: Doing one-arms on a campus board, while skipping every other rung

Set 2: Doing one arms on very small (Metolius) rungs, skipping ever other one!

Set 3: One-arm pullups with with 10 pound ankle weights on each leg. Skipping every other rung!

Set 4: More one-arms with ankle weights!

Set 5: Last but not least…

1. Empty your concerns so you have room to think clearly!

I am starting to think GTD stole all of my ideas :) Anyway, you can’t be productive if your mind is cluttered with to-do lists, pressing events, unsolved problems and projects. There is a really simple solution for this – just write it down, get it out of your head and realize that you’ll come back to it later, on your own terms so for now it won’t bother you. I’ve always thought the mind is similar to computer RAM – it has a limited “operational capacity”. Even though you can increase it, your “effective memory” is the thought space not preoccupied by background processes, or loops such as unresolved concerns and to-do lists. These things interrupt you from focusing. They make you constantly context-switch. A Zen-like approach is much more effective.

Maintain an All-Day “Journal” Event:
I carry a PDA and a paper notepad (in case the former fails). On my PDA (iPhone) I create an all-day (calendar) event called “journal”. Inside it, I make notes of anything important that happened during a day. I like to track it in software, because later I can search it for keywords. I’ve been meticulously journaling my life this way for the past 6 years and it has worked well for me.

Write down your concerns in a Daily Recurring Event
It is very convenient to have a daily recurring event (I renamed mine to “bucket”, credits to GTD). As you go through your day, open this “Bucket” event, and write down any kind of concerns, ideas, to-dos, etc in the notes section. I also carry a voice recorder (so if I am driving I can record things I need to remember and put them into my calendar later (plus its not a bad idea to become aware of what you sound like to people)).

If you do these 2 things you’ll have the ability to (1) search through your Life journal, and (2) copy and paste your items from bucket to other software. Make sure to make monthly backups of your calendar by burning them to a CD.

2. Process your daily “bucket of concerns”

At night, I sit down and go through each item in my daily bucket list. I empty it completely every day. You can only do one of the following things with the items in your bucket:

1. If it’s something small (less than 2 minutes) – do it immediately!
2. Can someone else help you do it? Delegate it and create an event in your calendar to follow up on it later.
3. If it requires you to be in some place and time, schedule it to be done as soon as possible.
4. If it’s some kind of information that will really be useful to remember at a later time, on some specific day … put it in your calendar (and describe it in the notes section of the event).
5. If it’s not feasible at the moment, file it to review later, under “maybe/someday” folder.
6. If it’s a huge task, create a project for it. Break it down to specific “action items” and figure out what is blocking you from moving forward with it!
7. Don’t do it at all.

3. Get inspired: Reflect and Review

1. Refocus on your priorities and values. What do you want to do with your short and fleeting Life? What is important? If you don’t have a good answer for this question, schedule aside a personal time to pray, reflect, meditate etc.
2. How about the next year? What specific goals do you have?
3. How about this week? What specifically are you going to accomplish this week? Take a look at your maybe/someday list. Can you do any of it this week?
4. What specific things you’re not doing right now that would have amazing positive effect on your life only if you would do them every day?
5. Look over your schedule for tomorrow and go to sleep. When you wake up, glance over your schedule after breakfast.

I look at every day as an opportunity to grow in all of Life. If I am not learning and growing, I am as good as dead. This is how I break it down in my mind:

Personal Areas (Inner):

• Spiritual: Prayer, meditation, reflection etc. Keep yourself from being polluted by this world. Run towards the light.
• Emotional: Emotional Intelligence, Power under control (over your emotions, thoughts, desires, speech, etc). Guard your heart. Don’t be reactive.
• Intellectual: Use it or loose it! Progressing and learning something difficult, highly technical. Using your memory so your capacity increases.
• Physical: Training your body (your temple) to be in the best physical shape you can possibly be. Watching your diet. Getting enough sleep. I learned (from Aikido) on a very deep level that mind and body are inseparable. Healthy body is healthy mind, healthy emotions.

People Areas (Outer):

• Family: spending time with family
• Friends: connecting with friends and making new ones.
• Love Life: dating, etc.

To simplify all of these things above and to understand how they all work together, you can just think of them as 3 things:

• Love: Love for Your Family, Friends, Colleagues, Acquaintances, Complete Strangers. (Agapē).
• Health: Your Spiritual, Emotional, Intellectual and Physical well-being.
• Wealth: Your ability to make money (for the sole purpose of keeping Love and Health in balance. Think about it!)

Now watch how they’re connected:

Let’s say “Love” gets out of balance: you’re not in good relationships with your girlfriend – well, it will immediately take a toll on Health and Wealth. You might be stressing out, you won’t get enough sleep (Health), and you won’t be productive at your work (Wealth).

Let’s say you’re having financial problems (Wealth) – you’re not going to have any time to spend with your family, friends and loved ones. Your relationships will start to deteriorate (Love). Because of stress, your Health will be affected as well (Health)!

If you’re sick and in pain (Health), you won’t be able to work well (Wealth), or spend quality time with family, friends, etc (Love). You need to take care of your body so it takes care of you later.

All these 3 things are connected very strongly. Keeping them balanced will make you feel great!

It’s all being shot using a very nice hi-def camera, so 10 years from now when everything is in HD, we’ll look back at it and be glad we did :) The plot of the movie is about us, and is about our training for climbing, using gymnastic rings, campusing and other methods. After showing different exercises, we are showing how they apply in real-world situations.

We’re still in the “shooting” stage capturing new footage, although we have plenty to finish this movie already. The name is to be announced soon. Reply if you have any suggestions … if we end up using it your name will be in the credits.

More Picst: Still Shot Picture Gallery

-Dmitry & Johnny

Here is a video of him driving Evo IX MR GG (Graphite Gray), exact same configuration as mine.

Here is another one of his Evos. I don’t know about this. I think he has a very bad taste, but whatever. Its a show car with all kinds of expensive carbon junk on it (I like the clean look).

Here is a chase seen from one of his movies:

Here is more info on Jackie Chan’s Evos. I can’t read this :)

Here is a list of great food that you should just try to always keep in your fridge:

• Water – get a purifier, or drink hot tea (from real loose leafs)
• Almonds and other nuts
• Spinach
• Broccoli
• Instant unsweetened unflavored oatmeal
• Eggs (get good kind, like freerange & gressfed)
• Turkey, Lean Stake, Tuna and other Fish
• Greens for salad
• Peanut butter (increases testosterone levels)
• Whole grain breads and cereals (instead of white or whole weat)
• Whey protein shakes
• Raspberries and other berries
• Plain Yogurt, Cottage Cheese

Simple Rules

1. Don’t overeat – snack throughout the day. (OK, you already know this :) but are you actually doing it? Are you proactively preparing food for yourself so you can eat it when you’re at work?
   
2. If you missed a dinner — don’t eat one. Have a little snack at night, go to sleep and have a big breakfast when you wake up.
3. Here is a big secret: Eat fruits and nuts for breakfast, (only) carbs for lunch/day, and (only) protein for dinner. Start every meal with a salad. Carbs is the best source of energy, so you need it throughout your day. Protein is needed to repair your body for when you go to sleep. Snacking on nuts (good fat) in the morning gives you a steady long energy levels and keeps your bloodsugar from spiking.
4. Bring your own food (from the list above) to work with you so you can eat it before you get hungry. If you’re feeling hungry, it means your blood sugar has already dropped! You’ll be less productive with your day.
5. Never eat fast food, anything deep fried, processed, foods with lots of ingredients, white flour, lunch meats, nothing with hfcs (high fructose corn syrup), msg. Instead, try to eat the rawest most “first hand” type of energy sources. Plans get energy directly from sun, animals “process” them, we kill the animals and process those etc. The closer you get to the “caveman” way of eating, the better off you’ll be. Read the ingredients and stay away from foods with a lot ingredients. Simpler is easier to digest.
6. Never eat food from someone who prepared it for you in the bad mood, including yourself. I’ve always believed we extract much more then just nutrients from food. There are other things that get transported through food that scientists don’t have a name for. (prov 15:17).
   

Hagakure is a very interesting book I picked up — it has a lot of historical value since it describes life during ancient japan, when the shogun and samurai ruled the country. I’ve been a student of Aikido and other martial arts for some time now, so this is very interesting to me. Some of the stuff in this book is too wild and gruesome to mention but I thought these quotes were great.

“To give a person one’s opinion and correct his faults is an important thing. It is compassionate and comes first in matters of service. But the way of doing this is extremely difficult. To discover the good and bad points of a person is an easy thing, and to give an opinion concerning them is easy, too.

For the most part, people think that they are being kind by saying the things that others find distasteful or difficult to say. But if it is not received well, they think that there is nothing more to be done. This is completely worthless. It is the same as bringing shame to a person by slandering him. It is nothing more than getting it off one’s chest.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. One must become close with him and make sure that he continually trusts one’s word. Approaching subjects that are dear to him, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood.Judge the occasion and determine whether it s better by letter or at the time of leave-taking. Praise his good points and use every device to encourage him, perhaps by talking about one’s own faults without touching on his, but so that they will occur to him. Have him receive this in the way that a man would drink water when his throat is dry, and it will be an opinion that will correct faults.This is extremely difficult.

If a person’s fault is a habit of some years prior, by and large it won’t be remedied. I have had this experience myself. To be intimate with all one’s comrades, correcting each other’s faults, and being of one mind to be of use to the master is the great compassion of a retainer. By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?”

(From Yamamoto Tsunetomo, “Hagakure”, The Book of the Samurai, 1716)

I guess its time to get strong on gymnastic rings again!

[update] I did get strong on rings and  now I am climbing way harder! Sweet.

My friend Adam Heley came over from Portland with a bunch of his buddies, including Boone Speed. Johnny (Goicoechea), Lena, Cole, Kyle, and Joel Cambel were already there when I got to L-town. Later on that day we ran into John from EPIC (EWU) program and like 10 other people from Spokane.

I’ve never seen that many monkeys at Leavenworth campgrounds before. Boone took some awesome pictures, Johnny, Cole and Joel went climbing at some new area they recently discovered. We all had fun and partied afterwards at the camp ground. Too bad I had to leave early in the morning to help my friend move.

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Thank you very much! I’ll gather up some pics and movies form this event and post it here, so please check back soon!

Links

• Flovolution Crew
  
• Jimmy (JWalk)
  
• Alex (Conxept)
• Thom (Trantastic)
• Jarrod (Harmoniq)
• Orb, Circle Of Fire
  
• Crazy Legs, Rock Steady Crew