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This discussion I found on Iain Abernethy’s excellent martial arts forum brought up a seminar by ‘jujutsu man Harold Howard’ detailing that humans present the left side of their bodies as the dominant one due to the right side of the brain controlling aggressiveness.
The chap who posted this up has hyperlinked further information so I’ll check up on that. It certainly gives fresh meaning the Boxing’s ‘Orthodox’ stance!
I once attended a seminar where the instructor went into a lot of detail about human dominance, aggression, and eye contact. the ideas presented were based on the notion that the left brain is recognized
as passive, the right brain as controlling aggression. Since the left brain
(passive) controls the RIGHT side of body, the RIGHT side of the body is
'passive' to a degree, and vice verse for the right brain/LEFT side. So in a
nutshell, humans are wired to instinctually present the 'dominant' (left) side
of our bodies forward and make an effort to destroy the aggressive left side of
the defenders face to overcome him. Since humans often make eye contact through one eye, strong left eye contact can be perceived to be a threatening danger signal. Funny thing is, I have experimented with this a little and found it to be true
in most cases where someone is giving you their best "tough guy" look Fascinating stuff, thanks Mike!
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I saw this following poll on the excellent blog
Palestinian Pundit, on whether people believe the U.S. and Israel will attack Iran in the current year (2007). The overwhelming majority (59%) have said yes, though thus far only 371 people have voted.
I voted yes, though I think it may even drag out into next year. But I believe an attack on Iran inevitable.
 | | Selection | | Votes | | Yes |  59% | 220 | | No |  28% | 105 | | Not sure |  12% | 46 | | | | | 371 votes total | | pollcode.com free polls |
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Up yours, grand–dad!
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Definitely one of the coolest, awe–inspiring and riveting videos on the web at the moment. Spider–Waffle completes the original Half–Life game in under ½–an–hour using a cunning variety of techniques, scripts, shortcuts and sequence breaking techniques.
Calzaghe told career is over by doctor
Super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe was given the fright of his life by a
doctor following his easy third round victory over Peter Manfredo in Cardiff
earlier this month.
Boxing’s longest reigning world champion, 35, once
again hurt one of his fists during a WBO title defense and sought medical
advice.
But the first doctor Calzaghe consulted informed the unbeaten
Welshman that the damage to his scaphoid bone (in the base of the thumb) was so
severe that he would be forced into retirement. |
The article goes on to state that he went for a second opinion (always a wise thing to do in cases such as these), and received news that his fractured scaphoid bone will heal in time for him to fight in September of this year.
It makes me wonder which Dr has the edge in accuracy there…
clipped from www.iainabernethy.com
