It won't teach you technique, touch or tone, but it's a nice primer to reading notation, staying in tempo and basic limb independence. I'd love to see Rock Band/Guitar Hero give you the option to use music notation instead of the scrolling guitar neck thing. What a great way to teach/learn sight reading and basic music notation.

If you really want to play drums, you should research technique (and maybe get a lesson or two from someone who knows what they're doing), to make sure your hands aren't too tense and moving in ways that could lead to Carpel Tunnel, Tendonitis and other RSD's.

oh, and did anyone else think "pluck these tendons" was intended to mean something entirely different at first?

Boooo! Little guy needed to go for the achillies tendon.

Chris cut that guys underarm with a the combat knife.

Just because hes a zombie doesn't mean he can still use the arm when the tendons are severed.

Tell me again why officers shouldn't have tazers?

Even after getting the shit beat out of him, this jackass was STILL resisting arrest. Don't want to get arrested? Don't break the fucking law.

HOWEVER - there are much less primitive ways of using pain compliance techniques that this. get a broom or something similar (the pole part) and put it across you shin right above your foot, with your thumbs behind your leg. (Thumbs pressing on your tendon/fingers grasping the pole) and pull the pole into your shin.

Hurts like a motherfucker, dunnit?

Too bad that people either fail to see or simply look past the fact that pain is a universal language and is the best way to induce compliance - so no matter what techniques are employed, people will bitch about SOMETHING.

Eye-gouging and achilles tendon-slicing are the only things I can never watch.

Yeah but clearly torn tendon's. Upvote for making me cringe.

That's gotta be murder on his tendons and ligaments.

Yeah, that's a great fossilized set of skin and tendons etc. Which certainly is pretty amazing for showing us that they really did have skin that was scaly as thought, however, it's not like the T-Rex or the Mammoths where the soft tissue is actually still soft. The soft tissue in the case of the hadrosaur has been turned into rock, it's amazing just for the fact that usually it rots before it can get anywhere near that state.

In reply to this comment by RhesusMonk:
I found one other article about a hadrosaur. I was at the AMNH a few months ago, fittingly for a lecture on paleogenomics, and I'm sure I saw exhibits on other examples. The lecture was about mastodon sequencing, and the lecturer (whose name I can't fucking remember OR find online--grrr) didn't talk about dinos. Here's an article about the hadrosaur:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-dino-mummy.html

I really think you could debate whether or not he has an advantage. Not an argument of being an amputee is an advantage but whether or not the carbon feet give him an added advantage over people with their legs fully intact. (In a vague sense, like the "shark skin" swim suits that help water glide over a swimmers body.)

In his case he has no lower legs and his body dynamics for running have changed. Do the carbon feet now provide him with more "spring" than what would naturally occur? Factors like the weight .. a few pounds can make a great difference.

Really tired so shortened.. what mechanically would be equivalent to human legs... what would be deemed fair and unfair. Its a topic worth discussing like steroid abuse (not that I'm trying to link the two, just sayin itd be an interesting discussion)

Something I however do find similar..

http://www.videosift.com/video/Powerisers-Like-Supercharged-Pogo-Sticks-Strapped-to-Each-Leg-Insane-218

Video above is for Powerisers which are basically springs for your legs, the rod in the back acts like a giant Achilles tendon and calf muscle like on kangaroos allowing the users to jump great heights/distances. Stuff like what kind of mechanical advantage can be compared and yadda yadda..

Again not that being an amputee is an advantage but the equipment being used by the amputee putting him at an added advantage.

Ba.. tired, and this post longer than I thought...

not very close to the real face. The real face is much more expressive and twitchy. Muscles and tendons can be seen moving in the real face. Matrix, other movies and some game cinematics have been better already. -karl

The last thing this kid needs to do is more muscle development, at least until he's in his late teens. He's already likely gonna have problems with his joints & tendons as he grows...

I thought you might like this less pussified headline from Britain:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=i-kicked-burning-terrorist-so-hard-in-balls-that-i-tore-a-tendon-in-my-foot--&method=full&objectid=19401
382&siteid=66633-name_page.html

Geeez that thing looked like an air hockey puck....how'd ya like that to hit yer Achille's tendon before dinner??........Yi!

Just FYI, the voiceover that Tony Jaa recalls says: "The most important part of an elephant's foot is the achilles tendon. If they are destroyed, the elephant will fall."

Which is why he goes on to beat the heck out of the muscle dudes' joints.