Yeah I thought this movie was garbage, mainly because I couldn't get over all the completely unrealistic situations they were in. One of which is the fact that most soldiers, let alone EOD techs, are not going to be able to seamlessly become a sniper/spotter team, especially with a Barrett .50.

>> ^mentality:
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.videosift.com/member/mgittle" title="member since September 25th, 2009" class="profilelink">mgittle
>> ^mgittle:
>> Repeated single rep maxes may be common, but that doesn't mean their use is an ideal way to train. Weight training programs (including those of college and pro sports teams) are full of bad information and cultural things that "work" but are in no way scientifically or practically sound if you're trying to maximize your time/energy spent and reduce the occurrence of injury.

Are you saying that single rep max is not the right way to train because you have proof of what scientifically and practically maximizes your time/energy? Or are you just saying it's controversial and you don't agree with this methodology? Some resources would be nice. Also keep in mind that 1 rep max is theoretically most efficient for developing strength, not muscle mass or endurance, and is hardly the only method of weight training that you'd do even if your focus is powerlifting.
As for the safety aspect, as with all lifting, it's important to warm up, use proper technique, have a spotter, and know how to safely ditch the weight when you fail. I don't think it's any more dangerous than other kinds of weight training.


Also every time I try to quote in my previous post, it just shows up as a bunch of broken HTML tags. So since I never would've looked here again if I didn't get the "soandso quoted you" email, so I'm semi-double-posting to try and fix it since you seemed genuinely interested in possible informations linkage type things.

Edit: ok so that didn't work and I have no idea why it worked yesterday but not today. It looks right in the preview so maybe it's just my browser for some unknown reason.

@mgittle

>> ^mgittle:
>> Repeated single rep maxes may be common, but that doesn't mean their use is an ideal way to train. Weight training programs (including those of college and pro sports teams) are full of bad information and cultural things that "work" but are in no way scientifically or practically sound if you're trying to maximize your time/energy spent and reduce the occurrence of injury.


Are you saying that single rep max is not the right way to train because you have proof of what scientifically and practically maximizes your time/energy? Or are you just saying it's controversial and you don't agree with this methodology? Some resources would be nice. Also keep in mind that 1 rep max is theoretically most efficient for developing strength, not muscle mass or endurance, and is hardly the only method of weight training that you'd do even if your focus is powerlifting.

As for the safety aspect, as with all lifting, it's important to warm up, use proper technique, have a spotter, and know how to safely ditch the weight when you fail. I don't think it's any more dangerous than other kinds of weight training.

>> ^Mcboinkens:
How is whaling still legal? This is sickening.
Commercial whaling IS illegal.
Japanese don't call it whaling!
All of their ships have huge RESEARCH letters painted on them. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Nisshin_Maru.jpg
The Japanese fleet consists of a factory ship, two spotter vessels, and three harpoon boats. The whalers say that lethal research is needed to accurately measure the whale population, health, and response to global warming and is essential for the sustainable management of the world's cetacean stocks. Australia and New Zealand have started a non-lethal whale research program to show that the Japanese lethal research program is no longer necessary. Sea Shepherd and other environmental groups dispute the Japanese statement of research "as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned." Meat from the hunt is available at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market and Japanese restaurants.

>> ^Payback:
While doing this at a similar hill in a friend's old 1978 Cougar, we didn't have a spotter. So when the lady in the stationwagon pulled out into the intersection situated just after the "jump", we left a skid mark of P305 55ZR16 Goodyear Gatorback across her hood. Got into the news the next day too. Saw the marks.
Good times. Good times.


Idiot.

While doing this at a similar hill in a friend's old 1978 Cougar, we didn't have a spotter. So when the lady in the stationwagon pulled out into the intersection situated just after the "jump", we left a skid mark of P305 55ZR16 Goodyear Gatorback across her hood. Got into the news the next day too. Saw the marks.

Good times. Good times.

Mr. Sopwith, camel spotter.

1. Love my wife

2. Consider myself the best husband/partner ever

3. Been recently told by some tests I'm in the IQ top 1-2%, am planning to join Mensa

4. Am pretentious

5. Think I have a very very very high pain threshold

6. Once broke both arms' ulnae and radii and went on with my daily activities for a week until family finally persuaded me to have an X-ray

7. Told not a single lie for approx. 4 years (2001-2005)

8. Talked very little for approx. 4 years (2001-2005)

9. Am an extremely efficient lie-spotter; am a lousy liar

10. Lost my sky-high narcissistic ambitions some 3 years ago

11. Am becoming too altruistic for my own good

12. Am becoming too cynical for my social status' good

13. Have been assured I WILL be (no confusion with might be/could be) the president by more than 20 adults outside family who actually meant it

14. Don't want to hold no political power; strong desire to possess/command extreme scientific power

15. Dislike all kinds of stupid shit, want to help the world get rid of it

16. Nowadays am thinking of ways to make help humanity give up indoctrination whenever I have a moment of leisure

17. Love bunnies ever since wife nicknamed me "Rabbit"; turns out last name is actually literally French for "Rabbit"

18. Have had greying hair since age of 18

19. Heart has occasionally raced well over 200 beats per minute since at least the age of 8; did so at one point while writing this

20. In a perfect world would be an astrophysicist

21. Saved a couple of girls from gang rapes on two separate occasions

22. Had/still kind of have an obsessive desire to save a drowning person's life; actually stalked people on city canal ice in winter a couple of times

23. Have no idea what to specifically do with my life other than knowing I should/could make my wife and some 6,8bn other folks happy

24. Never ever smoked a cigarette/did any drugs

25. Feel grateful to this amazing one of a kind community for providing quality entertainment and enlightenment.

all this confirmed was that when doing acid you should have a spotter.

Next on the things I missed as a child: learning how to ride a bike. But first on the list is to find a spotter who's actually helpful (God I miss my dad )

It was the spotter reciting the Daimoku. He's an actual marine named Rudy Reyes with First Recon during the invasion. He played himself in this mini-series.

Edit: Any one know where a dude with out HBO can get this?

One that I would like to teach the sniper (actor) is that when you recite the Daimoku, the mantra should not be stopped or paused at any point only to take a breath.

(Not sure if it was the spotter or the shooter reciting)

It just seemed like a ripp off of the saving private ryan sniper prayer. The actor was not comfortable with the Daimoku, or whoever taught him taught him a bastard american version.

When I do sword suburi or practice drawing my side arm, I never break rhythm.

These things should become muscle memory. If you have time to think, you have time to die.

Hehe, Blankfist and I are just "penis joke-spotters" and saw one coming there from a mile away, it ended a bit anti-climatic.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I'm obviously missing something here....

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
He totally blew that one... uhm, so to speak.

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>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
^ Where is your creature, MG?


The setup and...

These incidents involving American troops are far too common for the fault to be evenly split down the middle in all cases.

During the first Gulf War I saw some footage of a spotter calling in an air strike on what was obviously (even through the camera) a Bradley and not a BMP (as the spotter called it). Plane came down and killed 9 American soldiers in about a quarter of a second, pilot (over the radio), "I believe that was a friendly, over." Spotter (to camera crew), "Damn I was afraid of that".

3/4ths of American combat casualties in the first Gulf War were from friendly fire.

I visited with the 17/21st Lancers in England not long after Gulf war I, some of the Scorpion crews told us a story about how when their Colonel met up with his American counterpart in the neighbouring regiment the US Colonel looked at the Scorpion and said, "What the hell kind of Bradley is that?"

In the 2nd Gulf war the British forces refused to serve alongside American troops, which is why they had their own separate domain (Basra and surrounding area).

In my experience working with US soldiers they are barely literate, under educated, lazy and incompetent. I have no doubt that most or all of the blame in most of these cases lies with the American troops because of an overreaction to the pathetic hit ratio of ground forces in Vietnam (1 confirmed hit per million rounds expended for small arms). Now troops are trained to shoot before they think and this is the consequence.

Even with a spotter, I have a friend who broke his jaw by dropping it on his face. Good form, I know. People's arms can give out unexpectedly sometimes, I guess.

Those pulley machine bench presses aren't bad if you don't want to waste time spotting.