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Share a Great Mountain Bike Riding Experience with other Women
"The camp was challenging and also very supportive, with encouragement from you and the campers and this environment will only lead to success. I wish I had a similar opportunity to learn these skills 10 years ago!" – Melanie, Womens Camp
BetterRide Women's only Mountain Bike Camp, Clinic and Skills Coaching covers the same core skills as the co-ed camps in a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere. This can be very beneficial as it invites students to push their limits without feeling intimidated.
Spend a three day weekend with us and we will teach you the physical and mental skills on how to ride balanced, efficiently, fast and smooth. You will also be given drills to help you master your new skills. Please, do yourself a favor and end the frustration of not riding up to your potential. For less than upgrading a wheelset you can upgrade your skills and start riding with ease and more confidence.
Core Mountain Biking Skills Learned In Camp
- Correct Body Position
- Balanced Weight Placement
- Vision – How to Look Ahead Correctly
- Bike Set up for Optimal Riding and Control
- Cornering Technique with Take Home Drills
- Advanced Cornering Technique
- How to Brake Effectively
- How to Use Your Brakes for Speed
- Correct Technique for Uphill and Downhill Switchbacks
- How to Clear Large Obstacles
- How to Interpret the Trail to Ride Fast and Smooth
This is the most fun and informative mountain bike skills coaching, camp or clinic you will ever attend
Starting in a safe learning environment we explain the skill, demonstrate the skill and have you practice the skill utilizing drills that you will continue to use long after the camp. Once you understand the skills we then apply them on the trail. Here at Better Ride we really enjoy helping others and would love to share with you the techniques, core skills and the skill building drills for you to continue to practice and eventually master.
Each day are camps start at 9:45 am with 3-4 hours of skills instruction and drills in a local park followed by 2-3 hours of on trail practice and riding on trail. A typical day runs from 9:45 am until 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Day 1
- How to ride in balance, in control and efficiently. Learn correct body position, balance and weight placement for climbing and descending
- How to set-up your bike for optimal riding: tire pressure, tire type, stem length, bar height, seat height, brake level reach/adjustment, suspension set up to riders weight and riding style
- How to look ahead correctly- Everyone one knows to look ahead but few actually do it! No matter how rough and rocky the trail you need to be looking ahead with both the trail and your goal in focus. This is easier said than done! We will teach you where and how to look ahead, how this effects your riding and how to improve your vision skills.
- How to wheelie over small obstacles, up and down, efficient wheelies relying on technique, not upper body strength and how to use them over different obstacles
- How to fall safer
- Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
- Wrap up and reveiw of the days skills
Day 2
- Review of day 1, questions?
- How bikes corner, how to corner in balance, using vision to corner faster, easier with more control
- Advanced cornering with drills
- How to brake effectively (no skidding!)
- how to use your brakes to go faster
- How to start/restart on an uphill
- Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
- Wrap up and reveiw
Day 3
- Review of both days and questions, review drills
- How to balance on a bike, how to improve your balance, how to trackstand
- How to do switch backs (up and down) in balance and in control with my 100% technique (as opposed to the popular momentum method that works well 50-60% of the time)
- How to clear larger obstacles, lift your rear wheel correctly and easily (not yanking up with your cleats), clearing logs/log piles, doing drop offs safely and smoothly
- Campers' choice, skills the campers want further work on
- Break for lunch and hit the trails to work on morning skills
- Wrap up and reveiw
We have designed our Women Only mountain bike skills camps to help you with both the mental and physical sides of mountain biking. Our goal is to help you reach your potential by teaching you the core skills of mountain biking and the drills to master these skills. These are the non-intuitive skills that eluded Gene Hamilton, Better Ride Head Coach after 15 years of riding and kept him from reaching his potential. Learning and becoming proficient at these skills will allow you to ride in balance and in control making you a more efficient and confident rider.


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Although Mr Justice Morison's judgment will address specific aspects of compensation payments, the principle of how compensation levels are worked out is likely to require further legal argument.
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K. K. Ramakrishnan
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Telephone: (951) 827- 2480
Email: kk AT cs DOT ucr DOT edu
Dr. K. K. Ramakrishnan is a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at UCR. He was most recently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs-Research, and has been recognized for his fundamental contributions on communication networks including his work on congestion control, traffic management and VPN services. He has created innovative network solutions that are efficient and robust, working at large scale. K. K. has published over 200 papers and has 144 patents issued in his name. Prior to 1994, he was a Technical Director and Consulting Engineer in Networking at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between 2000 and 2002, he was at TeraOptic Networks, Inc., as Founder and Vice President. He is on the editorial board of several journals in Networking. He has served as the TPC Chair and General Chair for most of the major conferences on computer networks and was a member of the National Research Council Panel on Information Technology for NIST. He currently serves as the Steering Committee Chair for IEEE ICNP.
Ph.D.: University of Maryland, College Park
, Dept. of Computer Science, 1983.
M.S.: University of Maryland
, Dept. of Computer Science, 1981.
Masters in Engineering: Indian Institute of Science
, School of Automation, Bangalore, India, 1978.
Bachelors in Electronics Engineering: Bangalore University
, Bangalore, India, 1976.
AT&T Strategic Patent Award
, in recognition of the patent significantly contributing to AT&T's business
IEEE Fellow 2005
, "for contributions to congestion control and traffic management in communication networks".
ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Paper Award in 2006
: Our paper on the "DECbit" congestion avoidance protocol "A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer" published in the Proceedings of the ACM Sigcomm 1988 (see the web page:
AT&T Fellow 2006
, for "fundamental contributions to communications networks with lasting impact on AT&T and the industry, including congestion control, traffic management and VPN services".
AT&T Science and Technology Medal 2012
for "innovation and leadership in evaluation of Mobile Video Delivery Optimizations Techniques."
Research Areas:
K. K. works in Network Architecture, Protocols and Systems. Current research at UCR includes networks for information dissemination (Information Centric Networks), Software Defined Networking and exploiting virtualization in communication networks (Network Function Virtualization).
For lists of my publications, see the
Google Scholar
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Selected Publications:
1. Wei Dong, Swati Rallapalli, Rittwik Jana, Lili Qiu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Leonid V. Razoumov, Yin Zhang, Tae Won Cho, 'iDEAL: Incentivized Cellular Offloading via Auctions', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Aug. 2014.
2. Mayutan Arumaithurai, Jiachen Chen, Edo Monticelli, Xiaoming Fu and K. K. Ramakrishnan, 'Exploiting ICN for Flexible Management of Software-Defined Networks, Proc. of 1st ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2014).
(Best Paper Award)
3. Jinho Hwang, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Timothy Wood, 'NetVM: High Performance and Flexible Networking Using Virtualization on Commodity Platforms', Proceedings of USENIX NSDI 2014.
4. Jeffrey Erman, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Rittwik Jana, K. K. Ramakrishnan, 'Towards a SPDY'ier Mobile Web?', Proc. of ACM CoNext 2013, Dec. 2013. (Best Paper runner-up)
5. Murat Yuksel, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Joseph D. Houle, Rita Sadhvani, 'Required Extra Capacity: A Comparative Estimation of Overprovisioning Needed for a Classless IP Backbone', Computer Networks, Elsevier Science, November 2012.
6. V. Sharma, K. Kar, K. K. Ramakrishnan and S. Kalyanaraman, 'A Transport Protocol Exploiting Multipath Diversity in Wireless Networks', IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, August 2012.
7. Tim Wood, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Prashant Shenoy, 'Enterprise-Ready Virtual Cloud Pools: Vision, Opportunities, and Challenges', The Computer Journal, Oxford Journals, 2012.
8. Tim Wood, Andres Horacio Lagar, K. K. Ramakrishnan, Jacobus Van der Merwe, Prashant Shenoy, 'PipeCloud: Using Causality to Overcome Speed-of-Light Delays in Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery', ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2011), Oct. 2011.
9. J. Chen, M. Arumaithurai, L. Jiao, X. Fu, K. K. Ramakrishnan, COPSS: An Efficient Content Oriented Publish/Subscribe System, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2011.
10. N.G. Duffield, P. Goyal, A. Greenberg, P. Mishra, K. K. Ramakrishnan, and J. E. Van der Merwe, 'A Flexible Model for Resource Management in Virtual Private Networks', IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct. 2002.
11. J. C. Mogul and K. K. Ramakrishnan, "Eliminating Receive Livelock in an Interrupt-driven Kernel", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Oct. 1997.
12. K. K. Ramakrishnan, R. Jain, "A Binary Feedback Scheme for Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1990.


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Chilean poet, diplomat, and Marxist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Adopted the name Pablo Neruda legally in 1946 after using it over 20 years as a writer. Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets. From the 1940 his works reflected the political struggle of the left and socio-historical developments in South America, but he also wrote love poems. Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) have sold over a million copies since it first appeared.
Pablo Neruda owned a house in the hills of ValparaÃso. The house, with a wonderful view of the city an the harbour of Valparaiso, is full of colours and amazing funny objects which belonged to the poet.
He named the house as "La Sebastiana", which is now owned by the Neruda Foundation, who opened the house in 1992.
Latin American poets like Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral and Mexican poet Octavio Paz have been inspired by Indian Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's poetry. I was surprised and happy to read about the popularity of Tagore's poetry in Chile and its influence on Latin American poets. It was a great feeling..................
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NICE! It must be chilly in Chile, you are wearing long sleeves!
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As a person who works in theatre professionally, and is currently working on a show with fog i'd like to correct the interchangability of fog and smoke. In theatre you must have a pyrotechnic's license to do smoke, but need none to do fog. Smoke is generally created by something burning too.
Some asthmatics are sensitive to theatrical fog whereas others are not. It's different depending on the severity of asthma, sensitivity to chemicals, etc. I'm sensitive to it while many of my fellow asthmatic choristers seem completely unaffected. Theatrical fog does seem to make everyone's eyes water when present in dense enough quantities, and it will set off fire and smoke alarms. If you are using theatrical fog in a school, you better be ready to hide the machine real fast when the fire alarm goes off.
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We could have done without commissioner Bud Selig's self-serving plug on behalf of Jason Giambi and his charitable work.
Considering that George Steinbrenner is paying the Yankee slugger $23 million this season for what amounts to a part-time job — injuries have limited Giambi to less than half of New York's games — giving something back is not just the right thing do, it's practically an obligation.
That said, Selig made the right call Thursday letting Giambi off with time served and the sting of public scorn for what was, after all, a nearly four-year-old admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs. Giambi owned up to that during a federal grand jury appearance in the BALCO investigation in the winter of 2003, then apologized publicly — sort of, anyway — at the start of spring training a little over a year later.
We don't know how much more he said to Selig's hand-picked steroids investigator, former Sen. George Mitchell, during their recent meeting. But with the commissioner's threat of further discipline hanging over Giambi's head, his cooperation apparently was enough — once Selig factored in the big lug's charitable instincts.
"He's doing a lot of public-service work, and I think that's terribly important," Selig said from an owners' meeting in Toronto. "I think it's more important for us to keep getting the message out. He was, I thought, very frank and candid with Sen. Mitchell, at least that was the senator's conclusion. Given everything, this is an appropriate decision."
Whether it's a smart one as well won't be known unless or until more of Giambi's fellow users agree to come forward and share what they know about the game's supersized era. The message has been getting out for nearly a half-dozen years now, and the best guess on the number of juicers might still be the 50 percent figure Jose Canseco parlayed into a best-seller.
Punishment isn't the goal of Mitchell's open-ended investigation, nor should it be. Otherwise, Mitchell would be going after the cheaters who were already caught, like Rafael Palmeiro, or Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, who raised more questions than answers during an appearance before a senate committee.
Besides, the feds are still sifting through the evidence collected after busting former Diamondback pitcher Jason Grimsley and Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski. For the moment, let's leave the question of determining appropriate penalties to them.
The rest of us are already resigned to the fact that the last 15 years of baseball have been juiced. What we want to know, more than how many ballplayers should be punished, is how many were juiced.
Baseball is always touting its tradition and ties to the past, how the chance to compare the pitchers and hitters from different eras links one generation of fans to the next. But as the ambivalence over Barry Bonds' home-run trots makes increasingly clear, most of us regard that century-old tie to the past as hanging now by a few slender threads. If the Mitchell commission collects enough evidence to provide some context, we can make our own decisions on whether it's worth mending.
The problem right now is that Giambi is the only ballplayer who's been compelled to unburden himself. By taking any further punishment off the table, Selig might be able to coax other players to do the same. It's the only reason to give Mitchell more time to complete a thankless job.
Skeptics never expected that the former senator's investigation would amount to much. Selig has ordered club executives and general managers and perhaps even a few owners to talk to Mitchell, but the guess here is that most of them said they had plenty of suspicions, but no proof. If that's all that Mitchell concludes, then Selig, too, can plausibly deny that he knew there was a problem, let alone a supersized one.
What we do know is that during this era, everybody in the game was focused on squeezing every last dollar out of the game. The long ball was like a gift from heaven after the disenchantment sown by the strike and canceled 1994 season. Ballplayers, front-office people and owners did everything within the rules to keep them flying into the seats.
Most of the new ballparks that were built since then had short home-run porches and several owners sought, and received, exemptions from Selig to make them shorter still. The salary scale for middle-infielders who hit home runs was as bulked-up as the players themselves.
Here's hoping that Giambi wasn't the only one who took something out of those oversized pay envelopes and gave it to a charity or two. Or that he's the only one willing to sit down with Mitchell and spill the beans about some of what he knows.
It hardly seems like too much to ask, especially now that the commissioner is in such a charitable mood.
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Lots of families from Stepney Partnership schools (over 100 people!) went 100 foot into the air yesterday on the London Cable Car at Docklands. The trip was part of the regular programme of holiday activities funded by the Stepney Partnership of schools.
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Yeah the main bodies who research this thing are not even discussing it anymore they have put this idea through the ringer for twenty years and agree it is man made.
At the moment this theory is enough to be credable and anything else is beating on a dead horse. It now falls into the creation evolution debate category. In otherwords people are going to have to come up with more than stories of hot summers when they were a kid to de bunk it. http://climatecommission.gov.au/reso...ended-reading/ |
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And since this is a board for survivalists.... |
And both government and corporations, being the enforcement and propaganda arms of the PTB, actually are NOT "arguing that everything is fine or that we should look into the matter further, thus appeasing the sheeple and giving them a false sense of security as they go on with 'business as usual'." They are both actively and enthusiastically perpetuating this. |
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I don't believe it is anthropogenic. I don't believe the "scientists" doing a lot of the studies because of "Climategate." I don't respond well to what is essentially bullying. One group of scientists telling another group of scientists that the debate is over is total B.S. as far as I'm concerned. There is a lot of evidence that points to a lot of this being junk science. As far as turning back the hands of time if the climate really is changing the way some people are reporting, go ahead and buy a Prius. If we could eliminate every vehicle and make everybody drive a Chevy Volt, it wouldn't turn this around. Folks that really believe in this think that human beings are so destructive that we can do anything and so productive we can do anything, too. The reality is somewhere in the middle of both extremes...which tends to be the reality with anything. |
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It's the old lighter vs. friction fire sort of debate. A survivalist knows how to make due without and might even prefer to do so. A prepper is probably dead without his butane lighter. I think there's a fundamental difference between the two. |
If you look at the link people are also debating different solutions. All of them will affect you financially. Just like those who dealt in asbestos,tobacco or lead. Sometimes change is hard for people. |
No, at the time in my life when I had enough faith in anything to consider myself a Christian, I thought stories like "Creation" and "Noah's Ark" were stories told by primitive peoples to possibly ignorant, illiterate and superstitious peoples that still transferred historical information. Just in a way that they could understand.
I'm not a Christian. I don't believe in "Creation" has it has come to be known. I don't even know how my Agnosticism is supposed to play in this except for the fact that you want to try to link what you find to be ignorant in a religion with the mistrust of scientists on this issue. You see, I trust science. I don't trust scientists, there is a difference. You want me to have blind faith in scientists. You are nothing more than another pushy proselytizer but your religion is science and your high priests are scientists. But, again, they proved with "Climategate" that they are just as corrupt as Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart were. But because "global warming" is something that the mainstream media champions, they didn't report on it like they do when some old and wrinkled evangelist makes off with the bank account and some young hottie. BTW, your assertion that people that don't believe as you do are basically people that didn't think black human beings were real human beings and therefore it was okay to enslave them that's just insulting and stupid. |
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Maybe because it's not real???? Only a way for Gore and Obama to steal more $$$ and the go Green BS ...Wake up !!!!
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If you can accept that then accepting change is easier. Otherwise I use sources like the climate comission and the CSIRO rather than whatever you are suggesting. They have a proven track record for being right about stuff. Therefore you would need to show an equally reputable source to discredit them. And stop hiding behind terms like the mainstream media and conspiricies. There is a difference between blind faith and telling a Neurosurgen how he is doing it wrong. |
I'm still waiting on the pro-AGW guys to respond to the concerns we have about the absolutely insane degree of oppressive controls and taxes that are being suggested to combat AGW ( I think it was mocasin that said 'entire cities will have to be abondoned'). They keep sidestepping these legitimate concerns,responding over and over with "It's real, it's true, it's proven...." while avoiding any discussion about the highly alarming "remedies" being proposed. Remedies that are largely unlikely to have any affect other than making life on this planet a living hell for anyone trying to run everything from a household to a buisness.
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"Climategate" is not a "conspiracy theory." It actually happened and the scientists discredited themselves. I didn't do it to them, they did it to themselves. They are playing with statistics and passing it off as science. Furthermore, I am using terms like "mainstream media" because it is an accurate descriptor for the entity I wished to speak about at that time. The mainstream media here is liberal and they have a demonstrable liberal agenda when it comes to gun control and every other sacred cow the liberals worship at the hoofs at. As I pointed out, they didn't give "Climategate" much coverage because it attacked one of their sacred cows, "global warming." Since you brought religion into the fray, I simply said the mainstream media didn't give "Climategate" the coverage they would have a fallen television evangelist. Which is also demonstrably true. Quote:
I'm not telling anyone that they are doing it wrong. I am saying that it has been proven that they have ulterior motives that were plain to see upon examination of their E-mail communications with each other at a point they thought they were safe to be candid. Because they have those ulterior motives, I, and millions of other people, don't trust them. |
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If "global warming" is occurring, even if we caused it, as I said before, there is nothing that is going to stop it. All of the taxing and tyranny they can dream up isn't going to change anything except control and tax people. Quote:
The way I entered this thread was by saying that any time you hear that debate is over and the science is in...look closely. On a totally practical level, how in the hell can all of the discussion be over when everything is in flux and in a state of change? They just want to bully and browbeat their opponents into submission. |
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I, I just don't understand how anyone could be so close minded. You are completely throwing everything out and refusing to look at the issue critically because of your opinion that it's all bull****. That's not how critical thinking works. If you would spend any time at all researching the subject, you would see that the scientist are almost completely unanimous on the subject. Minus the few that have been bought and paid for. It's easy to figure out on your own. Just do some research on the world and how it works. Weather, climate, the oceans and plants. I guarantee if you did your own homework, you might change your position. ^ that's not my opinion, it's a fact. For every 3 posts you can find about it being a hoax, you will find 97 that agree ACG is a very real issue. It's hardly a conspiracy to raise your taxes and enslave the population. Like I said, do your own homework. Don't listen to me or anyone else. Learn about your world. |
My favorite time of year is RIGHT NOW. Actually, favorite month is October. It has become noticeably warmer the last few years as my October leaf change has moved roughly three weeks into November or so. I have always hated summer and after I developed some allergies, I'm not too fond of spring, either. I don't want it to get warmer, hotter, whichever you prefer. I have no vested interest in wanting the climate to change. But I know that the only constant is change and we are judging some really life-changing POLITICS on a little over a century of really accurate recorded temperatures and projections and models that are, again, suspect because of the people involved in the studies. Let me ask you this, what in the **** are you going to do to stop this if it is true? What in the **** is the government going to do, this government, coming world government, whatever government? You're not going to make China and India have cleaner technologies because they are just getting into the swing of things...what are you going to do to stop it? Please explain how taxing the **** out of regular working people is going to stop this? Please explain how taxing the **** out of industry, corporations, etc., which all gets passed on to the working people, is going to stop this? If you give me a good enough answer. I'll worry more about it. If not, well, it's like worrying about my eventual death. I know it is going to happen but unless specific information is acquired, why go through the terror of it all? How does crippling everyone stop this? |
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http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/15...-one-pie-chart not to mention the NAS final report and BEST findings. The latter is incredibly ironic because deniers supported BEST. The last part of your argument is garbage as governments and businesses in a global capitalist system do not profit from "perpetuating" this as it works against increased profits from sales of consumer goods and financial speculation. The same governments will not act on the matter because too much in profits are at stake: Meanwhile, count on the denial machine to keep rolling: |
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I'm obviously right, as a survivalist will prepare for more droughts and floods. A non-survivalist will wish them away.
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While playing in the Pro Tour Qualifier (PTQ) in Philadelphia last weekend, I saw quite a few interesting innovative ramp decks that are a great way to attack the current Tier 1 decks of U/w Delver and traditional R/G ramp. Unfortunately, I did not win the tournament, but ramp decks performed admirably as far as I saw.
The first interesting list I saw was Kurt Spiess's Dungrove Elder ramp deck (in fact, he beat me Round 3 of the PTQ). While I don't have the exact list of Kurt's Dungrove Ramp deck, I believe it looked something like this:
"Kurt's Dungrove Ramp"
Why is this list good against Delver?
In summary: Dungrove Elder is a very difficult threat for Delver to beat. If the Delver player doesn't have one of his two or three Gut Shots for a turn-one mana guy, a turn-two Dungrove Elder is going to be extremely difficult for him to deal with—not to mention what will happen if Kessig Wolf Run arrives to pump him. Phantasmal Image does absolutely nothing against him (in comparison to Imaging a Thrun, the Last Troll). Sword of Feast and Famine does brick-wall him, but multiple Dungroves can get around that.
The maindeck here also emphasizes anti-Delver Equipment with three Sword of War and Peace as well as four Huntmaster of the Fells. Garruk, Primal Hunter is pretty terrible against Delver, but it is a concession to the other green decks and control decks.
Sideboarded, there are a ton of anti-ramp cards in addition to Dungrove Elder in the main (which is incidentally one of the best creatures in the mirror match). Four Beast Within, two Karn Liberated, two Acidic Slime, two Act of Aggression, and three Sword of Feast and Famine combine for a total of a whopping thirteen anti-ramp cards.
I would strongly consider this deck over the traditional R/G Glimmerpost ramp decks if you are looking to play a more aggressive build of ramp.
Another interesting ramp build that I have a list for from that PTQ was played by Luke Patterson to a 7–0–1 finish (before losing in the quarterfinals of the Top 8 to aforementioned Dungrove Elders):
"Luke Patterson's Ramp"
Interestingly, he did defeat Kurt Spiess in the Swiss, but he lost to his compatriot playing a similar Dungrove Elder list.
The creator said about the deck:
This list seems a lot better poised to play against aggressive decks and Delver decks, but it seems somewhat weak to control decks since we do not have a real plan anywhere against those decks . . . except to hope those opponents die to Inkmoth Nexus or Thrun, the Last Troll. Potentially, you could luck-sack the control player out with Karn Liberated or Entreat the Angels in a post-board game.
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite and Day of Judgment are both huge draws to playing white, and you even get to make uncounterable Praetors in Games 2 and 3 against Delver decks for a complete blowout. Those decks still have three Restoration Angels, two or three Phantasmal Images, and perhaps a Phyrexian Metamorph to answer this.However, Vapor Snag is kind of mediocre when most of that deck's creatures are dead to Elesh Norn. I'm not sure that he actually needs Whipflare alongside the four Day of Judgment, so we could cut those slots to fit in more anti-control cards such as Garruk, Primal Hunter or even Sun Titan to go along with Ghost Quarter, Inkmoth Nexus, and Kessig Wolf Run.
I would probably play this list over traditional R/G ramp if you expected a lot of Human and/or Naya Pod decks that require Day of Judgment to answer Hero of Bladehold.
The final interesting ramp list I saw (for which I don't have a complete list) contained the following cards: Birds of Paradise, Somberwald Sage, Solemn Simulacrum, Rampant Growth, Primeval Titan, Frost Titan, Kessig Wolf Run, Vapor Snag, Phyrexian Metamorph, Glimmerpost, and Inkmoth Nexus. The deck seemed pretty favored against other ramp decks since Frost Titan is basically the king of fatties there by keeping the opposing large guy tapped down and by having virtually faster acceleration in the forms of Birds of Paradise and Somberwald Sage.
I am going to outline how I am guessing the deck is built:
For Birds of Paradise, you want approximately twelve to fourteen untapped turn-one green sources. The mana requirements seem to be
The spells that I am guessing on are: four Rampant Growth and four Vapor Snag. I would assume he had four of each of Primeval Titan and Frost Titan, and probably two Consecrated Sphinx. Phyrexian Metamorph doesn't really make sense as more than a two-of.
"Guessing at Ramp"
I have no idea of his sideboard plan—I didn't really get to see much of the post-boarded games, but here are some potential cards you might want:
Tumble Magnet, Negate or Dissipate (against control decks), planeswalkers (Tamiyo, the Moon Sage seems pretty strong here, honestly, functioning as removal and a Tidingsesque effect in this style of ramp deck), Cavern of Souls (board into four against control decks and be able to cut down on Glimmerposts), Phantasmal Image (functions as another cheap answer to Geist of Saint Traft), and Acidic Slime.
Potential sideboard:
3 Negate
3 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
4 Acidic Slime
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Tumble Magnet
2 Phantasmal Image
However, I think this list is a bit overall weaker against Delver than the other two builds listed above. It's more reliant on 1-toughness guys to ramp into your Titans, whereas the lists above place more emphasis on casting actual ramp spells to get to the boom-booms. That turns Gut Shot from a somewhat dead card into an all-star against this list.
The other sometimes-overlooked advantage he had was that no one exactly knew what was in his deck, which is among the biggest benefits to playing a deck that you have built and tested yourself, while other people have to make educated guesses about your exact list (much as I am doing at the moment!)
I would certainly enjoy playing this deck, and I can't wait to see the exact build that the designer actually played when Wizards posts the decklists on the mothership.
As usual, I appreciate any constructive criticism that you may have.
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CEO: Alan Belcher MMA Club1Sorry, but Crossfit sucks. Alan Belcher VLOG #12; WIN signed MMA gloves!
CrossFit SUCKS.. yes... I said it.
Don't hate me, I just speak the truth.
In my video last week I mentioned how I feel about crossfit, and I got a little backlash from the crossfit crowd because of it. Feel free to comment your thoughts on this.
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11/15/2012 9:05pm, #2--
I recently moved to Red Deer Alberta, home of Jason Macdonald, and figured it would be a great chance to train with him.
Then when I got here I discovered he runs a crossfit gym.... not an MMA gym....
My opinion of him has soured somewhat.
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CEO: Alan Belcher MMA Club--Darn, I would have been a little disappointed too.
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11/21/2012 5:09pm, #4
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Guy Who Pays the Bills and Gets the Death Threats2Haha, Alan's declared war on Crossfit. Prepare to be bathed in kool-aid and tears by the 'fitters.
11/21/2012 7:48pm, #5--
Sorry, but Crossfit sucks. Alan Belcher VLOG #12; WIN signed MMA gloves!
I like my crossfit gym.
Then again, my crossfit instructor has 30 years experience as a personal trainer/fitness coach/athlete, and doesn't follow the prototypical crossfit dogma.
PROOF that I'm not a completely useless poster:
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--Much of the Law Enforcement and military community has bought into the crossfit craze. Crossfit of course latches on to this fact however it is important to note that the military and LEO often "suppliment" their training with CF not rely on it soley for fitness. I see value in CF for mixed training however after 1.5 years of just CF I found my body more injury prone than before. I believe that this is due to the fast pased Olympic lifts and high reps. I think if you were to take out the speed reps with OL and tailored your workouts to include CF style work sometimes there would be a benifit. CF got me into good shape but it did not make me a faster runner or "rucker". Only running and rucking did that. I dont subscribe to the CF is king methedology and think the $100-$175 a month dues are rediculously stupid (as is my spelling). I drank a little of the KOOLAID and spit it back out. This is my opinion only.
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--Sorry, but Crossfit sucks. Alan Belcher VLOG #12; WIN signed MMA gloves!
I like my CrossFit gym too, but I think that's largely a function of the owners' other qualifications. The owners are married. The husband has a Masters in exercise physiology and certifications outside of CrossFit such as from USA Weightlifting and the wife was an amateur bodybuilder.
I think CrossFit has some good things, such as introducing the average person to Olympic lifts, but there are certainly negatives. The biggest being the lack of quality control. You can go to one weekend session, pay your fee, and voila you have a CrossFit level one certification and can open your own gym.
11/22/2012 10:32pm, #8--
First of all, I'm a fan and have followed your career since you fought Starnes. I don't have any experience with CrossFit, but hear some good and some bad.
Do you have any experience and/or recommendations as for P90X or Insanity? My schedule is really assed-up; some days I train at 2:00 AM and others at 2:00 PM. I have no regular training partners and am considering the videos more for motivation than guidance. Your thoughts on this?!?!
12/04/2012 8:37pm, #9--
Sorry to be late to this one but I was out of town when this thread came up. I just wanted to chime in and agree with Alan. The sucky thing about crossfit is the randomness of it. If you would just get a trainer who can tailor you workout to the goal you are trying to reach, you would be much better off. I think crossfit is popular because it is different and keeps you doing new stuff which breaks up the manotiny of working out. Like ADHD for working out.
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