Wing Chun videos are very common online. Put the phrase wing chun videos into Google and you’ll find a whole host of results from the main sites like youtube, etc.
Look for Wing Chun Instructional videos however and you’ll notice these are few and far between. Sure there are plenty of show off videos where the instructor displays his apptitude by beating the living out of students would not who look out of place down your local night club.

Of course, the few instructional DVDs that are available are often expensive or are aimed at the intermediate student. The instructor expects a knowledge in the Wing Chun system or simply does not explain why things are done the way they are.

Now after 35 years of teaching Wing Chun Kung Fu on a full-time basis, Sifu John Agar (5th degree xxx A.M.A England) has developed his own series of wing chun videos aimed at the absolute beginner. Intended to give the complete beginner an insight into the highly efficient art, these videos approach the art as if the viewer was attending their first class. Sifu Agar introduces the wing chun system and goes through the basics. Sections cover: building up the stance, stance turning, stepping and sliding, punching mechanics and kicking techniques. The series of 3 instruction videos steadily progress adding more techniques within the wing chun system, allowing the viewer to appreciate the simplicity of the martial art and how it can be put together. Each video includes a section of Wing Chuns first form - the Siu Lim Tao. A bonus video that concentrates entirely on the Siu Lim Tao is also available and is included when the complete volume is purchased.

Overall the content within the videos is very good and would make for an excellent accompanyment for anyone starting out in the Wing Chun style. If you train in another martial art and are simple looking to gain more knowledge on the Wing Chun system you will also benefit from these videos. Advanced students may want to wait for some of the more specialised videos which concentrate on individual drills and partner applications but all will appreciate the Siu Lim Tao video and it’s practial applications.

To find our more about our wing chun videos visit:-
Martial Arts Instructional Videos

I wanted to muck around with some of the official maps that ship with Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance so I opened up the Map Editor and browsed the folders. What I found was that all of the maps were in folders named SCMP_001 to SCMP_41. This wasn’t very helpful so I did a quick search to see if there were any sites out there listing which map goes with each name. Nothing came up other than sites hosting 3rd party maps or information on the release of the Official Sup Com Map editor.

This annoyed me as all I wanted to do was open up Sung Island and use it as a base for a new map - there are no other 5 player maps included in Forged Alliance.
What I’ve done is look through all the scenario files (e.g. SCMP_001_scenario.lua) and noted the name of each map against the folder name. You can find the complete list below. I hope some people find it of use :)

SCMP_001    =    Burial Mounds
SCMP_002    =    Concord Lake
SCMP_003    =    Drake’s Ravine
SCMP_004    =    Emerald Crater
SCMP_005    =    Gentleman’s Reef
SCMP_006    =    Ian’s Cross
SCMP_007    =    Open Palms
SCMP_008    =    Seraphim Glaciers
SCMP_009    =    Seton’s Clutch
SCMP_010    =    Sung Island
SCMP_011    =    The Great Void
SCMP_012    =    Theta Passage
SCMP_013    =    Winter Duel
SCMP_014    =    The Bermuda Locket
SCMP_015    =    Fields of Isis
SCMP_016    =    Canis River
SCMP_017    =    Syrtis Major
SCMP_018    =    Sentry Point
SCMP_019    =    Finn’s Revenge
SCMP_020    =    Roanoke Abyss
SCMP_021    =    Alpha 7 Quarantine
SCMP_022    =    Arctic Refuge
SCMP_023    =    Varga Pass
SCMP_024    =    Crossfire Canal
SCMP_025    =    Saltrock Colony
SCMP_026    =    Vya-3 Protectorate
SCMP_027    =    The Scar
SCMP_028    =    Hanna Oasis
SCMP_029    =    Betrayal Ocean
SCMP_030    =    Frostmill Ruins
SCMP_031    =    Four-Leaf Clover
SCMP_032    =    The Wilderness
SCMP_033    =    White Fire
SCMP_034    =    High Noon
SCMP_035    =    Paradise
SCMP_036    =    Blasted Rock
SCMP_037    =    Sludge
SCMP_038    =    Ambush Pass
SCMP_039    =    Four-Corners
SCMP_041    =    The Ditch

Having messed about installing the must have mods and add-ons that we’ve all been instructed to download and install I must say that I’m starting to really enjoy this Armed Assault. Last night we played two custom missions. Being more experienced now, Simon and Alex’s missions were complete with briefing, way-points and other cool things that made the mission feel right.

The real-time day cycle feature is also really really cool. I mean this must be seen to be appreciated. We began our mission parachuting in near the beach front and had to hike around 600m to our way-point on the top of a hill with a good view of the small outpost. Upon checking the time on our landing it was around 19:10 hours. After clearing the outpost it was more like 19:30 and nightfall was beginning to set in all around us. The flames from the jeep we destroyed; the BMP that I set ablaze with the AT missile were all casting real-time lighting effects and casting long shadows from all the trees in the nearby area. It was around this point where we kept loosing some of our unit as their was generally an officer left hiding somewhere who would pick one of us off when we assumed the outpost was clear.

Moving further on lead us to more units and a need for night vision goggles. The HDR effect when switching to and from the goggles is really quite annoying but very realistic and very much a cool effect.

Setting these missions up takes time, and often you find out that a lot of the enemy actions (like the reinforcements falling to arrive) are not properly set-up. Getting a game going takes an age -possibly as long as setting up a game of Supreme Commander, but it’s well worth it in the end. I think I’ll go off now and start reading through the Armed Assault Mision Editing Tutorial by Rick Rawlings.

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I was reading up on the Gas Powered Games forums about the current BETA testers and their comments on the upcoming expansion Forged Alliance, when I noticed someones signature had a link in to some kind of Sup Com Mod:-

http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=4142

The “4th Dimension” is a modification for Supreme Commander which adds new content like (completely) new designed units, explosions and other effects. The goal of this mod is to make SC feel more realistic (as long as it is better for the gameplay) and to improve the balancing and optics of the game. Nearly all muzzle velocities have been increased a lot, and a few units move much slower now.
Another big aspect of this mod is the fact, that in 4th Dimension nearly all units have their right to exist, even in later tech levels.
Beside a new veteran system, which lets stronger units count more than weaker units and which gives units bigger buffs, the mod changes also the tarmac sizes and explosion effects.

Sounds real interesting since not only does it change a lot of units stats, but they’ve also got more units in there too. The only questions I want to know is is it compatible with the latest build of sup com? and if so, can you simply switch to and from this and vanilla as and when you want?

Edit: doh, if I read what was there I’d of seen:

DOWNLOAD VERSION 1.8 here:
http://files.filefront.com/4th+Dimension+18zip/;8708717;/fileinfo.html

Unzip the “4th Dimension.zip”. If the unpacked file is a *.scd file, you must put it into the …\gamedata\ folder.
If the unpacked file is another folder called “4th Dimension”, put it into your mods directory in supreme commander
(if it doesnt exist, create a folder “mods”).

Bambrugh Castle

Me & Jof walked for about 3 hours up and down the beach over by bambrugh castle. Took many closeups but this is one of the better “full frame” shots. Pity the sky was not a perfect blue.

Did I mention we forgot to use sun lotion? It was a beautiful day and was absolutely schorching. We took our new tripod out and managed to use our zoom lens more so than normal. We even took some panoramic style shots so I’ll have to do a Google for any open source photo-stich apps.
To see more pictures visit our flickr pages:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavjof
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jofgav

Okay, so I wanted to install a blog again and since Heart Internet have it as an easy install option I figured what the heck. I hadn’t been tracking WordPress for a while and didn’t notice the big new 2.0. The last version I tried was 1.0.3 or something and that left me open to comment spamming.

Anyhow, hopefully I’ll discover all of it’s wonderful features and plugins this time around, aswell as find time to do some serious bloggin.