How Can I Stretch To Achieve An Attitude Jump

How can one practice changing their attitude/feelings at the moment?

1. Always act with a purpose.Before you take any action, decide how it will serve your greater goals. If the connection is weak or non-existent, take that action off your to-do list. Aimless activity wastes time and energy.2. Stretch yourself past your limits every day.Doing the same-old, same-old is depressing, even if your same-old has been successful in the past. Success is like athletics; if you don't stretch yourself every day, you gradually become slow and brittle.3. Take action without expecting results.While you naturally must make decisions and take action based upon the results you'd like to achieve, it's a big mistake to expectthose results and then be disappointed when you don't get them. Take your best shot but don't obsess about the target.4. Use setbacks to improve your skills.Rather than feeling bad if you fail or get rejected, look back at your actions and see what you can do (if anything) to improve your performances. Remember: the results you receive are the signposts for the results you want to achieve.5. Seek out those who share your positive attitude.It's a scientific fact your brain automatically imitates the behaviors of the people around you. (It's because of something called a mirror neuron). Therefore, you should surround yourself with positive thinkers and shun those who are excessively negative.6. Don't take yourself so seriously.If you want to be happier and make those around you feel more comfortable, cultivate the ability to laugh at yourself. If you don't (or can't) laugh at yourself, I guarantee you that the people you work with are laughing behind your back!7. Forgive the limitations of others.High standards are important, but humans are, well, human. It's crazy to make yourself miserable because other people can't do a job as well as you think you could, or when people don't share your vision with the same passion that you feel.8. Say "thank you" more frequently.Achieving an "attitude of gratitude" requires more than simply being aware of what's wonderful in your life. You must, and should, thank other people for their gifts to you, even if that gift is something as simple as a smile.

Kung Fu: How do Shaolin Monks jump so high?

I train with Shi Yan Min, a 34th generation warrior monk living in the UK.  I will ask him to answer this question and post it back here for you.What I can tell you immediately, is this:- every class we are doing monkey jumps and duck walking as party of the warm up routine to build leg strength, explosive power and stamina - in the traditional Kung fu drills, the stances are very low, and this strengthens the leg muscles over time - Shaolin training includes gymnastics, and at a more advanced level the forms include a lot of acrobatic moves - so the explosive and athletic ability is constantly trained -  Shifu has told me that when he was training in China, they often ran on the Great Wall of China (I have been there several times, it's very steep), and did frog jumps up and down stairs up hills - the power and stamina that Shifu has is quite extraordinary; he has a mind that is far stronger than most: disciplined, and will power that is as high as any athlete's; he trains daily 4/5 hours a day and is teaching most days-  Shaolin's power is in the mind.  This has meaning at a physical strength and stamina level, but also a mental level.  For example, their attitude to pain is that it is good.  They constantly push past pain barriers in training.  In China when I trained at the temple, one of our shifus had had surgery on his knee only 4 weeks earlier.  You would not think so!  I asked said to him surely it must hurt, and he just laughed and said yes!  I know from my own training there, following the training regime that the monks do for years on end, just how much the muscles get pushed.  They teach you that pain is in the mind.  You just learn to push past it.  Our limits are far higher than we think they are, and so most of us give in way too early.- all this training goes on for years and years; and then only the best become masters-  I think Shifu would tell you there is no secret, just hard work and dedication But I will ask him and post it back here. Update: here are two videos of Shi Yan Min demonstrating a training exercise kung fu basica training Shi Yan Min | Facebook

If you know that a plane would be crashing and you jumped off the plane while it's still kilometers above the sea, would you be able to survive? What can you do to increase your chance of survival?

The Short answer is no, the long answer is maybe.Basically it comes down to this, water wants to stay together. Its called surface tension. Due to the way that water molecules are arranged, the surface of water binds together to form a surface that can and does support weight. This is what enables certain species of insects and lizards to actually stand/run across water. Their weight isn't enough to break the surface tension of the water, therefore they don't sink.What this in turn means is that it exerts a force. According to Newton's laws of physics, objects that are at rest want to stay at rest, and objects in motion want to maintain that motion, unless exerted on by another force, such as the impact of something into the water, in your case a person.The higher up someone is, the more force they are going to connect with the water, meaning the more shock their body is going to sustain when connecting with the water. As you spend more time in the air, this force raises due to the acceleration that occurs due to gravity. This is why you are perfectly fine jumping into the water from a diving board, but a person jumping off of a 200 foot cliff might, and probably will suffer injuries. The person jumping from the cliff spends more time being accelerated by gravity, thus they enter the water at a higher speed and with more force. This is why the short answer is no. Simply put, at the height in your example, several kilometers, the fall would almost certainly kill the individual. At the speed they would attain during free fall, hitting the water would be akin to hitting dirt. There are however some things that people can do to increase their odds, and this is directly related to the section above. If the individual has some means to lessen the strength of the surface tension of the water (not likely) there will be less counter force during the impact, meaning they could enter the water at a higher speed. The other option is just before connecting with the water, bleeding off speed somehow. This is really only a viable option if the individual in question has some form of parachute that could get their speed low enough that it would be the same if they were simply jumping off a ledge of a survivable height. So to sum it all up. Water wants to stick together. At higher speeds, it hurts more and more to come into contact with it. Either make water not want to stick together, or slow down to survive. Otherwise, you will go splat.

How do I improve at volleyball?

I’ll fall back on three categories you can work on: knowledge, skills, and attitude.Knowledge encompasses not only the rules of the game, but more important, what your coach wants you to do in any situation, what your teammates are going to do, what the opponents are doing, and what you should do when things go awry. Imagine some plays, visualize where you should be and where your teammates will be. For example, if you know your blockers will take away the cross-court hit, and you are playing down the line, how far from the net should you be to take a straight-in hit? A dink?Develop your skills. My high school coach used to say, “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” Each time you touch the ball, focus on making it a perfect hit. Focus! Move to where the ball will be. Should you be mostly erect, with your knees bent, or lower, ready to dive for a ball. How far apart should your feet be? Try changing that a bit, and see if a different stance gives you better movement. Practice diving. Practice spiking, blocking, setting, bumping, serving. Each time, make the shot as perfect as you can. Focus on that, don’t just go automatic.Attitude is the most important of the three. With the proper attitude, you will put in the exercise time to not get tired, to jump higher, to stretch just a little more, each time. Work on your teamwork, making all your teammates feel valued, acknowledge selflessness in others. Nobody likes a ball hog, or a showoff, or someone with a “Look How Good I Am!” attitude. Never, ever criticize a teammate! No good can come from it. Id the teammate really messed up, they already know it. If they aren’t aware of what works better for you, a gentle “I do better with a set a little more toward the line, please.” will get you what you want.Develop your knowledge off the court, your skills on the court, and your attitude toward yourself and others everywhere. You’ll be a much better player if you do.