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Your favorite punching combo?
Discussion in 'Standup Technique' started by Hendersonfan119, May 9, 2008.
For me it is a left jab, right straight, left hook. How about you?
or just wild hooks and uppercuts. I love hooks and uppercuts.
Lef strait or jab followed by Right strait left hook.
Or left jab, left hook, right upper/straight.
I dont really plan on more then 2-3 punches then ill throw 2-3 more depending on how they reacte. A lot of the time after those 3 ill go to the body with a right cross or a hook.
it helps me set up other punches, it helps me get out of range, etc.
I like jab, right straight, and left hook too. I also like jab, jab, followed by a short right hook. A short combo I like is jab and left hook.
Right uppercut, left straight.
Left straight, right hook.
there are too many for me to pick just one, double jab-right hand-left hook, double jab-right hand, jab-right hand, double jab-right uppercut-left hook. I could go on and on but these are the ones I use the most.
The 1-2 uppercut.
Right Jab to the chest, Left straight to the face, dip to the right, right hook to the body.
Thats my ideal combo.
I too love the jab-jab-jab...it creates a false pattern for some people to look for and sets up a ton of stuff. It also open things up for a Tim Sylvia wet blanket technique.A roll of nine-banded armadillos appears to be making themselves at home in apartment communities around Grapevine, Texas.
The small armored creatures have been spotted within apartment communities such as Cross Creek at Grapevine Ranch, Marquis at Silver Oaks, as well as in the surrounding forested area.
Nine-banded armadillos are indigenous to Texas and have been designated as the state’s official small mammal. While they tend to steer clear of urban settings and generally prefer rural areas, that has not stopped a group of armadillos from moving into some Grapevine apartments.
“First off, there are a ton of little kids that live near me that are very susceptible to leprosy but secondly, which is the larger concern for me, is my dogs,” he continued.
However, management at Cross Creek at Grapevine Ranch told The Dallas Express that the presence of the creatures on the property has not been a cause for concern and that residents have not reported any incidents regarding them.
The CDC, however, still recommends that people avoid contact with armadillos when possible due to the risk of contracting leprosy.
Nine-banded armadillos can naturally carry a slow-growing bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, which could lead to Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, in humans.
Leprosy is a chronic but curable affliction that damages the peripheral nerves while targeting the skin, eyes, nose, and muscles. The disease often causes skin lesions, nerve damage, and blindness and is typically contracted through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal.
Although the transmission of the disease from armadillo to humans is generally unlikely, experts advise against having direct contact with the animal and suggest wearing gloves if necessary.
While incidents of leprosy in the United States are rare, the CDC reported that 185 new cases were recorded in 2019, mostly occurring in Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, and Texas.Shares of William Hill traded up roughly 5% earlier today on the London Stock Exchange after it was revealed that 888 and Rank, the United Kingdom's largest casino chain, had made a preliminary overture to acquire the company.
William Hill has left itself vulnerable to possibly being acquired following a rough stretch that has included profit shortfalls and the sacking of their former CEO. Despite shares of William Hill recovering somewhat over the past month or so, investors have seen their shares fall in value by roughly 20% over the past year.
This turmoil has possibly opened the door for 888/Rank to acquire William Hill, though industry observers believe that such a tie-up is unlikely to happen. According to a statement released earlier today, William Hill said that the approacy by 888/Rank was "highly preliminary" and that a formal offer had not been made as of yet.
Today's news came as a surprise to many, especially given the fact that William Hill unsuccessfully tried to acquire 888 last year for £720 million. That offer was eventually rejected by 888's major shareholders, who called the offer "too low" to accept.
There has been a great deal of consolidation in the online gaming industry over the past couple of years, with Ladbrokes/Gala, Betfair/Paddy Power and GVC Holdings/PartyGaming all tying the knot in recent months.
Could William Hill, the largest bookmaker in the United Kingdom, be the next company to get acquired?A quirk in the calendar just did some heavy lifting, causing the market declines from early last year to disappear from a key fund-manager benchmark.
Fund returns have just taken some of the biggest, fastest swings in history—and could mislead investors who aren’t paying attention.
At the end of February, 40 mutual funds reported total returns of at least 100% over the prior 12 months, according to Morningstar. Among exchange-traded funds, 59 had one-year returns greater than 100% at the end of February; one month later, according to FactSet, 218 did.
What happened? Did hundreds of fund managers start popping genius pills? No, although marketing departments are probably gearing up to tout their brilliance. Instead, the ghastly losses of early 2020, when stocks fell by 34%, have just disappeared from trailing one-year returns.
As March 2020 dropped out of their one-year returns, some funds suddenly showed huge gains.
As a result, websites, apps and account statements will be showing monstrous performance that’s nothing more than a happenstance of the calendar.
It’s one of the best—or worst!—examples I’ve ever seen of what finance researchers call time-period dependency. How much your investments earn always depends on when you start counting and when you stop.
Under rules set by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the 12-month return that funds report for the period ending March 31 assumes you bought before the market opened on Apr. 1, 2020 and held continuously through the end of last month, never adding or subtracting anything along the way. The same standards apply for returns over longer periods, such as five or 10 years.
In the real world, people don’t invest all their money on the first day of a month or year; they put more in whenever they can, and take money out whenever they have to. And history is always in flux: Market crashes come and go, often making managers look better by chronological accident.
In 2010, the grinding losses of the financial crisis that ended in 2009 dropped out of trailing 12-month returns; in 2003, the 2000-02 collapse of internet stocks finally receded from the one-year record; and in October 1988, the 20% crash of Oct. 19, 1987, faded out of the 12-month history.
Such blips create what Wall Street calls “easy comps.” Performance takes an automatic upward leap when crashes drop out of the record.
Consider the Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. Bull 2X ETF, a leveraged fund that seeks to double the daily return of an index of energy stocks. As of the end of February, it had lost 80.6% over the prior 12 months. Just 31 days later, its one-year return had shot up to 348.5%.
“A lot of people, I think, don’t realize that returns are reported as a single path in each time period, which only a minority of investors actually experienced,” says Robert Nestor, president of Direxion, which runs $25 billion, mostly in ETFs. Most users of Direxion’s leveraged funds, which are designed to enable traders to express a short-term view, hold for only a few days or weeks at a time, he says.
At Bridgeway Capital Management in Houston, six mutual funds earned returns greater than 100% over the 12 months ending March 31, according to Morningstar.
“When you have a triple-digit year this suddenly, danger signs should be flashing,” says John Montgomery, Bridgeway’s founder and chief investment officer.
Even longer-term performance numbers can be skewed by short-term swings if they’re big enough. Ideally, you should look across multiple periods, including several down markets, to size up whether an investment’s gains come from a sustainable edge or just a few lucky moments.
It isn’t just the reported returns of funds and the stocks they hold that are twisted by caprices of the calendar. The Consumer Price Index fell by more than 1% from February through May 2020 as the pandemic put