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Training Resources
for All Warriors
By Trent 'Kuma' Warner |
Have you ever set out to search the internet looking for training resources in warrior, street combat, self defense, martial arts, or the fitness areana.
But you just didn't know where to begin? How to perform the research? Or, maybe you just want more relevant results?
Have you ever wished you could find more relevant resources? Are you tired of link farms cluttered with link upon link? Or Resource Directory's that have sold there soul to the advertisers?
This Training Resources Page was created because I have experienced the these very things myself.
This page will supply you with training on how to find the warrior resources you seek. Showing you better ways to search for all your martial arts, street combat, self defense, fitness and warrior training resources.
Research, Your Best Training Resource!
I have spent and continue to spend, lots of time researching training resources, information, seminars, and products related to warrior, street combat, self defense, fitness and the martial arts.
Out of this research I have compiled a list of training avenues and research techniques.
That greatly reduce my time spent researching, lending more time to training, teaching and witting. The most important parts of my warrior martial arts training business.
So, what are the techniques that have made my searching more productive? They are not complicated, and you do not need to be a techy to use them.
But, I have been surprise by how many of my fellow warriors don't know these few simple techniques.
If you want to perform a search for information on a particular training subject.
Where do you begin? Most, people would start there cyber training research with a search engine, but this is not the only way.
There are actually three main avenues or search tools available in cyberspace. They are search engines, directories, and searchable data bases.
Search Engines - But One Way to Research
Warrior Training Resources on the Net.
There are many of different search engines on the internet, today. One place to find a large list of these search engines is at My Virtual Reference Desk. (http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html)
There are millions of pages of information on the Web and because of this the search engine was created. Allowing web warriors to find the page or information that is relevant to there personal needs or interests.
Search engines are built by computer robot programs called "spiders". The web pages are not by human selection and are NOT organized by subject categories. All of the pages are ranked by a computer algorithm.
Each engine has a basic search. You find the pages and warrior training information by entering words, called keywords, that are relevant to your training resource search.
This then tells the engine to search it's database of Web Site Information to find only the warrior information relevant to your training research.
Search engines retrieve huge lots of information within these results. It is usually unevaluated containing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Requiring YOU the web warrior to evaluate everything you find.
There are many aspects that can make one search engine different from another. Such as the way it uses to search, the specific areas of the Internet they access, the web sites that are in their database, and the ability to perform special search functions.
Web Warrior Resource Techniques
for using search engines.
Let's go over some ways to get the most out of your warrior training research while using search engines. Suppose you what to learn more about the history of a martial art.
You might start your search by using the words history, martial, art, and maybe the name of the specific art. (i.e. shotakan karate, wado ryu, okii kuma ryu, ect..)
There are several ways to phrase your search in order to get the best results. I have listed a few of the ways that I use and have yielded more focused results.
One way is to use a Boolean Search.
The term boolean refers to a system of logical thought developed by the English mathematician and computer pioneer, George Boole.
Boolean Searching uses an AND between two words, for example "karate AND usa(or your country)". This will yield search results containing pages that contain both words in the page.
This form of warrior web searching can also use an OR between two words, "karate OR usa", searching for pages with either word.
If you put the operator NOT between two words, "karate NOT usa", you will get pages containing the word karate but not usa.
Maybe you want to limit the distance between the words. For example the Boolean operator w/3 can limit a search for Martial Arts, "martial w/3 arts". This will only give results of pages containing these words with in 3 places of each other.
Double Quotes("") can also refine a search
When using double quotes in a search tells the engine to only find that phrase. A search for "martial arts history" with the quotes, will supply a different result than the same search without the quotes.
Using your plus (+) and minus (-) signs
When you use the plus sign (+) the search engine that those words must be included in the results, while the minus sign (-) will give you results that do not have the word after the minus sign.
For example, if you do a search for all karate styles other than shotokan, you could limit the search by typing karate-shotakan. The (+) or (-) signs need to be adjacent with the words having no spaces.
Many of the search engines will allow the utilization of these techniques. Some will only allow one or two, while others don't recognize them at all.
You can find out if a particular search engine will allow you to use these tools, by reading their help files. This is an excellent way to learn how that engine works.
Multiple-Search or Meta-Search Engines
These search services can greatly speed up your warrior research. They are especially effective when you are looking for top ranked training resources.
The advantage of using a multiple or meta search engine is in the fact that they give you results from multiple engines. There is no one search engine that can cover the entire internet.
Thus, these will allow you to cover more ground. They will also help you find the specific search tool that is best for the training resources you are researching.
For example, if you did a search for warriors, some of the engines may bring little or no results others a few, some will supply hundreds to thousands of results, while others give you extremely vague results.
So, you review the sites and focus your query only using the engine that gave you the results that best suits your warrior training needs.
For a list of Meta search engine Training Resources visit UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops by clicking the previous link.
Well, I hope this has help you in with your warrior training resources research. If you have some exciting, unique, or interesting training resource. We would be glad to included it in this page.
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