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Workout 3/11/08
March 13, 2008 - 12:35 pm
Tags: double, takedowns
Posted in Martial Arts, My MMA Training, Techniques | No Comments
Tuesday’s workout was very similar to Monday’s. We did some killer warmups and then worked on our takedowns. Instead of working the single leg at the end however we worked the High Crotch.
High Crotch Double Leg
Contrary to what the name would lead you to believe you are actually not attack the crotch at all. The [...]
Workout 3/10/07
March 11, 2008 - 3:28 pm
Tags: double, single, takedowns
Posted in Martial Arts, My MMA Training | No Comments
So its been quite a while. Work had gotten crazy and I was putting in ~70 hours the past two weeks, but back to normal now. Aside from both of my big toes being in constant pain still, the time off was good for my body and I don’t think I sacrificed too much cardio. [...]
Training 2/18
February 19, 2008 - 12:54 pm
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, My MMA Training, Techniques | 1 Comment
Today we went over a flow of submissions from side mount, as well as the basics of the S-Guard and a reverse from guard. It was pretty random, as he just answered questions that we had.
Drill:
The flow we did from side mount was a series of attacks to the arm. Starting in side [...]
Training 2/11 – 2/17
February 18, 2008 - 5:21 pm
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, My MMA Training | No Comments
I took the last week off from MMA. My instructor was out of town with one of our fighters and my doctor told me to rest my foot. On 2/7 I was kickboxing and ended up kicking someone toe first in the elbow. This happens a lot, but I had previously been having pain in [...]
Workout 2/6/08
February 7, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Posted in My MMA Training | No Comments
Reviewed the Guillotine yesterday, see this post. I only rolled for about 20 minutes after class, I got my ass handed to me. I have taken two weeks off because I’ve had a nasty cold and a couple of the guys i train with at the gym have a competition this weekend, and one [...]
The Guillotine
February 7, 2008 - 2:53 pm
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, Techniques | 1 Comment
The Guillotine is the most basic of chokes, and can be delivered from a variety of positions. The basic premise is that you have your forearm/blade of your wrist against your opponent’s larynx and are attempting to crush it. Yesterday, we worked the Guillotine from standing position, from Guard, and then the standard [...]
My Training Log
February 7, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted in Brazilian Ju Jutsu, Martial Arts, Muay Thai, My MMA Training | No Comments
So I have been training Martial Arts for about 9 years now. I wrestled in high school and then started training traditional Muay Thai. I really loved it at the time and trained incredibly intensely… ahh the joys of being a teenager. The damage that my legs and skull sustained from doing [...]
Huckabee and Romney debate the familial ties of Jesus.
December 14, 2007 - 1:04 pm
Posted in Politics, Religion | No Comments
I could almost not believe what I was reading when I saw this Reuter’s article. Of note was this quote:
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters Life!) – Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said he considers his rival Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith a religion, not a cult, but questioned whether Mormons believe “Jesus and the devil are brothers.”
Huckabee [...]
Fox News Porn
This site has been making the rounds, but I thought was worth passing along. Fox News Porn is a parody of a Girls Gone Wild types site, but with all of its content provided by Fox News. I don’t really watch Fox News (or any TV news if I can help it), but I am [...]
Social Fabric of Our Society.
November 2, 2007 - 4:05 pm
Tags: Fail, npr
Posted in Fail | No Comments
Nothing is more infuriating to me than a phrase like this.
I was listening to NPR a couple of days ago and a caller started waxing intellectual about the effects of “sexy halloween costumes” for children. While that debate was mildly interesting (I’m agnostic here), I found that myself immediately siding with whoever this caller [...]
