Review: This is Gonna Hurt

This is Gonna Hurt by Tito Ortiz My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was on the fence about Tito Ortiz, until I read this book. The main reason I did not like Tito was I started out as a Chuck Liddell fan when I started watching UFC in 2006. Once [...]

It’s not how you fall down…

Of all the things I’ve ever done in my life this is by far my greatest achievement. This may be hard to comprehend for many people but the mental hurdles I overcame in the early part of 2009 were the greatest of my life. Over the years I have become a huge fan of [...]

1:57

I lost my fight by TKO at 1:57 of the first round due to a right hook. Unfortunately I never saw it coming. I’m perfectly fine aside from some bumps and bruises from the cage and a headache, but that might be more from drinking last night for the first time in months than [...]

The man that fights the bull

Quinton Jackson has said that “Rampage” is the werewolf that lives inside of him. Often you’ll hear about him outside the cage he is the nicest guy you’ll meet but inside he is an animal. In fact you’ll hear this about a lot of fighters for that matter. Have you seen Quinton’s interviews they [...]

Speaking to Penn State IST Seniors

I have been asked to guest lecture to the IST Seniors on April 15, 2009 at Penn State. My lecture will center around transitioning from college to “The Real World”. It is some what hard to imagine I have been working for five plus years already. This was first brought to my attention [...]

MMA- Modified Rules

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So I got a note about the rules in case you are wondering:

Weigh-Ins- Weigh ins are the day of the fight and the pairings are at random. There are no weight classes so basically there is no [...]

EXCITEMENT!

I’m getting so excited for this fight Saturday. Essentially this video they play before every UFC goes live to Pay Per View is what will be running through my head for the next 3 days. I trained for an hour today, will do a light run tomorrow and train Thursday. That’s pretty much [...]

One week away from this:

Check out the previous fights.

Performance

Recently my “day job” duties changed slightly such that I work on improving the performance of our web sites. In one such book I’ve recently read “The Art of Capacity Planning” by John Allspaw (which I’ve reviewed on Amazon), he describes the line you must walk every day with performance.

In his example [...]

Deadening his personality and killing his soul

Today was my day off. Yesterday I trained for 3 hours. One hour of Gi Jiu-Jitsu, one hour of No-Gi, and then the school stayed open an extra hour so we could do some light sparring. After two hours of training we put spared for 2 – 3 minute rounds. Then went through again [...]