Weight Loss

I’m reading on page 62 of the March issue of fight magazine with Shane Carwin on the cover about Fat Burning 101. It says you need to burn 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat or 500 calories a day. I can attest to that. I weighed 211.4 at 19.2 percent body [...]

Life Insurance?

Remember in one of my first posts I asked “Why” am I doing this. Wanting to explore if I was crazy or not in the upcoming days… Probably not a good sign that one of the advertisements created from the content of my blog was for “Life Insurance”.

Easy

“Once you get pretty good at jiu-jitsu, beating someone who doesn’t know any jiu-jitsu is pretty fucking easy” – Scott Nelson

I would have to agree. For some reason our school has a lot of new people coming in recently and classes are getting bigger. This is great except for I’ve now become that [...]

Check your ego at the door

I’m reading about 4 or 5 books at any given time now including the Marcelo Garcia book listed below. On pg. 26 he says

“A good way to develop that confidence is to check your ego at the door during training. If you handle every match in the gym as a competition, you’ll [...]

Full Throttle

So I train generally 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. I add one day a week of cardio and one day of recovery. Ironically the hardest day is recovery as I just about go crazy from inactivity. While at the school I train for 2 hours 1 in Jiu-Jitsu and 1 in [...]

Car-wreck-itis

I have car-wreck-itis. I had a terrible day the gym yesterday.I told Jaz when we were walking out that I “Just didn’t have it today”. He said that was good, because the next time you remember that and come back that much stronger. He also kidded me about never getting my blue belt. It’s [...]

Centerfold

I worked out with the gi for the first time in over a week. How slow did I feel. Joe caught me in a lame arm-bar that was only available because he was able to grab my gi funny. It was hilarious when he showed me the gi escape called the “centerfold” however. You [...]

What hurts?

I went to the Chiropractor today. It is weird when he asks me what hurts and I reply my foot and my hand. I felt like a genuine tough-guy when he said ok how did it happen and I gave my response. I kicked a guy, oh and I punched a guy. I can [...]

Why?

So here it is the blog of my fighting life. In less than one month I’ll enter the octogon and have my first mixed martial arts cage fight.  As the first question most people ask me is “Are you crazy?” I’d like to use this as the forum to address why I think I’m [...]

Why? I don’t know why; I don’t know. Never been in a fight. You?

Tyler Durden: I want you to do me a favour. Narrator: Yeah, sure… Tyler Durden: I want you to hit me as hard as you can. Narrator: What?… in the face? Tyler Durden: Surprise me. Narrator: This is so fucking stupid. Well, what do you want me to do? You just want me to [...]