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One more thing from Fighters Only

Jeez, are we in the future or what?
Personally I’m waiting until the magazine can be directly downloaded into my eyeballs but if you can’t wait that long, Fighters Only is now available online with all kinds of Web 2.0 integrated goodness.

Perhaps best of all you can download an entire issue of the magazine (Issue 34 [...]

The 10 Greatest Post-Fight Meltdowns

The 10 Greatest Post-Fight Meltdowns
This is actually really, really funny, and I wholeheartedly agree with the number 1. I never laughed so hard watching MMA as I did when Coleman went crazy-apeshit bonkers after winning the inaugaral Pride GP. In fact, shit, I wish I had thought of this article first.

Got an article published.

I wrote an article on the demise of Pride, and what a darn shame it was. It was accepted for publication by Fighters Only Magazine, and appears in the December issue, out in the UK now.
Whoopedy doo!
Extract:
Don’t Look Back in Anger
Pride Never Die. Except, of course, when [...]

Great article at Graciemag

Here
A must read for all BJJers.
Particularly like the advice to go and do a year of Judo. Love that about BJJ-very secure in itself.
Next on “When Hell Freezes Over”: A Wing Chun master recommends his students to do a year of boxing to sharpen up his handwork!

Why we Love the Drama

As much as the modern mixed martial arts world (in the west, at least) tries to distance itself from the fakery of professional wrestling, there is one aspect we just can’t get away from. The Drama. Love it or hate it, it’s a big part of the sport. And, I suspect, even those who hate [...]

First Article Published!

Total-MMA.com » Blog Archive » Total MMA Volume 2, Issue 2
Click the link to see my first published MMA article. Yay me!  Total-MMA is a free online MMA magazine with some great content. I hope to write more for them in the future.

The Problems with BJJ.

Or, the problems with how I train BJJ.
Just so you know I’ve not moved from one form of brainwashing to another.
BJJ’s obvious, glaring hole is its lack of standup.
This is true of most schools.
Not only does the martial art as a whole not contain a single strike, but to make matters worse, [...]