Some Sumo Size Shenanigans

Yokozuna, which is the top rank of sumo (think “black belt” comes with a lot of responsibility. You can’t just be awesome at wearing giant g-strings and slapping fat guys in the face.
You’ve got to be a fine, upstanding citizen, must always talk in a low grunt, and must never, ever act in a way [...]

BJJ 25th May

Taught a class on Sunday, and it went pretty good despite having to hop everywhere.
I chose the bow and arrow choke because I have been using it a lot lately and find that I’m able to work it from just about any position.
It ended up going really well, I taught it from the back, from [...]

TUF Shit, series 7 episode 8.19b banana

TUF productions are pulling out all the stops with this season and have completely revamped the intro again.
Fade up from black to pink as a guitar wails hard. Some tinkly piano music can be heard as well as the sound of a tin of beans being slopped on an old bed. Suddenly “Livin’ on a [...]

BJJ Class, May 24, 2008

So I hobbled along to BJJ last night to cover for my instructor who is in Tokyo getting his ass whupped in preparation for the Mundials.
I did get a few strange looks when I came into the dojo on crutches with my gi pants on and a cast sticking out of the bottom of them, [...]

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 [...]

World MMA Awards

Headed up by Martial Farts commentator (important title, that) Hywel Teague, Fighters Only Magazine is pretty much the coolest MMA magazine I’ve ever read. And I’m not just saying that because they have published two of my articles.
They have organised something that every MMA fan should check out…
The World MMA Awards.
In their words:

Fighters Only announce [...]

The Ultimate Fighter Intro: Redux

With an unexpected afternoon off work and a new musical discovery (Dead Can Dance), I boshed together my own take on the TUF intro.
It is nothing special, I did no fancy editing, I just wanted to give it a different flavour. I tried to do it “Pride style” if you will, with the “epic, earth-shattering [...]