ATTENTION ALL READERS!!! Blog is moving!

Rather large news.
The fantastically awesome pod-casting, gut-crampingly hilarious post-writing, Canada-living folks over at Fightlinker offered to raise my lowly status from “Just another WordPress.com blog” to “A totally awesome blog hosted by Fightlinker.”
That means that all my shit is moved over to a new address:
http://martialfarts.fightlinker.com
So either copy paste that address, or click here to be [...]

Video: me being beaten up

As I said in this post, it’s good to get beaten up.
Here’s me doing my absolute best against my instructor, who weighs at least ten kilos less than me.
I really went all out which is why it looks a little scrappy. I think I was doing some things right, it’s just that he does them [...]

MURASAKI BJJ

MURASAKI BJJ
Just wanna give a shoutout to my buddy Patrick and his blog. He’s been on a roll lately churning out some quality posts.
If all goes well, hopefully we will meet in some kind of foreigner-in-Japan blogging and doing BJJ mega awesome coincidence explosion in May, at the Copa South BJJ tournament. I’ve competed twice, [...]

DREAM: Post-fight interviews 1

-+ Suki MMA +-: DREAM: After the fight interviews 1
Thanks to Suki at Suki MMA.

Bob Sapp - Body of a Silverback, Heart of a Hampster

Bob Sapp… wrestling superstar, mixed martial arts legend, former NFL powerhouse, and… ah, who am I kidding.

Bob Sapp… a really, really big black guy whose head looks like a brain when it gets squeezed!

Elite XC recently paid a basquillon dollars for him to get his ass unceremoniously kicked by some random South African guy (probably). [...]

Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs Karo Parisyan

These two guys are UFC fighters now. Interesting to see their old judo days… Hardcore. You can see how strong judo makes you. I’d hate to grapple with Karo Parisyan, it must be like grappling someone made out of oak.

Recognising I’ll never be a world champion

It’s difficult, but it’s true.
Only a very, very small percentage of people will ever be truly, truly great. You and I are most probably not in that percentage.
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about my position in the jiu jitsu world. About how utterly, completely and terribly, abysmally, anonymously low it is.
I see videos of [...]