I'll quadruple that!  I'm all about seeing documentary style videos on how people prep, how they train, etc.

I'm happy to be spending the next few days with my Dad at our hunting camp!  I am looking forward to getting out of cell phone range!

There is a fine line between fighting and fornacating Guro.    Add in the emotions of winning a big fight and watch out!

Some wonderful examples of Kali Tudo's Triggonomics tonight by Kirkland on HBO right now.  Kirkland is also doing an awesome job using angles and head movement. 

I'm looking forward to Hatton!

I'll third stickgrappling!

Fresh?

Pretty Cool!

I'm glad to have seen the first snow flakes of the season today! 

I'm with Dana on that:


Start watching at 2:50

I think the last EliteXC card was better than the recent UFC card.  However, I think fixing fights was the beginning of the end for ProElite.

Impressive fight from Sherk last night!  It received fight of the night and rightly so.  Bummer about Anderson & Cote.  I hate seeing people get injured and unable to continue.  On a more positive note I think I saw just about every variation in Silva's footwork last night, how cool!  His footwork is so impressive and I'm glad that we are finally seeing fighters that can switch leads at will in a technical way.  I also give props to Cote for being able to keep up with Anderson and have the eye to see what Silva was doing with his footwork.  Mark D. had some great cornering advice as well.  Amongst many other things he mentioned that when Anderson stops moving he is timing Cote and I believe this to be true.

This will be his second fight without the additional help.  To change gears it was great to see Sled Dog in "Countdown to UFC" on Spike talking about Cote.  I am always in BTT Canada's corner but I REALLY like Silva for this fight.

He lost to BJ but I don't think that was because of the lack of vitamins.  IMHO superior reach and take down defense is what won that fight for BJ.

Griffin has a pretty impressive record with wins over Urijah Faber, Duane Ludwig, Clayton Guida and a number of others.  His only loss is to Frank Edgar which went all three rounds and in my book, went down as one of the best and most technical fights at 155.  He's no slouch but I'm fairly confident that Sherk is going to do very well against him.

Big weekend for UFC.  I'll be excited to see Anderson put on another display.  Sean Sherk is also fighting Tyson Griffin which I am looking forward to!  We are having Sean in State College in December so we are all hyped about seeing him fight!

I took pleasure in cornering one of our up and coming Muay Thai Boxers this weekend.  He walked away with the win and no injuries!

Looks great Crafty,

Awesome job Ron!

Mega props to him for living off the grid.  While I don't think I could do it full time, it's my dream to get out and do something similar.  I kinda want to do it on my own though.

I never though he was really on top of anything to dive off of.

I happy to know that this Sunday-Tuesday I'll be fly fishing with my Father and Grandfather in upstate PA.  I can't wait to disconnect and spend some time with the family.

I'm grateful for a renewed interest in the martial arts and getting over the hump of feeling so burnt out!

156, "Dog" Steve Gruhn is missing.  Gotta give love to my old man.

Most of State College, PA - Dog Brothers will be in attendance with potentially a few new fighters!

Is the plan to replicate the anniversary gathering we had last year on an annual basis?  Three days, DB Corral, etc?

IMHO AA almost lost last night.  His BJJ is non-existant.  Barnett and Fedor would run through AA.  Also, how about freaking Nelson and Arlovski getting stood back up when Nelson was in side control with a submission!  WTF!!!

On the topic of Kimbo, I'm pretty sure that fight was supposed to be fixed.  A fairly important person for this event was trying to get the ref to jump in and call Seth for hitting Kimbo in the back of the head:



He says "he's hitting him in the back of the head" then points to the back of his head. . . . interesting?!

Here is the first one:

Second fight in a row that Arlovski won with a Panantukan upper cut!:

Here is one of my boxers using the matrix in his last fight from August:

Last night was a great night for sparring.  We had some out of town guys come in and spar who had a lot of experience, almost all of the fighters that sparred my guys were pro, a few had fought in the UFC, Elite XC and a few other big name shows.  In any event, the guy that my Thaiboxer went against was 18-2 as a pro I believe.  My Thaiboxer has learned the KT matrix inside and out and does an excellent job of playing it while sparring.  I've always been extremely against the flat footed "Tim Silvia" approach to stand up and seeing my guys successful brings a smile to my face.  Ajarn Chai gave me the cruel idea to tape push pins "tacks" to the heels of the feet to make people stay on their toes.  I have yet to try it but the concept states how important it is to Chai so I myself make sure my students stay "tall" on the balls of the feet.  I think this lends very well to the footwork matrix that Crafty has shared with us. "What stands still, grows roots, gets chopped down."

I was first introduced to this matrix in late '03 / early '04 by Crafty and immediately saw the relevance in it.  I went back to the gym to spar all the guys and kept it quiet for some time while I had immense success using it.  It amazed me of how "top secret" this material actually was.  Even many top fighters NOW are not using this structure.  Those who are have great success.  After a while I decided to start sharing the KT matrix with my guys and they have more than ran with the material.  This was way before the DVD even came out so I had many people raising an eyebrow when I shared it with them.  My one boxer who I used to "one up" now beats me at my own game!  In any event, the Thaiboxer you watched Jon is going to be fighting on the 18th and we plan on using this structure.  I'll make sure to post the video.

Woof!

Gruhn

Congrats everyone!  A bigger tribe is a stronger tribe!

Woof!

Dog Ryan

Yeah Gina's hot.

Shamrock by leg lock! LOL =)I just haven't seen an impressive Ken in any of his last fights.  I think this is going to be a replay of Kimbo/Tank.

I actively call out our stinky dudes for the health of the gym.  I tell them to go take a shower and wash their clothes/gear before I work with them.  I won't spar or roll with anyone that stinks.  I might be a pansy to some, but then again, I don't have any skin diseases.

I'm grateful for unlimited burritos at Mad Mex.  My record is five and I'm shooting for six next week!  Kobayashi here I come!

Not sure if you were there Jon but about a month ago I brought in some old t-shirts to try out collar chokes in and neither t-shirt ripped but the chokes were pretty easy to get.  I would assume coats would be even easier to choke with and harder to rip.  I'm looking forward to pulling mine out btw, bring on the cold!

I don't mean to speculate or start rumors but I suspect some vitamins have come into Gina's workout regimen in the past few years.

I'm grateful for heat and three cords of fire wood as we enter the cold months here in the north.

Just put one up myself.  I actually didn't know this was possible otherwise I would have done it along time ago! 

Looks like it.  I can almost recite Crafty's speech at the beginning of many of the videos.  Why can't people just respect this.

Gym Tour of our new facility: http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234112/73716-lionheart-tour

Silva won't retire in a year, mark my words he will be in the game for at least another three years.

Congrats and Welcome!!

I'm grateful to have spent the day with Ajarn Chai in NJ.  I got his opinion on some material that I've been planning for the next Gathering and he tuned it up for me.  Obviously it was Muay Thai based but he gave me some Krabi flavor to add into the mix, HOW COOL!

The ultimate respect IMHO:

OOOOO!!!!!!!!  I forgot to post about this.  It's a thing that Greg Jackson has all of his fighters doing.  Licking your fingers and tweaking your nipples actually releases hormones in both men and women.  GSP did it too.  Nipple stimulation causes the body to produce the hormone oxytocin. http://www.filly.ca/health/body/sexual_health/Oxytocin.asp

The dance actually has its roots in being a post victory prair / thank you to the king, family, coaches, etc. that the fighter will be able to fight again without being seriously injured in the fight he just fought. 

This however, I find offensive:

I am grateful to be able to work with youth on stick work!  Last night was a blast with our first Youth Martial Arts class at my new facility.

I wish.