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on one level i'm fairly scared/stressed
Just a few minutes ago I got that adrenal rush simply from looking at the pictures from Gints of the June Gathering. My heart started pumping, I felt the release of adrenaline into my body, I started to breathe a little heavier and said to myself "here we go again!" Does anyone else get this feeling prior to a Gathering?
I'll be there!!! My weight is down, my cardio is great, I'm stronger than ever - I can't wait.
C-Dog Pound
I didn't really feel any noticeable effects. Maybe it is like tickling yourself, you have to have someone else do it. 
How about back to the original location?
What does "Esse quam videri" mean?
This one should be interesting, I totally thought that the two of them were in separate weight classes but I guess I am wrong. I do however have some ideas that I think would lend well to the fights and the over all aesthetics of the environment. The idea of a wall is perfect but putting a large garage door in the middle of the wall would be killer! To help sell you on the idea, imagine it to be an awesome way to open a scene:
Any type of saw will do, just make sure you secure the stick properly before cutting it. I use a miter saw to cut my sticks. It allows me to clamp it down securely first. Another option is to let your six year old use normal size sticks. I teach Youth Martial Arts and this is what we do. At first the length can be a little awkward but I have found that they tend to adapt quickly to the length. Food for thought!"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
I think this might have been boxings last chance to capture back a young spectator audience. With the commentators being of the older generation, most hard to understand, not making sense, etc. it was really hard for us to get into it. Not to mention HBO's classic look that made it feel like we were watching a fight from 1982. I dunno, I might be sounding a little harsh but I callz 'em like I seez 'em!
One of the small trade offs . . . : It feels weird to say, but I have yet to have a complaint or return. For some people Durattan doesn't match up to rattan, for others they have switched entirely to Durattan. For myself I don't think anything will ever replace natural rattan and I find myself using both Durattan and rattan. In regards to the cold steel version I read that they are made out of polypropylene which we found was entirely too hard on the joints (the sticks really seemed to vibrate a lot). We also liked to have choices in sizes and not be limited to one diameter. Because of this, Durattan came up with its own patented polymer blend that acts more like rattan and multiple diameters and sizes. I'll get off my soap box now.Also to my eye it looked like no one ever showed Andy the footwork fundamentals of fighting unmatched leads.
O yeah, that head kick was pretty cool too 
His right hand rarely left his head as apposed to all of the fighters that hold their hands low and off their head. Apparently Daily Motion has a legal deal to host certain fights and this just so happens to be one of them:
