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ugh.... UFC.com programmers please fix the site!

good luck Guide Dog!

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grateful our oldest daughter has the potential to be smarter than me

grateful our 2nd daughter is blossoming into a young woman faster and faster with each passing day

grateful our son, only in 1st grade, is able to spell at 2nd grade to almost 3rd grade level.

I'll resurrect this thread and introduce myself. My name is Mike Melone. I live in El Segundo, CA. I've been training FMA off and on for about 10 years. Started out in Manaois Eskrima with GM Conrad Manaois. Spent some time in Floro Fighting Systems with Marc Scott. Currently a DBMA student with Guro Crafty. I've also done some boxing, western fencing and a little MMA.

woof bluebassist:

*bows deeply*

welcome aboard!

very truly yours,

~sg

very very cool! congrats on successful seminar!

woof Guide Dog,

thank you and will do.

good luck to your 2 group mates!

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flew solo past 2 days at work, grateful i made it through. cannot wait for coworker to be back monday, so i don't have to be "on" all the time.

had a chance to upload to my own pichost



here's another one... this one is anderson x maia




props to the original gif makers.

Just FYI.
We've been working on a new website - just up. Hoping to add new content every month. http://visayaneskrima.org/
Thanks 

woof majia,

site looks awesome, way better than my site. i will add a link to my site when i get a chance to sort out my home comp problems.

Chad,

sure, can you see my votes? i've not selected the option of 'hide votes from league'.

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don't want to kill the orig pichost's bandwidth by showing it on the thread. props to the original gif maker from mma.tv

please click on link to check out an animated gif of fedor x anderson silva

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f217/shomanart/mm5pus.gif


enjoy!

woof:

*bows deeply*

belated welcome aboard Styric and Monkey Dog!

very truly yours in the MA and self-defense,

~sg

@SG:

I got my picks in for this event- be on the lookout for TEOTWAWKI!

-Chad

woof Chad:

loooong time!

ufc fantasy site sux dog poopoo... i cannot see others' votes. i just logged in and cannot even see my own votes under view league votes, but if i went to review vote i can see my picks... it seems like the past events were like that. i don't know if others in our league voted or not on the past ufc's... i missed a few, mostly minor events, but major events i've been voting. i may have missed one.

maybe it's my browser? or maybe that site sux cos it's hard to view league votes for some reason.

~sg

Sherdog's piece in question:

While it’s arguable that the Brazilian Top Team fighter could have released the hold a second earlier, it is questionable why the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board has suspended him for three months for doing his job -- which is fighting until the referee says break. Not unnecessarily injuring your opponent goes without saying, but hindering a fighter’s work like that is unheard of.

Joe Rogan was chastisizing Palhares all the way... Rogan counted how many seconds during one of the replays that Palhares kept the heel hook on. It was 5 secs after the tap and IIRC, the ref came in to yank Palhares off after 2 secs.

edit:  click link for animated gif -- not my link or gif -- props to the gifmaker

http://img.mixedmartialarts.com/method=get&s=rousimar-palhares.gif

re:  jones' throw -- not my gif, found it elsewhere. don't want to kill the bandwidth of the original owner's so i'm not posting the pic. will post the link for it though.

http://i44.tinypic.com/14ttwdi.gif

props to the gif maker

re:  vera x jones - if you are gonna have guard, control that top man's posture... it's raining punches and elbows - one of them is bound to get through.

oooooooooh!

i will have to check with my warden to see if i can get there! sadly, i don't have any 'get out of jail free' cards up my sleeve

i see it now. thanks 4 the correction, SG. Btw, the trailer is out now.
www.thebookofelimovie.com. denzel INDEED does some Kali!!!

woof matinik et al:

any day now! cannot wait.

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on  a diff movie -- sherlock holmes starring robert downey jr... it's out since christamas day of 2009. haven't seen it yet, want to. my training partner says downey trains WCK via the william cheung lineage.

~sg

ack! a belated Happy Birthday Guro Crafty!

woof:

awesome! for the lurkers, this DBMAA vidlesson was previously only available to instructors!

can't wait for this to be officially released to get my copy. getting my order together to include this dvd... also going to get some flex sticks and up my training

woof all:

looks like Griffin suffered a dislocated jaw from his fight with Silva

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/5998996/Forrest-Griffin-camp-reveal-dislocated-jaw-as-Anderson-Silva-contemplates-Lyoto-Machida.html

i'm grateful to be able to spend time with my kids watching some dvd's

past few nights AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER (very well done, lots of MA themes) and X-MEN (the 1990's series)

tonight THE GOONIES!

woof KD,

i DK that craigslist poster.

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woof:

not sure where to post this, so here it is.

http://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=1092

it's 3 pages... handwritten by Bruce Lee. it's his private lesson plan to Taky Kimura. it's on auction.

also posted to my blog:

http://stickgrappler.blogspot.com/2009/07/bruce-lees-private-lesson-plan-to-taky.html

~sg

a step closer to fedor x couture or fedor x brock lesnar -- woohoo!

woof all:

as suggested by Guro Crafty, i viewed the clip once this morning before i left for work and have some initial thoughts. will rewatch it when i get home. took me some time to register with youtube for some reason.

perhaps it's me being in the Family Man stage of life, if the odds are against me, and i'm alone, i look to run away. if it's just words, even if it's racial slurs, swallow my ego and get out of dodge. why take the risk? what is there to prove, especially if the odds are against you? even it's one on one, there are many variables/factors that may come into play later... hidden weapons, his friends show up later, legal aftermath, etc. i don't care if i'm a MMA fighter, a Dog Brother, an instructor, a grandmaster, a noob, an unmarried man with no kids, packed and armed up the wazzoo, etc... if it's just words, and you have a chance to escape/avoid, then do so. IMO, the single guy looked like he had a chance to leave the scene... instead his ego kicked in and he had to prove his manhood. i don't know the racial tension in that part of British Columbia... my cousins live in Vancouver BC, i will email them about this clip and ask. perhaps a member knows the area and already addressed this, i didn't read the thread yet nor watched the background clip yet... will read this thread after i post.

the 3 guys didn't flank the single guy... at one point, the 3rd guy shows up, not sure what he was doing... maybe parking the pickup truck... he should've flanked... the tunnel vision generally in these situations will not let the single guy pick up on flankers. one of the guys was wearing flip flops... unless you train TMA in barefeet and/or on concrete, if you are looking to go into action, don't wear flip flops. you see he lost one of them somewhere along the way from a kick or just running/walking.

the single guy actually did well enough with the multiple attackers vs 1... keeping mobile and circling, trying to get the guys all lined up so he has to only face one at a time

a few times the 3 guys swatted at the single guy... the single guy seemed to swat back... he dropped a guy with a punch, and shortly after that, the 2 guys pounced on him as the downed guy recovered and proceeding to pound on the single guy. perhaps the single guy should've stuck to lowline kicks to shins or something vs committing weight/posture to a punch.

later in the video, a car and a van pulls up... couldn't see if they went to call the LEO's or not. one of the drivers or passengers talks to the single guy... think he replied and was distracted, not sure if any of the 3 guys capitalized on this.

only recall towards the end of the clip, one or more of the 3 guys got into their pickup truck, and was about to close the passenger-side door, the single guy approaches that guy. single guy should've let them leave, get ready to remember details to describe to LEO's:  make of truck, license plates, what the 3 guys were wearing etc. but no, single guy approaches truck. who knows what the 3 guys have in the truck? baseball bat? knife? guns? rifles? beer bottles? gasoline and matches? etc. guy in truck could've tried to open the door to smack the single guy... don't remember if he did that or not.

that's all i remember.

edit:   after reading the thread, i gotta work on my memory lol @ me

there was a mention (in this thread?) about denzel washington training some bolo techniques with jeff imada.
well, here's the rest of the story: a movie will come out next year, i believe, called the Book of Eli, starring the
erstwhile washington as a man wandering a post apocalyptic US, some 30yrs after a nuke strike. some cool
zombie vs kali stuff might be on the horizon!

woof matinik:

cool. thx for the update... i think the thread you are referring to is the 'movie fights' thread.

grateful that midday Nouriel Roubini aka “Dr. Doom” said we have seen the worst, recession over at the end of '09.

UFC 100 in the books

woof all, sorry for not being able to post sooner... animated gif's from 3 of the fights from UFC 100

My thanks to the original gif makers and to my friend Ausgepicht for posting the gif's to his forum http://www.spladdle.com/forum. I uploaded to my pichosts to help save on bandwidth. Enjoy!

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