Video here, more detailed play-by-play (as I remembered it on Sunday) on my fight blog.

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It's past 1am in Phuket, and I'm settled into my small bungalow here across the street from Tiger Muay Thai and MMA, where I'll be training for the next week. The bungalow will seem a bargain by first-world standards at about US$230, but I'll be training alongside people who have paid less than one-third of that price to train at the same location ( Read more... )

I have a lot of respect for the people who want to go to a gym and train there. Any time I think I have dedication to the sport, these guys remind me that they have more of it. I find that I actually train the most when I'm in Vancouver or Hong Kong. There, I have my comforts. I sleep well in a mattress that I have chosen, eating the food I am ( Read more... )

I've mentioned a couple times to people that the LAPT might be my last live tournament for the next little while, or at least the last time I travel a significant distance for one ( Read more... )

Along with this new corner I've turned (which can be pretty much just be summarized by "stop being a fucking sissy and get in the gym), I've started a training diary. I can't really imagine anyone but serious hardcore jiujitsu/MMA people would be interested, but I guess that's also what I thought about the poker blog when I started it six years ( Read more... )

I was looking for more stuff to read on the Kindle when I noticed that on my Wish List appeared a book I'd never heard of before: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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This blog has been pretty neglected in the last little while. Things have been reasonably busy, and reasonably busy is good. Towards the end of July I attended two weddings: that of my mom, and that of the-now Amy and Gavin Griffin. Aside from both of them involving people I love, they couldn't have been any different: my mom's was a very small ( Read more... )

I'm all over the board on the UFC 117 card.

3u on Roy Nelson +296
2.04u on Dustin Hazelett -108
2u on Jon Fitch +121
.853u on Anderson Silva -427
4.8u on Hughes/Almeida over 2.5 rounds -160
1.78u on Dos Anjos/Guida over 2.5 rounds -178

If Phil Ivey and durrrr were playing, say, a 20-game mixed game tournament consisting of NLHE and 19 limit games, and on the first hand of NL, durrrr shoved 200 BB in the middle but accidentally exposed AK, would Phil call with 55 because he's a 55-45 favourite in that spot? Probably not.

One thing in fighting that typically gets either no love, or too much love[1], is the leg kick. It is one of those things that to the casual layperson really doesn't look that painful. After all, the thigh is a big meaty part of the body. But it is hard to imagine how much force a skilled fighter can generate and how easy it is to hit such a big ( Read more... )