I am going to try to participate in Movember this year. This is where people grow mustaches to to raise money for prostrate cancer research. The link above is to my page where you can donate. Why would you want to donate? Because I haven't gone more than two days without shaving in the last 15 years, and trying to not shave my mustache for a ( Read more... )

More people are bringing video cameras to my fights, so there are now three separate videos out there already. I'm in the blue gloves:

From my camera in the stands:

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From the balcony, with commentary by Daki:

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From right next to the ring with some of the people from my school:

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My opponent was right at my height and weighed in 8 pounds heavier, ( Read more... )

If you haven't already heard about this, I have another kickboxing bout this Friday, March 5th which I'm taking on short notice. It's again up in Elgin, at the Roadhouse. The website is http://www.roadhouseelgin.com/ but I would suggest just buying General Admission tickets at the door ( Read more... )

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This was shot with my camera from out in the crowd by Asha, and you can hear a couple other members of the stunt team around her. There is something I really like about the introduction: "representing Buffalo Grove Martial Arts and hailing from Chicago, IL...Jim Priz!" that has nothing to do with my name being announced. Maybe it's the similarity ( Read more... )

If you haven't already heard about this, I have another kickboxing bout this Friday, February 5th. It's up in Elgin, at a venue called Roadhouse (and yes, that's intentional on their part.) The website is http://www.roadhouseelgin.com/ but I would suggest just buying General Admission ( Read more... )

It's the slow season in Chicago for any sort of paying stunt work, so the stunt team has been busy recently filming test choreography fights. Last weekend we did two, one on Friday night and the second on Saturday afternoon/evening. They're both pretty quick but overall I'm happy with how they turned out. Enjoy!

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On Saturday the stunt team did some filming for the second installment of a series following a private investigator. It's campy and a bit silly, but a lot of fun. I take no responsibility for the quality of the script, only for the fight choreography. Enjoy!

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

For those of you that might have missed this elsewhere, here's the results of a test fight we put together a couple of weeks ago. This is from an hour or two of rehearsal and two hours of filming:

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I finally managed to rip the video for my second fight in February, which can be found here.

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Apologies in advance for the crappy camera work - in addition to random stops and starts, the person turned on some sort of low light mode which messed with some of the colors (everything light green is actually black, for example ( Read more... )