A couple of weeks ago, over one of my many lunches with my friend Mike here in Hong Kong, I complained to him about feeling tired and ineffective during daytime training. When I'm in Vancouver, it's a breeze for me to train twice a day; usually at noon for an hour, and then around 7pm for two hours. I have absolutely no trouble doing so and I ( Read more... )

We're meant to run barefoot, so they say. And it's hard to argue. Our ancestors ran barefoot to hunt down mammoths. Or something. (Yeah, they also tended to die in their 30s, but one probably wouldn't postulate that too many of those deaths were attributable to foot abrasions.) It is probably not a coincidence that barefoot shoes like the ( Read more... )

As too often happens when I come home from a poker trip all excited to get in a training routine, I've gotten injured again. I was doing jiujitsu and on top in a nice, high mounted position when the big 210 lb guy I was rolling with bridged and came awkwardly on top of me. Unlike when I hurt my elbow, this was not an instance of a big guy being ( Read more... )

The island of Santa Catarina is full of pristine, white sand beaches. Some around Lagoa like Praia Mole and Barra de Lagoa are full of beautiful people working on their tans or catching waves on their board, and the businesses serving them. Others, like Praia Solidão, are almost completely empty. Solidão is about 30km from downtown Florianopolis ( Read more... )

Normally, the MMA/BJJ/wrestling/Muay Thai posts end up on my potlimitfighter blog, but I wanted to get the general audience in on this one ( Read more... )

For reasons that I'm not very clear on, people tend to consistently overestimate my weight. Today, while I was sparring a guy, my Muay Thai coach said to the other guy, "take it easy; you've got 20 pounds on him!" When the round ended, someone asked, "how much does [he] weigh, anyway?" The response from the coach was, "about 185". I looked in ( Read more... )

I meant to post this a while ago, but I have a tattoo. Have since March. I didn't post right away because I wanted to surprise some people, but by now most people have seen it anyway (Bill's annual Las Vegas pool party and all ( Read more... )

It's 8:30am, and I just got back from breakfast after making weight for the Grapplers Quest tournament tomorrow morning. I made 130.5 lbs to qualify for the bantamweight division, but not without significant difficulty, due to the fact that I basically had to cut weight twice in 12 hours ( Read more... )

I got sick this past weekend. I'm pretty much convalescing now, so obviously it was nothing serious, but like all sickness it sucked. It really amazes me the performance range of the human body. On Saturday afternoon, I was grappling for two hours against trained grapplers, some of whom outweighed me by as much as 60-70 pounds. And I was doing ( Read more... )

I had an MRI done before I left for Sydney, and I had my appointment for the results today. I got a copy of the medical report but the bottom line is that my menisci are fine and there was no ligament or cartilage injury found. The source of my pain is most likely, "[s]oft tissue oedema superior to the minimal fluid filled gastrocnemius ( Read more... )