Filed under: Sports, Dating/Love, Women, Galleries We all love MMA. I mean, what's better than watching really sweaty, in-shape, half-naked guys rolling around in a cage? Nothing, of course. But what could be second best? Girls! Thanks to the genius of total equality, there is "women's MMA" and even...

I passed my Green Belt grading at kickboxing yesterday! It was hell! Sweet, punchy hell. It hurts to type now. I managed to screw up the bits that I'd been feeling confident about, and do well at the things I was worried about, which meant it all evened out nicely. Woohoo! Somehow in the sparring I ...

Things that do not mix: jetlag, a mild fever and assembling Ikea furniture. It took me three hours to make Leksvik, a simple beside table. I put the drawer together upside down, twice. And I missed the mark when banging in those stupid little nails into the backing board thingo, so the inside of the...

The last few months have been fairly uneventful; work, train, sleep, rinse, repeat. So, to celebrate my recent birthday and see if all this training is paying off, I signed up to fight in the 2008 North American Grappling Championship of Grappler's Quest this Saturday. I've done tournaments ...

John worked us really hard tonight. Class was great! John's Words of Wisdom: "Exercise shouldn't be a chore." He pointed out that exercising makes us feel good, so we should look forward to it and enjoy it. I do enjoy working out, but I especially like that pumped up feeling when I am finished. With...

Class was great last night. I can really feel myself getting stronger. When we first started, several weeks ago, lowering from the plank position to the floor was best described as a flop. Now I can feel that I can hold myself up longer and lower my body slowly to the floor with much more control th...

Two weeks ago, I showed up at the office looking a bit like Ed Norton's character in Fight Club. I had a nice scrape going diagonally across my forehead to the tip of my nose courtesy of the velcro on my sparring partner's glove during a guillotine attempt. There were a few other scrapes and bruises...

Two weeks ago, I showed up at the office looking a bit like Ed Norton's character in Fight Club. I had a nice scrape going diagonally across my forehead to the tip of my nose courtesy of the velcro on my sparring partner's glove during a guillotine attempt. There were a few other scrapes and bruises...

My arms hurt. My legs hurt. My butt hurts. My abs hurt. My shoulders hurt. My big left toe hurts. No, that wasn’t an exaggeration – my big left toe hurts. I’ve beaten the shit out of a kickboxing bag and almost broke my left toe. I should be in traction right now. I never knew how much a regul...

I guess it’s time for a serious post. I haven’t written a serious post in a while. I’ve been chucking around stuff that’s been happening in my life and keeping other stuff well hidden…like my secret obsession with lesbian midgets. That’s neither here nor there. I guess I’m trying to fo...