Maruichi bagels!
Originally uploaded by renfield
punch
Today at lunch in the dojo there were a couple of guys I hadn't worked with before, including one who is a semi-pro boxer getting ready for a fight soon.
At the end of the session I went one minute with him: mistake. Hands too fast it was all I could do to keep my head from getting knocked off, and then I took a hook to the ribs that didn't so much hurt as instantly knock all the air out of my lungs.
Dropped to my knees and tried to take a slow, deep breath, having flashbacks to the one and only time I played baseball as a little kid, and caught a hoppy line-drive right into the stomach. Same feeling of can't-breathe!, only this time I knew what to do.
Best part was, after me he went 3 minutes with another new guy, and 2 minutes into it, the semi-pro boxer (not the new guy!) suddenly stopped the fight and dropped to his knees -- he was panting, covered in sweat and totally out of breath!
Everyone told me: "If you just kept your guard solid, come into him more, and got aggressive, you would have tired him out!"
Good practice; at least now I know what it's like to square off with someone exactly my size but completely out of my league.
At the end of the session I went one minute with him: mistake. Hands too fast it was all I could do to keep my head from getting knocked off, and then I took a hook to the ribs that didn't so much hurt as instantly knock all the air out of my lungs.
Dropped to my knees and tried to take a slow, deep breath, having flashbacks to the one and only time I played baseball as a little kid, and caught a hoppy line-drive right into the stomach. Same feeling of can't-breathe!, only this time I knew what to do.
Best part was, after me he went 3 minutes with another new guy, and 2 minutes into it, the semi-pro boxer (not the new guy!) suddenly stopped the fight and dropped to his knees -- he was panting, covered in sweat and totally out of breath!
Everyone told me: "If you just kept your guard solid, come into him more, and got aggressive, you would have tired him out!"
Good practice; at least now I know what it's like to square off with someone exactly my size but completely out of my league.
Prison eggs
Prison eggs
Originally uploaded by renfield
With cabbage, red onion, green beans, chick peas, smuggled can of scallops.
body plant
Several days a week I head up to Body Plant at lunchtime to do MMA training with a bunch of guys from the industry, as well as some locals and the occassional pro fighter.
Body Plant is run by Adachi-san, a health, fitness, and fighting entrepreneur who is well known in the MMA circuits and was a former pro body builder.
He heard I did iai so he took a photo of me and put me on his blog!
Body Plant is run by Adachi-san, a health, fitness, and fighting entrepreneur who is well known in the MMA circuits and was a former pro body builder.
He heard I did iai so he took a photo of me and put me on his blog!
Self chizzle
I will a some point soon start a proper and official chisel, as administered by the master of Peak Condition Project.
But right now, I have about 6 weeks to my yearly health check, and I have been slipping.
Calorie-laden frapuccinos to beat the heat, late nights and late mornings mean no AM workouts, big lunches, lots of sitting about...at least I have been going to fight club two or three times a week, and utterly sweating liters, but I seem to use that as an excuse to have some ice-cream or another cool and refreshing frap.
So as of July 1, I am back on the program.
I will start with a modified week 2 PCP diet (cutting the carbs seriously because I simply cannot eat that much anymore), and I will get up every morning for a short (likely barefoot) run and some pull-ups before breakfast. I will drink only decaf coffee from Starbucks. I will snack only on my prescribed fruit. And every week I will change to the following week's diet, carb adjusted, until my health check.
And we shall see what happens, but I predict I will drop a couple of the silly kilos I have slapped back on, covering my six-pack criminally a just the point in the summer when it needs to be out and gleaming in all its chiseled glory...or something.
But right now, I have about 6 weeks to my yearly health check, and I have been slipping.
Calorie-laden frapuccinos to beat the heat, late nights and late mornings mean no AM workouts, big lunches, lots of sitting about...at least I have been going to fight club two or three times a week, and utterly sweating liters, but I seem to use that as an excuse to have some ice-cream or another cool and refreshing frap.
So as of July 1, I am back on the program.
I will start with a modified week 2 PCP diet (cutting the carbs seriously because I simply cannot eat that much anymore), and I will get up every morning for a short (likely barefoot) run and some pull-ups before breakfast. I will drink only decaf coffee from Starbucks. I will snack only on my prescribed fruit. And every week I will change to the following week's diet, carb adjusted, until my health check.
And we shall see what happens, but I predict I will drop a couple of the silly kilos I have slapped back on, covering my six-pack criminally a just the point in the summer when it needs to be out and gleaming in all its chiseled glory...or something.
just so you know
The dudes I train with at Body Plant on my lunch break include some particularly large guys, including Sakashita-san, a really nice former rugby player and pro fighter on the Dream circuit who is easily 10cm taller and 20 kilos heavier than me, as you can see. Oh yeah, and his arms are the same size as my legs. Needless to say, our practice is generally quite one-sided.
BTW, you can see Bernard in the background.
BTW, you can see Bernard in the background.
Fathers day card from daughter
Fathers day card from daughter
Originally uploaded by renfield
My daddy is 9 years old.
He weighs 100 lbs. and is 6 ft. tall.
His hair is black and his eyes are black.
He loves to eat vegetables.
His favorite tv show is cooking tv.
Daddy always tells me "go to sleep."
It makes him happy when he gives me a toy.
I really love it when my dad go to work if I hug him.
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