I recently got an email saying that my blogs are too funny and that I make light of serious topics. So tonight, I'm taking a Detour and I'm going to talk about something very, very important:

There are tribes in Africa that send boys into the jungle to kill a lion as a test of becoming a man.Young Spartan boys were thrust naked into the snow, forced to kill a wolf before being deemed a man. Other cultures go through long rituals as rites of passage. I've been around the world, fought sk… Continue

Im just about to leave to go train at my jiu jitsu instructor Rodrigo Medeiros gym in San Diego and figured I would touch on training in the gi for a moment. There seems to be a lot of debate about training with the gi or without. I started jiu jitsu when there were zero No gi tournaments and gi was the only option. When I got into fighting I found myself training with out the gi more and more. In fact, at the last place I was training it was so wrestling based, I never put my gi on.

After my n… Continue

Getting ready for this next fight is taking alot of work. Until I get the video blog up and moving, I figured I would give some insight into what my training consists of. This varies, but Ill give a basic weekly schedule

Monday- Warm up and the sparring. Ive been doing 4x4min rounds of MMA with fairtex boxing gloves and training gear. Once that is done switch to MMA gloves and do 3xmin rounds of grappling. Finish off with 4x4min rounds on the heavy bag. Next up, crossfit. I go to crossfit by ov… Continue