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When I do decide to compete. I first make a game plan based off of the ruleof the competation. I then begin to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses. I then put in extra rounds of sparring or grappling which ever I competing in. I had outside sources to look at my prefomances to see if they can find any holes in my game and I work on that. I up my cardio and clean up my diet. I'll work on set ups and worst case cenero situations. I''l put in an hour or so after regular class and countless time at home. One of the biggest things I do is when training is if the rounds are three minutes I'll do super sets of round with the rounds lasting five or six minutes with thirty second breaks in between and get a fresh person in on me. The week of the competetion I do the normal extra workthe first night but after that I just do cardio and just light sparring or rolling consintrating on technique to prevent any injuries.

Personally I'd rather win by sub any day but I'll take a win by points too. I've won and lost both ways. The wins are better when youforce the other guy to tap. Under the NAGA rules Shorikid mentioned round 1 is 3 minutes no points are awarded. Round 2 is considered overtime and points will be awarded but a sub is still has the major emphisis. But the take down into someone's guard is considered a nuetral position. Passing to half guard gets 2 points and full mount is 3. And a sweep from geing mounted to guard or an escape is worth 3. If points are tied you had a sudden death round that goes first take down wins and sacrifice throws don't count puts emphisis on throws. I can remeber all the fine points since I've not been able to compete in a couple years.

I've done a fantacy racing. But I've gotten in to fantacy mma really big in the past year.

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Highest on my list is of course being told I got my shodan. And Gene Lebell complementing me on my grappling and he awarded me with a metal at a tournament a few years ago.

By now evryone knows that Thiago Alves dominated Matt Hughes this past weekend. My question tothe mma fans of this site is are: Are the fighters Hughes is facing luck? I think not or they wouldn't be fighting in the UFC. Is it possible that the sport has past Matt's training by such ait has Royce Gracie? Has father time caught Hughes? Has leaving Miletich taken effect on him? Or has opening his owngymand train others to fight while trying to prepare himself proven too much for Matt? Hughes has fought six times in the last two years. Of those six fights Hughes lost three of them. He stated on the last season of The Ultimate Fighter he had two or three fights left in him. Following his fight against Alves MMAweekly has inteview that he states two or three. But over all in his last six preformances he has looked a little lack lusted in my opinion in four of those six fights which I've seen all but one which was the most recent. Alves from what I have read just picked Hughes are so much so that he had time Hughes's pattern out and knew the shot for the takedown was coming and landed a devistating flying knee. For this to happen Hughes had to have set into a very destinctive pattern. Is this a result frombreaking his regular training cylce at Militch? Now we move back to his last fight with St. Pierre. This one I watch with great antisipation of a great back and forth fight. St. Pierre came out very crisp and snappy with his technique. Even seemingly to take Hughes out of his game and taking him down at will. St. Pierre battered Hughes at the end of the round and close to a possible stoppage. As the camera zoomed in on Hughes on his stool the look on his face was and odd one for Hughes. What I saw was a fatigued, mentally broken and worried Hughes. He looked as ifhe was close to tears. Of course this is strictly my opinion. The second round should Hughes no love either. St. Pierre again dominated Hughes throwing him to the ground and ultimately securing an arm bar in what many consider and odd position. Hughes was caught in a manner that left both arms tied up and unable to tap. So his only option was to verbly submit. "Tap Tap I'm out" or something to that effect. Has this submission loss in this manner gotten in Matt's head? I mean no worse way to loose to a very competitive guy like Hughes than to have to verbal say I quite he beat me. Now we move back to Hughes vs. Lytle. This was a very boring fight to watch. Now mind you I don'tmind watching a fight go all three rounds but it need to be exciting. Matt didn't dare box with Lytle because of Lytle's boxing back ground. He would take him down and try to pound him out but Lytle is good enough on the ground that he avoided any real damage. But in turn Matt has some heavy hips so Lytle had nochanceof getting up. In the post fight interview in the ring MAtt stated that he done what he had to get the "w". This being said it seemed he was fighting to not loose and wanted avoid all risk. Here we find ourselves back at St. Pierre again. Matt came out agressive until Pierre accidently kicked him in the groin. After a short recovery time the fight resumed. After getting over the fear of another low blow GSP threw a couple well placed inside thigh kicks. Again Hughes goes down holding the groin but on the replay you can clearly see the kick never gets close enough to the groin to warrent this stoppage. GSP calms down a eventaully end the round with a nice ground and pound that would to most fighters. Early in the second GSP fants a kick to get Hughes to reach and thekick lands on his skull. This kick was the begining of the end for Hughes sending him to the canvas. GSP jumps on Hughes and pound out a REf stoppage. Hughes vs. Penn was a great example the times are changing. It's been awhile since I've watched this one. But if memory serves me correct Penn was working the jab very effectively. Hughes could not get the take down foralmost two rounds. Hughes got a nice ground and pound at the end of the second. Between rounds Penn took his time getting to his corner. Penn looked fatigued starting the third. Hughes secured the take down and finally got the ref stoppage. Over all if Penn had not gotten injured in the second Hughes would have been finished. Hughes was not have any luck with his take downs or striking. Hughes meets a legend in Royce Gracie. Hughes came put agressive. Of course he had not fear of Gracie's stand up. And rightfully so. Hughes got a great take down and I thought I was either see Gracie tap of Hughes break his arm. Truthfully I was hoping for the latter of the two. Then I thought I seen him get a win via rear naked choke. But ultimately a win via red stppage. And in my opinion this was the last fight that Hughes looked good and focused also the last timehe looked like himself. So is Hughes on his last hu ra? Is this a slup every fighter goes through and will he be able to pull out of it? Did St. Pierre mentally break Hughes with the verbal sub? Is runnung and training at his own gym away for Miletich Fighting System taking its' toll on him? Has mmapast him by as he saidit had Gracie after their fight? Or is it a combination of all these things. And truely how many fights or years does Matt Hughes have left. In my opinion I think that Hughes domination days are over. He has had a great ride racking up a great record of 42 wins and 7 losses. He has fought some of the best in the would some of them in their prime and let's face it some not. He's gotwins over the like of St. Pierre, Penn, Gracie, Trigg, Sherk, and Carlos Newton. His defeatscame buy great fighter also St. Pierre x2, Alves. Penn, Dennis Hallman x2, and Jose Landi-Jons (also beat Pat Miletich). He never lost via decion which impressive. I would like to think that he's is in a slup and willpull outabout a three to five fight win streak before he retires. At the rate Hughes fights that will put his retirement around the end of 2009 to the middle of 2010. This guess is based on him fighting about twice a year which is his average taking a fight every four to six months. So what's evryones take on the remaindure of the career of Matt Hughes?

Patrick Not be a butthead but it's June dude. LOL. Do I get a prize for this one.I know time gets away fromus all.

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Good luck!! Let us know how it goes.

Personally if he's bad mouthing my sensei I owe him nothing. I'm very loyal to my sensei if he said not to teach to outside parties I wouldn't. I wouldjust tell him the real reason I wouldn't teach him and leave it at that.

I've trained with a couple of myself my list includes Judo Gene Lebell, Gokor Chavichian, and locally a guy named Larry Jarrett who held a couple kickboxing titles and Bob Stines who was a world full contact sport jujitsu champ for a few years.

I've promised myself if I reached shodan Iwould get myself an embroidered belt. I got my shodan last october and am still planning on the embroidered belt when I get the money. I think it's personal prefrence on to have one or not. Also I will be getting a Shurido straight from Okinawa. The embroidery on my will have name of my dojo on one side and style on the other.

I just relized I never made a followup post. I have hyper extended my knee twice once kicking on from not tapping to a knee bar. Hyper extended my spine deminstrating how to sprawl and hipin to new students. Broken ribs from sparring. Unknown shoulder injury that plagues me to this day. Unknown injury to the arch of my foot. This is why I use the shin on round houses as I should've that time. Unknown but pretty sure I fractured my heel attempting to break a cap block. Unknown but posible stress fracturein my right hand from grappling. And finally numerous busted noses, lips, black eyes bruises, jammed falangies during sparring and regular training.

I think Tito will probably sign with affliction if they give him a good enough payday. I plan on checking out affliction but Tito will not be a factor in that because I've never cared for him. Now since they signed Andre Arlovski last week makes me very interested. But I try to look into any mma because of my addition to the sport.

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Sony Ericson walkman annd have no songs on it. It serves the poruse and was cheep.

Been there twice. My favorite thing was time square, the museims, and the freak show at Coney Island. I got to pull the sword from the sword swallower's mouth that is a diffrent feeling.

Warning Spoilers included in this post. I watched this one. I was less than pleased with the production and overall fights. I took somewhere around 30 minutes for the first fight to get going and over with even though the fight only took a little over a minute. The ladies that took the ring helped out alot they were back and forth until fautige set in. The Lawler Smith fight was excelt until and accidental eye poke ended the fight. Smith wasn't given his five minute recover time and the doctor called the fight. Smith wasn't wincing, rubbing or anything after about a minute. During his post fight interview there were not signs of an eye poke ever happening. Then we have Kimbo Thompson. Thefight was back and forth through the first round. Half way through the second Thompson secured a take down and worked to the crusifix position. From there Thompson landed some 50 plus punches and elbows until time expired. I know the blows Thompson was landing weren't damaging but in the rules a fighter must intelligently defend himself at all times. The ref let Kimbo batter Thompson's hand, elbow and forearm with his face until the round ended. Going into the third round both fighters were gassed. Again back and forth until Kimbo landed a shot busting Thompson's huge colliflower ear. Thompson took four punches and the fight was called. Yes Thompson was dazedbut backing out of harms way when the fight was stopped. The production ran over about an hour and a half. I was just over all unimpressed with the majority of the talent on the card and the production style. I've seen amature shows ran better with better talent. But the production was aimed toward those who don't watch mma on a regular basis. But it was free so I can't complain about that.

I have a couple and can'tdecide who's number one on my list. First on my list is also Chuck Liddell because he's straight forward with people he's fighting. And he's a Kempo guy and I naturally gravated toward him when I started watching mma again. Secondly is Rich Franklin because at the begining of his career he trained we he had to such as his buddy's garage and that's something close to me. And I met him awhile back and he's very down to earth. And finally Randy Couture because he surprizes us time andtime again.

We train quite a few aspects from the clinch such as starting with controlling you opponent with the plum. Hand strikes, elbows, knees, takedowns, and even escaping and breaking the clinch. Along with this you learn defending all aspects of the clinch as well.

I metioned this thread to my Sensei tonight and hefound it interesting and also found it to be a good idea.

Cross that you which you mentioned about getting alittle tispy then putting students in diffrent scenarios is something of interest. Have you ever had anyone to get out of line durning this type of training? It would interesting to see what you acts and reactions would be under the influince.

I've had a few situation were I've had to face an angry k-9. First yelling and making large movements will sometimes surprise and put fear in to an animal. Sometimes you will have to strike the animal if doing so a straight punch directly to the end of the nose if much more effective than the traditional snap to the topof the nose. This affects adog as is does a human by causing blurred vision watery eyes and in dogs it induces sneezing. If that doesn't work the soccer kick to the throat, abdomon, and genitals work quite well. If the dog is aggressive enough to leap at you with mouth open either offer it you forearm instead of your throat. If you time it right you can attempt a kickto the leaping k-9. If you are brave enough to reach into a the snarrling pooches mouth grab the toungh k-9s hate this. If you miss the toungh push you hand on into the pooches throat to set off the gag reflex. If you opt to run. First quickly evaluate your surroundings. Look for vehilces, trees, buildings ect. If a vehicle is nearby get on top of it the dog may follow you but you have the advantage because the surface of the vehicle is almost like ice to the pooch. Best if it is your vehilce simply get in and drive. Trees to be useful need to be climbable of course. Get in the tree and call for help and if you still have your cell at this point call 911. Building for obvious reasons and angain call 911. Personally I carry a pocket clip easy opening knife and if I encounter a strange k-9 my right hand immediatley hits my knife. This is not sayingI pull it I just get my hand on it. Because if something happens and I can't get it open I know I can get it out and use it as a kubaton. Also it you carry pepper spray that would be a great option since k-9 sent glads are very sensative.

At the dojo were I train we don't have anything in writting. But it's basically understood respect yourself, the others in the dojo, the instructors, and the dojo show up sober. As far as outside of the dojo we have no policies on a students drinking. I me on occasion we'll get together to watch some fights or just for diffrent reasons and share drinks. I think even if a dojo doesn't have anything in writting there are some basics that are common sence.