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The Results Are In

Myself and Finlandia both lost the bet last night. I know it seems impossible that in a two horse race both horses can lose, but we managed it. In a nutshell, in case you’re not familiar with the situation, here’s what happened. Three weeks ago, we all had our skinfolds done. Stephen was 2 weeks … Continue reading →

All quiet on the blogging front

There’s been a lack of posting here, and for that I’d like to formally apologise to my reader. Sorry Ma, I’ll do better in 2010. I’ve taken a bit of a week off since the fight show went off. I haven’t done a whole heap of work, I’ve just trained and coached a bit as … Continue reading →

This Coming Saturday- tickets still available

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Informed Performance Submission Tournament 2- Official Results

Thanks to all of the competitors, coaches and supporters who came along to the tournament on Saturday. The event was fun to put on, relatively stress free to organise and I think everyone enjoyed the day. We are doing it again on march 27th 2010. I hope everyone can make it. Particular thanks go to … Continue reading →

Stress stress stress

It ain’t easy. Yesterday I ran another successful Submission Tournament. I think it went pretty well but as always I’m open to suggestions as to how to make it better. Some of the more successful moves we made this time were having the finals of each division run later, moving the 3rd ring out into … Continue reading →

There is no "me" in Team… oh wait

“Tonight will not be for men who eat quiche”- Arnold Schwarznegger I know some people were looking at me funny when I said that last night but it was a quote from The Governator. We did an absolutely animal session last night. Lots of rounds of grappling, lots of sparring, zero technical training. Just pad … Continue reading →

Informed Performance-Drysdale Jiu Jitsu at The Irish BJJ Open

Just a quick one to say well done to all who competed. I have a dreadful memory but fill me in if I missed any of the medals. I’ll include the so called the-fault ones. As far as I’m concerned they’re legit, it’s up to the other guys to show to stop you winning 🙂 … Continue reading →

A hint of what's to come in January…

Leglocks are cheap

But we love them. PS, here’s the link to register for the BJJ on Sunday. You must do it before 12 tomorrow. http://www.ringoftruth.info/form.html

On General Ignorance

We open today’s post with an adendum to Will’s post on Mixed Conditioning and the reaction and comments on that on the boards.ie fitness forum. To avoid this post from descending into some strange form of internet intertextuality to get the full story, you really should read this and this and also this. For those … Continue reading →