Fedor Vid

Me at Blauer Training in 2003

Told Ya...I wasn't always a chubby family man.

Those were good times.  The training inside the school bus for our Confined Space Combatatives class was excellent.

More Blauer films

I can't say enough about the training that this man gives on real life self defense.  His scenario based drills in High Gear are amazing.






Pause it at 7 seconds in on this one...thats me with the high and tight!

Clash of the Titans

The remake looks good and fairly close to the original!

UFC 107 Trailer

BJ, BJ, BJ, BJ...

Fites, lets find someplace to watch this!

ATM Defense

When I was in the military I took several course with this guy - solid training:

Fedor's Punch-Out

JiuJitsu - 1945

From the James Cagney movie "Blood on the Sun"

Real cheesy stand-up but holy shit to the WW2 era grappling throwback.

Orthodox Stance

I just finished watching the documentary "Orthodox Stance."  It was an awesome film exploring the Orthodox Jew and professional boxer Dimitriy Salita.  I am no big boxing fan, but this was such a wonderful story of a pure hearted fighter trying to be himself in a rough/ tough world of pro sports.

I suggest you rent it or Netflix it immediately.  HERE is the official webpage.

I really loved the end, the Hasidic reggae artist Matisyahu sings him into the ring for one of his fights.  Check out that clip HERE.

This movie is a must see for combat sport fans who see fighting as the art of warrior-poets and not drunk rednecks.

Happy Birthday Devil Dogs

Pass this link on to all the Marines you know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Bicfc9dp0

Today marks another birthday of our beloved Corps.

Pray for those warriors in harms way.

Semper Fidelis,
Jason

Strikeforce outcome...

Disappointing is the word that comes to mind.  I wasn't impressed with the fights that I saw on Saturday.

My predictions were decent I guess.  I scored 75% on foretelling who would win, even if my method/round predictions were less than stellar.

I had Werdum by TKO in the 1st.  It actually became Werdum by decision...and I will add that I felt it was a bad decision.  Bigfoot won that fight.

I had Mousasi by sub in the 1st.  Truth told, he won my TKO in the 2nd, a premature stoppage I thought.

I had Mayhem by decision.  The outcome was Shields by decision.  Even though I failed to get the winner correct, I had predicted the general equality of these two fighters in their skill level - it was either mans game.

I expected Fedor to be smart, stay outside, clinch, trip, armbar in the 1st...instead, Fedor got sorta punked.  I guess thats the reason you stay humbke and don't let the press make you out to be "tha man."  You might not be topdog after all.  Yeah, Fedor got a TKO in the 2nd and thats all some people need - but it should have been a more dominant performance.  The Fedor haters might be right, the days of the Last Emperor are drawing to a close.  Time will tell.  I'll be watching.

Because MMA is everything...

I found a new entertaining MMA website, Middle Easy.  Check it out.

Fight Camp 360 video

StrikeForce Predictions

The big CBS broadcast is just a few days away and I want to go ahead and give my predictions.  If you follow my past fortune-telling for UFC events, you will know that I am usually pretty right-on overall.  I hope that I will continue that streak with these choices:

FEDOR "THE LAST EMPEROR" EMELIANENKO (30-1) VS BRETT "THE GRIM" ROGERS (10-0)
Fedor will use his experience to stay outside of the big mans looping power and take the fight to the ground.  Fedor wins by armbar in the 1st.

JASON "MAYHEM" MILLER (29-6) VS JAKE SHIELDS (28-4) - FOR THE SF MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Both these guys are well-rounded fighters.  Mayhem is more unorthodox and Shields more technical, but it should be a good fight.  Split decision for Mayhem.

GEGARD "THE DREAMCATCHER" MOUSASI (29-2) VS RAMEAU THIERRY "THE AFRICAN ASSASIN" SOKODJO
Mousasi by submission in the 1st.

FABRICIO "VAI CAVALO" WERDUM (12-4-1) VS ANTONIO "BIGFOOT" SILVA (13-1)
Werdum by TKO in the 1st.

Congrats to KhunJo

Big congrats to my former Muay Thai coach Khun Joe Merit. I trained under Joe at Genesis MMA here in McDonough in 2008. He is a great guy. He came back to the ring on Oct 30th aganist one of Wanderlei Silva's students, Massimo Capussela.

The fight was part of the Wild Bills Full Throtle series. I am told that both fighters circled each other and traded combinations back and forth. Both guys got in their share of tough shots but it wasn't long before a whammer was delivered by Joe. The hit put Massimo down on his back before Merit moved in for the finishing blows.

Merit wins by TKO @ 3:20 of R1

I wish I could have been there.  You can see photos of the event HERE.  Full report at Georgia Fighter.

Visual News

Photo essays of current events at The Big Picture.  I have visited this site for some time now.  Every few days they post another set of images that give us a wonderful glance into global news.

C. Walken - Poker Face

Fedor Trains

The Russians are some spartan mofos. In America our top atheletes train in state of the art gyms, in Russia Fedor is training in an apartment? That kind of stuff build a mindset that is suited for fighting far more than we have here. Wild.