Dancing, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu and DMX???

Hey Guys and Gals,

It’s been a while since I have made a post. I’ll get into that in a minute, but first let me just recap what has gone on since my last post. Well Chuck Lidell got voted off of Dancing With The Stars, Celebrity Boxing 12 took place in Philly, 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu.com went live, I went so a 10th Planet seminar in Delaware, and DMX is going to be doing MMA. I’ll discuss them all below.

Well, let’s go in order of how I listed them above. Chuck Lidell finally got voted off of DWTS. Honestly, he made it a lot further than I expected in the show. Let’s face it, he can’t dance at all. Chuck was basically surviving off of the strength of his MMA fans, which apparently got tired of his crappy dancing and stopped voting. Although Chuck’s dancing wasn’t great, I still think he should have made it further than a couple of other of the stars including Michael Irvin, who pretty much sucks as well. And yes, I do watch DWTS. There is nothing wrong with a show where attractive half closed women dance around for an hour. That is a rescipe for success in my book.

Celebrity Boxing 12 took place in Philadelphia about a week ago. The featured bout was between Marvelous Marvin Hagler Jr. Vs. some tall white guy. This was Marvin Jr.’s first ever fight. If he won this fight it set up a bout between him and Sugar Ray Leonard Jr. later in the year. Marvin won the fight by a KO in the 2nd round. Just so I am clear, the rules for the fight were 1 minute rounds with head gear and 16 oz. gloves.

My best friend and training buddy Sachin also had his first boxing match during the event. Sachin the Bollywood Brawler took on a guy from Maryland at the 140 lbs. weight class. The rules were the same as the Hagler Jr. fight. Sachin successfully won his fight with a viscious KO in the 3rd round. Here is the video below. The first video is rounds 1 and 2, and the 2nd video is the 3rd and final round. Check it out.

So www.10thplanetjj.com went live last week. This is the official website of Eddie Bravo and 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. There are hundreds of techniques and videos up on the site already, and it looks pretty exciting. There is also a subscription service which allows you to special features on the site such as online belt ranking, and more. It’s pretty cool, so give it a look over.

Speaking of 10th Planet, I spent the other weekend in Delaware at the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu school there run by Kevin Green. Actually, Scott “Einstein” Epstein was in town doing a seminar which I attended. I will be writing up a separate review of the seminar itself later, but it was a good time. Stay tuned.

Finally, believe it or not, it looks like DMX will be fighting in MMA.

Also, you may notice that I have made some changes to the website. For the time being, I have disabled comments, as I was getting much to much spam in the comments. Honestly, by removing this feature, I have saved myself about 30 minutes work per day. I am sure I will enable it at a future time, but for now it’s off.

I also added a check box feature to the contact page. Once again I was receiving a lot of spam, along with a view prank emails and this is intended to discourage that behavior.

Keep checking back as I will be making weekly updates again on a regular basis.