As most of you know, I'm not the type who'd normally argue for making MMA's ruleset more restrictive. Heck, I'm the guy who when watching the scene from 300 where they held the baby over the cliff, for a brief moment, caught myself actually pondering whether or not that approach would be good for society. (Yeah, yeah, eugenics is EEEEVIL, blah blah blah Nazis, etc.)

So the point stands; I don't get squeamish over blood, nor do I believe that the human body (especially that of a highly trained athlete) is such a fragile thing that it needs to be swaddled in bubble-wrap and a bicycle helmet before leaving the house let alone entering The Octagon(™ Zuffa/Chuck Norris).

But as I was watching last night's fight between Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt, seeing the guy who was clearly winning leaking all over the guy who was, except for the...

Leslie McLean and Kevin O'Connor ran the British Karate-Jitsu Association. McLean claimed multiple martial arts ranks, all of them false. O'Connor endorsed these lies, and was eventually prosecuted and sentenced for falsely claiming injury-related benefits and allowances while actively teaching martial arts.

For more about Leslie McLean, read his article.

For more about Kevin O'Connor, read his article.

Article by Chuck Hardin and Chris Yang.


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What Went Right

• The user base grew. We may hate each of you as individuals, but in the collective we love the shit out of you. More users means more clickthroughs, more ad money, and more expensive cigars for Phrost to smoke while he waits on the unemployment line.
• We got attention. Again, good for the numbers. Our biggest score was
  the Bobby Joe Blythe story
  the Bobby Joe Blythe story
  , which combined all of the things Internet lusers love: violent slapstick, cheap outrage, and scandal. Granted, we never found out...

I've been with this club (LSTK) for about two years now. The club is under the WTTU organization which is basically the non-American ATA organization. We train on Tuesdays and Wednedays for 1 hour and Sundays for 2 hours (Mondays, Thursdays and Satursdays respectively for the other group - the kids). Recommended black belts and black belts has an additional hour on Mondays. For those interesting in sparring, specifically WTF competition sparring, there's an hour on Thursdays as well.

There's a lot to say about the different aspects of the club, but I'll just touch on the important parts. First of all, the atmosphere in Group Two is mediocre at best since the mentality and attitude of the TKD players there are simply too reminiscent of junior high. There's enough of cockiness and random chatting to go around, and even if not everyone displays this, it tends to take over as the dominant atmosphere. Group One has a better atmosphere - I've talked and met with many of the people of the...

Have several years training in BJJ and other traditional martial arts> looking for a new BJJ school in Cali. Heard really good things about Joe Moreira. http://www.joemoreirabjj.com/joemoreira.html

Okay guys for about a month or so I've been testing out Draculino's new Online Training site, and I have to say that it's really remarkable. Obviously Draculino is well known for having amazing Jiu-Jitsu and for being a great Instructor, but that isn't the only thing that impressed me with this site. They really went head over heels to make something pretty special here.


Let me start with the thing that stands out the most when you first click a video on the site. No, it's not just that they're all in HD because that's something you'd expect these days. What stands out the most is that each of the hundreds of categorized techniques in their video library are all shot from 3 angles, and when you watch the video all three angles are played simultaneously. This is something I haven't seen before and certainly makes learning the details of a technique simpler and more effective, especially via video instruction.


The most direct angle is the default on the big screen and the...