I asked a bunch of friends to describe me by only using one word, and this is what I got: Educated, Curious, Honest, Ballsy, F'BR, Swag, Legshot, Underestimated, Authentic, Truthful, Opinionated, Envious, Hard Ass, and Coach
The latest rumours surfing the web today, have Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell squaring off against Randy “The Natural” Couture at UFC 116 for what could potentially be their fourth ultimate encounter. In the past few weeks, rumours had also been spreading that Tito Ortiz was going to be pulling out of his fight with Liddell, [...]
Written by James Ryan “You build a defence with a foundation of ends and tackles. You add the linebackers, and you top it off with cornerbacks and safeties. If the foundation cracks, the whole thing comes down, because the line is where it all starts.” As I calmly made my way onto the practice field [...]
Like most fight fans, I was completely glued to my television in the hours leading up to the UFC 111 co-main event, which featured Frank “I was only kidding about the whole death threat thing” Mir, versus Shane “my hands are obviously faster than you thought” Carwin. In the televised preview, I have to admit [...]
Hear me out fight fans… On the verge of breaking into a major fighting organization is a young man by the name of Eric Bradley. [Who?] Try not to worry too much about the fact that he is not yet a household name—he soon will be. In fact, if you were to visit Bradley’s website, [...]
Motivation is the activation or energization of goal-oriented behaviour, which can be classified by two main sub groupings: The first is intrinsic motivation, which comes from the rewards inherent to a task or an activity itself (the love of fighting). To me, what makes a guy like Randy “The Natural” Couture such a great champion, [...]
Written by James Ryan “Search out the man and you’ve got the coach. Because the essence of the business is not playbooks and diagrams and the confusing jargon that mystifies even the most dedicated fan. It is emotion and purpose and sincerity; it is channelling [40 to 60] collective personalities and egos into the most [...]
To truly possess the skills of a Ninja, one must be capable of properly striking the vital and fatal points of the human body. The Ninja were not evil assassins who killed for fun as Hollywood would have you believe. For the most part, Ninja were ordinary people who developed certain skills in order to [...]
Written by James Ryan “Football is a game in which two opposing teams of [twelve] players each defend goals at opposite ends of a 100-yard rectangular field, points being scored by carrying an inflated oval ball across the opponent’s goal line or by kicking this ball over the crossbar between the posts of the opponent’s [...]