My first live MMA experience!
POST#1 Okay, so I'm checking out the blog here for the first time today. Not sure how this works, but here we go! I'm very excited about just purchasing tickets to my first live pro mma fight...
View ArticleOff for a week!
Post#2: I'm off for a week...well, after today! I'm on duty tonight, so when I get off in the morning, I'll be heading to my home state of South Carolina! The occasion isn't that great though. My dad...
View ArticleA weekend jampacked with capoeira
This weekend is a weekend full of capoeira and it's not the last for this month. Currently in a hotel room with my mestre and a fellow student in Atlanta, GA. Just got back from a day full of capoeira...
View ArticleLooking Foward to dabbling more BJJ
Starting today I'll be training more in Brazilian Jujitsu again with my supervisor who is a brown belt in the art as well NAGA Champ and two time PANAM bronze metal (the second time he should've...
View ArticleLooking forward to the new year
Okay, so we're at the end of 2010 and tomorrow is the last day of the year. So much went on this year. I found intermartialarts.com!!! Trained harder in capoeira than I've ever trained before in any...
View ArticleAnother 4 years of capoeira to come!!!!!
Before this week, I was concerned. You see, my transfer date was coming up. I have been training in capoeira with my group for 3yrs and some months now... and I was looking at the 99.9% possibility...
View ArticleCapoeira Group Changeover!
So, at the beginning of the year (2012) my Capoeira group has had a complete change over and have become part of an even bigger family (oh the excitement!!!) Initially when the group I trained with was...
View ArticleWhy I'm choosing escrima as my second art alongside my first love
I have decided to start training in escrima as my "second" art for a couple of different reasons. Firstly I've always been a lover of martial arts in general regardless of style (though there are some...
View ArticleAn Amazing Escrima Experience!
Today in escrima class we had a special guest. Being new in the art of ecrima, my excitement was high!!! A lineage instructor from Derobio Escrima (the great grandson of Great Grand Master Pedoy who...
View ArticleOn to the next one
Looking forward to my capoeira group's upcoming batizado and troca de corda (change of cord) ceremony 9-11Nov 2012. I don't know if I'm ready to move to the next level. Though I've been training hard,...
View ArticleCapoeira Angola experience!
Got a chance when I visited Washington, DC (awaiting flight back home as I type this) to visit the Universal Capoeira Angola Center there. Got some good training exclusively in the Angola style... 2hrs...
View ArticleTroca De Corda ceremony 2012
This weekend we had our Batizado and Troca De Corda ceremony. Friday night was the opening roda. Saturday night (tonight) sas workshops all day, and demos/performances, and ceremonies tonight. Sunday...
View Article2012 at a Glance and on to 2013
2012 came and is now on it's way out. This year was a productive year of training for me in both Capoeira and Escrima. Starting in Janurary with our capoeira group changing over with a brand new start,...
View ArticleLearning a new skill
So a few of months ago, I saw my capoeira instructor displaying skill with a straight razor (navalha) in a video posted on youtube. In hand and in foot, switching between the two. I was impressed, and...
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