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August 29, 2010

Still here

I haven’t been pulling my jiu jitsu weight with me this past couple of weeks. I wasn’t close to any gyms in Perth so skipped the chance to train and back in Sydney i have just been doing enough to get by. I’m looking forward to getting home and training again as I just found [...]

July 11, 2010

Impact FC

I also took the opportunity to blag my way behind the scenes where I witnessed Monson and Newton rolling and enjoyed the free food.

June 28, 2010

The travellers art of drying a Gi in the absence of a dryer

Since losing lots of my belongings off the roof rack of a camper van at hi speed I have taken stock of whats important and done away with recklessly trying to dry a gi. Top 5 tips Travel somewhere warm. It’s no use training in Siberia, cold weather makes for more injuries not to mention [...]

June 1, 2010

Judo

With such a lack of training I have been attending a local Judo club the past couple of weeks for my grappling fix. I stumbled upon this somewhat by chance as the resort Kim is working in had a guy who talked about training. The rest is history and a went down with him to [...]

May 14, 2010

Still no training

Im currently holed up in Port Douglas and had managed to swindle myself a job for a few weeks. Sadly the only training is back in Cairns an hour a way but I do hope to get down there every so often whilst I am here. The club is run by a really cool guy [...]

April 20, 2010

East Coast

Training is slightly non exsistant as most of the small towns I am camping in dont seem to have any BJJ. Its a nice change to be able to surf all the time and all these new bruises and scrapes are reminding me what it is to be living and not cooped up in the [...]

April 2, 2010

Happy Easter everyone

I hope you have been training hard. I have and I can feel it. I’m going to use this time to take some well earned rest and let my neck, fingers and toes recover from another great week of training. The first patch is anticipated to go on the Gi as part of my traveling [...]

March 8, 2010

Faixa Roxa

Just a quick update from the weekend in between training, packing, a funeral and general panic before leaving the country for 6 months. I was given my purple belt at the combat base group training day this Sunday by Helen Currie. I will have lots to say about both the day and this great honor [...]

February 22, 2010

More time to wrestle crocodiles

Today I finished my notice at the Job I have been doing for 3 years with mentally ill kids. It was slightly emotional but now I’m officially free without a care in the world and headed as far from the place as I can possibly get. The competition on Saturday is shaping up to be [...]

January 24, 2010

The Master Plan!

My plan for this year, new Gi clad was to travel the world in the hope of a good times and culture. Slightly off the beat its not going to be a full round the world trip but Im deffinately going around the world to Australia. The new Gi is going to be a great [...]