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MMA Gear Review: Bad Boy Pro Series Boxing Gloves
When starting off in training, one of the most daunting tasks can be shopping for gear. No matter what discipline you are going into, having good gear is a must, but knowing what gear is actually good is easier said than done. Add in hefty price tags, and it becomes an even bigger challenge. When I...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: To Fight Or Not To Fight?
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. ...That is the question. When I tell people that I train Muay Thai I typically get one of two responses. First, blank stares of...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: Switching Stances
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. I've mentioned in this diary before that one area in need of improvement for me is balance. When throwing a series of kicks, I tend to...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: Kick! Circle!
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. Last time here, I talked about a rough day of sparring and working on some issues of predictability. As always, the community here was...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: Predictability In Sparring
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. On my way to the gym the other day, I thought about the fact that I had not had a chance to spar in the ring recently, and I missed it. I...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: The Push Kick
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. My ongoing battle with kicks continued this week, though with positive results. Our main focus was leg kicks, which is something I have...
The Ice Bath: A Video Tour
I am not going to lie to you. Ice baths are brutal. They are a staple of training montages in movies because they evoke such a powerful idea of unreasonable suffering for the sake of achieving some goal. And suffer you will. I would go into more detail of how unpleasant they are to experience but...
Portland Timbers Training Quotes and Notes: Franck Songo'o Edition
First week's training has finally concluded. It was a good week and I hope you guys enjoyed our coverage of it. We really tried to get to as many trainings as possible and, I believe, we only missed one so we were able to cover most bases. Heading into next week we'll try something similar, but...
Portland Timbers Training Quotes and Notes: We're Back Edition
So it's been quite a while since anybody here at Stumptown Footy convened at Jeld-Wen Field for a training session. It was good to get back out there and, more importantly, it was good to get back out into the stadium. Forgot how much I missed that place! Anyway, today's Quotes and Notes edition...
My Muay Thai Training Diary: Sparring
Welcome back to my online diary documenting my very amateur experience training in Muay Thai. If you missed the previous entries on Bloody Elbow, read them here. This week, I am proud to say I reached a new milestone in my training. For the first time, I sparred in an actual ring. The ring is a new...
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