STATIX!!!

"As he punched me in the face, I couldn't help but enjoy it"


Something rather remarkable happened last Friday. I've been practicing Dutch style muay thai, BJJ, wrestling, and a little judo for almost two years.

A few weeks back I became frustrated while thinking that I'd never even had an MMA sparring session. While I had practicing multiple aspects of the fighting arts, I had yet to put them all together.

The main reason for this is because I'm not on the "fighting team" at my gym. There is a class at my gym designed for only those who compete at both the amateur and pro levels in MMA. They have ridiculous work outs, sparr very hard, and have MMA sparring sessions where they put everything together.

There I was last Friday sitting on the edge of the ring putting on my hand wraps when one of the amateur fighters approaches me and we start to talk. Over the time we've spent together, we've become fairly good friends.

While we're talking I ask," Do you ever do mma sparring outside of fighters training?" Much to my surprise he says "yeah we're actually going to do that right now, want to join in?". "yeah sure", I responded trying to sound as casual as possible.

The amount of joy I felt can't even be put into words. I would finally be able to put everything I had learned into practice as if I were in a real fight!

Depending how you look at it, I could have either been in for a world of hurt or an awesome experience. I was about to sparr with two amateur fighters. Both bjj purple belts; one with a 1-0 record via tko and one with a 4-1 record with all wins coming from either tko or submission and the loss coming from a split decision.

I've boxed and rolled with each of these two and was completely outclassed by each of them in each discipline.

Each round was two minutes. Since there were three of us, one person would stay in for two back to back rounds and take a two minute rest while the other two went at it.

Every round consisted of me getting my ass kicked in every possible position. Standing up and on the ground, constantly getting punched in the face and being threatened by various submissions. Much to my surprise, I was doing quite well even though it doesn't sound like it. Avoiding being submitted by two purple belts when you're not even belted is no easy feat.

Dead tired, I entered the last round. Somehow I found myself in a triangle. I was so proud of myself for not getting put into a submission up until that point that I thought "IM GANNA FIGHT THIS SHIT". Soon after I got punched in the face twice...really hard. As he punched me in the face, I couldn't help but enjoy it. It was such an awkward feeling. It had been years since I'd been in an actual fight and his gloves weren't exactly 16 oz boxing gloves yet I actually liked it.

I looked at the round timer and I had 30 seconds to go before the end of a round. Something about the constriction of my neck, lack of blood flow to my brain, and punches to my face quickly told me to tap ASAP. I did.

We then all sat in a circle and talked about how awesome all of that was. They told me that they were impressed at how well I did with relatively no experience. I said I was pretty much just trying to survive and we all just laughed.

Even though I almost threw up, even though my head felt like I had put my head inside of a barrel and iloveoov started to soccer kick it, and even though I had several nicks and scrapes on my face, I couldn't help but want to do it all over again.

This Wednesday we're set to do it all over again. I can't wait.

to spend on anything or towards anything at Best Buy what would it be? The reason I'm asking is because I've built up about $20 in rewards points which are expiring in a little over a week and I have no clue what I could possibly buy.

Laptop cooling stand? HDMI cable? Blanks cd's/dvd's? Something shiny? It's all up in the air at this point. I know that many of us feel like little kids in candy shops while walking around best buy so I come to you with this question: What would you buy with 20 dollars at best buy? Any and all suggestions are welcome.

For the past couple of days, nvidia has been giving me annoying prompts saying that my screen resolution could be better if I would just change it to 1280x800. The only problem is that it already is set at that resolution.



Does anyone wtf is up?

What rap songs are you currently into? Fuck being deep and poetic. Sell outs? Mainstream? Horrible lyrics? I don't give a shit. If you genuinely like the way a song sounds please post it. To give you an idea as to the kind of stuff I'm looking for I'll post a few songs. Thanks in advance!

Sean Paul - so fine


Chamillionaire - creepin


Jeremih - I'm a star


Pitbull - Krazy


Pitbull - The Anthem

I know there are several guides online with little tips and tricks for increasing vista speed and reducing boot time but I can't seem to find a recent one that looks trustworthy.

Does anyone have a link for a guide that they've used and was made quite recently?

"This has 'WTF' written all over it. 'Half Baked' star Dave Chappelle was recently on ESPN radio. Among the topics discussed was, strangely, the UFC and it's rise in popularity. Chappelle was asked if he enjoyed or followed MMA:

" Yeah I watch it sometimes, It’s always been something I wanted to do. I don’t mean I’m looking for a career in it , but you know I would probably do it just for maybe one or two fights. "

Chappelle went on to explain his current training:

"Like I said earlier man, its only a hobby, but I like training hard. Obviously with my career I’m always all over the place, but when I’m in Vegas, I try and stop in at Xtreme Couture, cause Randy is my boy. But yeah you know, if I’m in a place for more than a few days, I’ll go and train. I really like training down at ATT, they got some awesome guys there."

When asked who Chappelle would most like to fight if he ever were to compete:

" It doesn’t really matter to me man, I mean if i train hard and correctly it shouldn’t matter. It would be pretty fun to fight Rogan though. I know he trains and is a badass he is pretty big, but it would still be fun . Id like to fight Kat Williams too, yeah I’d really like to fight him."


Though it is no surprise that there are celebrities out there who like MMA and there are those who even train in a martial art as a hobby it does sound sort of strange to hear. The most notable celebrities I can think of who love MMA or martial arts and even train for fun, besides Joe Rogan and Kevin James, is star of the great 1990s TV series 'Married With Children', Ed O'Neil (a black belt in BJJ under Rorion Gracie). The other celebrity that comes to mind is musician, Maynard James Keenan. The lead singer of Tool and A Perfect Circle has studied under Rickson Gracie and last I heard was a purple belt in BJJ.

This revelation from Chappelle just strikes me as kind of odd, but then again Dave Chappelle is an odd person. One day he's going on sabbatical to Africa, the next he's training at Xtreme Couture. Talk about odd.

Anyways, I'd imagine Chappelle has a mean uppercut.

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When I saw this is took a step back it struck me as extremely surprising. Dave Chappelle is seriously a cool dude and I'd be interested to see a video of him training. I also had no idea that Maynard trained in bjj...under of all people Rickson Gracie.


edit: article found at bloodyelbow.com

For those of you who haven't seen the undercard matches from UFN 16 last night, here's a doozie.


**Warning***...This is nasty
I suggest you read the spoiler first if you're a bit squeamish.


http://www.mmascraps.com/2008/12/corey-hills-mangled-leg.html


+ Show Spoiler +

I havn't watched a live SC game since the days of Sc2.org and I miss it terribly. I know there are 100 threads on the subject (including haji's thread) which i've already looked through but I'm an idiot and I cant seem to get anything right.

I really want to watch savior vs nada tonight so could anyone please post a few links of the things that i need to dl and some basic directions. Thanks in advance for any help.

I remember a long time ago someone posting a youtube video of a rap song and I remember liking it but I havn't been able to find it anywhere.

It was in black and white. I think it was by notorious big (might not have been).

Does anyone have any clue what song this might be?

So I looked at my chaos launcher window today and my latencychanger plugin in missing from it.



so i went to check advloader to see if it was still there



and it is!

what the heck?