Wednesday, May 27, 2009

MMA: Lyoto Machida's "Boxing Blast"

OK, I made this animated gif... it's Lyoto's "boxing blast". Way past my bedtime... GN a...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

MMA: 2 joke animated pictures of Lyoto Machida and Rashad Evans

Rashad was very classy in his defeat. I like him and I like Lyoto also. I was torn by this fight, but I was thinking Machida's style would be able to defeat Rashad's.Here are 2 animated gif's I found off of Spladdle. The first one was made before the fight this past Saturday. The second was made after the fight. My thanks to the unknown gif maker(s).Click the thumbnails for a bigger pictu...

NEWS: Mike Tyson's Daughter Found Hanging From Cord

Cut and pasted from http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521777,00.html: Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter is on life support and in "extremely critical condition" after she was found hanging Monday morning from a treadmill cable in her family's Phoenix home, police said.Exodus Tyson's 7-year-old brother found her on a treadmill with her neck on a cable attached to the exercise machine, police Sgt. Andy Hill said, calling it a "tragic accident."The mother sent the boy to find the 4-year-old girl who was playing in a separate room. The boy found...

MMA: UFC 98 - Hughes X Serra & Machida X Evans animated gif's

Got these pix from Spladdle. Enjoy!My thanks to the GIF makers at FightReport.com. Round 1. Click the pic for a bigger picture.My thanks to the unknown GIF maker. Round 3. Click the pic for a bigger picture. Click the animated GIF for a bigger picture.Hughes was rocked in round 1 from Serra's headbutt and right hand. Serra couldn't finish Hughes. Serra gets taken down in round 2 and Hughes controls and dominates with his ground and pound. Most of...

MMA: Dream 9 - Jose Canseco vs Hong Man Choi

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/canseco+hong+man/video/x9ef1v_hong-man-choi-v-jose-canseco-dream_sportsorry... cannot get it to hotlink or embed.Enj...

Thursday, May 21, 2009

MMA: UFC 98 - Evans vs Machida

Click for a bigger picture.Date: May 23, 2009Time: 10PM ET/7PM PTLocation: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NevadaTickets: Ticketmaster & StubhubMain Event: Light Heavyweight Championship205#: "Sugar" Rashad Evans (18-0-1) vs Lyoto Machida (14-0) Main Card:170#: Matt Hughes (43-7) vs Matt Serra (16-5)185#: James Irvin (14-5-1) vs Drew McFedries (7-6)185#: Dan Miller (12-1-1) vs Chael Sonnen (23-10-1)155#: Frank Edgar (9-1) vs Sean Sherk (37-3-1)SUndercard...

MOVIES: BANGKOK DANGEROUS - knife drill animated gif's

In time, I will make more and add more knife scenes from movies... I only had time to make these 2 from Nicholas Cage's BANGKOK DANGEROUSClick for bigger pictures.I want to put up something from Tommy Lee Jones/Benicio Del Toro HUNTED in the future....

Saturday, May 16, 2009

EBOOKS: Boxing by Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Kirk Lawson, yet again, has republished another rare OOP book. This time it's Boxing by Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. My sincerest appreciation to Kirk Lawson and his contributions to the martial arts community yet again!Print: $9.70Download: FREEPhiladelphia Jack O'Brien, Light Heavyweight, claiming "American Middleweight," and boxing in all divisions, including a Championship match for the Heavyweight Championship of the World against Jack Johnson,...

Friday, May 15, 2009

NEWS: The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball

Devin PowellInside Science News ServiceMay 13, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. (ISNS) -- The three best visual illusions in the world were chosen at a gathering last weekend of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida. The winning entry, from a Bucknell University professor, may help explain why curve balls in baseball are so tricky to hit. A properly thrown curve ball spins in a way that makes the air on one side move faster than on the other. This causes the ball to move along a gradual curve. From the...

Thursday, May 14, 2009

MMA: Lyoto 'The Dragon' Machida 1 - Background and Takedowns

NOTE: This entry contains gif's that I didn't make. I dl'd off of Spladdle blog and uploaded to my pichost to save on original gif-maker's bandwith. My thanks to the unknown gif maker(s). Let's take a look at Lyoto 'The Dragon' Machida. The buzz around Machida is that he is elusive, currently undefeated, and that his background is Shotokan Karate. To be trained in a traditional martial art and to be successful in MMA is a rarity these...

MMA: Bellator Fighting Championships

There's a new MMA event called Bellator.Bellator Fighting Championships is a first of its kind Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) promotion that will be broadcast nationally in the U.S. starting April 2009 through an exclusive television agreement with ESPN Deportes. Bellator will also be broadcast to countries around the world through a collection of broadcast agreements. Bellator, Latin for “Warrior,” began with the realization that the fighters and the...

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

MOVIES: Donnie Yen's Ip Man (Chain Punches)

Here are 3 animated gif's I made of Wing Chun Chain Punching. Granted they are from the Hong Kong movie IP MAN starring Donnie Yen (SPL, Flashpoint, Dragon Tiger Gate, Iron Monkey 2, Blade 2, Highlander 4, etc), but they looked cool, I was learning how to make animated gif's and I like Donnie's movies. Enjoy! EDIT 3/3/13:  Noticed my pichost deleted my 2nd pic and recycled the URL to my first pic for someone's pic of a...

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

TECHNIQUE: Superman Punch in MMA

Here is an early instance of the Superman Punch used in MMA:BIB - Beatdown in Bakersfield - Savant Young X Danny Suarez - 2006-11-17<NOTE: The above 2 animated pix were made by me off of a youtube flv. The quality is not that good as you can see, but the source wasn't high quality:2 recent instances of the Superman Punch. Not my pix, my thanks to the unknown gif maker(s) for them. I got them off of Spladdle and uploaded to my pichost to save...

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

MOVIES: MERANTAU (Silat movie)

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his “Merantau” a century’s old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community’s young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta. After a series of setbacks leave Yuda homeless and uncertain about his new future, a chance encounter results in...

MOVIES: Dark Eden (Silat movie)

The Dark Eden Trilogy is a profound epic adventure in the spirit of 'Indiana Jones' meets 'Enter the Dragon'. An inspiring action adventure which captures extraordinary martial arts in a mystical quest for the truth. In the 1970s Martial Arts films were revolutionised by Bruce Lee, then Star Wars created the most epic fight scenes, and now Dark Eden will forever change the way the world views Martial Arts & Adventure Films. Pendekar Steven Benitez is involved with this movie. Check out Sun Bear's blog for more info: http://thesunbearskendang.blogspot.com/2009/04/for-stickgrappler-dark-eden-trailers.html...

Sunday, May 03, 2009

BOXING: Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton

UGH! Real life - all day. Didn't have a chance earlier to post my prediction. Won't post the results in this entry. Will post the results when I find some pix to put up also.I don't have time to watch boxing, let alone watch MMA/UFC's, which I really like to watch. Some UFC's I make the time to watch some of the bigger fights. There was so much hype going into Pacquiao vs Hatton that I made time to watch it. I've not watched either boxers' fights before. I will say this... OMG! the winner impressed me!Time to sleep. Good night one and a...

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