This post is NOT a Jackie Chan UFC crossover! I’ve missed a lot of UFC lately and and so have lost touch with whats being happening. Today I managed to catch some fights from UFC 112. BJ Penn lost his…
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Blink
by Jon Law • • 2 Comments
I read a recommended book called ‘Blink‘ recently, thanks Random Flow. It’s about those moments when you instinctively know something without knowing why. The author, Malcolm Gladwell, provides many examples of when a snap judgement is more effective than a…
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Superfrau update
by Jon Law • • 2 Comments
I’ve edited the Superfrau post to include a better clip illustrating GSP’s ‘superfrau punch’. And for your view pleasure I’m including it here, thanks Tommo [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlV5fAUCZKU&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] As I said before, we don’t actually do precisely the same movement, he does…
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On your marks 3
by Jon Law • • 1 Comment
A comment on the last post, made by John of Massachusetts, indicated that the clip of the elite level Shotokan fighters did show fast Shotokan techniques delivered from traditional stances, that’s the gist anyway. I chose the clip precisely because…
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About time an’ all!
by JonLaw • • 0 Comments
This site has been about ready to go for ages but we’ve been having some trouble with the hosting. Well, maybe I was being a bit ambitious…. I was trying to set up a network of blogs and sites using …
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Lateral NOT Literal
by Jon Law • • 5 Comments
At university, in the Anxiety in Sport module, we were given an outline of the course work at the start of the semester. There were two essays (45% and 55% of the total mark), with the option of an ‘oral…