Fight News
The 2007 Philippine International BJJ Open December 1, and the 2007 Philippine International Grappling Challenge December 2, will be held at the SM Mall of Asia, Bay Blvd, Pasay City Metro Manila.
This event will once again bring some of the best competitors within the sport from the South East Asian region and the Philippines. Over the past three years the 2007 Philippine International BJJ Open , and the 2007 Philippine Submission Grappling International have established themselves as one of the most prestigious competitions in the Asian region. It has been said that the Philippine events attract more spectators to a BJJ competition than any other BJJ event world wide. It is estimtated there are between 3000 – 5000 spectators per day.
Competitors will vie for the status of Philippine BJJ International Open Champion and The Philippine International Grappling Champion. This is a great opportunity for competitors to showcase their skills in this prestigious venue. Entry is free for spectators. read more
Recommended Fitness Articles
CrossFit To Go, by Lindsay Yaw, posted in Sports Applications 18-Nov-07, PDF Since January, I’ve been on thirty-nine flights. The madness started with a writing assignment to cover cat skiing in southern British Columbia: ten days. Three weeks later, I was called to hop a few planes to a Canadian mountain range called the Monashees for a backcountry skiing photo shoot for Mountain Hardwear with a few other athletes: nine days. Two weeks later, I left on a month-long assignment for National Geographic Adventure in northern Norway, where I retraced the steps of a WWII escapee on skis across Lapland, about ten degrees north of the Arctic Circle: twenty-nine days. Ten days at home, then I jetted to Nepal for a month to write dispatches for MSN.com on Ed Viesturs’s historic mountaineering ascent of Annapurna, making him the first American to climb all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks: thirty days. No rest for the weary, but I like it that way. I like to pack it all in; it feels more efficient that way, like I’m getting things done. Unfortunately, with that “efficiency” that I fiendishly suck energy to achieve, thirty-nine flights in no way augments my level of fitness. CrossFit does.
Forging Mental Fitness by Jim Decker, posted in CrossFit 11-Nov-07, read the full article in PDF
How Fit Are You? by Greg Glassman, posted in CrossFit 16-Sep-07, read the full article in PDF
…Our initial hope was to design a competition that would not only reflect CrossFit’s broad fitness concept but would also accommodate men and women, large and small athletes, the young and seniors, and individuals of all fitness levels. Additionally, we wanted a competition that would motivate and reward fitness improvements among our fittest. Specifically, we set out to motivate an improvement in the absolute strength, relative strength, and gymnastics foundations of all CrossFit participants. Unfortunately this last consideration rendered the design troublesome for many who are other than already very fit and male. So, what we ended up with was a competition where the ability even to complete the test suggests a fairly advanced level of fitness…
Police Training by Greg Glassman, posted in LEO/Mil 3-Oct-06, read full article in PDF
CrossFit’s work enhancing sport performance, while exciting and even gratifying, sometimes feels too much like helping adults play children’s games. On the other hand, our work with seniors and little kids, while very rewarding, lacks the excitement surrounding elite human performance.
Our recent work and acceptance in the law enforcement, tactical operations, and military special operations communities has been both extremely gratifying and very exciting.
Increasingly, our readers are coming from the ranks of the professional combatant. They have come to CrossFit aware of the reality that, on average, the fitness challenges with which they are most likely to be faced will not be best met by a specialized, narrowly focused fitness. That is the sole domain of the sport athlete.
Incredibly, the fitness needs of professional combatants, police and military, have not been given the same quality analysis, commitment, or even funding that is generally given to sport.
My Recent WOD’s
(workout of the day)
Time: 35 minutes
Equipment: None needed
5 x Heaves (pull up)
5 x Burpees (pushup with jump over head hand clap)
10 x Squats
10 x Pushups
10 x Sit-ups
Lunge Walk (20m)
Run (200m)
Do this 6 times multiplying the reps as follows:
1 – 2 – 3 – 3 – 2 – 1
Note: Insert a 45 second water break if needed in between the tripler run throughs
Happy Training!
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Academy of Mixed Martial Arts | The BJJ section of the AMAA in Perth |
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BJJ Australia – John Will | John Will’s News Page of upcoming Brazilian Jiu Jitsu around Australia |
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BJJ Philippines | A quality site of the BJJ in Manila |
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CrossFit Victoria | Check the forums for some cool workouts. |
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CrossFit Exercises | A demo video of all the exercises needed for CrossFit workouts. |
Why Active? I enjoy being fit. I believe everyone should challenge themselves to be as fit as they can be! I enjoyed martial arts earlier on in life and carry on the same level of fitness to this day. The more I learn the more organised I become and hope to deliver to you my reader training news and programs from this page. Enjoy!
I have been following the CrossFit movement and I actively encourage their mission statement:
CrossFit’s mission is to fuel a revolution in fitness based on the pursuit of function, not form-on measurements of performance, not anatomy. We want rings and bumper plates in our gyms, not machines. We believe that where you train is less important than how you train and whom you train with matters more than what gear you have. We know this can be done anywhere. We’ve proven that the back yard to the garage to the warehouse is as good an environment as any for forging elite fitness. read more
