Update (20/05/14) - Hiatus & Summer Blogging

So, it’s been a while...   Now, before I get into what I want to talk about today I want to let you guys know about a little hiatus I'm going on. You see, it’s almost the end of the school year and at the moment I am a little behind so I need to really focus my attention on that as I've put nearly two years into it and at this point it would just stupid to throw it all away.   Obviously, I don't want to go on a hiatus! But in this circumstance it is the logical thing to...

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Misconceptions of Professional Wrestling - Part 3

(Part 2 of this article can be found HERE.) Last time, I covered some common misconceptions people had of professional wrestling. I shall continue this part with a few more. “They know what they are going to do before they even get into the ring” This is something my dad used to tell me when I was growing up. He always made it out that everything is choreographed, like some sort of...

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Misconceptions of Professional Wrestling - Part 2

(Part 1 of this article can be found HERE.)   When I was younger, people had these ideas and concepts about professional wrestling that they would tell me. It was as if they somehow knew everything about the professional wrestling business. Things I used to hear time and time again were:   “Wrestling is scripted”   Okay, so is wrestling scripted? Well, that...

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Misconceptions of Professional Wrestling - Part 1

Now, this gets on my nerves quite a bit, and it has done since I was a kid. That of course is people referring to professional wrestling as ‘fake’. I can safely say that is the most uneducated and ignorant thing you can say about it. The word ‘fake’ would imply that none of the moves performed in professional wrestling actually hurt, or none of the wrestlers ever get injured. In a sense they walk...

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Update (05/05/14) - Thanks for 35K, JT Torres, Copa Podio & Vince Russo

Before I start, I would first like to apologise for not posting much last week, but normal service will be resumed this week.   Okay, well where do I start? It's almost been two weeks since I last posted an update post, and lots of things have happened.   So, I've continued to write my series '10 Years of BJJ', and it has been very successful, and as always I am eternally grateful for all the support. This week I started to post some of the parts on Reddit, and they...

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10 Years of BJJ - My Jiu-Jitsu Journey - Part 8 (Braulio's Competition Part 1)

(This is part 8 of this series. If you haven't seen part 7 it can be found here.) So I am now a yellow belt... I mentioned last time that I was promoted to yellow belt by Braulio and Victor Estima in October 2007, as the regulations had changed. Fast forward a few months, and it is now January 2008. I found out that Braulio was putting on his own kid’s competition in February for all -16's under Gracie Barra. Now, if I'm honest I didn't really want to do this...

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