Vitor belfort lands a spinning back kick vs luke rockhold and now everyone is getting in on the act

here we have world champion trainer Kru Alin Halmagean  during class freestyling a bit showing he can still put those kicks up there with the best of em.. “much better than me actually”

not the highest percentage or most often used techniques but when they land DO THEY EVER!!

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives.

Processed meats include bacon, sausage, hot dogs, sandwich meat, packaged ham, pepperoni, salami and virtually all red meat used in frozen prepared meals. They are usually manufactured with a carcinogenic ingredient known as sodium nitrite. This is used as a color fixer by meat companies to turn packaged meats a bright red color so they look fresh. Unfortunately, sodium nitrite also results in the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines in the human body. And this leads to a sharp increase in cancer risk for those who eat them.

A 2005 University of Hawaii study found that processed meats increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 67 percent. Another study revealed that every 50 grams of processed meat consumed daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 21 percent. These are alarming numbers. Note that these cancer risks do not come from eating fresh, non-processed meats. They only appear in people who regularly consume processed meat products containing sodium nitrite.

Sodium nitrite appears predominantly in red meat products (you won’t find it in chicken or fish products). Here’s a short list of food items to check carefully for sodium nitrite and monosodium glutamate (MSG), another dangerous additive:

• Beef jerky
• Bacon
• Sausage
• Hot dogs
• Sandwich meat
• Frozen pizza with meat
• Canned soups with meat
• Frozen meals with meat
• Ravioli and meat pasta foods
• Kid’s meals containing red meat
• Sandwich meat used at popular restaurants
• Nearly all red meats sold at public schools, restaurants, hospitals, hotels and theme parks

If sodium nitrite is so dangerous to humans, why do the FDA and USDA continue to allow this cancer-causing chemical to be used? The answer, of course, is that food industry interests now dominate the actions by U.S. government regulators. The USDA, for example, tried to ban sodium nitrite in the late 1970?s but was overridden by the meat industry.5 It insisted the chemical was safe and accused the USDA of trying to “ban bacon.”

Today, the corporations that dominate American food and agricultural interests hold tremendous influence over the FDA and USDA. Consumers are offered no real protection from dangerous chemicals intentionally added to foods, medicines and personal care products.

You can protect yourself and your family from the dangers of processed meats by following a few simple rules:

1. Always read ingredient labels.
2. Don’t buy anything made with sodium nitrite or monosodium glutamate.
3. Don’t eat red meats served by restaurants, schools, hospitals, hotels or other institutions.

And finally, eat more fresh produce with every meal. There is evidence that natural vitamin C found in citrus fruits and exotic berries (like camu camu) helps prevent the formation of cancer-causing nitrosamines, protecting you from the devastating health effects of sodium nitrite in processed meats. The best defense, of course, is to avoid eating processed meats altogether.

Move over ladies my new-found fitness equipment shopping addition is Legit and going strong…

“If i make an appearance on one of those tv shows for people with a problem just remember it all started out for a good cause”

Elite training centre’s Strength and conditioning program

Summer is officially on, and the class has been making great use of the tools we have already in stuck plus the unlimited options out-door training brings. That aside the  Fitness gear shop-a-holic in me took over this week and delivered a few new treats to the academy, guaranteed to take the conditioning class workouts to an even higher level

new additions to the tool box for our popular conditioning class

Coming to conditioning class this week is the  only one way to find out what within these boxes

Plus you’ll get a “gut busting” workout putting you one step closer to that summer shape everyone is looking to be in.

(on a crazy side note one of my training partners who was already a big guy went to Georgia for 2 months and came back 50lbs heavier!!!! what type of eating was this man doing??? Summer shape up on the way )

p.s

disregard the tire, Didn’t think to move it before snapping the photo, and the open house / BBQ  date has been changed to June 15th but more info on that to come this weekend.

**great article from bjjscout.com highlighting a pretty intresting sport Brazilian jiujitsu player Leandro Lo.  A very high level guy he does a lot right but I have take to watching him due to the fact his two favorite passes, “knee slide & toreando / bull fighter pass” are also my own. Always nice to see people put a new spin on things and he is clearly getting results so as far as BJJ goes this video is definetely worth a watch.

This article on Leandro Lo’s unique toreando guard pass covers the reason I started watching Leandro’s passing game in the first place. Leandro Lo makes toreando/bullfighter guard passing look easy doesn’t he. He dances around his opponents switching endlessly, racking up points/advantages and forcing turtles and backtakes. Most people just put it off to him being really good at the bullfighter pass, but like the knee slide, he has subtlety modified the “conventional way” to achieve great success at the highest level of the sport.

Lo’s “Step and Push” Toreando

Traditional bullfighter/toreando is taught as a pull and step motion. Typically “pull then step” or “pull and step simultaneously“. The key to the pass is first successfully diverting the legs with the initial pull and then quickly securing side control. The challenge however is the initial “pull” is an arm vs leg dogfight in which the passer is obviously at a disadvantage and also leads to gassing if the passer has to make repeated “pulls” to make way for his advancing legs. Double teaming (2 arms vs one leg) isn’t a solution as the other leg is free, allowing the guarder to shrimp in and recompose guard.

Lo’s Innovation: Eliminate the “pull”

The video below says it all, but basically Lo has modified his toreando mechanics to initiate the pass with a “step”.  Rather than trying to move an opponent’s legs, he first  moves himself to the side and creates space for his far arm to straighten. He initiates the pass either with a step, a spin (imagine holding the guarder’s shins and turning a steering wheel), or both, depending on the situation.

Once there, he simply pushes forward and runs his opponent down with his arm(s) still straight till he gets side control/knee on belly/forces a turtle.

This small change in the mechanics to “step and push” instantly changes the passing dynamics into a “leg vs leg” contest. Lo simply walks his opponent down taking as many steps as he needs to. His straight arms (especially the one controlling the far leg), makes turning into him to recompose guard hard and allows him to keep applying sidewards pressure after the initial step. In a rejected conventional bullfighter/toreando, the rebuffed passer is typically put back into guard to start “pulling  and stepping” all over again. Transferring the burden to his legs rather than arms allows Lo to efficiently switch side to side working the pass expending less energy (he’s obviously athletic to begin with, though not usually so vs his peers). Most of his opponents typically exhaust themselves fending off his “toreando swarm” and end up stuck/grinded out in his knee slide passing game once trapped underneath, or vice versa.

Neutral pant grip allows fakes/side switches

Another key thing Lo does is to have a neutral grip on the pants close to the knees (“thumbs up”), rather than grabbing “thumbs in”. This allows him to work his toreando both sides. As his main purpose is to “step” first, rather than “pull” , the neutral grip allows him to quickly be in a mechanically superior position to push with arm(s) straight once in position. Sometimes he will simply grab shins and begin stepping to achieve the ideal side position where he can begin to push.

Toreando Variants: Hail Mary Pass

What makes Lo especially dangerous as a passer is that he doesn’t rely on stripping grips. A leg dragger typically “combat bases down” when caught in a leg lasso/DLR situation to strip grips and then stands up to initiate passes. One particular attribute of Lo’s passing is that he rarely combat bases down to “recompose grips” but will immediately work toreandos even when an opponent has adopted a “safe/defensive” position, entangling Lo’s arm/leg.

Hail Mary Pass

When leg lasso-ed, rather than break grips/, Lo gets his lasso-ed hand out onto the opponent’s hamstring and does an explosive all out drag/pull upwards to clear the legs to side control. It almost seems like a “spaz”/random tug, but Lo consistently employs this to catch an opponent off guard (see his matches with Langhi). “Hail Mary” seems like an appropriate name.

Small Changes but Big Results

Ryan Hall (a pioneer himself in “modernizing” BJJ with his 50/50 and inverted guard) once said (and I’m paraphrasing) it’s the techniques that work on 90% of the people that he’s interested in and not necessarily the fancy ones. Lo’s uncanny passing using his modified toreandos and knee slide techniques has allowed him to pass top level bjj players guards without employing the “modern” leg drag techniques that have become the rage now. Lo’s simple but effective innovations continue to evolve BJJ and make him a joy to watch.

Enjoy the video.

Mayweather put in a VIRTUOSO performance last night in his title fight.

Check out this quick highlight i like to call

 HIT AND NOT BE HIT