I Feel As Rusty As An Old Nail!!

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Aug
31

     Training is super tough right now. I have gotten out of the habit of working out. It doesn’t seem like the habit wants to come back!!

     It’s so different being back now. I get to see just how much I’ve missed. There are so many new people. There are also so many old ones that have gotten so much better. I use to have hard rolls with some key people. Now it’s a hard roll with almost everyone! My body is so beat up and when I’m rolling its feels like I’m just trying to survive. It’s probably because I am! I also feel really rusty when I can’t remember how to do simple things that I use to do.

     My plan is to wait a couple weeks before I start sparring in boxing or MMA. I’m waiting to ensure that I don’t reinjure myself again. I feel that since my muscles are not as strong as before, coming back sparring with people blasting at 100% is only asking for another injury. Not to mention that my stamina and muscle endurance sucks!! I would just be a piñata. (lol) Working on the bag and mitts is torturous for me because my arms and lungs burn so bad. I’ll keep pushing because I know the tides will turn!

Click on the video below to check out some of my work at the boxing gym.

Reaction After First Drill Maryland

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Aug
30

Reaction After First Drill Maryland

My First Day Back In Maryland

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Aug
27

     This is my first day back in the gym. My body is a little tired. My back is super tight from the long ride and unloading. Overall I think the shot is working pretty well. I seem to be at about 90% minus the stiffness.

     I was super excited about going into the gym. I feel like a kid in the candy store. I’m trying to prepare my mind to accept that I’m going to get the crap beat out of me for a while until I get back into shape. The stamina needed for each discipline is totally different. I can get in boxing shape and feel like I weigh 400 lbs in jiu-jitsu and wrestling and vice versa. Nothing translates over! It really sucks that I was in great shape before and have nothing to show for it now. Coming back like this really messes with me mentally. Even though I know I will be back in shape in about a month and a half, I still don’t want to be beat up on by everyone until that time. I also know that Master Lloyd won’t take it easy on me because I’ve been out so long. Knowing him, he will put me with the best people at my weight to push me mentally and physically. This will force me to get into physical and mental shape pretty fast because they are going to try to kill me! Seriously!!!

Check out the video below of me going back to the gym for the first time in months!

The Unknown Warrior Leaves Mississippi

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Aug
26

     Moving takes a lot of energy. You never realize there is so much junk in a house until you are moving. On top of that, I have gotten approximately six hours of sleep this past week. I can’t wait until this is all over!!!

     I have been staying up longer than usual because I’m trying to figure everything out with my website. I am so computer illiterate. I had to learn how to put video on YouTube, render the video, use a blog, work with Twitter, and so on! I hope I catch on to all this pretty soon. At this rate, I won’t have time to train (LOL).

     We went to bed just after 4am. I get awakened a little before six because Leslie decides she wants to have a garage sale!!! It was crazy! People were really coming out that early in the morning bargaining from a dollar fifty cents to a dollar? I was thinking, “Are they serious?” Leslie was really excited since this was her first garage sale. For some reason it didn’t matter to her that the wad of money she was showing was all ONES!!! Not to mention half of it was the change I had gotten at six a.m. I was driving to gas stations asking them to give me change for the garage sale! Huh? SLEEP PLEASE!!

     We later started loading the U-Haul. Everyone kept saying that everything would not fit in the truck. I knew everything would fit if we packed it right. I worked at UPS for seven yrs total while supervising for five years. With that said, the funny thing is that the two guys helping me load the truck worked there too. One of them still works there. It was so funny because they would try to put a box in a spot and say it won’t fit. I would say loud and hyper, “You guys are looking but you can’t see!” (LOL) Then I would turn the box and make it fit. I think this happens every day in life. People don’t move past their current places or they become stagnate because they lack vision. In my opinion, vision is the ability to imagine and see past circumstances that are physically visible to the naked eye. I don’t think one can achieve greatness until he or she is able to work toward and believe their vision more than their current circumstances.

      I took a break from loading to mow the back yard. When I finished I noticed that they had already loaded the fridge, washer, and dryer before putting the last bit of smaller things on as we had agreed to earlier. Even though I’m saying this because it’s what happen, I really appreciate Lamont and Jeremiah’s hard work. We kept saying we wish we had them when we unloaded. Back to the current situation, this left us with the problem of trying to figure out how to put the chairs & bar stools on. Luckily, my dad came by and arranged them quickly in some type of way we had never seen and then said, “Is that it?” (lol) That reminded me of something he always said to me as a child. “Improvise and adapt and you will overcome any situation!” Boy, were we glad he came because he also gave me a quick tutorial on how to drive the U-Haul with a trailer attacked.

     The drive took us 23hrs plus 7hrs to unload when we got there. Boy I wish we had Jeremiah & Lamont! They know how to work!! Check out the video of us leaving below.

I Got Beat By A Kid!!!

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Aug
25

     Why do kids learn so much faster than adults? There has to be a good reason for this. I trained my nephew for a little over a month and he learned a lot faster than I did. Honestly, it has taken me ages to learn the simplest of things.

      If I had to guess I would have to say it has something to do with how they think or don’t think as much. Let me explain. Children seem to be so impressionable. They are always ready to imitate someone. Just last weekend, Leslie’s niece spent the night. Before she came over, she spent the day with her grandmother. She said, “I want to be just like my grandma! But I don’t want to smoke. I want to wears wigs, black boots and drink coffee all day!” LOL! So, when Leslie picked her up, she had on a wig that her grandmother had given her and makeup! (lol)

     When kids are interested in something they just imitate immediately. When we are interested we analyze before we try to do it, because we have past experiences that we can compare things too. This alone puts them steps ahead of us because they just do. They are like empty chalk boards ready to be written on. We are like chalk boards that are already full. We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what we are going to erase to make room for new info or if we need to erase anything at all. Most of the time we try to incorporate it in some type of way. Other times we just add what we think is most important and throw away the rest. We also worry about how it’s going to turn out. This adds extra stress, when kids have none they just want to have fun.

     The bottom line is if we compare how long it’s taken me to learn compared to my nephew, he seriously kicked my butt!!! I included a video below of him working out with me the day before I head back to Maryland. I told you guys before that the worst part of me leaving would be that I won’t be able to spend time with my nephews! On my way to take him home, I told him and his brother that I was going to miss them. Tears immediately began to fall. I didn’t know where they came from because that’s so not like me! I usually can hide a thing like that. (lol) You know I always MAN UP! He acted as if he didn’t see it, but im sure he did! Durn it!!!