~assortedchaos19

I have impressed Jean-Yves Theriault who is the 23 time world kickboxing champion.

I impressed the hell out of him.

This is better than every single title I have ever won.

I will post pictures when I get them.

Ok so I'm now fighting with CASK for kickboxing. And I just got word that it is highly likely that I will be fighting a girl from Newfoundland in April out in PEI.

I'll be fighting at 135 lbs.


I have never been so excited at the prospect of being punched in the face!

Now starts 7 weeks of training.

Bring it on Newfie.

-----Update-------

So.... for this card Danielle and I agreed to meet at 135 for the bout.

I get an email yesterday from the promoter telling me that she can't make weight.
She's sitting at 145 right now, she can make it to 143.

Ok, this annoys me. We agreed to 135, why agree to a fight at a weight you apparently cannot make?

CASK allows for a weight spread of 6.6 lbs between fighters. So she'll be coming into the fight 6.6 lbs heavier than I will.

I don't like this.

So tomorrow I'm going to table this to my manager and to the promoter:

If she makes 141, no higher, and I make 137, I will fight her.

Right now I'm sitting at the top of Lightweight (131) and I have to make it to the top of light welterweight (137) by April 12.

So she has to lose 4 and I have to gain 6..... Sounds fair to me.

As I sit here, thinking about the events of the past couple of weeks one question constantly rolls through my head.

Why?

Why the hell don't Adults behave like Adults and not like greedy ill disciplined children?

My great uncle dying on xmas eve, my stupidity leading to me nearly cutting my thumb off, the collective nonsense that is STU currently, a friend being busted for child pornography, attending a funeral with the rest of my family who can't coexist in the same city without conflict let alone a funeral home.

I think it's time for a real update, don't you?

It's the end of the semester and I am good and damn happy about it. All the busy work assignments are done with. I only have two exams. I've finished writing all my take home exams now what's left is just the actual exams. I have one Saturday at 2pm then another on Monday at 9am then I am done until January 3 2008.

I head to Montreal the weekend of the 15th for my second Karate Tournament.... I'm seeded first, top ranked and expected to take it with the same dominance that I showed in Vancouver. I'm totally feeling it. Should be good.... I might retire from Competitive Karate after this tournament, not sure. I've been given some rather Oympic offers lately so anything could happen really.

I took the NB title after I came back from Vancouver. Very dominant win, the tournament ended up being an outweight tournament as the majority of the competitors pulled out once they heard I was fighting in it. Anyway, in the final it came down to me and this other girl from....who knows.... she was atleast 170-180 lbs, I'm 135lbs tops and I thought I was in for a tough go. But this girl had zero power and I destroyed her. Busted her face all up, she has to get it put back together and all that. They almost stripped me of the title until she admitted to coming into the tournament with a facial injury so they couldn't touch me.

Anyway, so I spoke of a possible match here in Fredericton in Febuary, well that isn't happening. The PSO (Provincial Sports Organization) is fucking us around and dragging their heels getting Kickboxing recognized as a sport. I'm not exactly thrilled fighting under CASK, they have this ridiculous 8-count rule. If your head snaps back past 45 degrees after a blow you are given a standing 8-count, two of those in a round and your fight is lost. Even if you're fine the ref is ordered by the table to administer the 8-count. This is also happening in title matches and there is no way in hell that should be done unless the fighter is truly hurt by the shot.

I'm looking at a fight in PEI in April, undercard my first fight with CASK. Goody. We're still working on getting NB to recognize Kickboxing.... should be sometime this year. I want to fight on my home turf.

Not much else to say.... except I stopped a third degree black belt with a single punch several weeks ago. This 17 yr old brat kept begging to spar me, and finally I said yes. She geared up, got into the ring with me, the coach said go, I looked at her asked if she was ready, she said yes as she put her hands up. I waited a few seconds and lobbed a jab at her. Caught her square in the nose, she left the room. This has hence been named "The Legend of the Jab", wow, one punch and I get my own legend. Apparently she had said to the coach that if him and her ever sparred he wouldn't get past her lead leg to land a jab. Well pumpkin, I got past your lead leg. The coach pegged me as a favorite now. Pretty cool. OH! She has also gone around the TaeKwonDoe classes saying it was a cheap shot and all that nonsense. I'm tempted to go into TKD one night and tell her to put up or shut up. She hasn't been back to kickboxing since.

I find this hilarious.

I adore the light until it wanes
I got so close I burst into flames
I sought the light at every turn
I held you tight, until it burned.