Super 5

My top Idols that introduce my passion are..

1) Ronda Rousey (Top female champion in the MMA Era)
2) Muhammad Ali (One of the fastest Boxer's known to history)
3)Tasha Morris (One of the best female MMA fighters of her time)
4)Bruce Lee (Founder of Jeet Kune Do- Martial Arts Instructor)
5) Rocky Marciano (One of the world's best boxer's and went undefeated in his whole career)

Vocabulary #3

Endorsement: Act of giving something or someone approval

Clinch: A clinch hold, which is also called clinching, is one of various holds that are called grappling holds, used in clinch type fighting and used in order to control the opponent in the fight.

Gracie: The most well known and respected family name in MMA. You certainly can’t deny the legendary abilities of the Gracie Brothers, from the oldest to the youngest. Gracies were instrumental in the beginnings of the MMA

Oma Plata: Jiu Jitsu/MMA grappling move –Shoulder Lock which is applied using the legs.

Catapulted: Hurl or launch

disenchanted: Dissapointed by someone or something that was once admired

Perk: to become more cheerful and alive

Dissertation: A written thesis based by original research

Immensely: Extremely big

Tangible: Possible to touch; be real or concrete

 

Resource of the Day

Mikaela Mayer aiming for Katie Taylor's level

Mayer needs to bounce back from her national championship disappointment, writes John Dennen

WHILE the decline of the US men's boxing team has been well documented, their women's programme is their cause for hope. Their only medals at the London Olympics came courtesy of Claressa Shields and Marlen Esparza.

Mikaela Mayer is an ambitious lightweight who has already won a World medal in the division above. But her decision defeat to Olympian Queen Underwood at their national championships means she's now likely to miss out on another year of international competition and lose the opportunity to build on her achievements.

“It’s a very stacked weight for the United States, we have a lot of top girls at that weight,” Los Angeles’ Mayer reflected.

Mayer lost to Queen Underwood in the 2012 Olympic trials but rebuilt, going on to win a World championship bronze medal at 64kgs and exacting revenge with a victory over Underwood last October back down at lightweight. “It was definitely satisfying. It was proof of perserverance, if you just keep working hard and keep learning from your mistakes, anything is possible. I lost to her twice before that, this was our third time fighting against each other. I’ve learned so much this past year, I think I’m a whole different fighter. Every time I go into camp I think I step up a level and I’m learning so quickly,” Mikaela said.

At the USA National championships last year she suffered a defeat to Tiara Brown, a World featherweight gold medallist. “I did truly, honestly feel like I deserved that decision last year at nationals and it really bummed me out. That was a big tournament for me and kind of took me out for the year. USA Boxing didn’t compete me internationally at all, since I placed fourth at the nationals,” Mayer said.

“It was rough but I learned so much from my losses I didn’t regret getting that decision now. Because looking back at it, it really made me a better fighter. That’s in the past, it happens. This is boxing.

“My style has changed a little bit anyway through this past year and a half of experience. I’ve really grown as an athlete and I’m a lot more aggressive, I’m stronger. I think my style has naturally changed and it kind of goes with how the scoring system has changed. I think my new aggression, my new style will actually do well in this scoring system. I think I naturally developed as an athlete. I didn’t do anything specific to change, I still want to keep my style and my boxing strategy, stay on the angles, doing what my coach and I have always been working on,” she said. “I’ve always been a boxer and a mover and I’ve been working this past year on sitting more on my punches. Not sitting and staying there and banging, I’m still boxing and moving, I’m putting a lot more into my combinations and being a little bit more aggressive.”

Her ambition extends to the international stage. At the Worlds in 2012 Mayer lost to eventual gold medallist Pak Kyong-Ok on the fine margin of 25-24. “The first couple of rounds took me a little bit to catch on to her but I thought I pulled it off in the last round. I was hitting her with some pretty clean combinations,” Mikaela reflected.

But the target for any boxer in the lightweight division is the great Katie Taylor, who remains the outstanding female boxer of this generation. “I’ve always been a Katie Taylor fan. Since I started she’s been someone that I looked up to,” the American said. “We’re just waiting for the right time, I think I’m getting to the point where I could be on her level… You can’t stay on top forever.”

The path to top class is not easy for American boxers. They do not get to enjoy the kind of funding other athletes receive. Mayer is more fortunate than many of her peers - an endorsement from Dr. Pepper means her days of having to study, train twice and fit in 
a job bartending are now behind her. 
“I could just focus on training. I’ve been able to do that for a little over a year now, I’ve been able to make money as an amateur athlete but I’m lucky. A lot of us don’t get to do that,” she said.

Money is not her primary drive in boxing. The sport, she explains, “It gives me a purpose in life. I wake up every morning and I know exactly what I want to do, exactly where I want to be, exactly where I’m heading. It gives me purpose, it gives me happiness, I’m just in love with the sport in general. It’s a challenge for me and I love getting better at it every single day.”

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/latest/feature/mikaela-mayer-aiming-for-katie-taylor-s-level

Welcome to my Network!

People who are invited to collaborate and have some sort of connection to my related topic...

Shane Cheverez- looking into how, "certain physical processes such as listening to music or performing a favorite activity can give rise in such profound feelings of emotion."
Carlos Serrano- who is interested in boxing and physical health
Summer Morgan- Psychology specifically looking at decision making and its effects.
Angel Vega- paramedic studies
Kapule Binbee- kinesiology

Materpiece Essay #1

  Mixed Martial Arts

 

Watch out as we go in to detail the history of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which is one of the top 10 best fighting and self defense sports out there!

   Mixed Martial Arts is a combat sport and a self defense support system. Most work is done on the ground and relates to many street fights that end up on the ground which is helpful. "I see a need for a revolutionary for jiu jitsu, a return to its essence as a style of self-defense. I want to bring back that concept of effectiveness rather than advantage points and little stalling points,"-Rickson Gracie.

 BJJ was set to form in the early 20th century kodokan judo ground fighting which were taught to Luiz Franca and Carlos Gracie. After practicing and adapting to the sport, it suddenly became an art. As knowledge grew so did the teachings and findings of the family tree of Judo techniques.

 When in a fight the assailant usually knocks down a person to the ground and what must one do then? Usually it would be everything the victim can do like kicking, punching, pushing, etc. But if someone knew basics such as choke holding or locking the joints, with proper knowledge of training and techniques it could result the victim in a safer position.

 Martial arts to the one with no knowledge of it see it as just a sport and fitness activity. What some need to understand is that it builds character in people and is a way of life. "Were not in the business of martial arts, were in the business of confidence... not only to defend yourself but with that comes confidence of facing life."-Renzo Gracie.

 Another aspect of Martial Arts was done by the famous Bruce Lee who is also an all time winning actor. Jeet Kune Do was a book written on the electric and philosophy of martial arts but behind all that if one read between the lines, the man who put all time and energy was Gilbert Johnson. He was a successful and accomplished martial artist. This man connected to Jeet June Do like no other he was one of a kind with heart and skill. Gilbert had confrontations with tremendous amounts of life-threatening situations, but still managed to survive. This man was bold and didn't mind confrontation so he was a man of high belief of the military and so he joined. Although this man seemed intimidating or so, he was big hearted and always wanted to help people. "He inspired me through the pure essence of his kindness." - the son of Dan Inosanto.  There was a blood transfusion that fled through Gilbert and unfortunately went through allot of discrimination but fortunately passed down his indulging work in his art for others to profoundly take use of.

  



Peer Review

Dylan Horton- I think this person is brilliant! His appearance on the blog is interesting it doesn't pop out but it's not so bland itself. The style of writing seems expository and descriptive which I enjoy for just passing through, that caught my attention. The extra tab shows his interest in the course and shares more of his knowledge with others who are interested .There is always room for improvement but this blog is close to perfect, I love it!

Shane Cheverez- This blog is upfront which I enjoy, the background does not call much of my attention, everything that goes in between the lines is the key of knowledge in this blog. The writing is self expressing and true spirit and effort is put forth, maybe adding some style will help even the appearance of theblog because the idea's are great, grammar is good, post's are perfect just always room for improvement.

Literature Analysis #2

NON-FICTON ANALYSIS
1)The title of the book is called, "The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence,"-Kathleen Stassen Berger. The book is depth in detail when a fetus is in the mother's womb until teenage years. All in between it includes science and psychology mostly.
2) The author is a M.A.T Major from Harvard University and is experienced as an educator directing preschool, teaching philosophy and humanities, and social psychology.  As an educator the author educates her reader's through the book about fetuses development to teenage years and the science as well as psychology perspective behind it.
3) I personally chose this book because it is one of my interest in psychology and it has benefits in educating myself with the importance of development with children today. This book came across to me in my child psychology class that I take in high school and so it has my attention. There is no doubt that when I started reading the book I wasn't going to stop after that. My incentive is my curiosity about my childhood and also that of others.
4) This book is realistic because the information inside is known around the world, documents are presented,  names, and places are also included. Much more information is given to have me believe the author knows what she is talking about. After reading a few chapter's I made plenty of connections to when i was a child myself, it helped me understand some of my incentives as a child.

People
1) So far in my evaluation of the author telling it from a research point of view there are little interpretations of the author's opinion or view. If we met the subjects spoken i believe it would be the same as it tells in the book. It's good to put in one's own experience if it is connected to written topic and so I think the author did no only that but because her degree in psychology she is eligible for say.
2) Sigmund Freud is the founder of the psychoanalytic theory and is an Austrian physician who did much experience on his clinical patients who had mental illnesses. The picture represented for him shows his to be an older version of him. As a fictional character he would be a mad man himself working in the intelligence department of psychology.
Erik Erikson is the stage theorists of Psychosocial from Germany and wondered through Italy. He was criticized much for his experiments were mostly on his own children. As a fictional character I would imagine a mad scientist almost like Frankenstein.
3) I chose these two people because they are main root to this books teaching. Their theories are the root as the tree grows into more and more branches of information linked to them. They are important to practically the whole department of psychology.
Update
1) Indirect- "Psychoanalytic theory would say that the infant would love whatever satisfied it's oral needs, and behaviorism would predict that the infant would become attached to whatever provided reinforcing food."
Direct- "This boy is 14 months old, in the sensorimotor period, and at an age when he loves to experiment."
         - "Vygotsky did not attain their conducted in Stalinist Russia, was largely inaccessible to the Western world and partly because he died young, at age 38."
2) Indeed the author's syntax change when describing each character in the book because she does go into depth about each character. The tone of voice can seem more interested depending on how much information is expressed according to the authors belief.
3) The author shows static characterization throughout the whole book unless she puts her own thought into the subject in connection than the protagonist becomes dynamic. Round characterization is expressed in the writing because as a reader I focus on understanding the main stage theorists in the book.
4) I did feel connection through this book for example in the beginning of the chapter it explains, "Stage four, which occurs from about 8 months to 1 year, is sometimes called 'the means to the end,' because babies now think about a goal and begin to understand how to reach it." It blows my mind to know that babies can do this, up to being an adult we all do this, it may be basic but thinking that an infant's brain can accumulate its power ton already think this way! Like Woah!
Style
1) The author was straight forward and the form of writing was research. Many documents and character's, other psychologist perspectives, experiments from other's, many other resources are included.
2)Everything the author has to write about is lengthy, especially characters who are important to the moral of the chapters. This gives me a safety net for me to believe the author knows what she is talking about. The evidence is there and out expressing itself as it is.
3) The tone of the author is directive, no change of excitement or anything , very straight forward and gives much information to get her own point across on each chapter.
4) The tone with the subjects is informational i could say, towards the reader's very direct and content to give her knowledge through the book and the reader.
5) The types of resources were short biographies of theorists, psychologists, university experiments, connections to other studies and more people. This helped me engage myself into the information given like i was so tuned it was intriguing.
Enduing Memory
The theorists in the book described will always remain in the back of my head because my future studies will rely on it and it helped me mentally to think about how to react in my own scenarios through life. Even when i have kids in my future I think some important notes that I have taken on this book is relevant to current situations. One experiment that stood out to me was the monkey and how it had been tested to go to a robotic mom or a monkey mother like figure out of folded gauze diapers. The monkeys had attached themselves to the gauze figure surprisingly. Interesting because the conclusion came to advise caregivers to cradle and cuddle right when they baby starts to cry. In definite i will keep studying more developmental psychology and I know somehow this information I kept in my head is going to be needed later on.

My vocabulary #2

Insolate: bizarre, étrange, extraordinaire

(To be mature means to face, and not evade)

Abrasive: showing little concern for the feelings of others

(A devil child shows abrasive attitude)

Unarmed Combatant: means any person who engages in unarmed combat.

(Joseph is typically known as an unarmed combatant)

Laceration: a deep cut or tear, esp. in skin; a gash

(Joe was called for the standing eight count because the opponent had a laceration)

Commission: means the applicable athletic commission or regulatory body overseeing the bouts,

 exhibitions or competitions of mixed martial arts

(Bocing and kickbocing are commisins included of the arts)

Kimura: Pinning their body with your legs to prevent them from rolling out, you create a figure four with your arms and torque their shoulder.

(That rated -R movie scene with the hot girl on the hot guy is similar to a kimura position)

Surge: move quickly, quick rush towards a particular direction

(Every human is surging on the 14th day of the second  month in search of a valentine)

Uchikomi: (Repetition training) is a term borrowed from Kendo, and is used in Judo to refer to the repeated practice of a throwing motion up to the point where the throw would actually be executed

(When self defending from a direct hit Uchikomi is can be helpful at one point of the throw)

Uke: (受け) is in Japanese martial arts the person who "receives" a technique

(Many young uke's are the great future success in self-defense)

Colloquial: Informal speech

(The cost of having a school with teacher's is ridiculous when the state revealed how colloquial the children's speech is)

Cerebellum: the part of the brain that coordinates smoothness, timing and accuracy to movements.

(When self defending the cerebellumis in first to show reaction and is what help's save one from dangerous moments thanks to it)

Sub-optimally- sloppy or slow

("There is no time for sub-optimally students and if that's the case, Get Out!!")

Plethora- a very large amount or number

(The paragon is a well known jiu jitsu course and clearly have recruited a plethora of people)

Threadbare- Worn out and shabby

(Threadbare in places and the room smelled stale and dirty)

Halcyon- rich; wealthy; prosperous: halcyon times of peace. 3. happy; joyful; carefree

(Halcyon time that today's cast can only hope but aspire too?)

Charisma- a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people

(On the other hand, Jesus wins support through sheer charisma)

Stint- supply an ungenerous or inadequate amount of something

(Once in China, he began a nine year stint of meditation in front of a wall at the Shaolin Temple.)

Degradation- Shame; indignity

(Perhaps the classic example here is global environmental degradation)

Clinch- lean on and hold one's opponent instead of fighting

(Amateurs clinch title in style WHITEHAVEN)

Evade-Escape or avoid

(Excuse me,I don't mean to invade your privacy?)

 

 

 

WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Boxing takes disciplines in...
Physics
History
Psychology
Kinesiology
Athletic Injuries
Therapy
Chiropractor
Emotional Development
Cause and effect
politics
Culture
Energy
Skillfully and amateur boxing
Styles of fighting
Philosophical point of view in mixed martial art sports
Fitness
Emotional development
Forms of contact
Focus
Putting in time full time
Traditional MMA disciplines are usually Stand up, Clinch, and Ground

Resource 1

"Chronological events that
occurred in women's boxing.."
While women's boxing can loosely trace it beginnings to London in the 1720's, throughout the ensuing decades, there were various exhibitions and scattered bouts until the 1950's when several fighters, most notably Barbara Buttrick, JoAnn Hagen (Verhaegen), and Phyllis Kugler staged professional fights. The sport rekindled again in the 1970s thanks to the efforts of several important trailblazers. The 1970's, in particular, were highlighted by many women’s boxing "firsts" including many states lifting bans for women to box; issuing "first time" boxing licenses, sanctioning boxing matches; and the various commissions approving more than four rounds for women’s bouts.

1720′s

London: First-staged women fights. The women would punch, use their feet and knee lifting/kicking to all parts of their opponents body. They also could maul, scratch and throw. This resulted in serious injury for either or both fighters. In other reports, in London in 1722 at the Boarded House, near what is now Oxford Circus, Elizabeth Wilkinson, the Cockney Championess, defeated Martha Jones.

1876

Susan Cahn in “Coming on strong, gender and equality in 20th century sport” notes a match between Nell Saunders and Rose Harland in 1876 at Hills Theater in NYC. they supposedly fought for a silver butter dish. This was considered the first women’s match in the United States. 

1880’s

 First regulations applied to the sport of boxing.

1904

Boxing was introduced at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis. Women’s boxing was a displayed event at the third Olympic games.

1920’s

Boxing part of the physical training of young ladies in Boston.

1923

La Mar receives FIRST boxing Licence in New Jersey, more to be posted soon.

1954

 Barbara Buttrick, one of the most famous women’s boxers of all-time, became the first female boxer to have her fight broadcast on national television.

 January 1975

 Chairman Edwin B. Dooley and asked to be granted permission to judge pro fights. A week later, he wrote back and said that he would give her a hearing. SHAIN entered the hearing room on Jan. 6, 1975, and found out the next day that she had an unanimous vote to be a judge. Her first professional fight that she judged on was on the  eve of Thanksgiving in 1975. Two years later, Sept. 29, 1977, she was at ringside in Madison Square Garden judging her first World championship bout with Muhammad Ali vs. Earnie Shavers. SHAIN WAS THE FIRST FEMALE JUDGE TO WORK A WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT. It was also the first time a woman judge Worked a professional fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden. SHAIN earned a place in the Guinness Book of Sports Records and eventually became the subject of a Trivial Pursuit question.   Eva Shain lost her battle with cancer in August of 1999.

 1975  -1978 (Boxing Licenses)

 In 1975, Caroline Svendsen receives a  boxing license in the United States in the state of Nevada, and has a sanctioned boxing match in a scheduled four-rounder in Virginia City, Nevada. In 1976, boxer  Pat Pineda s the first woman to be licensed in the California; and in 1978, after an on-going lawsuit in the state of New York, three high-profile women boxers, Cathy “Cat” Davis,  Jackie Tonawanda, and  Marian “Lady Tyger” Trimiar receive their boxing licenses. There are many women who had received first-time licenses during this period, but these particular historical licensing events initiate a flurry of publicity that in turn encouraged other women to join the sport. (WBAN has found that the first boxing license to be issued was in 1923 to boxer Jeanne La Mar.

1977

Boxing ban lifted after almost 100 years since a professional boxing match had been held in Fayetteville, NC Boxing had been illegal in Cumberland County from 1880 until early in 1977 when the ban on the sport was lifted. November 1977, first female bout, Cathy “Cat” Davis vs. Margie Dunson.

 1979  – (Increased Rounds)

 Shirley “Zebra Girl” Tucker challenges the state of California to increase the number of rounds women could fight. Tucker was backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, and ultimately was able to force the California Commission to change their regulations which at the time forbade female fighters from fighting more than four rounds.

February 1982

JILL LAFLER, a 19-year-old Lansing Community College student, who wanted to be Michigan’s first female Golden Gloves contestant and had filed a lawsuit to win that chance, dropped her lawsuit. LAFLER had lost an early round of her lawsuit when the U.S. District Judge Wendell Miles ruled against her. Even though LAFLER dropped her lawsuit, it was noted that it had opened up a lot of eyes, and they realized that the (state) agency needed some type of need for governing body regulations on women’s boxing.

April 27, 1987

Former World Women’s Lightweight Marian “Lady Tyger” Trimiar stages a well-publicized month long hunger strike, losing nearly 30 lbs., for the rights of women’s boxing and to advocate better money and conditions for professional female boxers—even though she is protesting for others and not herself. Trimiar and others direct their picketing to the promoters at the time who are putting on televised cards. Trimiar tells the media, “Unless women get more recognition, we will be fighting just as a novelty for the rest of our lives. There will be no future.” 

April 16, 1992

 After eight-years in court in Massachusetts, Gail Grandchamp of North Adams, Massachusetts wins her battle to fight as in a ruling by a state Superior Court judge who rules it was illegal to deny someone a chance to box based on gender. During her battle to win the right to box as an amateur, she passes the age of 36, the maximum age for amateur fighters. Even though she knew it would not help her as an amateur, Grandchamp continues her successful efforts, and eventually did box professionally for a time.

October 1993

USA Boxing didn’t recognize female boxers until 1993, and only then after losing a landmark court case. USA Boxing’s Board of Governor, after a judge rules in favor of Malloy, passes legislation to implement and support the concept of female boxing. First amateur female bout held in the ellingham, Washington, with Dallas Malloy winning in a split decision. (TL Fox uncovered previous sanctioned amateur fights that actually occurred in Minnesota in 1978 – to set the record straight!)

March 1993

Dallas Malloy, at 16 years old, became the first female to challenge USA Boxing’s bylaw that did not allow women to compete, and sues them in federal court for gender discrimination. Malloy wins her case, which generates both national and international publicity. Malloy and Heather Poyner become the first to fight in the state of Washington in a sanctioned amateur bout. Even though Malloy was determined to pursue boxing, she stopped boxing in the next year, declaring that it was “boring.”  (It should be noted that this event has been portrayed in the news media as a “history first” for women boxing in amateurs, but WBAN has actually dated sanctioned amateur boxing for women boxers in Minnesota, in 1978).

June 1993

JO-ANNE V NEWMAN  of Aiken County was recognized as the FIRST WOMAN TO REFEREE AN AMATEUR BOXING MATCH AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL JUNIOR OLYMPICS.   NEWMAN was  the first and only woman referee in South Carolina to hold multiple state offices, including the South Carolina Junior Olympic Chairman, a position that she had been elected to since 1991.

October 1993

 USA Boxing adopts rules and regulations implementing women’s amateur boxing into its amateur boxing program.

 1995

 Daily News Golden Gloves: In 1995, the New York Daily News Golden Gloves tournament includes women in their event for the first time. An amateur female boxer, Dee Hamaguchi, is credited for breaking this barrier, allowing this event to become a breeding ground for future professional world champions. In 1994, Dee had applied to fight in this tournament without revealing that she was a female, mailing in her entry form using the initial “D”, without giving away her gender. Unfortunately Dee did not get her schedule for the physical exam and did not participate.

1996

 The four-day amateur tournament in Augusta is a result of USA Boxing reaction to the increase in the number of women boxers. The spurt occurred after a Seattle-area woman’s successful suit against the organization in 1991 for the right to compete. In 1993, women were recognized as members by USA Boxing, and today, membership has grown to 763 registered participants, compared with 340 in late 1996.

 March 15, 1996

 Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty: Considered by many to be the birth of modern professional women’s boxing, the two staged a bloody six-round slugfest clearly impressing those ringside and a world wide pay-per-view audience, upstaging Mike Tyson’s easy win over Frank Bruno. A flood of worldwide coverage follows, including weeks later a Sports Illustrated cover story on Martin. Sadly, while Martin could have easily carried the torch for the sport, she makes it perfectly clear through many public comments she is not an advocate for women’s boxing in general, but instead is only in the sport for one person – herself.

November 1996

Amateur Boxing Association of England voted in favor of lifting the 116-year ban against women boxing. Not everyone is in agreement with allowing girls as young as ten to spar in gyms and to take part in competition.

July 1997

 USA Boxing’s first ever Women’s National Championships.

February 1998 (Lawsuit in UK)

 Landmark lawsuit: Britain Jane “The Fleetwood Assassin” Couch takes the British Boxing Board of Control to task for sex discrimination over their refusal to grant her a license to fight in the UK. Couch who had been denied a boxing license since June 1997, and had to come to the United States in order to box, was relentless in her battle to face the BBC in this denial of her right to box. Couch wins the right to “fight” and in Streatham, UK, on November 25, 1998, stops German Simona Lukic in the second round.                                    

 October 1999  (Woman vs. Man)

 What was billed as the “first” sanctioned bout between a man and a woman takes place in Seattle, Washington. Margaret McGregor faces male boxer Loi Chow in a fight scheduled for four two-minute rounds. This event took on international presence, and brought to the surface many troubling issues in the world of women’s boxing. After all of the hoopla was over, it was determined that the fight would be considered an “exhibition” and therefore was far from being the “first” of mixed matches that have taken place off and on throughout the history of women’s boxing.                                    

 October 1999

 Muhammad Ali’s Daughter, Laila “She-Bee Stingin” Ali, 21, makes her pro debut at the Turning Stone Casino, in Verona, New York. The news coverage leading up to this bout, and the media attention since she has gotten into the sport has surpassed any of the coverage of any one boxer on the scene in the past, and/or in the present. Her most significant fight — and the sports most significant fight since Martin-Gogarty — comes June 8, 2001, when 8,000 fans and hundreds of media trek to upstate New York, for Ali-Frazier IV, a showdown with Jacqui Frazier, daughter of longtime Ali archrival Joe Frazier. The two silence many critics with their spirited and entertaining eight-round bout, won by Ali. The fight draws more than 100,000 pay-per-view buys, again surprising the experts.

August 2012 - 2012 Summer Olympics in London

Women for the first time are included in the Olympics, three weight classes.

 http://www.hotboxingnews.com/historywomensboxing.htm

This information has opened my mind to see how far back woman's boxing goes back. With this information I will be looking more into individual bio's from women and some philosophy behind women and boxing. I did find this resource on duckduckgo.com!

Launch!

My passion is driven towards the perception of self-defense. I want to expand my knowledge as much as I can about four types of self-defense, which are boxing, kickboxing, Brazilian jujitsu, and mixed martial arts. Learning these techniques and sport will profound awareness around me and I would like to take my future skills at another level and teach others about its importance and the positive effects it results in. I have gotten feedback that it is a great idea. I can start by researching for articles, documents, historical events, instructors, programs of training, etc. The blog can be a reliant resource to show out to the world and spread the word. It can invite people who are interested and my passion will soon be explicitly expressed with additional gadgets that will be available on the blog. In order for me to start my goal is to begin participating myself and get a taste of experience in one of these categories for starters. This will help inspire my blog and by June of graduation I will have been enrolled in some sport while have started the blog. Convincing myself that this plan will go accordingly will be to, "Walk the walk." Put myself in reality and interact, communicate with my peer's, interview professionals and share the idea of self-defense. It is a passion that drives not only me, I will be speaking out there to whom can relate.
"What if," is my conscious but not my gut so therefore If I love what I do, nothing will stop me! This Idea is possible with the right training, support, guidance, and skill. All this would come from my three list of expertise: peer's, public, and expert's will be helping me perfect my idea to reality. Then, will I have a backup to support my idea and realize it is becoming a reality.

Vocabuary #1

Convey- To take from one place to another or to take
(For him to find peace he shall convey from his past and fix it for the future.)
Proficient- Skilled in doing something
(My best friend is quite proficient in math statistics.)
Pugilist- A boxer, usually a professional one
(My former collogue is a Pugilist well known underground.)
Effeminacy- Weakness and excessive refinement
(Storm shower's are becoming more effeminacy as they move along the coast.)
Congenial- Person, place, or environment that is pleasant
(Hawaii is known to have a relaxing perfect vacation congenial.)
Agile- Quickness, nimble, Alert
(Angela is Agile to reprimand bad behavior coming from her son)
Scalawags- A rascal; a young person who causes trouble
(When adult's were children, they would commonly be known as Minnie scalawags)
Scant- Falling short on specific measure; scarce in quantity
(Chicken tender's are always scant in the lunchrooms when kids are always begging for more.)
Implementation- Carrying out, execution, or practice of a plan
(I will implement to revoke the law of liberty.)
Supremacists- A person believing whites are better than any other race
(I still here stories about supremacists in our 20th century)
Eulogized- Speech/writing in praise of a person
(The Buddhist God is eulogized highly in books by representatives and passed on through most countries)
Prodigious- Very big or powerful; extraordinary
(The government in Cuba is prodigious by having the central power.)
Pulverize- to demolish or crush into powder
(The brand new land that Johnny now owns is filled with old crops, so he plans to pulverize it so he can grow new ones.)
Fascism- System of government where dictator is in control
(Millions of people died in WWII, to defeat fascism.)
Lamented- Someone passed away and has been mourned for
(Lamenting our passed lovers, it is common to dwell and prepare ceremonies in honor of them)
Pedagogue- Strict educator or by the book's
(Mr. Dallas is known to be the pedagogue of Santa high school.)
Acrimony- Hostility/ bitterness in someone's overall demeanor
(Jenn shows acrimony towards her worst enemies.)
Nonsencial- Absurd, preposterous (Polish translation)
("Noncencial! How dare you underestimate the great King John III!")
Hone- Fine grained, hard stone used to sharpen cutting tools
(Honed over forty years, is a rare opportunity)
Depicted- Represented by picture or sculptor
(Juidih is depicted for her art class)