Thursday Blitz

Just some snippets of interest:

Ross Training has a good video of a young Tyson training, and the work ethic that made him the youngest heavyweight champ ever. Equally as impressive is how quick he fell when the work ethic changed. Training lesson there?

Scott Phillips had a great post I want to make sure you don't miss: Rough and Tumble. Great information on consensual fighting in colonial-era America. Read it, and realize how lucky you are to have MMA/NHB now, as opposed to "wrasslin" then! Good stuff!

Bob Patterson has a very good Striking Thoughts post on the Wing Chun similarities to push hands.

Semper Fi! Charles James posts about the debt that Isshinryu practitioners owe to the U.S. Marines who contributed to the incubation this great art:

"If not for the Marine Corps and if not for the dedicated students, all Marines, there would never have been Isshinryu. Even if it were created it would have possibly died on the vine with out that participation from the Marines who joined his class. Those Marines who helped to start it all fostered a relationship between Soke and the Marine Corps. They got him the contract to teach Marines, they helped to build the dojo where they practiced, and they brought it to other Marines through out the world and especially in the United States."

Via Military Motivator

Justice served! Read.

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