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Subject: Let’s hear some of your funniest training stories. Author: James Speight [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:28:16 04/07/04 Wed Let’s hear some of your funniest training stories, or something that made you think. Steve i know you have a few. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Let’s hear some of your funniest training stories. Author: Phil "Wild Boar" Rhodes [Edit] Date Posted: 00:33:26 04/08/04 Thu "Funny"??? You want "FUNNY" training stories??? Let me tell you something buddy... Training is NOT "funny"... training is serious business... training is no time to have "fun", ok? Training is life, training is death, training is everything... You don't make "fun" when you're in the gym / dojo / training hall / whatever. The mat is no place for "funny." you want "funny" go to a freakin' comedy show and listen to Dennis Miller. You want "funny" watch a budweiser commercial. Ok, J/K'ing... just because I couldn't think of any funny stories to tell, and I had to say something. :-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: OK Phil “wild bore” Rhodes. Author: James "should keep mouth closed" Speight [Edit] Date Posted: 02:21:25 04/08/04 Thu Dude you had me going I had already wrote about a paragraph of questions for a type of person that wouldn’t enjoy a little fun with his training. I try to have some fun. I was saying this Rhodes guy is a real a$$ and I think he is also a *&^%*% and if I.... then I read the bottom of your post, that’s really funny Phil “wild bore” Rhodes. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Don’t come looking for me Phil... Author: James Speight [Edit] Date Posted: 02:30:38 04/08/04 Thu Don’t come looking for me Phil, I am a real small man, I scare easy and have a bladder problem. Just joking my bladder is fine. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: OK Phil “wild bore” Rhodes. Author: Phillip Rhodes [Edit] Date Posted: 12:05:04 04/08/04 Thu Dude you had me going I had already wrote about a paragraph of questions for a type of person that wouldn’t enjoy a little fun with his training. I try to have some fun. I was saying this Rhodes guy is a real a$$ and I think he is also a *&^%*% and if I.. LOL... I almost posted that without the disclaimer at the bottom... in other words, a shameless troll attempt.. :-) but the better part of my nature kicked in and I decided not to be a troll for today... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Would you like a chop with that? Author: Steve [Edit] Date Posted: 23:00:21 04/09/04 Fri LMAO @ you guys. Man, I have a ton of stories. As you know, I reside in the redneck capital of the world. It sure helps a lot that I am a redneck myself. There are plenty of good ol' boys around here who have made me chuckel a few times over the years. Here is one real quick... Back when I first started training and knew very little about grappling (not much has changed...;)) the guys I worked out with were up to almost anything to get some real time fight experience in. My brother was around 15-16 at the time and he was working out with me regularly. One day a couple of friends who I hadn't seen in a while came to the house an we were talking trash to each other in the yard. My friend Paul aka "Pure Hell", who was a wild MFer that liked a good scrap back in the day, was itching to wrestle. So, like the good brother that I am, I throw my younger brother into the mix with him. Now, my brother was about 5 ft 10 and 170 lbs at the time. Paul was like 5 ft 8 and about the same weight. Paul has always been a little fireplug with amazing strength. He played football for a number of years in school. These two lock up and end up wrestling on the feet for several minutes, wearing each other out. They end up getting into an upper body clinch. My brother gets a good body lock and tries to work an outside trip. Paul counters and ends up falling into my brothers closed guard. At the time, we knew squat about guard work other than we DID NOT want to be on the bottom. We mainly used this as a position to try and wear our opponent down rather than using an offensive guard. So my brother has Paul in the closed guard and is holding it extremely tight, trying to make him lose his wind. At this point, both guys are tired and my brother is as red as a tomato. Our family is from a Irish background and my brother collected all the traits of a good irishman, red hair-pale skin-freckles...the whole nine. So when he works out, it looks like he has been baking in the sun all day...red as a freaking beet. Anyways, the strain on both guys is evident. My brother is squeezing the body scissors for dear life and Paul is trying to work his way out of it. In a desperate attempt to escape the hold, Paul reaches down and squeezes my brother around the waist and lifts him off the ground into a POWER BOMB aka slamming from the guard position. My brother, red faced and with intensity showing through, lets out the most vicious Ric Flair war yell you could ever imagine! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! He proceeds to lay into Paul's chest with the stiffest open hand chops you could ever imagine. It sounded like a chopper thump-thump-thumping as it sets down on a landing pad. He ends up getting off like 4-5 good chops before he comes crashing down to the ground. His WHOOO turned to URGHH as the air rushed out of him. Thus ended the match with an audience chorus of laughter and howls of, "DAAAAAYYYYUUUUUUUMMM!!!" It was cool. Pink Hill was represented well that day. LOL! I have some good ones about local boy challenge matches as well. I could write a book about this stuff. Steve [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: MR. 21 and 0 Author: Ses [Edit] Date Posted: 19:09:20 04/10/04 Sat A young mexican (Race is relevant to story) fighter walks into the gym one day and say's that he was 21-0 as a golden gloves boxer......he spoke only spanish during the intro and had serious accent. I know enough words to get through a training session and to corner a hispanic fighter. I was training 3 pros at the time and didn't have time to work with this day so I Told him to do 3 rounds of Jump rope (which had a hard time doing-he said where he comes from in Mexico they don't have physical fitness programs in schools (damn!) / 3 rounds of shadow boxing / 3 rounds of Bag work / 3 rounds of bob-n-weave on a hanging rope.......all of this he does at his own pace and at the end of the workout--he yells to me in best English accent I've ever heard "This is the toughest S*** I have ever done." I never saw him again.......The story is funny to me because noone laid a hand on this guy. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: The Tupperware Party Author: James Speight [Edit] Date Posted: 22:06:25 04/10/04 Sat I was asked to watch a couple of my wife’s friend’s kids, during a Tupperware or some kind of party, a brother and sister, and another male kid. I let the parent’s know I had a kids class and they said “oh that wrestling thing” “well he took karate, he will be ok” “ the other parent said “My son takes TKD, he will be alright” well I had the parents sigh the waivers, I was just glad that I didn’t have to go the “party”. These kids were real funny; they looked like they had fun. but they were gassed, and When we got ready to spar I set the new kids out, but they were determined to get in there. One Kid, wanted to know if he would hit Jay, now this is without gloves and protective gear. I told him no, then he started “but this is how I train.” I told him no, but he did it anyway. My son parried a front cross, and step back. The kid stopped and grinned and said “He stepped back” I had to laugh. “what do you want him to do, stand there” The new boys talked all the way home in my car, “that was the worst class I have ever been in, all they wanted to do was choke, and break your arms” and “if I could have stayed on my feet, I may have been able to do something” “I think I could have done better on the street” “My Master said never go to the ground, now I know why” The little girl loved it, go figure. And the little girl said “I loved this class I want to come back” the boys said “Not me, I don’t like it, they are going to break something.” [ Post a Reply to This Message ]