Update on my Book

I am currently reading the autobiography "The Laws of the Ring" by Urijah Faber. For the background story, the book is about a fighters life. Urijah faber is an MMA fighter that is currently a top contender in the Bantamweight division in the UFC. In the intro of the book he talks about his very first MMA fight against an already professional fighter. Urijah used a very good use of imagery, he went in depth on how the atmosphere was for his first fight. Urijah had everything alligned for a bright future after he graduated out of UC Davis, but he decided to follow his dreams and participate in what seemed to be a sport referred as "human cockfighting". In this book the chapters Urijah talks about his own take on life, or the laws of the ring. The laws don't relatively apply to a person that wants to be successful in cage fighting but can also be applied to the average person. He really motivates me and I am really hooked on the book, I really enjoy reading the background of a fighter and what he went through personally. This book also shows that MMA fighters are not just cavemen that are uneducated and just knock each other out but actual intellectual people.

 

Senior Project progress report

My senior project is going well. I already started my MMA training about a week ago since I had to wait to learn to go back into sports by my doctor. Training consists of some warm ups, hitting the heavy bag, mitt work with a partner, and at the end some grappling. I felt really good up to the kicking part. I really need to work on the technique because I feel awkward kicking with my right leg. One thing that I found out was that I am an orthodox (left hand is the lead one) but I'm more comfortable with my kicks when I am in my southpaw stance. Besides the all the training; I have been researching more on nutritional plans that MMA fighters do. I want to build my own though; I want to get some guidance from both my trainer and some books I can get. I'm planning to start typing my senior paper over the break. I have the outline and sources to do it. In the future I plan to have passed the 20 hour mark because I really like training in MMA and I also plan to have my diet plan up ready to go through.

"Change of Heart About Animals" response

Dear Jeremy Rifkin,

            In your article, “A Change of Heart About Animals", you state that we are finding out that animals are very much like humans and that we should change the way we treat them. I have to completely agree with you on this; it's very inhumane to treat animals like they are inferior to us even though they are showing many human like qualities. Many people are looking through the abilities that animals have, like Koko the gorilla that was taught 1,000 words in sign language and understands several English words. These characteristics can not be overlooked and should be brought to the people's attention.
             We should stop right in our tracks and try to work out some sort of a solution. Animals are like humans; we both show emotions towards our lives. We should all show animals respect for the skills and abilities they obtain. For me it’s very interesting all these things that animals can do. I’ve had many pets the one that sticks out the most were two birds that were together. I remembered that when they were together one would always chirp so much, but one time a cat went into the room where we kept them and ate one of the birds. From then on the bird never chirped and wasn’t as active as she use to be. This just showed me that animals have emotions just like us.

My Senior Project

My senior project is on MMA. My research paper is on how MMA has become a mainstream sport in the world and what it takes to become an MMA fighter. For my field work I'm training in MMA classes and having some sort of a program like an actual fighter. My program will consist of a calender containing what I will be training like: Upper body morning and stand up training (boxing,kickboxing,ect..) one day and the others will vary. Another part will be my nutritional program, nutrition and what you put in your body is vital to a fighter's performance. For that program I will take from professional nutritionists that help MMA fighters, ask my coaches, and my friend who just won his first amateur fight. I am returning to my training because I had an injury requiring surgery about 6 months ago and I have been wanting to MMA for a very long time, so why not do it for my senior project. So far I have not started my hours because I start this Tuesday. I'm starting late because I tore my meniscus and got surgery to fix it, now I'm cleared to play any sport. Being cleared doesn't mean I'm 100% though, I feel 100% mentally but there is some muscle building I need to do so it can be back where I was. I want to also cover what goes into MMA, not just what people see on T.V. I want to write about how long it took MMA to become what it is today and some of the backgrounds of fighters to show that they're not just dumb people knocking each others heads off. Well I can not wait to start training like a fighter and see what they actually go through in training sessions and they're grueling diets.