Heros, i still got some

ok, here we go....

this weekend is gonna be big!(well for me) we got on saturday night UFC 111, my boy george "rush" st. peierre against dan "the outlaw" hardy. a good scrap if your watching the hype build up. st. peierre should smack this brit around as hardy is nowhere near the level that our canadian boy is at, but..........george has shown, in the past a relaxed attitude towards opponents that are considered HUGE underdogs and on one ocassion been the victum of what many consider the biggest upset in mma history when at UFC 67 an underdog named matt "the terra" serra whumped st. peierre's ass. serra was a huge long shot in that fight and drove the bookies and betters bonkers in vegas. i was one of the very and i mean very few that gave matt serra a shot at winning. if you are looking at the odds in vegas right now on the fight and have a few extra bucks that you might want to blow, bet it on hardy! the pay off will be HUGE!!!! if the brit can pull it off.

the second big of the weekend is WRESTLEMANIA 26. i know i know, wrestling? come on, what??? hey i've been a wrestling fan for as long as there has been a wrestlemania! i live for this shit! i can't tell you how much influence wrestling
has had on my fighting life. i dreamed of being a wrestler all my life but instead chose the "real" world of combat sports in the form of professional kickboxing and boxing. but i always thought of myself as a preformer going out there and giving the crowd what they wanted to see...an action packed match. hell even my barber is an ex wreslter, "terrible" terry morgan! me and him have some great conversations when i go visit him and he's always blown away by how much of a student of the history and backstage stories i am. but the BIG reason this weekend is so special for me is that on this particular westlemania there is a return to the ring from a very famous canadian and a hero of mine...Bret "Hitman" Hart. this guy is my absolute hero and i would probable gush like a little school girl if i ever got to meet him! he represents our great country everywhere he goes is an embassador of good will and an all around nice guy. i thought when he got into the hall of fame years ago, that that would be the last time anyone ever saw of the hitman.

so in ending this blog post, welcome back bret! in a world that has forgot what it was like to be a kid and have a hero. it is great that a retired professional kickboxer can sit back on a sunday evening with my son and watch a hero step into the ring one more time and remember why i ever wanted to step into a squared cicle in the first place!

until next time....
hands up, chin down, and keep on fighting!

ok, here we go....

what a weekend eh?! lets see...we dominated the ice rink...again and took our rightfull spot as kings/queens of the hockey mountain. served notice to all other nations and our government about our small dedicated athletes are for real and should be supported. i don't think there was a person in this country that didn't at some point over the last few weeks tune into the olympic games. we at the allcanadian fitness studio had the games on from the begin of it right up to the closing ceremonies. what an imense feeling of pride i had watching the opening/closing cerimonies and a select few events. not to mention a few of the athletes were pretty damn hot! i love spandex....on the ladies!

that was just the end of the weekend for me as i took one of my fighters to a match in london as well on the sunday afternoon. this particular time out i had my newer fighter tyler livingstone matched up with a tough young fighter from the "PURE BREED" gym in lampton on. this match was explosive from the start as both boys exploded out of the gates and proceeded to hurl shot and kick after shot and kick at each other. my boy tyler had me worried for a bout a second when his head was snapped back acouple of times during the first few seconds of the match. but as per usual my boys weather the early onslaught of attcks, and then proced to open up their own can of got somethin for ya! tyler waided in with some heavy low kicks to decimate his opponents legs and force his opponent to be tko'd at the begining of the second round.

what is amazing about this particular fight was that up until sundays match, tyler was on a 3 fight losing skid and had yet to win a thaiboxing match. now most of the time people that think they want to fight have a match, lose and then they are never seen from again. this drives us trainers nuts as we have put just as much time into training the athletes as they have themselves. but tyler was diffrent, he trained harder each time he lost a match, determined to better his results next time round. he never cried to me about his loss...something that seems to be the norm these days for fighters.(since when was it cool to cry after you lost a fight?) we just buckled down and put our work in that much harder the following day. i remember sitting by myself just before he was to head to the ring and one of our teammates asked if i was ok? i told him i was but i was nervous for tyler as i had seen how hard he was training and wanted this win for him so so bad.

nothing can explain the feeling of fullfillment a coach gets when all the hard work is done and the goal is reached. unless you've been there your self you don't know the feeling. seeing tylers face after the ref waived it off was a moment that will stay with me for a long, long time! it's not about the championships i win with my boys , it's the moments like sundays match that i live for! seeing someone lose and comeback stronger better and more deternimd than every is amazing!

a big congrates to my boy tyler, you did yourself, your gym and your coach so proud, enjoy the moment and feeling. there is nothing like it in the world.

love, respect, and believe.

until next time....
hands up, chin down, and keep on fighing!