{"id":1247,"date":"2008-03-18T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2019-10-27T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:40:19","slug":"fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/18\/fight-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Fighter&#8217;s Heart<\/span> by Sam Sheridan at the airport on the way back from VA. I&#8217;m nearly through it already, a quick and easy read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheridan has fought in several different styles over the last decade or so. He attaches himself to an intensive gym in Muay Thai, MMA, Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, or whatever &#8230; trains for three to six months &#8230; and then tries to convince his trainer to find him a money fight at the appropriate level. He funds this habit by writing for the Men&#8217;s Journal, Sports Illustrated, and so on. It&#8217;s sort of a one-man <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Human Weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like his writing style, as well as his stated reasons for stepping into the ring again and again. A few of his off-the-cuff comments are totally dead on with my experiences to date. One that I keep coming back to is his description of grappling, the &#8220;ground game:&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There is nothing so frightening as being on the ground with a guy who really knows what he&#8217;s doing; it&#8217;s like being in the water with a shark. You&#8217;re struggling, desperate, trying to escape, and suddenly you can&#8217;t breathe, you&#8217;re smothered, and you can&#8217;t see, your arms are getting twisted off, and you &#8220;tap&#8221; and then it&#8217;s all over.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, broadly speaking, has been my experience rolling with any of the skilled guys at the judo school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up A Fighter&#8217;s Heart by Sam Sheridan at the airport on the way back from VA. I&#8217;m nearly through it already, a quick and easy read. Sheridan has fought in several different styles over the last decade or so. He attaches himself to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}