[James Funaro]

Some video of the sparring:


Me vs a guy that trains at Sitydong in Boston I think, kickboxing rules:




Me vs him MMA:




Me vs a guy from, somewhere, I don't know, pankration rules:

[James Funaro]

I had just met these guys so we went at it a bit but stayed nicey nice a bit, just good sparring. This is all that got recorded.

I see I have been keeping my hands down which is a bad habit from trying to work my head movement so much I think. When I was working that I would put my hands down to entice people to hit my head, and so I would get a lot of practice in head movement in.
Also, I need to pull my kicks back faster and hit harder. I am pulling my kicks for some reason and this slows them down and allows them to be caught or countered easily I imagine.

[James Funaro]

Had a boxing workout the other night where we started with square one. Just lots of detail spent on hand position, foot position, foot work, stance, and all that stuff I should have down pat anyway.
Then some conditioning mostly for my shoulders, goal is to keep my hands up.

[James Funaro]

Today we had an open training session that got about 20 guys total to come down and spar.
Had a lot of boxing rounds in with 2 guys who went hard and gained a lot of good experience.
Should be meeting up with a group hopefully at least everyother week now to work on everything with guys from different schools.

Did well with my head movement and avoiding punches compared to a few months ago, was able to land my jab well, but hands drop and I get tired, I get hit. Only way to fix it is to keep on sparring and get my conditioning in.

[James Funaro]

2 hour BJJ today.
A good amount of time rolling (38 minutes total in rounds) and did well. Positionally controlled and submitted the whites and other blues.
Was also a purple's bitch lol.

Attacked from sidemount mostly and worked the keylock/kimura. Focused on isolating the far arm from sidemount and then trapping the near arm between my legs, then just going back and forth slowly until I got what I wanted from one of the arms.

Against the purple I kept getting NS'ed and gi choked a lot. I couldn't move his base at all, I usually feel like crap from bottom NS so I obviously need to work on that. I would say that is my worst position to be in, worse than mounted or back mounted which is pretty bad.
Guess I know what I am working on for a while now.

[James Funaro]

Scheduled a fight so I'm back to logging this crap.
I am not ready to get into top conditioning, I still want to gain 10 lbs (so I can cut to 170 and fight), and I just want to fight anyone and often for experience......

So I took a smoker in Sept. Hopefully I will have 2 smokers in Sept, back to back in two weeks. I am excited. Video will be posted ASAP on these ones.

Been training a lot more boxing and my head movement is insame compared to what it used to be (when I got TKO'ed in my last fight). In fact, whenever I do standup sparring or similar I get compliments on my headmovement.
I intend for this to show through on these two fights.

My power as always is good. I stopped deadlifting for a bit. I split my 2 lift days into one power and one strenght. So day 1 is Bench, Leg Press, Row (plus other odds and ends) where day 2 is Clean, Jerks, Zercher Deadlift, Zercher Squat (plus some odds and ends if any).

Starting the heavy sparring today with Joe as he needs more for his upcoming fight, plus I could use it. Also, should be heading to Ray Longos on Fridays, they do MMA sparring with the 16oz gloves I'm told and go heavy, I can use that with the new partners.

[James Funaro]

Tuesday night BJJ I was feeling burnt out a but so I didn't roll hard. Mostly I rolled to gain and keep top control(which I was successfull at) but was laid back about searching for subs. Mostly worked on transitioning and moving my partner around.

[James Funaro]

Was feeling sluggish today and so took a nap after work rather than heading to the beginner BJJ class like I usually do. It's only an hour class but every bit counts, however I am training 3 sessions tomorrow so I wanted to be rested.
9:30 to 11 I went to the gym as I do every Wed and Friday for my "Hector Workout". Hector is a PT at the gym who is also a boxing trainer, strength and conditioning coach (with real certs and experience, not the fake PT BS).

He makes my hands good, get me into good condition, and enjoys torturing me. We have been doing a lot of boxing work recently but today was a conditioning workout of sprints, 4 types of medball ab exercises, followed by 15 pullups, all done for 35 seconds a piece consecutively for 5 rounds. Had a break on the last 2 rounds for 35 seconds. It sucked balls but I kept the intensity up, needed assistnace on the last 2 sets of pullups, and wanted to die in general.
That was folllowed by some speed bag and heavy bag work for 15 minutes and we called it a night.

Back at home I'm gorging myself with good food, creatine, beta alanine, and a lot of sleep to be recovered for tomorrow's sessions.
Before bed though I need to do a grip workout on the CoC's and some plate pinching.