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I Bet you guys didn’t know I could draw. Here is my idea for some Tap or Die characters. Every big company has characters. Think of Disney. I think I’ll start with stickers, then t-shirts, then some comic books, then an animated short, then a full length feature film, then another, [...]

Friction slows things down, and since I move more like a tortoise than a hare, I like things slow.
No-gi is sweat and speed and being slippery and breathing heavy and squeezing peoples’ heads. Friction is lost through sweat.
Gi is friction, it’s a mop, it’s a jacket of handles, it’s slow and methodical. It’s where [...]

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I often wonder why people give up on their dreams. I realize now that people may give up on dreams, but they don’t give up dreaming. My dreams have changed. I used to want to do all kinds of things like be a professional football player, own a bar/strip club, breed and [...]

Being proud of your art is great, it’s normal, but sometimes we get arrogant and egotistical and end up making an ass out of ourselves.
Every Sunday, at my old school on Kiesel Ave., an old Chinese man would walk by, wave, and smile. I’d be in the school cleaning the mats or vacuuming, basically [...]

Without sounding too cultish or biker gangy, I like the idea of jiu-jitsu as a brotherhood, or sisterhood, or familyhood, or however you want to phrase it. The idea of like minded people coming together to share in something they like to do. And “sharing” is the best term I can use to [...]

seek simplicity

Subtle intimidation. We do little things to intimidate are opponents. After looking at this picture for a little while I realized that this shirt does the same thing, but now the intimidation is coming from even the corner man. I think I’ll make a shirt for cornermen that says something like, “Man, [...]

This is a painting of Daniel in the Lions’ Den. I’m not a very religious man, but I have certain beliefs and of course things I respect. This image to me is very powerful. The short story is Daniel was thrown into the lions’ Den because he wouldn’t stop praying to God, [...]

Pete V., Professor Sauer, and Me
Saturday I tested for my brown belt. It was great seeing Professor Sauer again. I was a little nervous for the test simply because I wasn’t one-hundred-percent-sure what exactly the test would entail. Not knowing makes us nervous.
I was told by a black-belt friend of mine that [...]

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I played college football for Utah State University in the late 80’s, early 90’s. My junior year we played BYU. I think it was the year Ty Detmer won the Heisman—I sacked him that game—it was great. But that’s not why I remember that game. The reason I remember that game [...]

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