Dan Wileman does some impressive skateboarding in this HD Venture UK video. Found on MPORA amongst other skateboarding videos.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Dan Wileman for Venture UK
Dan Wileman does some impressive skateboarding in this HD Venture UK video. Found on MPORA amongst other skateboarding videos.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Surf Artist - Robert Heeley
We've just added a new featured artist; Californian Robert Heeley. "Robert draws upon his surfing and sailing lifestyle to create inspired images of seascapes and ocean living. He captures the surfer's dream of spectacular waves at famous surf spots throughout California, Hawaii, Mexico and beyond." Enjoy…
www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-artist/robert-heeley.php
- www.robertheeleyfineart.com
- www.facebook.com/robertheeleysurfart
www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-artist/robert-heeley.php
- www.robertheeleyfineart.com
- www.facebook.com/robertheeleysurfart
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Strikeforce Challengers Preview and Predictions
by Michael David Smith
The first Strikeforce event since the UFC bought the promotion takes place Friday night in Stockton, with a Challengers event that we've been told over and over again will be "business as usual" -- with the exception of elbows to the head on the ground being allowed.
Where it won't be business as usual, however, is that the guys in the Challengers shows now have more on the line than they did before: Impressive wins will likely result in Challengers fighters eventually moving on to the UFC. But with the UFC/Strikeforce merger concentrating almost all the major league MMA in one place, those who fail to impress on the Challengers show are going to have an awfully hard time making it as a professional fighter.
What: Strikeforce Challengers 15: Wilcox vs. Damm
Where: Stockton Arena, Stockton, California
When: Friday, the Showtime televised card begins at 11 PM ET
Predictions on the five televised fights below.
The first Strikeforce event since the UFC bought the promotion takes place Friday night in Stockton, with a Challengers event that we've been told over and over again will be "business as usual" -- with the exception of elbows to the head on the ground being allowed.Where it won't be business as usual, however, is that the guys in the Challengers shows now have more on the line than they did before: Impressive wins will likely result in Challengers fighters eventually moving on to the UFC. But with the UFC/Strikeforce merger concentrating almost all the major league MMA in one place, those who fail to impress on the Challengers show are going to have an awfully hard time making it as a professional fighter.
What: Strikeforce Challengers 15: Wilcox vs. Damm
Where: Stockton Arena, Stockton, California
When: Friday, the Showtime televised card begins at 11 PM ET
Predictions on the five televised fights below.
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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/04/01/strikeforce-challengers-preview-and-predictions/
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Nate Marquardt’s striking too much for Dan Miller at UFC 128
Nate Marquardt was solid but far from spectacular in taking out Dan Miller tonight at UFC 128.
His inability to post a highlight reel finish was really more about Miller being a pest than Marquardt performing poorly. Miller ate some big rights and was just dangerous enough on the ground to keep Marquardt from going for broke. The judges gave Marquardt a unanimous decision victory, 30-27 on all three cards, in Newark, N.J.
It looked like the game plan called for Marquardt (31-10-1, 10-4 UFC) to keep the fight standing. He held his hands low throughout looking to nail Miller with right hand leads. Marquardt found a home for those rights in all three rounds and turned Miller's head on a few occasions, but the big underdog exhibited an excellent chin.
The fact that Miller (13-5, 5-4 UFC) lasted all 15 minutes against a top 10 middleweight was impressive considering he was only told last Saturday that he'd be fighting Marquardt.
UFC 128 KO of Night: Schaub takes next step by stopping ‘Cro Cop’
Brendan Schaub is still a work in progress, but he's got something every fighter would love to possess -- one-punch knockout power.
After a rough, grinder of a fight, waged mostly along the cage, Schaub drilled Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic with a counter right hand. Cro Cop crumbled to the floor and Schaub landed one more finishing punch that bounced the Croatian's head off the floor like a basketball. Referee Herb Dean sprinted across the cage to stop the fight at the 3:44 mark of the third round.
Update: During Saturday night's�postfight press conference, UFC president Dana White said this was probably the last time the 36-year-old Cro Cop would be fighting for the promotion. He's lost two straight fights and lacks the explosiveness and size to compete at the highest level with the new breed heavyweight. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Schaub, has only been a pro since� the middle of 2008.
It wasn't easy for Schaub, who was wary of Cro Cop's devasting left head kick throughout. The former Colorado fullback tried to keep the fight at close quarters. In most of the cases when Cro Cop tried a kick or moved forward with a punch, Schaub (8-1, 4-1 UFC) looked for the clinch or a takedown.
The wily veteran Cro Cop (27-9, 4-5 UFC) did some fine work of his own in those clinch situations along the cage. He landed some nasty short elbows including one in the second that caused Schaub's nose to start leaking blood. He also opened up a cut over Schaub's left eye.
The younger Schaub took the first two rounds, but in the second he had a point taken away for punches to the back of the head.
Schaub, the runner-up on Season 10 of "The Ultimate Fighter," lost in the final to another vet in Roy Nelson. Since then, he's scored three knockout finishes in four victories.
Schaub, who turned 28 Friday, asked Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta for the Knockout of the Night bonus. Through eight fights, his only competition is Erik Koch, who scored a first-round KO of Raphael Assuncao.
Update II: The UFC gave out two KO of the Night bonuses. Schaub and Koch each got $70,000.
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Brit writer says ‘biased’ American media is out to lynch Bisping
Following his resounding victory at UFC 127, Michael Bisping got himself in hot water by spitting at the corner of Jorge Rivera. The British middleweight was vilified by most of the MMA media and fans. That's sent The Telegraph's MMA expert Gareth Davies into a tizzy.
Davies suggests the American media is out to get Bisping, saying there was no balance to the stories written when both Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt called him out.
First we had Chael Sonnen, hardly a Saint himself, allowed to attack the Manchester middleweight with impunity. Where was the balance here from the US mainstream media covering MMA? Sonnen wrote UFC matchmaker Joe Silva an open letter, asking for a fight with Bisping. Fair enough.��How did the�US MMA media respond ? They wrote it up ignoring any of Sonnen's�misdemeanours in the sport. Balance ? None of it. But don't let the facts get in the way of a witchhunt.
From atop of his high horse, 'Nate the Great' added that Bisping's actions are unbecoming of a martial artist and were unsportsmanlike. No argument there, the spitting was utterly wrong, but am I really the only one who sees the irony here ?
Am I the only member of the media who can recall this same Marquardt�bringing home his own illegal knee to a downed opponent just two years ago ?�It was against�Wilson Gouveia [CORRECTION: It was Thales Leites at UFC 85].� Am I also the only one to recall�Marquardt followed that foul up with an illegal strike to the back of the head later in the fight? I know. I was there watching it live. Didn't�Marquardt himself bring�the sport into disrepute ? by testing positive for steroids on his UFC debut…
Davies calls me out for Cagewriter's Marquardt story.
Frankly that's no big deal. Davies and I have differing opinions on what to write in story that's simply reporting one fighter's quote about another. I don't believe the story needed to analyze whether Marquardt had the right to rip another fighter.
GAD assumes there's some anti-Bisping agenda. Funny things is, I may have the softest stance in the entire MMA media with regards to Bisping's future.
During Iole's appearance on ESPNRadio1100 following the incident on Mar. 1, I argued that the Bisping knee wasn't intentional and the spitting is something happens in the heat of the moment. I outright scoffed at the possibility of the middleweight being fired, but if some of the British media and Bisping want to believe it's them against the world - good deal, it makes for a fun storyline for the future.
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