Ninjas!
In what must have made for one of the best want ads ever, the Aichi prefecture, located in Japan’s central Honshu Island recently looked to hire six ninjas to work in their developing “warrior tourism” industry.
It’s unclear if these ninjas ever got hired, because if they were doing their job right you’d never see them and would therefore never know.
To read Sarah’s story about it for Asian World Of Martial Arts go here.
Filed under Culture, Shameless Promotion, Travel
Danai Gurira
Danai Gurira’s character Michonne in zombie apocalypse television show The Walking Dead is a sword-wielding badass.
In real life Guira had to put in the training to be able to look good doing the undead slick ‘n’ dice on the show.
Sarah wrote about this training for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read the story go here.
Filed under Shameless Promotion, Television
Jiu-Jitsu
At UFC 196 two of the biggest wins — by Nate Diaz over Conor McGregor and Miesha Tate over Holly Holm — were capped off with jiu-jitsu finishing moves.
This was affirmation that jiu-jitsu, one of the most important elements to mixed martial arts, though one of the least flashy, was still vital to success in the sport.
Sarah wrote about this for Asian World Of Martial Arts.
To read the full story go here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Beck’s Odelay
Beck’s breakout album Odelay turns 20 in the next couple days so I felt it was a good reason to take a trip down to Hot Take City about it.
Marvel as I reference Jeff Buckley and Fatboy Slim and contemplate Beck sex faces.
Read the whole thing by clicking over to AUX TV here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Olivier Aubin-Mercier
Olivier Aubin-Mercier is one of the UFC’s fastest rising young fighters.
Aubin-Mercier told Sarah about the time he politely asked the guy throwing punches at him in the middle of a house party to stop.
To read the full story click here.
Filed under Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
