Sunday, October 17, 2010

Current Standings

Ok, well I spoke to Eric yesterday and am thinking of having a documentation on what it feels to practice jui-jitsu and have like a cardio kickboxing class at school if at all possible.

As far as research goes, well I'm making some progress and will start putting information on the E-Portfolio site soon.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Research

There are many websites that already do what I plan on doing. The most helpful one that I've found is Fight Authority, a website that post videos by professional fighters that give their advice and techniques for defensive as well as offensive moves. Though my main focus is on the training that I receive on the weekend.
Asides from the actual fighting, the research that I plan on doing involves more of the history of Muay Thai and Jui Jitsu.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Learning




Tim Ferris talks about what it takes to learn to do something. I agree with what he says, in order to learn something, we have to overcome challenges. With him, it was swimming, with me it is fighting. I can't say that I was scared to try and begin fighting but I was indecisive for a long time because of what one man said a long time ago. Well after watching this video, I do feel like the Incredible Hulk, though not about swimming, language, or dancing, but about my senior project.

The way Tim goes into the mechanics of swimming gives me some idea as to how I might create my own TEDtalk for our project. This is something that I was finding difficult to do at first. I want to say that as far as my project goes, I am making some advancement in deciding what it is that I hope to teach, I'm beggining to wonder if maybe I could teach a PE class ( just on technique) so there won't be any injuries and so that students at our school might decide if this is something they too might wish to pursue.