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.

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.

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.

The Beginning

For my Senior Project I decided to write my own book on Mixed Martial Arts and a set of Instructional videos to accompany it. So far, I have made contact with Eric Williams, a 3 time Brazilian Jui-Jitsu Champion, and the first BJJ black belt in Houston.
I am currently training with him and working on improving my skills. I can't claim to be an expert but the purpose of this project is to achieve mastery in an area of interest, for me that area is martial arts.
Through out the course of the year, I will continue working on my personal development but I will also work on passing some of that knowledge to others who might be interested as well. I look forward to begin my web portfolio online and posting my own website.