Boxing Progress 10-31-2010

Every once in a while, I like to take video of me hitting the heavy bag to see if I've improved. Here's my latest, taken on Halloween:

I'm suuuuper happy with how this looks! I've looked at my older videos and I have definitely improved in most aspects -- all punches are faster, crisper, and harder. I'm not really trying to be a boxer, I'm just a fan. It's a really good work out though, I'd recommend it.

Let me tell you though, it is a damn rewarding feeling when you see that hard work pay off!!

H.A.G.S.

Elementary school yearbooks were the shit back in the day.

'Have a great summer.'

-Kevin Durant

Remember that statement back in elementary school? I swear the first year we got yearbooks that is all everybody wrote, then they signed their names. Then you got those kids that just wrote their name -- I'd be like, 'really?' I mean, we were like 4th graders or whatever but at least wish me a great summer foo, damn.

Then you got kids that just got straight up lazy after signing 2 yearbooks.

'H.A.G.S.'

-Gucci Mane

C'mon dawg. You can't write four words when we spent damn near every other day writing words on that special sheet of paper with the three lines and the dotted line in the middle? Maybe he was the type of kid that pressed on the pencil too hard and made his hand all tired, I don't know.

Then you got your badass classmates. You know, the kids that didn't do homework and looked over your shoulder on spelling tests. When they signed your yearbook, they put an edge to it...

'Have a kickass summer!'

-Mr. Marcus

When I saw that, I was like 'oooooo, ur kewl'. Then I proceeded to sign all the other kids year book like that, LOL. I was tryna cop that 4th grade I-get-in-trouble-everyday-at-recess-but-don't-give-a-fk swag.

Really though, the most important thing with yearbooks was trying to get girls sign your yearbook AND leave their number. This was of utmost importance -- it showed you were 'that dude' to your friends and it showed which girls in class were feeling you.

I would ask the finest girl in elementary school to sign and check all super fast if they left their number. If it didn't, I would get salty. But if I look down and it said...

'Have a kickass summer! I really think your sexy the way you eat your Lunchables and would love for you to share your meat with me. Call me! 123-6969'

-Beyonce Knowles

I was too shy back then though so I never called LOL. But hey it felt good, that's what she said.

Anyway, H.A.G.D.

P-I-Z-Z-A

I want pizzuhhhhhhh!!

PEET-ZUHHHHHHH!!

They sound zooted to me!

Kev Jumba speaking the truth.

I'm with Kevin.

I used to do this -- I used to say 'gay' for everything. I also used to say 'no homo' alot. ALOT.

In back in my engineering classes in college, we used to bullshit before the professor came into class. I start rambling off and start saying dumb stuff out loud. Probably along the lines of, "Man, that barbecue over the weekend was piff -- Fred Meyer's meat tastes so good in my mouth, no homo." People were laughing but then stopped awkwardly.

That's when I remembered I had a gay classmate.



I've turned a new leaf. I use 'dumb' instead of 'gay' and I use 'pause' instead of 'no homo'. My past blog post about 'pause'.

Recognize and prevent that awkward moment! BTW that was hilarious with Kevin eating the ice cream, but pause on alla dat lol

New Art!

Some of my work in progress (WIP): corporate/modern day female model samurai (lol)

Sorry for the nipples, if that isn't your thing. I could make an artsy-fartsy excuse for drawing them, but I think I'm just a pervert.

I'm really happy how this is developing -- trying to improve my proportions and anatomy.

Devil in a New Dress

Kanye West – Devil In A New Dress by Hypetrak

This song is straight nutzo -- been having this on repeat for the past two days. Kanye's been releasing a new track from his new album around a week at a time: Power remix, Monster, and Devil in a New Dress. This is definitely my favorite outta the three.

"Hood phenomenon, the... Lebron of rhyme. Hard to be humble when you're stuntin' on a Jumbotron."

For real, put your hands to the constellations. I can't stop bobbin' my head to this *pause*. Straight got me like..

Download it at KanYe's blog.

Arthur trying to be Ippo!!!

 Made a quick video of me doing some rope and bag work in my backyard.

One of these days, I'll be like this guy.

New Shoes

John Varvatos Converse from GILT. Got a good deal on em -- I think they came out to 30-40 dollars? Retail's like 100.

 Pretty sicko. First time I've ordered from GILT online. I'll admit, I don't really wear Converse but I had to get these. Pinstripes!

A Jack of All Trades

I need change.

I need to work on my time management. I need to put time out for this blog.

I've just been caught up with some current goals of mine -- specifically 'what does it mean to feel strong?' Kinda weird, but I really want to make my body look symmetrical and cut up for some reason.

I've tried to step back and ask myself why. I won't lie -- aesthetics has something to do with it. But I also think it's just another way to improve myself, which is something I've always been up to my whole life for some reason -- I pick up something and I immediately want to become awesome at it. I scour the internet for videos and articles, I read forums about it, I read wiki pages. I learn and adapt super fast, too. I don't know why I do this.

Since I've been living my whole life like this, in all modesty... I've become above average at alot of things, to the point where I'm pretty good.

A jack of all trades.

One thing that bothers me a bit about this, is that there isn't really one thing I am the MASTER of. There isn't one thing that I'm like, "Oh yeah I'm the best in the world at this, hands down. You can't see me, son." You see masters of their craft... Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, shit even Kanye West. They found that one thing and they dropped everything for it. They dedicated their night and days to it. Their desire persevered through all obstacles.

It's really inspiring to me.

I'm jealous. I want to find this one thing. I have a couple ideas of what it could be, but we'll see. It's ironic because it fits in with my lifestyle of wanting to latch on and get good at something. Anyway, once I find this thing... it's OVER!

It'll be tough for me to put the video games down though, lol.

Deadpool is filthy.

How you gonna have the moonwalk AND the mean diddy-bop, haters-gon-hate swag?

Kicking Hera's Butt...

...Literally.

I can't stop laughing.

Despicable Me = Super Awesome

Despicable Me made me cry.

Well almost.

Despicable Me's about this guy Gru who's striving to be the best villain in the world. This guy is the ultimate asshole, even more than myself. The thing is, he sucks at being a villain -- he continually gets upstaged by this nerdy dude named Arthur... nah but his name is Vector.

In his journey to usurp Vector from the king-of-villainy throne, he runs into these three little girls from an girl's home. These girls stir up emotions that Gru had buried deep within himself and ends up impacting him tremendously.

NOTE: Agnes is so cute cot damn -- if I have a daughter, she'd be Agnes.

You may think I spoiled the movie, but shut-up-no-I-didn't. The way the movie plays out is really where it shines -- it really took me through the spectrum of emotions. Like it genuinely made me laugh so hard that I drooled myself. I'm not lying. It also made me (almost) cry. Almost because I'm kewl and gangster and all that shit.

Despicable Me = Super Awesome

Plus man the fuckin' minions -- Gru had like 219382090 of them -- these dudes had me DYIN' the whole time.

They speak in just non-sensical blibber-blabber, but you can understand everything they are trying to portray. This blibber-blabber was also super funny to me -- random noises make me laugh hella hard.

I need one or 20 of those dudes.

Despicable Me -- go see it. Take your girlfriend/boyfriend/aunt/uncle/mom/dad/grandma/grandpa/niece/nephew/prostitute/hooker(s). They will enjoy it. I went with my girlfriend and to be honest, I wanted to watch like Toy Story 3 or Inception... but fuck that Despicable Me is what's really good. Thank you GF for taking me!

Yo Lebron...

araabMUZIK wow.

Dude's crazy fast.

I still think HeatMakers are better, but this dude definitely has pure speed. Like how do you even rap on one of these beats? But for real, I bet he never loses chainsaw battles in Gears of War 2. I bet when he plays Metal Gear Solid and gets to the part when Ocelot is torturing Snake, he never loses health.

Damn.

Hoopfest 2010

Just recently got back from Spokompton, home of Hoopfest -- the biggest 3 on 3 contest in the world!!


I didn't really orgasm, but it was pretty damn fun. And I'm not exaggerating about it being the biggest 3 on 3 tourny either. 25,000+ players, 200+ courts. They practically close down all of downtown Spokane for this event.

Driving there was wowie... 5 hours one way. That was probly the most I've ever driven in one sitting -- my ass felt pretty tender *pause*.

To quickly summarize, we fought through the loser's bracket (we lost our second game) and made it to the championship. Only thing is, we fell short there -- I think everybody was super exhausted. I know I was. We had to win practically six games back-to-back just to get to the final game, THEN we had to beat the winner's bracket team twice in a row.

Sucks to have a shirt that says 'Finalist' -- practically first loser -- but hey, we did really well for our first time (that's what they said). I was happy with both my play and my teams play.

Some pictures...

Super tired.

Justin. That's good.

Titus. That's good.

Jordan. That's good.

Arthur. Maaan, you already know that's good.

Best player at Hoopfest.

 
BONUS PICTURE: My ankle that I played 6+ games on because I hurt it early in the tournament.

RANDOM FACT: I played the last six games commando because I forgot to pack underwear and socks -- I'm kewl (and also a dumbass). But damn, when did boxer briefs cost 20 dollars?! And that's for two!! I didn't buy them from Fred Meyer's because wow, thats expensive.

So basically, I was ballin' while my balls were ballin'. Halla.

Blackberry Test

This is a test.

Trying to see if I can post to my blog from my blackberry. Halla.

C'mon son..

Cryin' cuz you met Drake? Can't talk because he is soooo energetic? Your energy levels are too high?

Then the dude talking about how '..it's hard in hip-hop. You gotta have something, and Drake gots it." SMH get outta here lol you just didn't know what to say hahaah

But anyway, I wanna say Happy Father's Day to all the father figures out there and also to all the single mom's having double duty.

This Song is Super Piff

Real cold-hearted O.G.'s listen to this type of music. I'm talking about people with no feelings!

But seriously though, this song is super piff to me -- if I was Kanye West, I'd flip this sample ASAP.

Swag on Ultra High

Video best describes me...

...Syke, but man this had me laughing out loud at him being successful at random ass stuff. Basketball, chess, horseshoes, darts, ping-pong -- this man does it all. Swag on 1 million, trillion, googolplex.

MR. PERFECT, RIP.

Jesus Shuttlesworth

Ray Allen just had the game of his life today.

I thought dude was too old... but man, 8-11 from 3-point land? Shooting over 72%? The only person to shoot 8 three's in a NBA Finals game? More than Michael Jordan?



Ray Ray played the game of his life. 32 points, you kidding me? Made it rain on cats like it his threesome scene in He Got Game. Second leading scorer for the Celtics was Solange with 19 points.

I don't really care who wins, but I have bets riding on the Celts. And if Mr. Shuttlesworth keeps this up, I'ma be stylin' on cats. BELIE DAT PLAYBUOY!