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Meditation Exercise – Dealing With Negativity

Once you start to become comfortable with your dualities you can begin to associate with the positive (good for you) light and dark traits and abilities. Keeping a positive mindset is extremely important here as you're pushing your comfort levels to new extremes. We usually lump negativity into the 'Dark' category, but having a negative […]

UFC 59: Reality Check

Amber Miller © Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC Photography by Joshua Hedges What an incredible introduction to MMA for Californian fans! Held at Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim, this eighteen-thousand seater sold out in hours, and definitely delivered the goods. True to UFC form, there were no preliminaries as every bout was loaded […]

UFC 58: USA vs CANADA

Amber Miller © Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC Photography by Joshua Hedges This was another great UFC event, and showed why MMA is rapidly becoming such an incredibly popular sport worldwide. And while it might be a bit of a novelty to have athletes from one country competing against another, it […]

New Zealand Boxing September 2006

Lee Oti, weighing in at a career lightest of 69kg beat Rawiri Wiremu aka David Wiremu (66kg) with a 10th round stoppage to win the vacant New Zealand light-middleweight title on the Auckland Boxing Association's monthly pro-am tournament at their Stadium on September 28th. Wiremu, who won the NSW amateur lightweight title several years ago […]

Fiber Facts

Shoot for about 40-50g of mixed fiber per day when dieting, but no more. The absolute lower limit is 20g per day. Your main fiber sources should be (in order of importance): vegetables, beans, nuts, fruit, and grains (like oatmeal). If you eat 1 oz of mixed nuts, 1 apple, 2 cups of kidney beans, […]

New Zealand Boxing August 2006

Fight fans cannot complain about not getting their moneys worth at the Auckland Boxing Association's August 31 pro-am tournament held at their Stadium in Eden Terrace. The program featured 14 amateur contests, an exhibition and three professional contests and didn't finish till 12.20 a.m. the next day! There is not enough room to give the […]

Balancing the Dualities

I feel that many of our issues with duality go back to our very basic nature, not our good/bad, male/female or light/dark side, but even deeper to the Id and Super-Ego. It's extremely easy to see these as the basis for all of the others with the battle being between the untrained, instinctive Id and […]

The Knee

The information presented here is for educational purposes only. Introduction This installment of The Med Cell looks at the knee. The knee is an important target in close combat. Injury can lead to loss of mobility and possibly even loss of the leg itself through disruption to blood supply. The amount of force required to […]

UFC 57: Liddell vs Couture III

Rachelle Leah  © Marc Wickert www.knucklepit.com  All photos copyright 2004 Zuffa LLC Photography by Joshua Hedges  Keith Jardine (6’1" 206 lb) vs Mike Whitehead (6’0" 206 lb) – Light Heavyweight Referee: Steve Mazzagatti Round One It started out with Mike at center ring in pursuit of the former bounty hunter, Keith, who was dancing and […]