Roxanne Modafferi's Blog, page 20

training, (not) dating, UK fighter friend Kerry!

Last week and this weekend were pretty good. Training is great, as usual. Kind of a struggle near the end. I had a hard day on Thursday where my brain just didn’t feel like it was working, and I got a headache. It kind of freaked me out doing kickboxing with a headache, so I did a few rounds and then stopped. :/ I’ve been working on some new combinations that I can’t really land in sparring yet. And I realized something about the shuffle hook. I can’t really do it unless my opponent is already moving in a certain way.

I’ve been doing jiu-jitsu with a gi a lot lately because I want to compete in a gi tournament soon. But I find myself doing stuff intended for a gi on the bottom in guard in MMA practice, which is a no no, and why I stopped focusing on GI in the first place. So I gotta take a break from it since I’m fighting soon.

Kerry Hughes from the UK is here visiting! She first stopped by when she came for The Ultimate Fighter tryouts weeks ago. Unfortunately for her, the 135 lb females didn’t have a big showing, so the UFC decided not to do 135-ers. :/ She decided to come back and train for her fight in BAMMA….which was dropped because her opponent decided she couldn’t make weight and wanted to fight up a weight class, and the promotion decided to give that girl priority…what the heck? Anyway, kudos to Kerry for trying to move on with her life and not make a big deal. I think she’s doing a kickboxing match on the same day I’m fighting. I think I’m fighting March 11th. I haven’t signed anything but I’m allowed to say that I’m fighting but not against who…. ;_;

Well it’s better than Japan where sometimes you can go an entire fight camp not having an opponent set and then get it set a week before.

So I’ve been upping my conditioning, like with stairs, burpies, and conditioning circuits. I noticed my stamina going up little by little.

I’ve started getting the services of Teri, a superstar masseuse who first came to Syndicate when Sorel was training for boxing. Then she massaged John and John recommended her to the fighters. Now she’s really busy. LOL omg with her and Jake Steckel in my corner (figuratively), I can function around my nagging pains. What a career-saver, seriously.

Kalecia (left)had taken a leave of absence and came back, so it’s great training with her again. Her striking is tricky.



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Saturday I did three five-minute rounds of conditioning circuit training, and then gi jiu-jitsu technique, and then some kickboxing sparring. I got punched in the eyeball in the third round and thought it was injured, but took a break, it stopped hurting, and I went back, which I’m glad.

Later that day, I met Kerry at the Miller’s Alehouse and we watched the UFC together.

I was really sad Josh Barnett Lost. ;_; And also Bader. Man, what was that diving takedown?!??! So sad. Miscalculation that proved fatal. Also Northcutt. People annoy me so much sometimes. People criticizing him for tapping to the head-arm choke. Obviously he felt it was tight or he wouldn’t have tapped. Who knows what he was feeling? Maybe he didn’t know how to escape because his jiu-jitsu game isn’t strong. Or maybe his shoulder muscles are just so bulky and built up that the opponent put his weight down enough to tap him. Whatever. Actually, I think everybody I cared about on that card lost.

One of my mentors Mike Pyle fights next week and HE WILL WIN!!! I’m always such a nervous wreck when my coaches, he or Tom fight. ug That reminds me I gotta go bet on Tom. XD lol I only wanna bet on people I know, because if they loose, I’ll be too sad they lost to really care if I lost money or not. Only like 20 bucks. I’m not a big gambler. “Filthy Tom Lawlor” is fighting March 5th. support him and get his awesome T shirt, where the proceeds go to him and not Reebok!

Trip to Nashville, TN, and my seminar!

Training has been going great lately. I’ve been succeeding at techniques I’ve been learning and practicing, which is so cool. Every day is exciting – what awesome ninja attacks are the coaches going to teach me next?

On Thursday, I headed to Nashville, TN, to teach a seminar at KSA Martial Arts academy. Unfortunately, a huge Nor’easter snowstorm struck and messed up a lot of my plans. We had to cancel my Friday night portion of the seminar, but I gave a private lesson to my hosts, Liz and Cat. They are such excellent, good people. I love them so much. In the morning, I worked out in the hotel gym, and in the afternoon, they drove me through Centennial Park where I saw the recreation of the Parthenon.

I didn’t get to go in since like 5 or so inches of snow had fallen and I didn’t have boots. I hate the snow now. I didn’t used to, but living in Massachusetts ruined it. Snow means discomfort and misery, basically. I’m sensitive to the cold and I always had to clean off my car and shovel etc.

But it was warm and toasty in the loving environment of my hosts. They took great care of me. After driving around for literally an hour (on roads that had barely been plowed because Nashville can’t handle the snow), coming upon restaurant after restaurant that was closed, we ended up at Ihop. I had gone there for breakfast. There was a sign on the door saying that they were closed due to weather, but people were still inside eating. The waiter saw me looking in sadly, and, shaking his head at his own compassion, waved for another customer to open the door for me, which was locked from the inside. Yay! My smile wins.

It took like an hour to get our food, but I was fine with that.

Then we went to the school, watched my fight, rebooked my cancelled plane ticket, and trained some. We geeked out with lightsabers.

They cooked me a delicious dinner of fish and I went to bed early.

Saturday I was supposed to teach a kid’s class, but only one family came with two kids, a 5 year old boy and 7 year old girl. They had fun, though. I was so happy they said Judo was their background because I used to teach Judo as a senior belt at my Judo dojo! That was my first experience ever teaching. I taught them jiu-jitsu stuff like rolls, shrimps, mount, escape from the mount, etc.

Lunch was a rushed turkey burger and then I taught my seminar from 1:30 to 4:30ish. It was scheduled to be 1-5:30 but that’s so long! Especially with the way I was driving them. I’m used to doing and teaching a fast-paced class full of drilling and positional sparring.

I guess other seminar styles are different where there’s a lot of explanations and talking, but I basically made them drill techniques and do situation sparring the whole time. They were so tired. lol I was tired. I think everybody had fun. I was REALLY impressed with that group! They all picked up what I taught them and had various successes! I’m glad.

Christmas trip and Sorel’s boxing fight

I left Vegas Dec 24th in the morning and arrived in Boston that evening. My dad and Marion picked me up and brought me to their house. Then Q arrived and we hung out when Dad and Marion went to a Christmas party. Q brought me broccoli and tuna! I loved spending time with her! We played Cribbage, which is super hard, and Hanabi, which is hard because it’s a memory game, and I couldn’t remember the clues she told me. Lol

On Christmas, we woke up, I ate a broccoli-tuna wrap. And Marion’s pumpkin pie, which is the best in the world. She’s an amazing cook. I got to chat with my dad a lot!

My step siblings Chris and Steffi came and we opened presents. I received very nice presents and enjoyed watching everybody open theirs. Thank you!

I decided from day one that I didn’t care about sticking to my diet and didn’t even try to exercise. I don’t have a fight for a while – plenty of time to work it off. I was trying togive my body a break since a few things are hurting a lot, so I tried doing absolutely NOTHING.

Saturday was a day with no plans. We went to the Paperstore to look for Christmas cards and wrapping paper. Then lunch at Chili’s. Before that, we picked up my car. I thought I might miss the closing, but I actually had to wait on a long line. In the evening, we ate shrimp and lasagna for dinner and just chilled, watching hockey.

Sunday I woke up, had breakfast, chatted with family, then drove to Aunt Connie’s. Took me longer than I thought, but I reached there around 6 PM! Ate a fish dinner and spend some time with her.

Monday we chatted in the morning and then Aunt Connie’s harp tuner lady came, and I went out for lunch with my cousin Alison and her baby girl Pia Rose, who I met for the first time!



Cutie!! We went to Café Angelique! Then met Aunt Connie for tea at Starbucks.

Then we went to Alison’s husband’s Francisco’s Kenpo Karate kids event award ceremony.

He asked me to give a speech on the fly!



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And Joolz stopped by to visit and gave me a Christmas present! Thank you!!

Got home a little late at 9 PM but that’s okay.

If you are interested in American Kenpo karate for you or your kids, Vigoroux Kenpo Karate studio is the best! He’s an 8th degree black belt. 197 Boulevard

Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey

Found out my flight got delayed from Tuesday morning until Wednesday evening! Bah!

Woke up Tuesday, went to the gym with cousin Adele.

You can really see the family resemblance here because we have the same shaped jaw and chin. XD The Modafferi chin. The bloodline is strong…in addition to physical attributes, Modafferi’s tend to be strong-willed.

Brittany’s visit and lots of UFCs!

Brittany arrived on Thursday morning! I took her to Syndicate and I did MMA team practice.

Roxy vs Jo Jo Monkey King. Crazy guy.

I trained harder than I’ve trained in a long time and felt pretty good, and really happy with my techniques!

I went out to SkinnyFats afterwards and ate delicious flatbread with chicken and a milkshake.



We went to the UFC after that and got to see awesome fights, including Paige vs Rose, Mike Chiesa from Sikjitsu who had done half his camp at Syndicate under John Wood, Northcut and Jesus. I mean Elias Theodorou, who my friends and I feel strongly resembles Jesus. It’s the hair. And it helps that it’s easier to say Jesus than his real name. Please nobody think I’m being blasphemous here. lol



We ended up sitting next to Liam McGeary by accident! He fought and beat Tito Ortiz in Bellator! He was super cool and we chatted about the fights going on.

When Brittany and I were leaving we RAN INTO ELIAS. He knew who I was!! I was so excited about that. Apparently he was on TUF Nations, which was one of the seasons I haven’t watched.

He lost by decision but I think he should have won!

Bri and I went to go eat and hang out with friends afterwards.



I started feeling weird…cold….shivery…achy. Weird. By 10:30 after eating, I felt REALLY crappy. We met friends and chatted a bit and I started suspecting I was sick…maybe food poisoning? by 11 I started feeling feverish so I excused myself and went home early. dang!

It was food poisoning and I got the chills. Lost my appetite. Which never happens even when I have the flu.

I tossed and turned all night.

I felt so bad that I couldn’t really entertain Bri-chan much. I dropped her off to go watch UFC weigh ins that afternoon. I basically slept on and off all day. It took me all day to watch one episode of TUF nations. *_*

I picked up Bri-chan and we watched UFC on my TV at home. Sad for Joe Lauzon, my favorite fighter, but Evan had been training with Chaz, our Syndicate Muay Thai coach, so my team was happy.

Kawajiri won, yay! I don’t care that it was kind of an inactive fight. I’m just glad he won. I’ll always root for the Japanese guy.

I’m so glad Ryan Hall won, even though I think overall Artem was the better fighter. I love seeing a normal looking jiu-jitsu guy win.

The Saga of getting Saga, training, cirque du soleil w/ Miesha!

I haven’t really written a blog in weeks!

I’ve been teaching a lot of kids, doing a lot of BJJ, and learning awesome stuff on mitts.

The end.

Not really.

Also, I’m on a Saga to find volume 5 of Saga.

Volume 4 ended on kind of a cliffhanger so I’ve been dying for vol 5 to come out. The trade paperback, not the little thin comics that come out weekly or monthly or whatever. So I asked about it in April and the lady who works at Cheeseboy Comics told me, “Oh it takes months to come out. Check back in the fall.” DANG that’s a long time. Fine. I came back in September. “Not yet.” Fine. I came back in October. “Not yet. But soon.” DANG FINE, damnit. I went back in November and she said, “OH we ordered it but it’s out! Come back next Wedesday.” So I went back. “Nothing…” The next week. “Nothing..”

DAMNIT OMFG So I drove down to another comic book store I knew of and……….THEY WERE CLOSED because it was Sunday. Fine, so Monday I called and they didn’t answer the phone. I knew better than to drive there without knowing if they were open. So I called another comic book store in Vegas and asked them if they had vol 5. “Oh yes! We do!” GREAT. So I drove twenty minutes to get there and what he handed me was vol 4. “Oh sorry I thought this was it.” NO, jerk-face, it’s not!!!!!! GRRRRRRrr. I’m a very busy woman! So I called a third place and the guy said he had it and I drove there and it was only the single issue, not the trade paperback.

oh.my.god. I can NOT obtain this comic book!



Then one of my friends suggested I order it on Amazon. What? I can do that? I thought it was a new release. BUT NO, Apparently it’s been out since September!!!

So okay, Amazon! Screw you comic book stores, you can’t have my money! HAHAHAHA

SO I ordered it and wait and wait and wait and a week and a half later….,,. this comes in the mail:

I have the perfect meme for my feelings on this matter:

My anger was building and building and building….and then when I was telling the story to my mom, I started laughing uncontrollably. It’s hilarious! Knitting???! The only MORE hilarious thing that could have come would have been a book on dating.

So….. today I think I’ll try a few more comic book stores. lol omg I can’t believe this. I .just.want.the.COMIC BOOK!!!! XD

Moving on, Yesterday I went to yaki niku with Miesha and then The Cirque du solei show Mystere. It’s my first one!

And also my first Yaki niku in America! It was better in America because the meat wasn’t like 75% fat like it is in Japan. lol Because Americans actually LIKE THE MEAT!!!! *pet peeve* and they brought the meat all at once so we don’t have to WAIT 15 MINUTES BETWEEN PLATES!!! *pet peeve*



So basically Americans did it better. lol Go America.

The athletic ability of the performers is amazing! I actually know two acrobats who do those shows so I kept thinking of them.

Miesha really showed me a great time last night. Thanks so much, my friend!

Cornering Serena in Utah’s “South Valley Slam!”

I had a pretty amazing trip to corner Serena DeJesus in Southern Valley Slam this Friday.

Jamie left with Serena on Wednesday, but I taught kids then, so I went on Thursday after early morning yoga. It took longer than I thought, and I hadn’t realized they were an hour ahead of Vegas, so I almost missed weigh-ins! I arrived just in time. Serena’s opponent Bridget was really nice and friendly. She was deaf so we spoke through a translator.



After weigh-ins the others ate Pho noodles (I had rice and Vietnamese style BBQ pork). Friday we had to drive an hour and 15 minutes through the canyons to the venue – the Tuscan. It makes me really appreciate Kansas city and the other places where the hotel and weigh ins and venue are so close. The scenery is nice, but I’m not so into scenery. I spent quality time with Serena and Jamie! :}

We drove through stretches of wilderness where there were no buildings or anything, so I always made sure I had enough gas and didn’t have to use the bathroom. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences in the past that I don’t care to repeat. We arrived in Price and killed time fooling around in Kmart until we could check into the new hotel.

The promotion was pretty well organized. Some nice gentleman who was somebody’s coach wrapped Serena’s hands. He said, “Can I use this cardboard?” and I saw him put it against Serena’s knuckles and then start winding gauze around it.

I walked away and had this following conversation with John…



That was funny.

He did a great job, though! Thank you SO much! I need to learn how to wrap hands. John, teach me! @_@

We had to share gloves, so Serena warmed up in her own gloves.

Jamie and I had to be serious full-time corner people because there was no cutman. I hadn’t really realized that. For Invicta and UFC, they provide the bucket, bags of ice, gloves, cold presses, towels, Vaseline, etc. They didn’t have ANY of that. Jamie told me to bring a bucket so I bought my bathroom one. I happened to have a ziplock bag by chance, no gloves, and had Vaseline in my panda bag I carry with me everywhere with my Band-Aids and mouth guard and tape. I then thought, “oh, I should have brought one of those cold compresses, or froze a spoon or something!” I thought back to when Kirik used to corner me and had to bring everything. I didn’t think enough to go upstairs to the restaurant and get a spoon. But I got ice from the bar.



Waiting is the worst! I was getting stomach trouble just from nerves. lol Finally we were up at like 10 PM. We walk out, hug, and it’s time for me to put on Vaseline. I had never done it before, so here goes. I put a blob on my wrist like I always see the other cutmen do. I used my pointer finger to put some around her eyebrows. While I’m doing it, Jamie whispers, “Put on more!” So I get a big blob and stick it on the bridge of her nose. I’m trying to smooth it and it just sticks half to my finger, so I switch to using my middle finger. XD Jamie whispered, “It can’t be blobby! But put more on around there!” and indicated cheeks. So now I’m using my ring finger and trying to spread it and put more on and it’s all over ME and I feel like I’m taking too long at this point. ^_^;;;; When I think I’m done, I kind of look at Jamie and stage whisper “Good?!” I don’t want to seem not confident. She nodded, so into the cage Serena went. My hand was a big mess of Vaseline, but I had guessed that would happen, and I had paper towels in my back pocket.

Bridget had this look of “I’m gonna F you up!” CRAZY expression on her face that was scary to ME. The second Serena threw something, Bridget lunched at her with crazy flurries, pushing Serena backwards. Serena tried to counter and circle away. The first round, Bridget pressured more. When it hit the cage, Serena did a good job of stuffing takedowns and getting off the cage. Nobody can hold Syndicate fighters on the cage! XD We train that SO much! In the second and third round, Serena played the bull fighter and managed to tag her as she came in and not be as bullied. Serena’s movement got better and better as the fight progressed, and could NOT get taken down by this girl. I’m so proud of her. Bridget was really strong and REALLY tough. All that training she has been doing has really paid off in a big way. It reminded me of when I watched Hannah’s last fight and her movement ability really showed itself. Hard work on their part, plus good coaching by John. :}

In between rounds, I TOTALLY forgot to reapply Vaseline. I was too focused on the water, stool, giving advice. I’m so sorry, Serena! Good job Jamie, my cornerwoman partner! *high five* I forgot to wipe the floor once but remembered the other two times. I think we did a good job of keeping the advice simple and calm. I tried to use the tone of voice John uses for me in fights that’s just like “Okay, Serena, you need more movement now…” rather than “MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVEEEEE!”

Serena won the Unanimous decision.

Thanks a lot to her sponsors, Robvark’s Aardvark Painting, The Void, and Remove it Restoration!

Serena really grew in this fight and showed growth from her training. She’s a work horse in the gym, and a becoming a pro at cutting weight and managing her diet and condition. She’s blossoming into a great fighter and it’s so exciting.

The Venue and promoters were great and treated us well! Great crowd!

Just please fight somewhere local next time. Hahaha! I enjoyed seeing a new place, but I’m very satisfied for along time. My mom told me, “Do not go over 70 because your car is an old lady!” (how dare she, it’s a “he” and he’s not that old…. Toyota Corolla 2008 with 110,000 miles) Well the speed limit was 80 so I ended up going 85 most of the way. HAH take that. Go, Lee!

kids’ jiu-jitsu, UFC 193 opinion

Last week was pretty good. Nagging injuries were bothering me and preventing from going all out in sparring, but I learned a lot of great technique on mitts from John and in the gi from Casey, so that’s good. Plus I was productive on the kid’s jiu-jitsu front. I’m in charge of the little kid’s program, so I’m working together with Rick Davis (big kids) and Chris Robbins (teaches both) to structure a new “curriculum.”



We met last Thursday at Rick’s school – he teaches middle school – and brainstormed. It was so funny and cool to see his classroom. I really felt like I went back in time! And in the middle of our discussions he said, “Wait, I just gotta show you this!” He ran into his room and came out with a mat. What 5th grade teacher has a MAT in his classroom? Haha

So we did jiu-jitsu technique in the middle of the hallway. XD So amusing.

We decided a few things and are still planning a few things.

I watched the UFC this weekend with a bunch of friends. I didn’t go early enough to get a table, so we got a standing space and rotated turns on two stools we acquired.

I was REALLY impressed with Valerie. No offense intended towards her, but I fought her and I took her down and choked her out. She stood and banged with Joanna all five rounds, and I actually thought she could have won. She improved so much! And Joanna was awesome. She broke some records for most UFC punches and kicks landed.

Ronda vs Holly was amazing. I think Holly is one of the only people who has that one skill needed to beat Ronda, and that is: do not get grabbed by Ronda. She has that movement to not get pressed back into the cage, and the ability to keep distance, and the physical strength to do it. She fought the necessary game plan perfectly. So impressive. Ronda is really amazing, too, but Holly won that fight.

That’s what it is – two amazing fighters, with strengths and weaknesses in their games, clashing. One got the better of the other. Some fan reactions have been bugging me lately. Some people are REALLY NASTY. A few people suggested that Ronda took a dive. Ridiculous. She has her pride. Others say that she sucked anyway. She just got beaten in this fight, but she is very skilled. So is Holly. Others post memes of Ronda’s face as she’s getting knocked out and nasty text. That upsets me. Have you ever been knocked out in front of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people? No? I have. TWICE. If you watched The Ultimate Fighter Season 18, you saw one of those times. The other was Strikeforce 2010.

worst.thing. EVER.

Okay, so everybody is entitled to their own opinions. I have mine – I naturally feel bad for anyone who gets knocked out because I’m a fighter and I had those experiences. Some people think Ronda is disrespectful and cocky. If that’s your opinion, then that’s fine. Actually, I’m NOT trying to defend her actions and personality. I like her, but I actually wasn’t rooting for neither Holly nor Ronda. I just wanted to see a fight that went out of the first round.

What is bugging me is people who show NO RESPECT and say REALLY NASTY things. Just because someone spits in my face doesn’t mean I will spit back. Because that is my policy, my way of life, my “bushido.” I show respect to people even if I don’t really feel it inside and dislike them. I had to work with someone I despised to my core. He was a bad person. But if he said hello, I would say hello back. That’s not me being “fake.” That’s me being civil and operating within society.

I wish people would tone it down just a little. Just in the same way that it’s okay to shout in public but not scream shrilly at the top of your lungs. It’s fine to rejoice or lament or whatever. I’m really happy that people have feelings about and care about the fighters! That makes me happy. But do some of you really have to be so nasty sometimes? I mean, if you’re a nasty person, then okay, you’re being true to yourself. Lol :/ I would say this about any knock-out-rejoicing meme I see, btw, not just Ronda. Someone accused me of not caring about the Anderson Silva KO memes floating around. Yeah, those made me sad, too.

Halloween! Zombie concert, costume sparring, Haunted Harvest w/ friends&kids

I haven’t really felt like writing a blog lately. A bunch of little minor pains and pulls and injuries in 5 different parts have prevented me from going all out in MMA practice. :/ So I’ve been doing Vinny’s Brazilian Jiu-jitsu technique every morning from 10 to 11, and then participating in whatever I can do in the MMA class from 11:30 to whenever. I usually don’t do the BJJ class in the morning because it drains me before MMA class. However, I really miss gi training and I’m so rusty. I want to feel like I’m a real purple belt. Lol I’m way better at no-gi grappling, of course.

I’m starting to feel more and more comfortable. I basically have to relearn all my grips and balance points and everything relating to holding onto clothing rather than points on the body like elbow or neck. There’s a new teacher at Syndicate: Marcelo Nunes.

Since we became affiliated with Zenith BJJ, which is Robert Drysdale’s club, he started teaching the evening beginner classes, and now Saturday morning! I really love it! The style reminds me of my club back in Boston. It’s funny how Vinny’s style doesn’t remind me of that but Marcelo does, and it’s all jiu-jitsu. I’m not quite sure why yet….

Anyway, I’ve also been teaching kids a lot! I wrote about this before, but it’s something I do every day now and I’m enjoying it.

This past week I’ve healed up pretty well and I went hard in my last few MMA classes! Then the other day I jammed my toe and it hasn’t stopped hurting. I think it’s actually swelling and hurts to push off. X_x dang it!

Halloween was cool! I went to my first Rob Zombie concert on Friday!

I’ve always wanted to go! I wish these things weren’t so late at night. I literally can not take it. I fell asleep from 9:30-10:30 on and off, through Danzig, no less! I was not bored, just SO tired. I hate it. I was sitting there cursing my brain as I drifted off into darkness. I call it “Roxalepsy.” I fall asleep at 10 PM sharp, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, if I’m sitting down, standing up, talking to somebody, etc. How do I fight, you might ask? Lots of caffeine. Then I can’t sleep all night, though. But for a fight, I don’t care because it’s a life event. But missing sleep wrecks me for a few days. It’s Sunday and I’m still tired from missing sleep Friday. Lol Anyway when Rob Zombie finally came on it was awesome!!! The stage had classic monster pics! I thought Rob would be bigger but he was skinny! I couldn’t see him that well because I had balcony nose-bleed seats. But that was okay with me. I actually really lucked out. I bought General Admission standing room tickets because they were the cheapest at $45, but forgot that I literally can not stand for more than 15 minutes without having back pain. I can do MMA alright, but just standing hurts me. I had to stand in line for an hour and kept squatting down because my back hurt so badly, and the security guards yelled at me! “I’m going to have to have you stand up, please.” “Stand up please!” “STAND UP!”

WTF MAN, I’m in real pain! He walked away before I could explain! What is the big deal?!! It’s not like I’m looking under any girls’ skirts. Everybody had pants and I was far enough away from them anyway. I wanted to RNC that security guy until he started gurgling.

So when I got to the balcony, sat down in somebody’s seat and hoped that whoever actually bought that seat took their time getting there. NOBODY KICKED ME OUT! It was not a sold-out show. YESSsssssss I really lucked out. I had a few other teammates who went to the show, but I didn’t tell them I was going. That’s why. I couldn’t stand, I was cranky since it was past my bedtime, and I don’t dance. Lol So I just chilled out, thought about life, listened to awesome music, took a nap, and watched the crazies run around in circles and slam into each other on the dance floor below, and felt glad I wasn’t down there. X_x why?? It looked really dangerous. I’m a new fan of Danzig now! I didn’t really know his music that much but I’m going to look it up now.

On Halloween, oh man! First was “Costume Sparring” at Syndicate. I didn’t actually think many people other than me would take it seriously, but lots of people came in costumes!

Natan Levy as Goku looked especially bad-ass, and I loved Abe Lincoln!



And I don’t know who John was supposed to be, but he wore this fat-guy body suit with hair hanging everywhere and nipples that stuck out like two inches. I couldn’t stop staring. X_x And I didn’t want to. LOL oh it was awful but hilarious.



I really enjoyed that. I think I had the most entertaining sparring session of my LIFE with Tony, dressed up as Batman.



He used his cape to disguise his kicks and I could NOT see his strikes coming at all! Even when he got tangled in the cape, I tried to charge him, he somehow managed to deck me!!



Tom Lawlor, infamous in the UFC for his dressing up and entrances, dressed up like…. ME! I was so touched and amused! Hah! Look, the pig tails, glasses, unusual socks, Star Wars shirt! XD I showed my mom and she was like, “Bearded Roxy?!” lol

After sparring, I met my fighter friends Jessica, Clayton and their three kids! We went to the Springs Preserve Haunted Harvest!

It was great! Games, trick or treating, hay mazes, a goulish Alice who followed us around …. Lol…

I love that family.



They fight ammy and pro, and their kids take my jiu-jitsu class.

Then I went to pick up Serena! Yay my buddy from Philly!

She’ll be here training for most of November!