One of those was completely cut out of my life for the time being because I wasn’t able to grapple. So I went to my acupuncturist and good friend Paul and He recommended a chinese herb to use on the injury to help expedite the process the better.

Usually when someone get an injury the magnitude of mine, it requires surgery, but 1 month after it happened my shoulder is about 85% back to normal and the range of motion is fully there. How did I do it?  It was actually very simple after you figure out what you have to do. Its a program just like any workout program but it had some key factors that could not be ignored, they had nothing to do with exercise.

All I am saying here is that its totally possible to heal up a almost fully torn ligament without surgery, using exercises and homeopathic medicines. Stay tuned, I will release a How-To-Guide for rehabbing these pesky and time consuming injuries.

Drinking Ginger tea, water, and eating fruits is making me feel a lil better but my head has a feeling of being crushed.. I sat down today and started preparing what I’m going to teach at the seminar I am doing in the near future. This seminar should be a great start for this teaching position I will start in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.  I will be teaching No Gi Grappling(Brazilian jiu jitsu), 2 times a week. I haven’t chosen the times or days yet, but I’m strongly considering Tuesdays and Thursdays in the evenings.

Cant wait to get this seminar going and then to get this started!

• My king size tempurpedic mattress was delivered after a 2 week long wait.
• My health insurance came in, so now I can the MRI that I need for my shoulder. Which has been injured for over a month.
• I also found a place to teach grappling in Brooklyn, and I plan on doing a Free 2-3 hour seminar to commemorate me teaching at this gym. Everyone is welcome!
• Finally I am moving into my apartment tomorrow, after waiting for this for about a year. I realize the moment is almost here!

If you are interested in attending this seminar, then get in touch with and lets make this happen!

This past month I have started talking to some friends I haven’t talked to in a while, ended a very long relationship that I had, and not trained all month(excluding 4th of July weekend). And what I realized is that even during the rough patches in your life, there is still plenty of light that shines down on you in all shapes and forms. Life does go on even without grappling, school, a girlfriend, etc. Every mistake, and every rough patch is just a learning experience in and of itself. I have had time to train Julius Caesar and spend tons of time with my little guy and it felt very fulfilling.

I even took up a new hobby this month, Rock climbing! Its totally awesome! Hit me up if you guys ever want to try it out!

So I sign up to a different class that is on Mondays-Thursdays, and I missed 16 class hours already, and to add to the excitement I have an exam on tuesday for lab practical and a classroom exam on wednesday. I just finished the second exam as I am writing this and I think I did great. I sacrificed the weekend but came in pretty prepared for this stuff.

Yesterday were promotions, congratulations to all the new blue and purple belts in the school, and Mr Vin for getting his brown. On the training aspect of life, I am training 5 days a week and 2 days of strength and conditioning. Right now I am feeling great about this, so this will keep up. With the help of my good friend and strength and conditioning Advisor Hollywood Dalid, I formed a program to last me for the next 4-6 weeks. Then I will assess my gains, and we will create a new one. I would like to compete at least twice a month after summer school is over.

Talk to you soon guys!

I realized yesterday that I am not competing or even training at my capacity, if their even is such a thing and I need to pull myself together and just make my dreams come true instead of waiting for it to happen. I want many things in my future, but the dreams that are pertaining to BJJ are simple. I want to win a lot of titles, I want to have my black belt, I want to win at a black belt level. I want to own a school, with 500 students in more than 1 location. For me to reach these goals, I will need to put in a lot of effort and I am totally willing to do it.

Last few days training have been eye opening and mind blowing. I will continue to learn at this pace for as long as I can. I am very “on fire” for learning and making things happen right now. =]

The grappling community has a lot of misconceptions towards treatment of ringworm. The first time I caught ringworm I was told to “bleach” it. Being a young grappler that just wanted to train, I did just that, put bleach on it and then suffered the consequences of a chemical burn for a few months, and then still having to treat the ringworm. One thing I learned from that experience and a ton of research is Do Not Use Bleach!. It is highly carcinogenic!, causes chemical burns and skin discoloring you would not believe.

The second time I caught ringworm I treated it with prescription medication. I wound up missing one ring that was right above my lip, while shaving my face and neck I spread it all over the place… I believe I had 25 or 30 rings on my neck from that incident. I covered it up, told girls at bars that I was deep sea diving,  got attacked by a barracuda and my uncle speared it. That time took almost a month and a cycle of Lamisil antibiotics to clean up, thanks colorblindness.

Then I started using the lamisil method and the worm started going away a lot faster, about 10 days. Until my professor for Microbiology told me to alter it a little bit and see how it works. Apparently the acidity of lemon juice works wonders on that type of fungus.

This is the treatment for Ringworm. I take alcohol and scrub down the rings so the medication seeps in better. Then I mix regular starch with Lemon juice and put it onto the rings for a 2 hours. After I take off the starch I start Spraying it with Lamisil AT (the pump spray) every 1-2 hours, I spray it religiously. When I am going out I cover it up with a bandage and bring the spray with me to spray it  every 1-2 hours.  I cover it up at night for 3 days when I am sleeping so I don’t itch it and spread it to other parts of my body.  This takes about 7-10 days for the Ringworm to go away.

The biggest issue is people not being hip to knowing that those nasty rings on their body are ringworm or not caring. So please if you have Ring worm stay away from the gym! Ringworm is just like karma if you give it to someone they will eventually give it back to you and in no time the whole gym will be infected.

Take a shower directly after training, don’t soak in your own and other peoples sweat!

Call someone out if they have ringworm in the gym!

Tell your trainer!

Clean your mats!

Stay clean and jits hard guys!

Pros

• Low Price!
• Tough
• Soft on the inside
• Great fit
• Great Accessory for strength and conditioning
• Patches are pretty cool and not to many of them
• Plenty of space for your own patches
• Great for training because its not to tough on your training partners skin

Cons

• Better for competition if the outside material was a bit thicker and stronger
• Not enough loops in the pants