Archive for 2011

Lucy Tui: First Lady of Australian Kickboxing

Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags , , , , on February 18, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

Lucy Tui and I commentating for 'Eruption' in 2010

International Kickboxer Magazine Vol.18, No.6

For Lucy Sassen Tui, fighting was in her blood; her father had been the New Zealand heavyweight amateur boxing champion in 1954. She was one of nine children, closest in age to her brother, so she found herself joining in with the boys at playtime. “I was very sporty,” she remembers. “I did a lot of athletics while I was at school, and I held the record for the 100-yard dash as a teenager.” This was an excellent base for her martial arts training, which began like so many other kickboxers – in Kyokushin karate.

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Absolute Carnage: Training with Nathan Corbett

Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

International Kickboxer Magazine Vol.18 No.6

Every fighter who is exceptional does it after their own fashion. In a fundamental sense, this is logical. The easiest fighters to read are the textbook ones; you can read them because, well, their technique looks exactly like it should. A lot of the time, the most dangerous people are unorthodox, because they don’t look like anything you’ve seen before. This principle holds true not only for the way a fighter executes technique, but also penetrates all the way into training. This series of articles will spend time with several exceptional fighters and come up with the goods on what makes them unique. A good part of it is physiology and talent, but it has everything to do with doing things differently.       Continue reading

Pigs Have Flown!

Posted in Journalism with tags , on February 16, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

I heartily agree with Peter Costello on his opinion of AFL footballers.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/costello-shirtfronts-afl-20110215-1av3u.html

Vanity

Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 15, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

Photo courtesy of Terry Vorg

https://lifestyletrainers.com.au/blog/2010/12/in-the-spotlight-jarrod-boyle.html

This is a link to an interview for the Lifestyle Trainers website. I got the opportunity to dilate on my philosophy about life and fighting.

"Taking the Pulse of Aussie Masculinity"

Posted in Reading with tags , , , , on February 13, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

You know what? There’s an unquiet voice inside me that says I should give up trying to be published. Continue reading

Real Men #3: Aron Ralston

Posted in Real Men with tags on February 12, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

Aron Ralston, while hiking, fell down a cravass and found himself trapped with his arm beneath a boulder. After five days, he decided it was better to break the arm and hack it off with a leatherman than starve to death in the wilderness.

God, give me some measure of that kind of strength.

Madame Bovary Pt II

Posted in Reading with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

According to my oft-quoted list of ‘Time’s 10 Best Books Ever Written’, Madame Bovary ranks number two, coming in just behind Anna Karenina. Continue reading

The Most Embarrassing Thing I Have Seen

Posted in Ridiculous curiosity with tags , on January 31, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

There are no words for this.

Just watch.

Shakira featuring Danzig – 'Hips Don't Lie'.

Posted in Ridiculous curiosity with tags , , on January 20, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

I snuck in to see Danzig at The Palace in St Kilda, back at the end of year 11 in 1992. I thank the maker of this clip for revealing the deeply ludicrous nature of everyone’s favorite metal midget.

Eric Diamandstein: Diamond Cutter!

Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags , , on January 18, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle

Eric Diamandstein is a kickboxer truly cast in the Victorian mode. Continue reading