Chris Bradford is headlining the fourth instalment of the Prestige Fight Series on October 15. He takes a turn around the Theme Park to talk injury, retirement and the ongoing thrill of the chase. Continue reading
Chris Bradford
Posted in Kickboxing, Martial Arts, Muay Thai with tags AK Physiques, Anthony Vella, Chris Bradford, Hitman Muay Thai, Prestige Fight Series, Rob Ferguson, Top Tier Muay Thai on October 5, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Theme Park At Its Darkest – a Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on October 2, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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Natalie pulled up to the corner of ACDC and Flinders Lane in a grey Mitsubishi hatch. Pat opened the passenger door. It weighed a fraction of what the long, heavy coupe doors of the Valiant did. When he pulled it to, it slammed. Hard. Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses – A Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on September 18, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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Now, the future stretched on ahead interminably. He felt like an untethered astronaut drifting through a void toward nothing other than eventual expiry. The thought was so potent it became a sensation that burned in his stomach and lodged in his throat. He tried to swallow it down. Continue reading
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The Greatest Kung Fu Story Never Told: The Gold Lamborgini, The Purple Suit and a World-Class Moustache
Posted in Martial Arts, Real Men, Ridiculous curiosity, True Crime with tags Bill Gunn, Blitz, brothel, Casino, Chow Gar Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Courier Mail Newspaper, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Fortitiude Valley, Four Corners, Gawain Sue, Hong Kong, Ip Shui, Joh Bejelke-Petersen, Kowloon, Lamborgini, Malcolm Philips, Malcolm Sue, National Party of Australia, Paul Brennan, Paul O'Malley, Phil Dickie, Queensland, Shaolin Monks, Terry Lewis, Texas Rangers, Tony Fitzgerald QC, Unification Church of Tonga on August 27, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, Vol.30, No. 5, June/July 2016
“I just don’t see the interest in wading through someone else’s dirt,” says Gawain Sue, principal of the Ging Mo Kung Fu School in Perth and heir to Malcolm Sue, one of the most infamous figures in Australian martial arts. Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses – A Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on August 14, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“You mean, you fucked a woman in a brothel who wasn’t a hooker, to start with, and you didn’t have to pay for it?”
There was a taint to Wally’s incredulity, as if somehow he should be able to go back and claim a refund, or possibly a voucher. Continue reading
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Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses – a Novel
Posted in Theme Parks and Obstacle Courses on August 3, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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She shifted her hands from his chest to his back. Her nails gently depressed his skin the way a cat uses its claws to establish a precise hold. Continue reading
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Combat Sports and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Posted in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, fighting, Journalism with tags Albert Park Sports Medicine Center, Alistair Overeem, Bedford V.A. Medical Center, Benjey Zimmerman, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Collingwood Football Club, Danny Green, Dave Mirra, dementia pugilistica, Derek Boogaard, Dr Bennet Omalu, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Ellen Degeneres show, Errol Zimmerman, Fighter's Factory, Four Corners program, Gary Nichols, Gokhan Saki, Golden Glory, Heart, Soul, Fire, Holly Holm, Mark Castagnini, Mike Webster, National Hockey League, NFL, Paul Briggs, Ramon Dekkers, Ronda Rousey, UFC on July 31, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
“Life after fighting is more scary to me than dying.”
-‘John’ Wayne Parr. Continue reading
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‘John’ Wayne Parr versus Pavlos Kaponis
Posted in 'John' Wayne Parr, Muay Thai, Real Men with tags 'John' Wayne Parr, Brad Riddell, CMT, Dr Phil Bailey, England, Greece, Kevin Dick, Mike Zambidis, Muay Thai, O2 Arena, Pavlos Kaponis, Sken Kaewpadung, WMC on July 22, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
Pavlos Kaponis is ready, hungry and looking for blood.
“John Wayne Parr is famous not only in Australia, but also all around the world and this is respectful,” says Pavlos, starting out with a congenial foot forward. “In Greece, we know him very good from the fight that has given with Mike Zambidis. Especially from the last one that Zambidis lost by KO. However, these fights were K1 [rules].” Continue reading
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Omari Kimweri: Fighting Fugitive
Posted in Boxing, fighting, Journalism, Real Men with tags Brian Amatruda, Broadmeadows, Commonwealth Games, Daniel Hucalak, Daniel Ianazziao, Dave Hegarty, Fighter's Factory, Heath Ellis, IBF, Jacana, Mark Quon, Melbourne Exhibition Center, Michael Camelion, Murray Thompson, Myrtleford, Randy Petalcorin, Roman Gonzalez, Simon Daley, Tanzania, Tarneit Boxing Gym, Wangaratta, WBA, WBC, WBO on July 12, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
FightLive Magazine, June/July 2016
“Life is easier when I’m boxing,” says Omari Kimweri, once Tanzanian, now Australian flyweight boxer currently in-line for the WBC silver title. This is a remarkable statement, especially when you consider it in the light of what he’s had to do to stay in the game. Continue reading
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A Eulogy for the Scariest Spectacle in Rock
Posted in Music, Observation, Real Men, Slayer with tags American Psycho, Angel of Death, Auschwitz, Bret Easton Ellis, Dave Lombardo, DVD, ESP Guitars, Europe, Gulf War, Jeff Hanneman, Joseph Mengele, Kerry King, lightning bolts, Lunar Park, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Nazi, Raining Blood, Reign in Blood, Satan, Seasons in the Abyss, SS, Still Reigning, Tom Araya, Vietnam, War Ensemble, William Blake, World War Two on July 4, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“I had moved past the casual carnage that was so prevalent in the books I’d conceived in my twenties, past the severed heads and the soup made of blood and the woman vaginally penetrated with her own rib.
“Exploring that kind of violence had been “interesting” and “exciting” and it was all “metaphorical” anyway – at least to me at that moment in my life, when I was young and pissed off and had not yet grasped my own mortality, a time when physical pain and real suffering held no meaning for me.”
– Bret Easton Ellis,
Lunar Park. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 