Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett gives us the flip side of Richard Walsh’s coin. Continue reading
Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett: What's on for 2012
Posted in Journalism, Kickboxing with tags Abdahrmane Coulibaly, Billy Cross, Manpower Australia, Muay Thai Premier League, Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett, Rashad Evans, Richard Walsh, Tomaz Hron, Total Carnage Promotions, Tyrone Spong on January 22, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Kickboxing Showreel – Updated
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Golden Glory, Kane Watts, Karim Chemlal, Kickboxing, Nase Soai, Powerplay, Tafa Misipati, Trent Hailey, Ultimate Kickboxing, Victorian Super-heavyweight champion on January 17, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleMy updated kickboxing showreel, courtesy of Nick Moore. He’s been joking about making a version where I sustain all the hits. Probably not a bad idea – there’s probably more than a few people who would enjoy it.
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Workout – 17/01/12
Posted in Fitness on January 17, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleToday’s workout was a cracker, hence my enthusiastic posting. The theory behind it is to provide a holistic resistance session with a significant cardiovascular component; the idea being to get the heart rate between 85 and 100% of maximum, which is where the heart rate will be when fighting. At this intensity, the body respires differently and the muscles fire specifically, so to be ‘fit’ for a fight, you need to work with your HR in this range. Continue reading
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Biting the Hand That feeds
Posted in Film, Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, Andre Bazin, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Set, Dennis Hopper, Gaspar Noe, George A Romero, Irreversible, John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, The Astor Theatre, The Wild Bunch, UK Big Brother, Velvet Underground, Zak Snyder on January 14, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Richard Walsh – What's on for 2012
Posted in Kickboxing with tags Abdarhame Coulibaly, Greg Tottman, Human Performance Centre, K1, Muay Thai Premier League, Nathan Corbett, Richard Walsh, Stephane Sussperegui, Tomas Hron on January 7, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Tomas Hron vs Nathan Corbett, round 1 of the MPL
Richard Walsh is one of Australia’s best Muay Thai trainers. He spent a few minutes talking about what 2012 has in store for his most famous charge, Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett. Continue reading
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Of Gods and Men
Posted in Film on January 4, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Accepting our powerlessness and our extreme poverty is an invitation, and urgent appeal to create with others relationships not based on power. Recognising my weaknesses, I accept those of others. I can bear them, make them mine, in imitation of Christ. Such an attitude transforms us for our mission. Weakness is in itself not a virtue but the expression of a fundamental reality which must constantly be refashioned by faith, hope and love. The apostle’s weakness is like Christ’s: rooted in the mystery of Easter and the strength of the spirit. It is neither passivity nor resignation. It requires great courage and incites one to defend justice and truth and to denounce the temptation of force and power.”
– Of Gods and Men, 34 minute mark.
Sometimes you see or hear or read something that, regardless of its quality, cuts you right to the quick. Continue reading
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In My Craft or Sullen Art
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art on December 29, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Writing is hard. Fighting is much easier, in a way; if you train hard and win, you progress. With writing, you can work assiduously, but ‘success’ (finding an audience) seems to come down to ‘market forces’, or whatever else governs publication. The simple fact of all this, however, is that it’s whinging. Both are arts; styles of asceticism and require sincere, selfless dedication.
The impulse to quit is grounded in vanity. When I need a righteous kick in the pants, Dylan Thomas is the man I go to see. Continue reading
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Shotgun Party
Posted in Fiction with tags Armed robbery squad, Mouthful of Stones, Rodney Hall, Victoria Police on December 28, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Many of the episodes in Mouthful of Stones are ‘true’. However, this doesn’t mean that all of them overtook your humble narrator. This story belongs to a very good friend who had once been a member of the now-defunct armed robbery squad. After hearing it, I inserted a first-person narrator to make it fit the shape of my design. Continue reading
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The Dark Knight
Posted in Film with tags Alan Moore, Batman, Christopher Nolan, Gomorrah, Gotham City, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, Two Face, Watchmen on December 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
I sat down and had another go at Batman Begins the other night. After sitting through the first ridiculous half-hour, it sucked me in. It’s a great looking film, and distinctly Christopher Nolan; he’s only 41 (so says Wikipedia) and he’s been permitted to make a whole lot of frighteningly big-budget films, real close together. How you feel about them depends on whether you feel that his tropes are strongly established (a Kubrickian sense of individuals dwarfed by technology and architecture, organised along ruthlessly symmetrical lines) or all a bit repetitive. I’m willing to ascribe to the former. Continue reading
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Icons: Part I
Posted in Film, Journalism, Observation with tags Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Dante, Inferno, Ivan's Childhood, Lumiere Cinema, Museo Del Prado, Pasolini, Primavera, Salo, Uffizi on December 24, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleMany years ago, my good friend Jonathan Devenish and I dragged ourselves off to see Andrei Rublev at the now-defunct Lumiere Cinema. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 