Sterling’s Strong Woman Photography

Sterling is a photographer near NYC who is working on a series of photos of strong women — whatever that looks like to each individual woman. In this article, she explains her approach. [clicky title to read more]

Yoga for Fighters: Releasing the Psoas

Most fighters end up with certain muscles totally overdeveloped. Because of the way grappling works, the psoas muscles get very, very tight. However, many non-grapplers also have a lot of psoas problems, simply from sitting all day. The psoas shortens and becomes tight. An overdeveloped, shortened psoas means less mobility, reduced speed, and greater risk of injury.

Grapple Girls Open tournament Sat Aug 21!

Hello ladies. Look at your weekend. Now look at our tournament. Back at your weekend. Now back to our tournament. THIS IS THE WEEKEND YOUR WEEKEND COULD LOOK LIKE… if you quit being such a fence-sitting wimp and registered to compete!

(Or just came out to have fun and watch some chick-on-chick action. Dudes welcome as supporters and spectators too!)

I’m on a horse.

Health Magazine Forces Readers to “Eat Shit, Not Crap,” Enraged Chemist Grants Stinky Sulfur Award

Man I love this guy Shane Ellison over at The People’s Chemist. He is all about throwing the bullshit flag. The latest target for the venting of his spleen: suck-hole nutritionists who capitulate to the lowest common denominator instead of standing up for what is actually true.

Men’s Health editor David Zinczenko was hawking his latest health abomination, Eat This Not That! For Kids! And when asked by the twit show host, “What’s the best dessert for my kids,” Zinczenko replied, “Have them eat THIS Dairy Queen banana split with only 73 grams of sugar, NOT THAT Baskin Robbins Classic banana split with 125 grams of sugar.”

Do you think Zinczenko wants me to whack his head with THIS aluminum bat or THAT wooden one? Junk food swapping is just as dangerous, albeit much slower in its destruction. But essentially, that’s what he is asking parents to choose between when it comes to feeding kids dessert.

Eat This, Not That is a clever disguise for, Eat Shit, Not Crap.

Read more…

Women’s grappling in Toronto

If you’re in or near Toronto, some exciting stuff coming up!

Grapple Girl Women’s Open tournament: Sat August 21, 2010

Women’s Grappling Camp: Aug 23-27, 2010

And of course, as always, pay-what-you-can women’s classes at MECCA. By women, for women. Taught by female national-level competitors. (And, occasionally, me. Ha!)

  • Women’s grappling: Fridays 6-7:30; Sundays 12 pm.
  • Women’s wrestling: Sundays 11 am.
  • Women’s judo: 6-7 pm.

Whether you’re a total beginner or grizzled mat veteran, whatever your style, school, size, or skill — join us!

Just when you thought McNuggets couldn’t get more disgusting

From CNN Health:

All McDonald’s nuggets are not created equal.

U.S. McNuggets not only contain more calories and fat than their British counterparts, but also chemicals not found across the Atlantic.

CNN investigated the differences after receiving a blog comment asking about them.

American McNuggets (190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat for 4 pieces) contain the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, “an anti-foaming agent” also used in Silly Putty.

How to get more women into grappling

It’s the age-old question: What do women want? Well, we want asskicking of course! And toilet paper. Read more in my new article at GrappleArts.com!

Also, just a reminder, if you’re looking for BJJ, wrestling, and/or judo, and you’re in Toronto, we run four women’s classes a week — drop me a line if you want to join us. Find us on Facebook: Fembot Army. And don’t forget our women-only grappling tournament and camp in late August!

Science and sex: sometimes surprisingly clueless, all things considered

I’ve gotten this link from lots of folks, so I’m posting it here: What Exercise Science Doesn’t Know About Women.

Medical science has done a great job in many ways. But in other ways, you’d think women just got invented with how little doctors and researchers seem to know about certain things. I’m hoping that the current majority-female crop of science undergrads is going to change the face of research over the next few decades. Going to rant about that more in my upcoming rant… stay tuned…