User Profile

Hi all! I decided to start to chronicle my training and aspirations here for all to witness my success and failures. My name is Jeremy and I am 32 years old. I am very driven to compete in mixed martial arts and have been hooked for three years. I just recently relocated to Florida but not the hub of all activity...... I am in Jacksonville. I have been training in BJJ since January and continue to look at other areas to expand my game. I plan to continue to train the rest of this year and start training at another gym in town that has a variety of kickboxing, mauy thai and judo. My first step is to compete in the first NAGA event in 2007 to gage my training and what I can build on. I will try to update here everyday. I look forward to any comments good or bad. At least I am not crazy to think that I am the newer version of Randy Couture as there will only be one of his kind. I do have the advantage of not having any injuries (outside of a rib cartilage injury suffered back in March this year from rolling) over the course of several years. I would like to think that being humble in the beginning and always wanting to start and work from the most difficult positions may give me a mental edge in competition. Especially when gassed and having an opponent attempting to impose their will. I do nothing but eat sleep and dream grappling and fighting. Every chance I get I will either watch an event or even now while at work I will find something on the internet to read and write involving my greatest love. I was even thinking about placing an ad in the paper to anyone that wants to roll to improve their game and exchange ideas outside of a gym. Hell, if Franklin and Tanner did it at home watching videos I would think that grappling with a local partner or group would be great. IF you would like to get together, send me a message. I have a wood floor dining room with virtually no furniture except the microwave and computer. This weekend I plan to buy some matting that will cover the entire area in the event of having some sparring or technical rolling. I'll wrap up here for now but look for more tomorrow.