New Years Resolution Thread - Post 'em!

[MMA_scientist]

Damn when you guys bump this, I am going to be humiliated.

[Mr. IWS]

knowing me, Ill drop 50lbs the first 6 months, and gain 70 the final 6 months.

[MMA_scientist]

I won't do a single thing on my list. I will probably lose like 20 pounds, and do nothing else.

[SPX]

I'll feel okay if I do at least half.

[edman5555]

I'm going to aspire to be a better person.

[Luke]

I'm going to aspire to be a better person.

So no more telling people to go kill themselves?

[zY|]

Here's mine.

New Year's Resolutions/Goals for 2012:

1. Get down to 170# (just 45 pounds)
2. Compete 10 times, do ADCC trials
3. Save 20% of my income
4. Bet with more precision, only bet fights I feel strongly about, don't get lazy and/or impatient.
5. Complete 1/2 triathlon (no way I can do a full one, maybe in 2013).
6. Play with kids more.
7. Go on at least 4 vacations.

I become a better man in 2012.

[poopoo333]

I already did that.

[zY|]

We all have the same goals.

[poopoo333]

We all have the same goals.

Yep. I should be ready for ADCC trials anyday, especially @ 170 lbs

[SPX]

Mine (don't think all this is attainable for financial reasons, but it's what I would like to do):

1. Get down to 10% bodyfat or less while staying above 150 lbs.
2. Get a car.
3. Get a bigger apartment.
4. Put $3000 into savings.
5. Finish at the community college/get my associates degree.
6. Get published in at least one new magazine (not owned by Beckett).
7. Get back into a martial arts class and compete at least three times.

7. Get back into a martial arts class and compete at least three times.

Consider it done. Now a signed up and paid up member of this place. . .

http://wado-institute.com/

Rolled through my first class tonight.

[Vandelay]

Nice, Did they have anyone your size?

[SPX]

Nope. I am the smallest one.

Since it was my first class, I got something of a private lesson in the basics of wado. The black belt who worked with me would show me kicks and then have me practice them by kicking the shit out of his stomach. I was probably hitting him with 3/4 power and eventually I stopped and was like, "Are you really cool with me kicking you like this?" And he was like, "Yeah, this is why we do situps. Keep going." Then to demonstrate the reverse punch he walked over to this wooden plank and started punching the shit out of it.

It might be the first REAL karate class that I've ever been to. Almost everyone in the adult class has been with the school for several years (it was opened in 1970 by this high-ranking Japanese guy) and is either a brown or black belt. Apparently back in the day they had a reputation for being pretty intense. It's chilled out somewhat since then, but you can tell these guys are serious about it.

[Ludo]

Did any of them look like this guy?

[SPX]

Here's the full vid, and apparently it may have actually been a real murder. . .

Not sure what to think. . .