Roxanne Modafferi

Overload!

First of all, I laughed like a maniac when I watched this: It’s a fan-made parody with fan voice actors for Dragon Ball Z.

I had kind of a rough weekend because I was so exhausted. I drank SOCK OFF, my super Senzu-style recovery supplement, which is a favorite of Groundslam members. I usually feel bouncy the next day, but it only helped keep me on my feet, barely. I worked from 8:00 AM to 5:30PM on Saturday. x_x; Back to back lessons with virtually no breaks are harder than one might think. Every student is at a different level with different needs, and then you mix in kids, and I go from teaching a kid “Throw the ball! Catch the ball!” to negotiating the price of a rental apartment in the next.

I met a friend from my gym after that, and amazingly, ran into a student in Starbucks, a 4-year old girl! She is soooooo cute, she melts my heart every time. ;__; THEN I ran into Ben and Tony on my way home, so I chatted with them a bit.

Then went home, drank more SOCK OFF, and passed out.
Sunday, repeat. 8:00 AM to 5 PM. This time, wondering why the hell Sock Off wasn’t being it’s normal super self. I think I’m over training. I felt deliciously sore, so I knew my strength training was working well. My training partners have been saying I feel stronger and punch harder lately, so that’s great! I’m really happy about that.

I bought some pants at Uniqlo, did some sewing and other chores. I have a lot to do recently. I’m so busy, on top of training. Then I watched Dragon Ball Z for the rest of the evening. I wanna get the Freeza Saga done and over with, because I hate Freeza. ~_~; So much. Piccolo finally showed up on Namek. His voice actor is freaking the bomb: Toshio FUrukawa. *_* I love himmmm. Scott McNeil, the American actor, has a pretty sexy voice, too. They both do a fabulous job.

Okay, I went to youtube to find some voice samples, but I’m posting this one because I love seeing Piccolo kick a$$. XD

Vegeta’s Japanese voice actor, Ryo Horikawa, is super awesome, too. *_* See, this is the first time I’m watching the series in Japanese. Before it was English. Searching youtube…omg Horikawa can speak ENGLISH?!?!?!?! OMG!
Anyway, this is a DBZ scene .Starts at 30 seconds in.

Monday, I woke up too early. Watched DBZ. Vegeta just ..yeah. And that scene was much more moving in Japanese than English. I was really touched. That was when I started liking the character, actually. Then I ran two flights of stairs in my apartment building. Then went to the dojo and did pro training. Again we did lots of wrestling. :/ I prefer greco roman style. I just don’t have the physique to lift people up and slam them, the way Wicky was showing us. X_X But Sunabe-san, King of Pancrase, was there visiting from Okinawa. He’s like 130 lbs, maybe even lighter than me at this moment, and we trained together a lot, so that was fantastic!

This weekend at the Filipino promotion PXC, Noripi (Michinori Takana) won a title belt! Congratulations to him! So proud of him!

I think I’m using the internet too much. I’ve been saying this for a while. I gotta cut back. Go meditate or something.

OMG I had to edit this entry to add this, LOL I LOVE SCOTT MCNEIL! “I am NOT a YOSHI!!!” LMFAO

Friday morning, I did my usual weight session with Mitsui-san. He added more weight to my one-armed rows. Yay, that means I’m getting stronger? I struggled. x_x But did it!

I usually go to work after that, but Katsumura-san is in the Philippines to corner Nori-P (Michinori Tanaka, who has a title match!) so I’m the back up teacher in these cases. I don’t wanna train after my physical training session, so I figured I’d just instruct everyone else.

But only Arai-san came!
X_X; So I had to train. He wanted to do striking sparring, so I was trying to warm up. I could barely move. -_-; He knew I did some weights, so I think he felt bad about me training with him. I had the worst sparring session of my entire LIFE. After the first round ended, I thought, “This is not going to work. I’ll get injured. I’ll just apologize tell him to do grappling….”

No. No way. What kind of fighter quits in training? Unless injured or in pain? You aren’t always going to be your best in the ring. You can’t always do what you want to do.

DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO, AND DO IT WELL.

I forced myself to do another round and, although it still sucked, it sucked less. I got hit because I had like zero head movement and went straight in and out, hahaha, but I did a few techniques I was thinking about, and got in a few hits of my own. I’m glad I didn’t quit. Then another guy showed up and the two men sparred, so I felt better about that, that Arai-san got some more training.

Every day is a fight.

Sooooooo exhausted. We did some grappling and my body was just not working, but did really well against that guy. I could tell he was really trying to catch me with stuff, and he defended hard, so I couldn’t get him, but almost got a choke.

Dragged self to work. Worked. “It’s okay, only 5 lessons today,” I thought. Thank goodness. I get to go home early, at 7:45 instead of 9:30. Thanks, Boss. Half way through shift, my boss comes in and says, “Can you work two extra lessons tonight? Another teacher is sick.”
I said, “Uhhh….” and thought about everything he’s ever done for me. Like the above. If I weren’t so dead, I’d be able to go to training.
“Yes, of course,” I said. Otherwise, he would probably stay. But I’m sure he had his own plans already made. Would I force him to cancel them because I was tired?

x_x; No motivation for work whatsoever yesterday. But I couldn’t go and do poor quality work. that wouldn’t be fair to the customers, and the company paying me for my services. It made me think. So many people don’t like their jobs. I happen to like mine. But I have pride. I want to do everything I do perfectly. We can’t always be perfect, though, but if we aim for perfection, then it will probably turn out at least one notch below – high quality. If you aim for “just being acceptable,” it might turn out ‘less than acceptable’ which is ‘unacceptable.’

ganbarou
(“do your best” in Japanese.)

I’ve been rewatching a lot of DBZ latly.
The common theme is….when? When are the Saiyans going to arrive on earth? When is Goku going to arrive and save everybody? When is he going to arrive on Namek? When this, when that?

That’s why you always have to be prepared. For everything. At work, personal life, training. Seriously, you can learn so much from DBZ. I think Akira Toriyama was just a genius, and also an MMA fighter at heart. hah I bet you can’t name a time things went more smoothly when you were unprepared.

Just watched DBZ Kai ep 37. Freeza just transformed and skewered Krillin. I remember the first time I saw that when I was in high school, I CRIED. SO HARD. Like SOBBING. ~_~ And that image was forever burn into my mind, kind of traumatizing me. ~_~ That’s why I hate even the image of Freeza so ridiculously much. It might sound kind of silly, but I’m really sensitive, as a kid and even now. I just fasted forward through the part where Freeza is torturing him a bit. arg.

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Today, Wicky ran pro class. I LOVE it when he runs class. He had been training at Urijah Faber’s “Team Alpha Male” for a long time, and brought back techniques and training methods. I also like his style of striking. I think there’s now a “team alpha male Japan?” However, I can’t do everything he can do. For instance, I don’t have his power. Today, he had us picking up people and dumping them. I am not a “wrestle-shoot-pick-up-dump” kind of figher. ^^;; And I was the odd one out, so I kind of let the men folk do their thing. It sucked a little. But I really like doing drills with other pros.

I was doing a three-way drill with Uno-san and Lion-san. That was cool. Before class, at 8:30AM, I went in early and did my own warm up plus curcuit drill. 30 seconds jump over a human dummy bag, then 30 seconds ground and pound, then 30 seconds kick/hit the hanging heavy bag. I wanted to repeat that for 5 minutes, but didn’t have a second timer, so I put on Metalica’s “Fuel,” which was about 4:40 seconds, and stopped when the song finished. Because that’s the way I r0ck and r011.

Yesterday, I trained, and Steve and Harley were singing the Roxanne song by the Police to me. When they got a reaction out of me, they started SCREAMING IT. ARRRRG I hate that song so muchhhhhh. You both will pay dearly for that! Somehow!
But you know you two guys are special. If someone I don’t love does it to me, I will actually be angry and stop talking to you. ^^; I’m serious. So if a fan comes up to me and starts singing, you will get to meet the Unhappy Warrior.
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It’s summer, and the majority of older women are carrying parasols. I feel like saying, “Enjoy the warmth of the sun! Your skin makes vitamin D, and maybe in a few decades, humans won’t be able to to outside without protection due to the depletion of the ozone layer. lol

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I’m training so hard and so focused on it. I’m having trouble getting motivated to go to work lately. ~_~; One of my recent goals is to get to work less early, and to stop thinking about it after I go home. I have a tendency to do that.

I’m really tired after training. I just want to go home and relax and recover.

Speaking of which, it’s my day off from work, but I’m going in to do a few kids classes and assessment. Because I r0x0r. I gotta keep telling myself that.

LIKE THIS SONG!!

I’ve been training and working really hard lately! Great sparring, great technique. BJ-san and Wicky-san have been giving me lots of advice lately. Thanks

WICKY!!

Wicky had been training at Alpha Male, with Urijah Faber, and he’s back now! I dunno, his and Katsumura’s striking techniques are the only ones that I’ve been able to see, do, and have stick immediately. All other attempts have failed miserably. Probably because they’re unconventional and irregular.

Something amusing happened on Monday. I went early to open the gym, and was wheeling my suitcase with my gear in it. I passed this fighter-looking dude standing outside the locked doors, and said, “Konichi wa.” He kind of glanced at me and like barely inclined his head, then looked away.
“Tee hee,” I thought, turning the corner to get at the electric lock. “He doesn’t know I’m from Groundslam.” So while watching him, I stuck my key in the lock and then the metal shutters started to rise. As did his eyebrows. When I came ’round the corner again, he was all bowing and “It’s a pleasure to meet you, I’d like the honor of visiting your gym” etc etc introducing himself. YEAH, THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT! HAHAH XD

This weekend, I was SO exhausted. I didn’t train at all on Saturday, and in fact, finished my book “Valley of Horses” by Jean M. Auel, that I’d been reading. I want the next one! :<

Recently, I've gotten into looking at the Overly Manly Man memes on Reddit! haha so funny!

And random pic…. a little creepy. See what I mean? Look closely. Is it just me?

CREEPY.

I tried a bunch of strange random food recently because……it’s strange and random. ADVENTURE!!

Spinach/basil/bacon rice ball.

I bought it because it was green.
Roxy rating: 9. Eat frequently.

Napolitan Spaghetti / egg/ fatty ham sandwich

I laughed outloud, said “Ewwww,” took a pic, and made fun of it to my friends for a few days before becoming curious enough to try it.
Roxy Rating: 4. My tastebuds were very confused. But it wasn’t gross, per say. Will never eat again.

Marinated spicy grilled pollock roe

very popular Japanese food.
Roxy rating: 8. I eat occasionally when out.

And I just saw this in a convenience store. An anime character called “Crayon Shin Chan.”
Butt-shaped jiggly pudding.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFF! I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THE JAPANESE CULTURE. ~_~;; This is for like 4 year olds and up. We teachers experience little kids making sexual inappropriate comments to us, and wonder how the f*ck they know those words. Well, here’s why. The adults introduce them at an early age through anime….BUT WHY? WHY TEACH THEM THAT? Why draw a pant-less boy like in Gash Bell? It’ll just get little boys to mimick that, and it’s not GOOD.

/end rant

Roxy rating: negative five billion seven thousand and twenty five.

Well, I don’t teach MY kids such things, and I punish them if they say or do stuff. YEAH

Speaking of kids, in my class of 11 year olds, I introduced myself as “Super teacher Roxanne” and they were like “Oh you wanna be a Super Saiyajin?” (in Japanese) and I was like “Yes.” So they called me “Super Roxanne” the rest of the lesson. I LOVED IT!

Yay, the Lawson Convenience store next to my office started selling my favorite low-calorie ice cream again! Weeeeeeeeeeee!

I thought that was noteworthy. ^_~

Amusing moment of the week: Tuesday evening:
*bell rang, signaling class start* Boss is walking down the hall in front of me. He says out of the corner of his mouth, “…yer cat’s in the toilet.”
I was like, “What’s in the toilet?” O_o;;;;
Boss: Your guy’s in the toilet. Your student. *enter his classroom*
Roxy: Oh LOL *walks into an empty classroom and ends up waiting a minute*

Totally misheard that. XD Hah Irish accents + UK English phraseology. They say “in the toilet” rather than “in the restroom.”

After two hard practices on Monday, I was wiped out on Tuesday. (my training schedule is Sunday: weights, Monday: MMA x 2, Tuesday off, Wednesday: Stairs, morning MMA, Thursday: morning MMA, Friday: Stairs, morning weights/S&C, evening MMA, Saturday: off) All times not training, I’m working, except I don’t work Thursday evening.

I did my Tuesday’s dare care center kid’s outservice. AAaarg one of the girls, who actually looked mentally disabled, was biting my flash card when they got passed around. ~_~ SO annoying! Because they’re my school’s cards and I only have two sets, so now they have permanent teeth marks in the corner. (>_<) And group 1 didn’t listen so well. Must have been something in the air- spring?- because on Wednesday, my kids were also nuts. One of the OLDER ones put the stuffed toy in her mouth, and then passed it, and the second boy was like, “Ewwww it has your spit all over it!” x_x; She was definitely not disabled, and looked abashed afterwards. She should be! She’s too old for that!

Haha anyway, Tuesday night’s student was lovely. Wednesday morning, training was good. I took SOCK OFF and woke up feeling genki. (energetic) I love that recovery supplement! XD Body still sore, but that shows I’m working hard. I’m getting stronger! Mwahaha! Katsumura-san came at 10:30 (class start) and asked me to run warmups because he had a lot of stuff to do. Then I ended up practically teaching the whole class. LOL Afterwards, I did some special training with him on certain points! (super ninja training!!) Then I taught him the English of how to be a good cornerman. Like “Hands up! Circle out! Go for the (name of attack)! Watch out for (name of attack)! Etc. Then I shadow boxed and fed him the situations for him to practice. It was good. PPP, baby! Berlitz method! hahaha

Moving on. Lol

Went to work, taught the angels mentioned above. Went home not feeling totally dead. I recognize that I could have potentially taught 4 kids classes in a row, rather than 3, so I’m grateful to the boss. Thanks! I read some of “Valley of the Horses” before I went to bed. By Jean M. Auel. I wanted to read more, but I got too sleepy. ;_;
Today, I have training, then bonus lessons in the evening.

I’ve been watching Dragon Ball Z Kai lately, before work/training, or after I come home, while laundry is going, before I go to work. I’m on the part where they’re on Namek, and now the Ginyu Force came and Goku just showed up.