{"id":426,"date":"2011-04-30T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-04-30T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T21:20:45","slug":"work-training-at-zfc-and-dude-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/04\/30\/work-training-at-zfc-and-dude-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"work, training at ZFC, and dude on twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work yesterday was pretty good.  It&#8217;s always a struggle to get through the morning.  Especially when I eat breakfast at 4:30 AM, I&#8217;m starving by 9:30. My lunch break is at 1.  I end up snacking (omg I typo-ed &#8216;smacking&#8217;) between lessons, so my co-workers think I&#8217;m always eating. lol  But I had some good lessons.  I taught some idioms to some high-level business guys, and they used them correctly in the lesson after that.  Roxy-sensei was happy. ^_^v<\/p>\n<p>So after work, I was feeling more energetic than earlier that morning. lol  I went to ZFC and people showed up for early pre-practice sparring! \ud83d\ude00  Of course Kojima-san, and Ota-san, these other two guys, and a fellow Shimizu-san, who fought in the Sengoku card I was supposed to have fought on. >_<  \n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Shunichi-Shimizu-22677\"><br \/>\nCheck out his record!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Roxy-and-Shimizu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Roxy-and-Shimizu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Roxy and Shimizu1\" width=\"582\" height=\"516\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-427\" \/><\/a>But I met him at the press conference and stuff.  He&#8217;s so cool!  After sparring, when the average classmembers were warming up, he took me asside and showed me a few COOL moves that I will definately be able to use!  I almost wonder why I never heard of them until now, but they make perfect sense! \ud83d\ude00  I&#8217;m very excited about those! >:D<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Roxy-shimizu-two-guys2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Roxy-shimizu-two-guys2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Roxy shimizu two guys2\" width=\"419\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-428\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe&#8217;s so cool.  I was watching him kick mits and thought, &#8220;Holy crap that&#8217;s fast!  Will I ever be able to kick that fast?&#8221;  Hah probably not, but I gotta make that my future goal!  Ota-san held pads for me, but I pooped out at 8:30.  I guess it&#8217;s not bad for intensive practice since 7.  I went until 10 once&#8230;.7 to 10, but I got ill the next day.  Man&#8230;it&#8217;s so hard to balance everything in my life. I guess everybody says that, though.  But getting home at 10 after ZFC really does work for my time schedule, rather than getting home from the AACC at 11.  <\/p>\n<p>That last pic is Shimizu, some random guy who joined sparring, and a third guy came up after we were done and said, &#8220;I got in the picture from behind!!!!! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 :D!!!&#8221;  Hahahaha<\/p>\n<p>BUT I STILL WOKE UP AT 3:00AM, even with the Ambien.  That stuff is just not working for me. ;_;  Maybe I&#8217;ll quit after one week of using it&#8230;this is day 4.  This sucks. ~_~;  I had hoped it would solve my problems. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still hoping to get a fight soon&#8230;.I thought something looked likely but I&#8217;m not sure now.  My diet is good, just in case.  My cardio is good, just in case.  It&#8217;s hard to do extra cardio and cut weight when you don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re fighting or not.  Well, no use complaining!  I&#8217;m a professional MMA fighter and I must act like it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.so what&#8217;s up with that dude on twitter who linked me (@) and said &#8220;Women&#8217;s mma is just a dream and a dumb one at that.  Because women&#8217;s mma takes away space on fight cards that can be used for legitimate fights ie men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinions.  I respect that.  He doesn&#8217;t wanna see women fights, fine, don&#8217;t watch. But why does he have to go and bother ME?  What did *I* ever do to him?  It&#8217;s kind of rude, don&#8217;t you think?  I don&#8217;t see him messaging other fighter girls (although he was kind of rude to Tito Ortiz and other fighters).  I&#8217;m not really upset, just kind of puzzled. o_O;;  Then when I politely asked him, &#8220;So only men can be athletes?&#8221; he called me a glorified amateur and said that women get in the way of men on the wrestling mats.  Okay, so if a woman goes in just to flirt, I admit that&#8217;s kind of getting in the way.  BUT if she trains hard, then it&#8217;s alright.  <\/p>\n<p>People on twitter are telling me that he&#8217;s just a troll and not worth my time.  But if the poor guy has a misconception, I wanted to try and get to the bottom of it. ^_^  He&#8217;s a person like me with opinions, right?  I mean, I&#8217;m against drinking.  I never drink alcohol.  But you don&#8217;t see me going around to everyone trying to get them to stop drinking, do you?  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just be nice to each other, and don&#8217;t try and crush each other&#8217;s dreams!  He should try and be more positive.<\/p>\n<p>btw, you like my shirt?  Matthew Kaplowitz from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefightnerd.com\/\"> drew it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work yesterday was pretty good. It&#8217;s always a struggle to get through the morning. Especially when I eat breakfast at 4:30 AM, I&#8217;m starving by 9:30. My lunch break is at 1. I end up snacking (omg I typo-ed &#8216;smacking&#8217;) between lessons, so my co-workers think I&#8217;m always eating. lol But I had some good&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-training","category-work","category-8","category-4","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}