{"id":4872,"date":"2014-09-01T16:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:15:04","slug":"its-fight-week-and-tons-of-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/09\/01\/its-fight-week-and-tons-of-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s fight week (and tons of other stuff)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heya heya! It’s been over a week since I last wrote. I haven’t really been inspired to write anything lately. When I get stressed out, I tend not to write. ^_^;; *laugh* I train, go home, zonk out to watch anime, and fall asleep.<\/p>\n

Fight prep is going splendidly. As I hope you know by now, I’m fighting in Invicta 8! In Kansas City, Mo! Watch on UFC Fight pass! Or a friend’s Fightpass. Or fly out there. I’m leaving on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Well, last week I tweeked two things and I was heavier than I had wanted to be, and I was freaking out. But now I feel super healthy and I dropped a few pounds, so I’m happy again.<\/p>\n

omg x_x;; <\/p>\n

Well, I wrote three, no, four articles for mmasucka.com! Please read them after my entry because I worked really hard translating Kanehara’s and Tamada-san’s, and then collecting interviews from my fellow fighters!<\/p>\n

I used to train at the AACC in Japan, with Megumi Fujii and Yasuko Tamada, who is headlining Invicta: http:\/\/mmasucka.com\/2014\/08\/13\/yasuko-tamada-prepared-face-hardest-fight-date-invicta-fc-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I had switched gyms to Groundslam, where I trained with Masanori Kanehara, who will debut in the UFC on Sept. 20th: http:\/\/mmasucka.com\/2014\/08\/28\/stage-dreams-masanori-kanehara-takes-alex-caceres-ufc-japan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

aaaaaand this one just came out! I interviewed Michelle Ould, Tonya Evinger, and Jodie Esquibel.
\nhttp:\/\/mmasucka.com\/2014\/09\/01\/evinger-esquibel-ould-preview-invicta-fc-8\/<\/a><\/p>\n

AND I interviewed Rin Nakai, but that hasn’t come out yet. <\/p>\n

Last Saturday, assistant coach John Heath instructed me, Fanny, Jamie and Liz on wrestling stuff. It was SUPER HELPFUL. I feel like I’ve learned SO much from coach John Wood already, that little questions I got answered this day were like icing on the cake. I’m super confident now.
\n\"roxy<\/a>
\nThanks, John!
\n\"john<\/a><\/p>\n

Heather gave me this rash guard. I love it because it says “Hakai” in Japanese, which means “destruction.” XD<\/p>\n

oh did I mention Vinny promoted me one stripe on my purple belt? I mean, I’ve been grappling for like 15 years, but I haven’t put on the gi so much since I started MMA. :\/ So I didn’t really expect to be promoted, but it’s nice that I’m one step closer to my goal (of black belt).\"roxy<\/a><\/p>\n

My bestie HEATHER CLARK came out of the TUF house! \ud83d\ude00 We’ve been hanging out a bit! and with Miesha, too! \ud83d\ude00 <3\n\"roxy<\/a>
\nI like going to the Alehouse at Town Square and watch fights there. \ud83d\ude42 This past Saturday I hung out with my friend Perry, Bootsy, Liz and John H. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n

Anime-wise, I had started GTO, ironically on the same day kids went back to school in Vegas.
\n\"Great_Teacher_Onizuka_TV_Animati-1\"<\/a>
\nWatching that show (about a retired thug trying to become a middle\/high school teacher) makes me feel nostalgic and yearn to go back to an academic setting. Then I remind myself how crappy the salary is compared to the level of stress and effort I inevitably put into it. -_-; and how many hours of unpaid overtime I used to do, because I wanted<\/strike> needed to do a good job?<\/p>\n

Then I stumbled upon Mushishi, “The Bugmaster.” I love it!
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\nIt’s not action – it’s like mystical creatures and folk-tales. The main character is cool. I like him. And I found the live-action movie and the MAIN ACTOR IS ODAGIRI JO! He’s kind of hot. *_* I saw him in the live-action “Basilisk.” Ironic how I hardly ever watch live-action movies and the two I decide to watch have my favorite actor. XD
\n\"mushishi<\/a><\/p>\n

And I’m also getting back into Heroes season 3. Yeah, as most people said, it’s getting super weird and the writers are REALLY stretching the plot. x_x But I like it.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to check out my articles I mentioned above! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heya heya! It’s been over a week since I last wrote. I haven’t really been inspired to write anything lately. When I get stressed out, I tend not to write. ^_^;; *laugh* I train, go home, zonk out to watch anime, and fall asleep. Fight prep is going splendidly. As I hope you know by…<\/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":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day","category-fight","category-friends","category-5","category-7","category-9","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","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=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}