Because I don’t start work for another week and half (real work not the 5 hours a week in the student development office) I have been watching a lot of tv. Right now I am watching UFC on Spike TV, apparently I like tv for men. I remember watching UFC tapes from the early 90s when I would go with my parents to the video store. That was before the rules and they would have two opposing styles go toe to toe and just destroy each other. Now it seems like a contest to who can get the other person on the floor first to make them tap out, pretty homo-erotic. But still its fun to watch. The willingness of two men to stand in a ring and forget about their own body while trying to destroy the opponent’s is incredible.
But I have to wonder… how would people that are near masters of a certain martial art do in these competitions? Men that can hit with the force of a car crash. Are the people that fight in “the octagon” that powerful? And do they know enough of any one martial art to actually do a lot of damage? Or does my understanding of martial arts come solely from movies? Either way it is fun to watch.

Also Papelbon is insane.