Comments on: UFC 98: A Three Hour Magic Carpet Ride http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/05/24/ufc-98-a-three-hour-magic-carpet-ride/ Your Destination for Insider MMA News and Opinion Sat, 26 May 2012 22:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Bryan Levick http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/05/24/ufc-98-a-three-hour-magic-carpet-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-70661 Bryan Levick Wed, 27 May 2009 13:40:42 +0000 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=14471#comment-70661 s00nertp you are so right about having so much MMA. Between working and doing things with my kids it is sometimes hard to find the time to watch it all. Thank God for the invention of the DVR!!! Love the 50 woman anology, that was classic. s00nertp you are so right about having so much MMA. Between working and doing things with my kids it is sometimes hard to find the time to watch it all. Thank God for the invention of the DVR!!!

Love the 50 woman anology, that was classic.

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]]> By: s00nertp http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/05/24/ufc-98-a-three-hour-magic-carpet-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-70652 s00nertp Wed, 27 May 2009 01:02:15 +0000 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=14471#comment-70652 i've never converted anyone over as a fan, i dont believe in that concept, since it implies constant conversion. like religion or something. i prefer to think of it as simply exposing them to what it is. seems like you did a great job of it, i loved this article. once i saw "choke" with rickson gracie, i never looked back. this is what i had always dreamed of. i'd order dvds from japan that took months to arrive. i seriously have to pinch myself sometimes. it is a dream come true to have so much mma i cant enjoy it all. like having 50 hot women sleep with me but only for 1hour....and It is another 50 women every day. pretty dang cool. i’ve never converted anyone over as a fan, i dont believe in that concept, since it implies constant conversion. like religion or something.

i prefer to think of it as simply exposing them to what it is. seems like you did a great job of it, i loved this article.

once i saw “choke” with rickson gracie, i never looked back. this is what i had always dreamed of. i’d order dvds from japan that took months to arrive. i seriously have to pinch myself sometimes. it is a dream come true to have so much mma i cant enjoy it all. like having 50 hot women sleep with me but only for 1hour….and It is another 50 women every day.

pretty dang cool.

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]]> By: wardog http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/05/24/ufc-98-a-three-hour-magic-carpet-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-70606 wardog Mon, 25 May 2009 14:10:00 +0000 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=14471#comment-70606 The two biggest obstacles I have when trying to get friends into the sport. First when the fight is primarily a stand up fight and happens to be "boring" the argument of boxing vs. MMA comes up. Second is the ground game. If people have no idea about wrestling or BJJ trying to explain it can be difficult. Normally I have the fights at my house, and if the person is a problem and doesn't "get into the fights" or worse bad mouths the fights I just don't invite them back. The two biggest obstacles I have when trying to get friends into the sport. First when the fight is primarily a stand up fight and happens to be “boring” the argument of boxing vs. MMA comes up. Second is the ground game. If people have no idea about wrestling or BJJ trying to explain it can be difficult. Normally I have the fights at my house, and if the person is a problem and doesn’t “get into the fights” or worse bad mouths the fights I just don’t invite them back.

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]]> By: platypus http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2009/05/24/ufc-98-a-three-hour-magic-carpet-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-70592 platypus Sun, 24 May 2009 16:55:44 +0000 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/?p=14471#comment-70592 nice. i am also a diehard mma fan and have tried to convert my sport fan friends in the past to mma. i find that ufc is the easiest to convert them with, but even though you hook them with ufc you must keep them with other promotions like dream, sengoku, affliction, and strikeforce. the process can take years but you will have a few good fellow mma fans in the end. most of the time choking them out or armbarring them doesnt hurt your cause either =). the path i took was i watched pride mwgp 2003 and ufc 1-4 , then subsequently watched every single ufc and pride show i could find off torrents, then learned bjj. but i cant realistically expect all my friends to follow the same route, or expect to start rolling around on the ground with sweaty men. its pretty damn easy to tell the different between casual fans and true mma fans these days though. nice. i am also a diehard mma fan and have tried to convert my sport fan friends in the past to mma. i find that ufc is the easiest to convert them with, but even though you hook them with ufc you must keep them with other promotions like dream, sengoku, affliction, and strikeforce. the process can take years but you will have a few good fellow mma fans in the end. most of the time choking them out or armbarring them doesnt hurt your cause either =).

the path i took was i watched pride mwgp 2003 and ufc 1-4 , then subsequently watched every single ufc and pride show i could find off torrents, then learned bjj. but i cant realistically expect all my friends to follow the same route, or expect to start rolling around on the ground with sweaty men.

its pretty damn easy to tell the different between casual fans and true mma fans these days though.

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