One of the most genuine guys in the game is Brian Cimins - CEO of Grapplers Quest. We have met on a few occasions, he spoke to me last year in Montreal when he was there flyering for his UFC Fan Expo show (that's grass roots promoting) and the guy even sat ringside and watched my Gold Medal fight while being hailed on the loud speaker to be somewhere else. He puts his heart and soul into promoting some of the biggest grappling events and fighters as the sport continues to grow.

I posted a quick question to him on Facebook to see if the promotion was returning to Canada this year as we have had events in 2010 and 2011 in Ontario.

Here we are almost half way through January. Those 'New Year's Resolutions' - have you made a start on them?

Competitions are just around the corner - have you started tournament training? How is the weight post-Christmas? Still as light as you would like to be?

I ask these as questions in a way to cleverly deflect attention away from the fact I am not doing so well with any of the above.

July

It was around now I was entering a stage of not knowing what to write anymore for the blog. I was struggling with coming up with what to say. I was also reading alot more than usual which was taking alot of my time.

I must have been training as much as normal as these GI burns and GI Drying at work shows...

Facebook Timeline has made it very easy to look back over this past year and pick out some of the more notable things that happened for me in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in 2011.

After a slow start to the year...