I'll be in Keaau on Hawaii's Big Island from February 17th-23rd to teach a handful of seminars at Doug and Lora Evans' Demon Athletics Gym. While there I'll also spend some time with participants in the Easter Seals program. Doug and I are friends and teammates from back in the days when we trained at Gladiators Training Academy, along with Eugene Jackson. I've never been to Hawaii, so it's a thrill for me to visit Doug, his family, and work with some of Hawaii's great fighters. I'll also wander about the island and explore, take some photographs of what turns up, and post them here.

Lastly, an update on my previous blog entry where I bemoaned the incompetent Florida Athletic Commission's arbitrary

and incorrect ruling that Yohon Banks, a heavyweight I've been training, was not a competitive opponent for Bobby Lashley in the January 30th Strikeforce event in Miami. The commission removed Yohon from the card and, instead, approved journeyman Wes Sims as Lashley's opponent. Sims, who had a week to prepare for the bout, was predictably never competitive in the fight- the referee halting the sloppy, but one-sided bout at the two minute mark of the first round.

The loss was such a forgone conclusion that Sims himself must have accepted that he'd never need his corner's advice or assistance for a second round. In the days preceding the fight Sims had an associate get on a popular online MMA forum and auction off the position for the third man in his corner to the highest bidder.