What Has Been Going On with Mark Krupa (part two)?

Like I had published in this post:

"We also had a young and promising actor named Mark Krupa. Let just say that if I was to produce a remake of Rocky IV, I would contract him for this Drago character, the huge russian boxer. In fact, Krupa is not that tall and that big. But his size would fit the production budget"

Mark is a black belt who stopped coming a few years ago. I had almost completely forgotten about him until I saw him on national television (Radio-Canada) in a children program called Zooville. Unfortunately, there is no info about the participants.

So, I checked around the Web. On Mahalo, I found that he is a well recognized wildlife photographer and fisherman. You can check his adventures on HOOKED with Mark Krupa: The Complete First Season.

"Take off with host Mark Krupa, as he explores Canada's unrivalled wilderness. Battling the denizen of the deep as well as Mother Nature's temper, adventurer and photographer Mark Krupa journeys to the pinnacle of angling adventure. Produced in High Definition by award winning filmmakers."

Then, through the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDN) , you realize that Mark participated in many movies or series. I counted 35.

He also has some wonderful pictures on Bountyfishing.com .

On Youtube, he has a demo video.




And finally, no Wikipedia page so far for him.

If we don't see at the dojo, see you at the Oscars... Take care...

Science behind Mixed Martial Arts

I found these videos on the feed "Gladiator Fitness" I just added in the left colum.





Part two can't be embedded, so the link is here.

Part Four is here.







Part Seven is here.




Part Nine is here

I found this blog looking for abs exercises to flatten my belly. I eat well. not too much and exercise on a regular basis. But, when Milad and Christian asked me: "Is this a belly?" I had to be concerned because those guys know what a belly is. :)).

So, I have been looking around to find an answer to my concerns. It seems that it is only a matter of tranversal abs. They are the deeper abs which hold the internal organs in place. In other words, thay are responsible for the flat belly look. If you don't work them, you will have strong abs but, no flat belly. And all those belly specialists will ask you the same bloody thing....

The above picture shows the impressive exercise called the "vacuum" by Simon Javierto (1922). This exercise is very effective to control the transverse abs and breathing. It is kind of forgotten today and is undoubtedly one of the exercises to reduce your waste size after having lost the extra pounds. It is also considered to be excellent for improving the digestive system (!!!).

What Has Been Going On With Mark Krupa (Part One)?

Why Mark Krupa? Who is Mark Krupa? Well, I will specifically come to that later. For now, let's just say that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Montreal Karate Club. I know the party was shortcircuited by this overloaded smoke show on December 23rd. Nevertheless, it is a good moment to remember some of the rare birds who once were members of this great club.

• A former blackbelt was caught in a robbery, went to jail and got out ... to go back a few months later (I think).

• This other 6'4" tall and about 300 lbs blackbelt with anger problems who can't keep the same job more than six months.

• Don't forget those friendly face punchers.

• Karate has always been good for the Ying. But, don't forget the Yang. I can count four late fathers who had their first child in their late 40's. And one of them, even a second one in his early 50's.

• Speaking of a well-trained Yang, we also have our Casanova blackbelt who is the envy of many lower belts.

• We've had some blackbelt apostles who after learning from Sensei Watanabe disseminated his teachings throughout the world (Alberta, Ontario, USA, Norway).

• The late comers in need of attention, always arriving at the last minute. The class starts at 6h30, they are there at 6h29. The class starts at 7h00, they arrive at 6h59.

• The executive blackbelt who knows how to stretch an afterclass Friday night meeting who should have last no more than one hour.

• MKC also helped forming many couples which lasted ... or not. Mostly not.

• We also had a young and promising actor named Mark Krupa. Let just say that if I was to produce a remake of Rocky IV, I would contract him for this Drago character, the huge russian boxer. In fact, Krupa is not that tall and that big. But his size would fit the production budget. Rocky would have been played by late Arturo Gatti.

Oh! I think I hear my daughter calling my name. Dad, dad, dad! Yes dear, I'm coming.

Sorry folks. Have to go. I will continue part two in the next post. Link is below.

Post two here.

New Evening Class Schedule for August.

As published in this previous post, from July 20th to August 16th, there will be no evening at College Rosemont.

But, thanks to Peter we have a new place to train during August. Therefore starting Monday, July 20th, the new place is at;

La Maisonnette des Parents

6651 St-Laurent (Corner of St.Zotique next to the Church style Condos)

Classes are on Monday / Wednesday / Friday From 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. They will open the doors at 6:00 PM for us...

There will be no class on Friday August 14th because of the Italian holiday that weekend.

However there will be a last class on the following Monday August 17.

Following August 17, if we do not have a Dojo, we will return to College Rosemont, I will keep you all posted of any changes or developments.

See you all soon,

George Pantelis

Nice Visit from Germany.

Allo Éric,

Grace au site web nous avons eu la visite d'une très jolie ceinture noire shorin-ryu d'Allemagne.

Elle continue son périple vers les USA mais viendra peut-être s'installer à Mtl, auquel cas il y a de bonne chances qu'elle se joigne à nous.

Il semble qu'un nouveau local sur St-laurent sera utilisé en août, angle St-Zotique.

Tu devrais en avoir des nouvelles bientôt.

Bonjour à tout la famille,

Marc Boisvert

Glad, I could be of any help...

Eric

Evening Class Summer Schedule

Hello fellow Karatekas,

Hope everyone is doing well. I just wanted to send you a quick note to remind you that the College Rosemont will be closed starting July 20th. We do not have any signed contract after this date, if we return to the Rosemont College it will only be on August 17.

We will continue to train at the Titans boxing gym for the afternoon classes, there is no stoppage at this place, but as far as the evening classes are concerned, we are aggressively looking to re-locate. Of course I will keep you posted as soon as I get the latest news.


Thanks, see you all soon,

Georges Pantelis