Lesson Five

Reframing Your Possibilities

By Kevin Seaman

An excerpt from his book, The Mind Game Of MMA

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations,

our possibilities become limitless.” -Jamie Paolinetti

Most of us have heard the term Frame Of…

Being inside the cage at CNY MMA is an incredible feeling.  From the outside you see an assorted and eclectic group of warriors, achieving impossible goals.  Men and women.  Old and young.  Thin and overweight.  Muscular and flabby.  Tattooed and beautiful.  Fighters and moms.  School kids, college kids and people you’d cross the street to avoid.  Once you step inside, all of that disappears.  All you see are your teammates. You see a beginner, hesitant and self-conscious, worried whether…

Journal entry

November 16, 2011

You can do it.  One minute at a time.  Don’t try to do the whole class.  Just one round.  Not even the whole round.  Just one minute of that round.  Just one punch at a time.  One kick.  One crunch.  One throw.  One push up, or sit up or one more moment of wall sit.  Focus.  Determination.  Attitude.  You can do it, one piece at a time.  No one can do it all, but anyone can do one step.  So just do one step.  Then another.  Then one more. …

WELL THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL

BUT THE TRAINING AT CNY MMA CORTLAND IS

DELIGHTFUL AND ASSISTANT COACH JEREMY

URPHY HAS NO PLACE TO GO SO LET IT SNOW LET

IT SNOW LET IT SNOW

OPEN MAT IS STILL ON AS ALWAYS WITH BAD WEATHER USE YOUR

BEST JUDGEMENT.

BE SAFE OUT THERE AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE SOME OF YOU

THIS EVENING!!

Along with technique, discipline, strength and endurance we all need to learn the art of partnering.  There is more to partnering than simply standing beside another person, catching his punches and counting his reps.  Being a good partner means teaching and learning, motivating and encouraging, pushing and challenging.  It is a bonding experience, a letting go and letting in, a team-building intimacy.  For that one hour, nothing matters except your partnership.

Some nights,…

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February 4th there's a Naga tourament. The preregistration fee is $85. I've already talked to the Barncat about it and I want to geta good CNY showing to this.

November 30, 2011

It’s supposed to take twenty-one times of doing something before it becomes a habit; with Cardio class, all it takes is once.  Intense, challenging, and unbelievably rewarding, this class is highly addictive. 

Start with a stretch while you focus your mind and prepare yourself for what’s about to come.  Before you’re quite ready, it’s time. Jog, skip, lunge.  Butt kicks, high knees, shuffles.  Jumping jacks, seal claps, squats.  One minute to grab some…

New Mind Game Of MMA Book!!

By Kevin Seaman

I am proud to announce a special foreword by Professor Phil Migliarese III, 4th Degree Black Belt under Relson Gracie. I am honored by his presence in this very unique book, The Mind Game Of MMA. The First Sports Psychology book directed toward modern combat sports competitors!!!

This thing is going to be HUGE!



Available NOW!

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Dear Santa:

    I hope everything is well with you and your extended family up at the north pole. I know it has been awhile since I've written you a letter I guess that's part of getting older. But this letter is special and different from all the others from my childhood  and I hope you enjoy it. This year I am not writing to ask for a new television, video game, or any other material gift. I am writing to give you a helping hand for once. I imagine sometimes you…

New Mind Game Of MMA Book!!

By Kevin Seaman

I am proud to announce a special foreword by Professor 

Phil Migliarese III, 4th Degree Black Belt under Relson Gracie. I am honored by his presence in this very unique book, The Mind Game Of MMA. The First Sports Psychology book directed toward modern combat sports competitors!!!

This thing is going to be HUGE!



Pre-order Today!…

I dont want to win anything because i train at cnymma and i have a thousand reasons to train. I came from a life that most would frown upon. Sure im 17 thats great your childhood was better and it really starts getting difficult when your in the real world. But those of you that think all this are very wrong. The childhood is what molds you. I came from a family where everything was okay until my dad became to lash out of anger of failure and my mother got sick mentally and physically. I…

Today is my Year and a half anniversary of sobriety.  Some days it feels like I just started and others feel like they are never going to end, but all of them are freeing!  I am very happy, today, to know the people here.  I have accomplished more positive goals in this short time that I had in a lifetime.  18 months ago i remember trying to do a push up and being unable to push my 300 pound body off the mat without shaking.  I cried all the time!  I threw up during many classes.  I couldn't…

Exciting news for CNY MMA Cortland. Today (Tuesday October 4th 2011)  we have a special guest instructor

teaching our youth MMA class (4pm-5pm). Coach Erik Charles will be at the school helping our young martial

artists learn a variety of techniques, along with learning all about focus, discipline, hard work, and of course

fun. Coach Charles is one of the best so make sure you take advantage of this great…

I ran (walked) my first Warrior Dash yesterday.  The fact that I call it my first guarantees that I will be doing this again!  About halfway up the mountain I began talking to Jesus!  And planning an escape route that I could take and no one would notice that I had given up!  I didn’t spend too much time entertaining these thoughts!  lol.....  When we got to the first obstacle I remembered feeling relief that I no longer had to hike up that ski slope.  The relief was short lived as I began…

Here's a video of a recent fight my student Jamie Frier (Tai Kai) had in Watertown against Eric Gillette. Watch him use the elevator catch he learned training with me to drop his opponent in the first 7 secs of the fight. It ended with a 1st round KO! This is one of the Tricks I will be teaching Aug. 18 at the Thai Boxing Tricks Of The Trade Workshop at CNY MMA Cortland.

See you there!

Sifu

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Today I was awarded my assistant instructor level  (aka my green shirt). I have a ton of emotions running through me pride, humility, love,  and every other positive feeling I can think of. At a time like this I can’t help to think of where I came from, where I’ve been, and where I am going. Canadian hard rock Nickelback once wrote “If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late could you say goodbye to yesterday?” I came to CNY MMA almost four years ago closer to that last day then I…