BJ PENN ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF LIVE LIKE A CHAMPION PROJECT
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BJ Penn Invites 300 Martial Arts Teachers to Join Him for a Year of Intensive ON-LINE and IN-PERSON Training
March 17, 2009, Hilo, Hawaii – World Champion mixed martial arts fighter BJ Penn has been fighting on the mat, in the ring, and in the “cage” for more than a decade; now the popular Hawaiian-born fighter has decided to take on the world, the martial arts world that is.
Penn has announced the launch of a one-year martial arts teacher training program called “The Live Like a Champion Project”, set to begin January 1, 2010.
Penn, the first non-Brazilian to ever win the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight World Champion, and the current UFC Lightweight Champion of the World, will lead 300 hand-picked martial arts teachers, of all styles and from around the world, through an experiential training program that will include martial arts and fitness training, meditation, philosophy, a strict dietary regime, anger management classes, and extensive community involvement. Penn’s goal is to improve the way martial arts instructors learn and practice their craft.
“Fighting is just one part of the martial arts,” says Penn. “Half of The Live Like a Champion Project is about expanding the public’s awareness of what martial arts are about, beyond fighting and self-defense; the other half to expand the kind of education available to people who love teaching martial arts.” Participants will diary in on-line written journals and via video a year of their life as they work with Penn and a team of experts to upgrade their knowledge and live in a way that sets an example for their students –and the international martial arts community.
“The ring is small and the world is big,” says Penn, “knowing how to fight like a champion has its value, but living like a champion is the ultimate aim of the training; and to teach it you have to live it first.”
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Comment by Roman Dela Cruz on June 18, 2009 at 1:44am -
with great power comes great responsibility.
From a UFC World Champion and more---
Awesome.
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Comment by Tom Callos Martial Arts Channel on June 12, 2009 at 4:48am - It is done through an interview process. Looking for enthusiasm, mostly.
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Comment by BAMPPROJECT.COM on May 20, 2009 at 1:14pm -
THAT FORM, ABOVE is what you fill out (it's at the right side of BJPENN.COM) to get more info ont he Live Like a Champion Website. Thanks!
Tom Callos
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Comment by BAMPPROJECT.COM on May 20, 2009 at 1:13pm
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Comment by igor on May 18, 2009 at 3:22am - great idea,bj you are the best man,sign me up for this program...
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Comment by igor on May 18, 2009 at 3:22am
- great idea,bj you are the best man,sign me up for this program...
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Comment by larry jackson jr on May 11, 2009 at 1:33pm - This would be a great honor to learn from the best in or sport. So I can bring what learn back to goldsboro N.C. .
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Comment by Robert L. Koenig on May 8, 2009 at 11:36pm - Sounds fascinating.
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Comment by Jordan on May 7, 2009 at 5:43am -
Myself i have this gut feeling that Win or Lose,BJ might retire :(
Just too many "Thanks for supporting me all through out my carere" and "its been fun the past 10 years" and now this,and just the way he's acting in his interviews and stuff, IDK I have a bad feeling...
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Comment by Jordan on May 7, 2009 at 5:38am
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Ya right Tom..you know,you're from Hilo,you know BJ,you trained at his gym and Hilo is small place you know and you're just not telling us.
LoL
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