The Fists of Bond Round 1 : A Punchy introduction

Hello, dear listeners!

We’ve all watched action movies featuring characters that get involved in some amazing fisticuffs, displaying high-octane combat moves that have us on the edge of our seats, even taking our collective breath away.

Who hasn’t walked away from such movies thinking “Wouldn’t it be cool to be as well trained as that hero and kick butt as fantastically as they did in the movie?” We all want to be like Daniel Craig in the SPECTRE train fight scene.

Mathieu and Edgar have certainly fantasized about being the heroes of such adventures, but this week they’ll get a dose of reality about what it is to be a fighter.

You might even say they’ll get some sense knocked into them.

New friend of the show Simon Traversy (and personal friend to Mathieu), an actual fighter and teacher of various defence skills, steps into the studio to talk about 007 and so much more.

In fact, the conversation regarding martial arts, boxing and the like was so widespread that the hosts decided to split the episode into 2 parts, with this week’s first instalment essentially functioning as an introduction to the idea of being a fighter and getting mentally involved in a fight per say.

We didn’t even start talking about the individual Bonds until the 2ndhour!

Simon regales Matt and Edgar with a plethora of personal experience, some of it coming with killer punch lines, as well as some theoretical basics about various fighting concepts.

Rather than rambunctious and testosterone filled, the conversation turns rather philosophical.

After all, as everybody knows, a real life fight is nothing like fighting in the movies.

Well, as we soon discovered early in the episode, almost everyone knows that… The bell has rung to commence the first of this 2-round special, The Fists of Bond. 007 awaits his turn next week.

For now, we cover as much of the dojo mat as we can with an introduction to kicking *ss.

For anyone interested in receiving further wisdom from Simon, check out the Angry Monkey gym in Montreal! http://www.angrymonkeymma.com