Good stuff happening bro, enjoy your time in Montenegro, don't grind 24/7 there 
Notifications
Clear all
Originally posted by Demonic226
Good stuff happening bro, enjoy your time in Montenegro, don't grind 24/7 there
Yeah very good stuff indeed!
Will be tough to just grind 24/7 as some other things are set in motion and development but more on that in near future
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
... as some other things are set in motion and development but more on that in near future
Must be some things in motion/development for you to only make 3 posts in a week... it's normally 3 posts a day!!! ♦
Originally posted by Ramble
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
... as some other things are set in motion and development but more on that in near futureMust be some things in motion/development for you to only make 3 posts in a week... it's normally 3 posts a day!!! ♦
You got that right my friend ♦
About to do some grinding, going for steady 100+ games from tomorrow until the end of the month.
One of the following days will write more in depth about everything happening. For now you have to stay satisfied with this much update info and look for graphs in challenge thread 
In 1 hour and 40 minutes will attend CrossFit. Probably hardest training I will have to do so far, check it out:
for time
15 deadlift
40 pull ups
12 deadlift
30 pull ups
9 deadlift
20 pull ups
6 deadlift
10 pull ups
The time will be determined on training. Hope trainer will give us minimum 30 minutes for all this madness. 42 dead lifts and 100 pull ups!
Look forward to warm up for this main training. If it will some double unders (rope jumping) it will really pump up the heart and adrenaline for what will follow.
GL me today
That is sick, you can do 40 pull ups in a row? Or are those assisted? Nevertheless still madness...
Originally posted by RovarTry
That is sick, you can do 40 pull ups in a row? Or are those assisted? Nevertheless still madness...
When I went 1st training I couldn't do even 10-20 assisted. Couple of trainings ago I did 40 of them with 5 sets of 8 reps.
I do assisted ones - can you imagine guys who train 18 - 24 months , without it?
Leaving in 15 minutes, still mentally preparing it will be a killer one for sure
Edit: Between the sets I rest no more than 10-15 seconds. Also I can do unassisted ones with burpee (so perform burpee do the jump from it and then complete pull up)
i just found this on 9gag.
Funny, but also true, I guess.
keep up your good work, I enjoy reading your blog.
40 pull-ups within a few minutes, even assisted, are a great achievement 
I can do only infinitely less 
It's great that things are going well for you, Montenegro sounds like the most comfortable option. I wish I were there, but that it hasn't happened (in particular, that I haven't started learning the language) is only a consequence of my utter laziness.
In other news, you might want to brag the guitar setup in the new musicians thread 
Originally posted by georgelboss
i just found this on 9gag.
Funny, but also true, I guess.keep up your good work, I enjoy reading your blog.
100% true
I have read about it when I started and after 6-8 weeks involved with it I can totally relate and understand why CrossFit people talk about it so much - it does so much good for you and it is one of the best if not the best way to work on your whole body.
Thanks ,glad you enjoy the blog
Originally posted by tonypmm
40 pull-ups within a few minutes, even assisted, are a great achievementIt's great that things are going well for you, Montenegro sounds like the most comfortable option. I wish I were there, but that it hasn't happened (in particular, that I haven't started learning the language) is only a consequence of my utter laziness.
In other news, you might want to brag the guitar setup in the new musicians thread
My actual training today was 50 instead of 100 pull ups. As soon as I arrived my trainer told me there is no way you can do 100 pull ups when 3-4 days ago you died doing 30-40 of them ♦ So what he did is instead of 40 30 20 10 he changed for me to 20 15 10 5.
For time was 25 minutes and I completed whole training in less then 17 minutes!
Feel awesome of course about it and whole week I will attend 2 more trainings that include pull ups in them. Might post them on Thursday and Friday here.
Montenegro will be awesome. I am really looking forward to move there for 2 months minimum. My family is there , so look forward hanging with them a bit. I am also psyched to grind there, visit beach from time to time and maybe something else happens along the way who knows
I think you should have no problem moving there Tony. A lot of Russian people are there and they are buying properties all over Montenegro for couple of years now. I also believe they speak English well so I don't see problem with communicating with them.
I will participate in that thread for sure. Finally to see some musician type thread on PS, very cool!
For those of you that were waiting for grind and graphs - today it finally happened , 150 games.
Ran really bad, made some lighter r/calls 4/4 , but am very happy with pre and post flop play as well as bubble and HU.
You can check out the results and thoughts about today HERE
Tomorrow full day. CrossFit training in the morning followed by responding to student questions and hands on our forum then 2 grind sessions (75 games each) and squeezing in 1 or 2 coaching sessions would be awesome. Of course in between all brakes meals need to happen.
By the end of the week I will write some new challenge which is actually related to me leaving to Montenegro.
Hint: Hitting 100k SN in next couple of days ...
Just to post tomorrow's training, you can try this in your gyms or in the nature someway
A:
2 rounds
6 thrusters
6 bar muscle ups
B:
2 rounds
6 thrusters
12 c2b pull ups
C:
2 rounds
6 thrusters
24 pull ups
So whats basically going to happen with pull ups is 12 of them in A , 24 in B and 48 in C
84 total might be too much for me but lets see what my trainer says tomorrow. Thrusters will be done with 60kg (olympic bar + 20kg on each side) so total 36 thrusters.
Should be very fun training, hopefully I can do minimum 50 , go for 60 or so pull ups.
Finally here is the plan for the remaining of the month and beyond.
August plans
SNGs played so far: 752
VPPs so far: 6,073,96
This year VPPs: 96,590,11
Minimum goal
- By the end of the month hit 100k VPPs achieve SN again (3,410 VPPs needed)
Would be very happy if
- I played another 1250 SNGs by the end of the month (2k total)
- Have some over the top VPPs for what could follow
September plans
- Settle in Herceg Novi, set up grind station, internet and all the regular stuff
- Enjoy the city,weather, visit beaches and chill with my family
- Hang out with one very special girl
- Work out 3 to 4 times a week outside CrossFit
- Ideally play 4k games but be happy with 2.5 or 3k with other life related things in balance
- Coach minimum 30 hours + spend minimum another 20 to 30 hours on forum commenting on hands and questions from students
- Record 2nd video for Poker Strategy
- Open to some musical cooperation, jamming recording some tracks preparing for January+ USA trip
Depending on how September goes with grind, determine VPP end of the year target
Ideally, should go for 200k VPP SuperNova but I will not sacrifice all the other life related things just to do that. If money goes down I mean like way down then yes I will step up and do whats necessary.
So I am ready for whatever September brings. Open to cool things happening in Herceg Novi and very much look forward to the move.
I leave you with this photo to show you I am already preparing for it all
Jump ropes + special type of surface to stretch on etc
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
- Hang out with one very special girl
Congrats! I believed until the last moment that the process that made you busy was recording an album or sort of, but when people say that smth special is happening, in 90% of cases it turns out to be some kind of dating 
Or is she your record producer, by any chance?
Originally posted by tonypmm
Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
- Hang out with one very special girlCongrats! I believed until the last moment that the process that made you busy was recording an album or sort of, but when people say that smth special is happening, in 90% of cases it turns out to be some kind of dating
Thanks Tony but nothing major has happened yet for congratulations to be in order
Album recording is still on, I would say now even more then ever. Was in Belgrade 2-3 times past 2-3 months, attended about 5-6 excellent Jazz gigs there. This past weekend was Nisvile Jazz Festival in my town so had guests over for the weekend, again attended gigs.
Since I am taking my guitar with me to Herceg Novi and will do some guitar lessons from there as well, will look for time to finish some tunes and compose new ones.
This special girl really is special She graduated Berklee like I did at 21-22 years old. She is a great singer. On top of this, what I found super amazing with her is that she graduated as CWP major which stands for Contemporary Writing and Production. This major is so great, if I went to Berklee again I would pick this and my 3rd time around would go for film scoring major! CWP basically focuses on a lot of arranging, writing and technology/software based classes. Whats so great about it is imagine having an idea in your head, you play it on your main instrument, write out all the parts and now using technology and techniques that you learned you can orchestrate it and arrange it dozen different ways + produce it. This is just so impressive to me and I look forward seeing her in action doing these things Maybe we will do some new tune of mine this way. Would love to learn from her in this area a lot!
On top of everything career and music related that we have in common, she is smart carrying understanding and has strong family traditional values. We also share some important life related views. Did I mention she is hot too? ♦ And no , she is not Asian - I know I shocked myself as well
No pressure of any sort, I will hang with her, maybe do some playing but as I said don't want to set any crazy goal right now with her , hanging out will be great 1st step what may follow after that we shall see.
Finally talking to her for 6 months and all the music related things have pushed me to think about USA again. I will most likely apply for Artist O-1 visa again by the end of this year. Might visit Boston from January to do some playing there and recording. Also I have some great friends in Boston that I haven't seen in like 6 years or so, that would be awesome to hang again.
All this will be influenced and affected by couple of very important things:
- Financial situation in my family
- Best friend making a living with SNGs
- How my coaching and staking program will develop in future
- How much money I will have left by the end of the year
Financial situation in my family is basically brother making a strong living with SNGs (1k$+ a month) and our dad settling with one of the many projects he is involved in. The sooner that this happens, easier it will be for me to move around with extra money left.
Best friend is bellow EV this month about 250$ or so. He has 9%+ EV ROI on 3.5$ 6 max turbos. By the time January comes, hope he will play 7s and have very solid ROI (minimum 5%+) and make solid living also like my brother.
Coaching and staking program has 11 students, 9 excluding my brother and best friend. Some guys contracts are finishing up by the end of this year or mid January. I will sit down with them and discuss if they want to continue and what their plans actually are. This itself can be a game changer as I am sure you can imagine it all. Less students - more time for me to play and do other life things but negative side is I get to coach less (which is something I really enjoy doing) + could make less money then now (less freedom for days off, traveling etc)
Ideally I would like to make 15k more by the end of this year cause so far I have made 15k post RB in 8 months almost. This was my goal at the beginning of the year. I am positive I will hit 30k combined with students profits easily.
So if say I have 15k on my account once December comes, I can easily buy ticket fly to Boston and stay there for month or two even. From there coach all my students via skype and team viewer and in the meanwhile do a lot of playing and recording.
This is the plan right now in my head. Many things can get in the way but I will do my best to lead everything in that direction that feels best for me.
Have a good day on and off the tables all!
Cool, she can be at least a great colleague in any case
One of my PLO acquaintances who's also a versatile musician - Jabonator on Youtube - very (hetero)romantic but really shy - has been feeling much better since he started jamming and singing in duos with girls, even though he's not getting action yet, afaik.
Originally posted by tonypmm
Cool, she can be at least a great colleague in any caseOne of my PLO acquaintances who's also a versatile musician - Jabonator on Youtube - very (hetero)romantic but really shy - has been feeling much better since he started jamming and singing in duos with girls, even though he's not getting action yet, afaik.
Girls are into guitar and musicians in general. He should just take out guitar and start playing, they will approach him on their own. The only "problem" he will have after that is which one to refuse from the bunch
Recap of today
No grind but did following things instead
- CrossFit training
- Ate healthy and frequently as needed
- Did 1 coaching session
- Commented on forum hands from students
- Watched new TV show with my brother
- Had a 2 hour "nap" after tv show
- Watched Partizan Belgrade beat Neftci 3-2
- Checked CrossFit training for tomorrow morning, all the exercises online
- Looked into solution of going to Montenegro via plane rather then by car
- Chatted via Viber and Whatsapp with my very good friends
For tomorrow
I will help out my dad tomorrow with some things + visit bus station for info on shipping stuff like computer and monitors to Herceg Novi. Hopefully I will get to grind 150 games and hang with best friend also cause I didn't do it today.
Here is info for tomorrows CrossFit training - for those interested.
A:
amrap 2
2 burpees
4 walking lunges
rest 2min
amrap 3
4 windshield wipers
10 strict press w/plate
each arm
B:
8 rounds
1 split jerk
1 front squat
C:
35 pull ups for time
P.S. Look forward to C part of training , pull ups for time - today was a killer work out !
Another full day!
CrossFit in the morning followed by meeting with my best friend. Hanged out with him for hour or two then went in the center to finish some important things. Some SIM card extension so that I can change my cell; bought 2 pair of snickers; 1 bag for beach and stuff ; Armani Black Code and on the way back picked out lunch from my favorite restaurant.
By the time I got home it was already 5pm!
Started grinding , did 5.22 hours (you can check how it went today HERE) and now I am heading out for some midnight shopping with my brother for the house.
As end of month is getting close to finish, I am more and more getting stressed and relieved about the move.
In following days I have to work things out about my stuff transporting; attend 3-4 CrossFit trainings; get the grind in for at least 100k; continue with all the coaching sessions and commenting on forum; talk to my best friend from Boston about O-1 details and sponsorship; talk to my very good friend Stanko about London visit and him visiting me in Herceg Novi; start planing my packing; get to see my friends and some girls before I leave next Monday!
So yeah, I am all over the place with move but once I move it will just be more relaxing that is for sure
Have a good night on and off the tables!