Dhani Tackles The Globe Finale Tonight
Tonight, the Travel Channel is airing the finale of the Cincinnati linebacker's nice little series of learning about different cultures by taking part in local sports customs. Tonight's episode finds Jones in Russia, taking part in the unfortunately named martial art, Sambo. While Jones experienced different kinds of competitions, four of the ten locations featured some kind of combat-based activity.
For some reason, that stands out to me.
I guess if you want to learn about something about different culture, see how they defend themselves. Hopefully for Bengals fans, some of these new techniques, like the grappling and the training Dhani went through -- especially in Cambodia -- will benefit the linebacker's technique when he hits the field.
Perhaps that's wishful thinking on my part, but I doubt the Bengals workouts are as severe as when he was learning Pradal Serey.
Tonight's episode airs at 9pm Eastern, but if you are trapped by the 24 season finale, the Travel Channel is really good at repeating episodes. You know, just in case your DVR doesn't work.
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New skills are good skills
I think it was a once in a lifetime experience for Dhani. Excellent PR for a Bengals player as well. I would love to hear that he tries to encorporate some of the kinds of training methods into the Bengals offseason workouts. It can help reduce the monotony of workouts, so you guys that get to go watch practice take note!
Schwingen!
Imagine if he taught the entire linebacking corps about schwingen…or muay thai…Imagine StingRey with all that cross-training. Just boggles the mind, really…
I've enjoyed the show
Dhani Jones has the perfect personality for the Travel Channel and I hope he’ll film more episodes in the future. I couldn’t help but think that all the training he put himself through can only help him for the upcoming season.
Dhani is a credit to the leauge
I was searching for a different forum, but figured I’d drop in. Alexsander Barakov was my original Sambo coach (when he/I lived in NYC). Steve Kopefer is my close friend and the report from Steve about working with Dhani is that he is a superb athlete, a charming and well-rounded human being.
When so many off-season meatheads are out stalking/beating up their girlfriends, getting into gun-fights at strip clubs, getting arrested for dog-fighting and such, its so encouraging to see Dhani play such a positive role! Well done!
Also, “SAMBO” is the romanization of ‘SAMboronya Bez Ozoruhym" which means self-defense with-out weapons. As an acronym it’s nothing to do with the old slur, just in that it sounds like it…

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