He's introduced on stage, where amidst the dancers he stands at the end of a row, sparring with a punching bag. |
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I consider myself fast for a cruiserweight but it did take me a few sparring sessions to work him out. |
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It was a huge gymnasium with all sorts of exercise machines, punching bags, and even sparring rings. |
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In other words, the gamecock sparring match is conducted in rounds with rest periods between rounds. |
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If Sandra for the major part is congenial, affable, it is her sparring partner, Regina King, who plays a perfect foil. |
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Training consisted of daily sessions of rigorous circuits and sparring to fine-tune skills and fitness for the approaching battle. |
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It was while using one of these places I first met a sparring bloke, who taught me how to spar, and showed me the way to put my dukes up. |
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We do all the medieval arts like jousting and sparring, things of that nature. |
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In addition to jiu-jitsu he started sparring with professional kickboxers and elite-level wrestlers. |
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Things have gotten so bad, in fact, that Liston's handlers have secretly asked the sparring partners to take it easy on Sonny. |
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After protracted verbal sparring followed by hand-to-hand combat, Harry defeats Riddle by stabbing the diary. |
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I will probably do about 30 rounds of sparring with Groenewald and some more rounds with various middleweights and super-middleweights. |
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We used to say that contemporary jazz is music in constant renewal, and in constant search of musical sparring partners. |
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I'm up at eight and in the gym, and back in the ring sparring and on the punchbags in the afternoon. |
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This rests on the bizarre idea that he was bested by his old sparring partner. |
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Just yesterday in the sparring range you said it would take me at least a decade to learn how to hit a barn door while holding the handle. |
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A wide, rectangular shaped room, the sparring grounds was lined with benches on the sides and a matted floor in the middle. |
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The verbal sparring and playful banter with her is really starting to ratchet up some interesting tension. |
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The author's natural argumentativeness expresses itself in a continuing debate about faith and religion, often with Bono as his sparring partner. |
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Thus Capoera is a rhythmic, dancing martial art, sparring and practicing are set to music. |
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They're merely sparring, feeling each other out, which plays directly into Orson's hands. |
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Mentally sparring with these leadership thinkers was like going a round with the intellectual heavyweight champion of the world. |
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They began sparring again, but Kristy soon found that her lack of proper amounts of sleep was beginning to catch up with her. |
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She looked up and saw many people in deep concentration, sparring with their partners, trading blows with great speed and accuracy. |
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Try a new sport activity You wish to discover new sport activities or simply a given sport with a sparring partner? |
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There, in a large room heavy with the smell of sweat, Johnson alternates for several hours between punching bags, a torso mannequin, and the sparring ring. |
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There was the usual exploratory sparring for the first 25 minutes or so before Djokovic steadily took the upper hand. |
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The marble floor was replaced with the same material that was in the sparring dome, a soft, cushiony, smooth material that wouldn't hurt when you fell on it. |
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Bed-Stuy's proprietor, chief trainer and father confessor is Harry Keitt, a former sparring partner of Muhammad Ali. |
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Men will be depicted as sparring stags, women as dun-coloured bowerbirds waiting to be impressed. |
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This plaque commemorates my friend and colleague, and former sparring partner, Eric Mahling. |
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In this regard, we also like to consider ourselves as a sparring partner, i.e. the more you challenge us, the better we can become. |
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Further professionalization is imperative, if the board is to serve as sparring partner for executive management. |
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All boxing jurisdictions should be urged to extend all safety measures to sparring partners. |
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No blame for the accident was attributed to the plaintiff or his sparring partner. |
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You work closely with Project Managers, assisting them by supplying all relevant figures and acting as a supportive sparring partner. |
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And don't dance alone, plan the samba together with one or more colleagues, making them your sparring partners, stimulators, advisors. |
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Light designer Gunnar Bjurs and Synnöve Mork had worked together before and became creative sparring partners and experts in this technique. |
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We want to be your sparring partner and look for alternative, innovating solutions together with you. |
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The subject of immigration is too sensitive, sometimes too tragic, to continue to make it the subject of political sparring matches. |
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But we also challenge you to a sparring match with our specialists at Bijl to develop special products. |
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But what is deeply tragic, because it is all too familiar, is the banality of the arguments that make up their constant sparring match. |
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The cop plays cat-and-mouse with the robbers, knocking them off one by one, all the while carrying on a verbal sparring match with the ringleader via walkie-talkie. |
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Leading politicians now look ready to use sparring with Tamil Nadu as an excuse to scrap plans to devolve power to the regions. |
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It is only logical that Russia should now demonstrate its resurgence by sparring with America again. |
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All too often, our discourse degenerates into deadlocks animated by dogmatic sparring. |
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The spectacular rut involves sparring and chasing among the males for mating privileges. |
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Economic and social objectives began sparring with one another in the 1970s as DFO introduced restrictions on access to the resource. |
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We all have many years of experience behind us, assuring you excellent quality and professional sparring. |
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She saw Archers practicing on trees nearby and swordsmen sparring. |
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He was a superb karateka and could switch techniques during sparring. |
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The early sparring was of the aimless variety, although Dundee had the ball in the net in the fifth minute after a corner taken by Stevie Robb on the left. |
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We witness combat between two males sparring over a mate, and the sight of these two massive animals hurtling themselves at each other is amazing. |
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It wasn't a distraction while sparring, but it was annoying. |
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They begin a round of verbal sparring about their past together, Linklater's camera constantly swivelling to catch all the insults as they fly across the room. |
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During those two sparring sessions, Parker clearly got the best of it. |
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Every now and then, we'd break off into pairs for kumite, or sparring. |
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The sparring between bulls during rutting season can be extremely violent. |
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Johansson needed a sparring partner, and a young, brash man, just a year out of the amateurs, volunteered. |
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This is hugely dubious, but there was something distinctly theatrical about their sparring, two sides of one performance. |
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Rubio has been sparring with the president over immigration reform, among other issues. |
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Sometimes brute strength and strategic maneuvers enable the intruder to force his way past the guard and into the tunnel, where the sparring resumes. |
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A well-taught boxing circuit class, which involves intense bursts of skipping, abdominal exercises, sparring and bag work, is a fast way to shed excess pounds. |
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Alone or with friends, your tennis teacher will know how to balance physical activity, pleasure and learning at your convenience: they can be your teacher or your sparring partner. |
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There are only two players on the court or with a sparring partner. |
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External auditors support the discussion as sparring partners. |
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Take my old sparring partner Andrew Sullivan. |
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His sparring partner took a different approach. |
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Dubai Internet City is the ideal location for innovative companies as it provides the possibility of knowledge, sparring and collaboration with thousands of other IT companies. |
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With the international sparring over Iran's nuclear program escalating, the visit gives Mr. Ahmadinejad the chance to glad hand with leaders from other countries who have shown sympathy and solidarity. |
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The money has gone towards new equipment such as punchbags, sparring gloves, hand pads and headgear. |
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers are sparring with leaked documents. |
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Recently, there has been sparring on the nuclear issue: safety is best served by not using nuclear power, but avoiding it and holding back from it on the grounds that it does not benefit our future. |
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As a result, Essensys is not only a sparring partner for you before and during a project, but we also remain available to you after the job has been completed. |
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After the fight, it was revealed that Froch had sustained a perforated eardrum and a cracked rib in his final sparring session before the fight. |
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In the four year interval that separated her first and second album, Diam's has put in time on the rap scene, establishing herself as an indefatigable sparring partner for male and female artists alike. |
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The Foot Pads are to be used for indoor sparring use only. They include a double fastening structure for an extra secure fit that will not twist around the ankles. |
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Other tests which they had to master included 11 kata technical demos, free sparring and weapons challenges involving nunchakus and staffs. |
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Instead it is responsible for issues related to the partnership and acts as the Management Board's sparring partner for fundamental business matters. |
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In her seven year role as architect of Ontario's new family law rules, she has won the respect of both her friends and sparring partners in the Law Society. |
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Our experts are at your disposal as project manager, consultant, coach or sparring partner for all of your individual and organizational change related concerns. |
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Actually, the two of them supply a more vivid — if less comprehensible — zoological metaphor in the film's funniest scene, a rhetorical sparring match in which lions battle tunas for animal-kingdom supremacy. |
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The conversations between Giovanni and Gianni are heated sparring matches in which the older man gradually but relentlessly pulls the rug out from under the younger one's beliefs. |
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Do encourage your sparring partner to make the feedback concrete. |
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In the meantime it appears that the trial is turning into a sparring match between the court and the prosecutor, while no final ruling has been given in the court's eight-year existence. |
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Emanuel Steward had arrived to oversee the last two weeks of Hamed's training, including sparring, and was worried immediately. |
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The computer is a good sparring partner for a chess player. |
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Nicholson is considered an ideal sparring partner. |
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Through it all, Dao remained unflappable, good-naturedly sparring with her fellow contestants as she continued to win fans with her polished daytime ensembles and her sinuous evening gowns. |
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We are not private bankers and do not make investment recommendations, but there are customers who nevertheless need a kind of sparring partner with whom they can discuss their investment strategies. |
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The United Liberation Front of Asom has claimed responsibility. Unfortunately for the Indian government, however, ULFA is just one of dozens of militant outfits sparring with its forces across the region. |
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Once I start sparring and the jaw has taken a couple of skelps I'll be more confident with it. |
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Both will be assisted by a dedicated team which will monitor the physical preparation, provide high calibre sparring and during certain periods additional expert coaching advise. |
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And to his amazement he finds himself back in the company of his old sparring partner River Song as he joins her squad for a warp speed chase across the galaxy. |
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The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. |
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I started out sparring Winky Wright at the beginning of my career so I learned how to fight southpaws before I learned how to fight right-handers. |
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Carsey and Welsh would later become close friends over the years, with Carsey becoming his sparring partner, and was part of Welsh's corner team during his big fights. |
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Broughton encouraged the use of 'mufflers', a form of padded bandage or mitten, to be used in 'jousting' or sparring sessions in training, and in exhibition matches. |
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On the other hand, Glassman has been sparring a lot with Lou Dobbs lately. |
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You can rake it on brush, bang it on the ground, or just jiggle it to make the realistic sounds of bucks engaged in light sparring or an all-out war. |
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