Hello folks! Thanks for checking out the site; I really appreciate it.

I was going to write a third person bio for this page, but those things kind of annoy me and it felt real awkward when I started, so I’m taking this route instead.

Writing just kind of happened for me, but once I started, things have just snowballed from there. I started by writing a blog about my life, and then picked up a gig writing about baseball for a couple years.

Baseball, and the mainstream sports in general, was tough sledding; there are so many people that have been doing it for so long, that it’s hard for a newcomer to get noticed. Getting interviews with athletes was next to impossible, and I wasn’t having fun, so I decided to switch directions.

Like a lot of people, I remember watching UFC 1 on VHS tape and being amazed. I was another one of those kids who grew up watching every Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal movie there was, and training in tae kwon do for a couple years.

I started getting back into MMA when The Ultimate Fighter debuted, and when I took my break from baseball, I decided to make MMA my focus instead. It’s a growing sport and I was a growing writing, so it seemed like a good fit to me.

So far, so good I think.

My original blog, Keyboard Kimura, has become the MMA blog for The Province, Vancouver’s most-read newspaper, and I provide content in the paper itself pretty regularly as well.

Writing and syndicating the blog over the first year led me to opportunities at a couple different sites before I found a home at Heavy.com.

I worked my way into being the lead writer for the site, delivering interviews, pre-fight and post-fight analysis, editorial content; everything you can possibly write about MMA, I’ve done it.

I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing many of the biggest names in the sport, became the host of my own podcast (The Next Big Thing) that profiled up-and-coming talents, and delivered live coverage from several events.

All good things come to an end, and so did my time at Heavy.

I have the word “freelance” tattooed on my right wrist, and that’s what I’m back to right now — turning out content for The Province out here on the West Coast, writing features and interviews for UFC.com, and talking with a few different people about a few different things.

It took me a while to find my niche, so I don’t plan on letting something like relocation stop me from continuing to deliver the type of content people have come to expect from me.

I’m also back to blogging. After a two-year break, there is enough ridiculousness in the world — and time in my day — to get back to offering my slanted views on society, socialites, and random stuff that pops into my head.

So check out the blog — Left of Center & South of Normal — and keep keeping tabs on my travels and exploits through the various other page options here on the site, and I promise to do my best to keep you up to speed on things

I hope you keep reading because I don’t think I’ll ever stop writing, and it’d be kind of weird if no one was reading my stuff.

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