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To you, what would that mean? >> mixed martial arts. it's a competitive fighting sport. it's gotten extremely popular recently. >> is that the stuff we see if we watch such things on tv where you see a mix of kickboxing, regular boxing, and whatever else you can do? >> yes. in mixed martial arts, it's basically you can do, you know, almost boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, jujitsu, submission grappling to where you can punch, kick, et cetera. then when you get on to the ground, you can work submission holds, chokes, arm locks, leg locks, things of that nature. >> okay. so within the context of mm...

>> absolutely. >> and is that why they fight in, i guess, some -- we could call it short rounds, but obviously you've been a professional. you know sometimes even a three-minute round can seem like forever. >> a one-minute round can seem like an eternity when you're not in condition for it. >> and so the goal of some of those techniques that we're taught, the shrimping, the bridging, is to take yourself from being as you put it in a -- perhaps if someone had you in a mounted situation, to be able to reverse that or at least get out of where you are. >> to get into a not quite as bad situation ...

That's coming up later this hour. we'll have a look at that then. martha: the congressional supercommittee has just one more week, folks, to come up with a debt reduction deal but senate majority leader harry reid does not seem too optimistic that will happen, he adds if they don't those deep spending cuts to domestic and military programs are unavoidable. we'll see about that, right? days left on the clock, he says thinks are not looking good. watch: >> at this stage, we've seen a few arm locks and a few -- locks around the neck. head locked. that's what it is. so as has been indicated here, ...