Martial Farts

Light Heavyweight bout:  Tito Ortiz vs.  Forrest Griffin
Welterweight bout:  Josh Koscheck vs.  Anthony Johnson
Welterweight bout:  Paulo Thiago vs.  Jacob Volkmann
Light Heavyweight bout:  Luiz Cane vs.  Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Welterweight bout:  Amir Sadollah vs.  Phil Baroni

Unbelievably they won’t televise Caol Uno’s fight. MORANS!
A disappointing main event but I think Forrest will win via not being an old [...]

Folks, if you only read one of my blog posts, please make it this one. This means a lot to me.
I have launched an online store.
Scramble Stuff
It’s a shop, based in the UK but ships anywhere in the world, that brings you, BJJ, grappling and MMA fans, some absolutely awesome and pretty damn unique stuff.
At [...]

Some quick thoughts on the No Gi open that have been rattling around my head…
I moved out of my comfort zone and tried the takedown followed by top game. What sucks about this is that I realised I had almost no real experience doing this, especially in training where I have mostly been using my [...]

Grappling Dummies BJJ TV: No Gi British Open 2009 from martial farts on Vimeo.
Team Scramble’s little sojourn to Birmingham for the No Gi British Open.
You can see:
My bad form on kettlebells!
Andy’s absolute robbery of three points for passing the guard and securing side control that wasn’t given!
My not defending a triangle very well!
My serving up [...]

Courtesy of my new Flickr account.

I won’t bother describing the whole weekend as I will be uploading a video showing the adventure later on.
This is about the BJJ!
First up was Andy, who’s been training MMA for a while, and grappling only a few months. My advice to him was to “be first”, knowing that the person who initiates or completes [...]

1) I’ve worked out a deal whereby you will be able to buy BJJ Spirits, Grappling Spirits, Paraestra Instructionals and Robert Drsydale’s book at the official shop on the day so please look out for them. This is the only place in the UK where you will be able to get your hands on them, [...]

So, the day approaches.
In the end, it’s only me and Andy competing with A coming up for moral support.
Andy should do well. He’s competing in the beginner’s category, but he is strong and fast and determined. It depends on who he comes up against but he should have a good showing. Hope there aren’t any [...]

Here is a video I knocked together of my trip to London to interview Braulio.
You don’t get the actual interview unfortunately. That might turn up transcribed later if Gong Kaku agree.
This is more of a proof to my future self; “I actually did it.”
Enjoy!

Grappling Dummies BJJ TV: Braulio Estima Interview from martial farts on Vimeo.
Yay! [...]

I haven’t quite grasped the meaning yet but a couple of girls do some jiu jitsu.
Edit: Just watched it all the way through. They are local radio presenters whose special guest next week is Aoki Shinya! So I suppose they wanted to go and do some BJJ for background. Good on them!
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