Japanese grappling at its finest

A couple of spectacular videos for you. You may have seen some of them but they are always worth watching again.
First one, Rumina Sato turns up at the Canadian Jiu Jitsu open (which seems to have been populated mostly by flabby judo players) and killerises everyone in double quick time. I wonder if you would [...]

Felicia Oh / Fightworks Podcast

One of the podcasts that I started listening to when I got my shiny new ipod touch earlier in the year was the Fightworks Podcast, and I’m glad I did. Hosted by the ever cordial Caleb, and another guy whose name escapes me because he doesn’t really say much, it’s a great show for you [...]

Best second ever…

I’m putting this vid up not for the grappling, which is pretty good and has two current starts Jon Fitch and Jake Shields, but because of Shields’ daughter who yells out all this advice to her Dad. It’s ridiculously cute!

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There are only a couple of designs in there but a few of you said you were interested in them, so here [...]

Eddie Bravo vs. Naoya Uematsu

Now this is an interesting video.
Only available as far as I know on the Jiu Jitsu Legends mook, only available in Japan.
Naoya Uematsu is basically considered one of the top grapplers in Japan. He also reffed a couple of my fights.
I haven’t got my hands on the DVD long enough to know the story, but [...]

How to turn a ratty old pair of kung fu pants into fight shorts!

I might have a top-secret project coming up for Fighters Only magazine, and for it, I need my Shooto gear. I splashed out a while ago and bought some gloves, some grappling shorts, and a groin guard. So I went into my closet to dust off my nut-box, and couldn’t find my shorts anywhere. Fucking [...]

Kyushu Grappling News

I took a snap of the upcoming schedule for most big grappling / BJJ events in all of Japan. If you can read Japanese, click on the filename for the full size image. It’s over a megabyte.
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Here is some schedule information for Kyushu grapplers, in English.

The schedule isn’t entirely clear yet, but at either the [...]