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Good day back at the gym today for open mat. A few of the guys from the UK came down and did some rolling. I did some kettle bells and body weight exercises then a couple of rounds in the pads with one of the UK guys who does a bit of Muay Thai and MMA. Followed by a swim down at the beach...

BTW. Blue belt is working the adult ranking system, so no more fighting with juniors. It will be adult categories now.

They were awesome. Haakon got promoted to blue belt. He was introduced to the crowd as an outstanding young man who held the record for the most number of golds in tournaments even though he has had two surgeries. proud dad moment.

...Over 10 Black belts there last night for the NoGi seminar. 5 high level Brazilians, black belts from London, Sweden, Florida and Denmark. ****************ing awesome to watch them going at it. Haakon was doing the filming as he was unable to participate as he is recovering from Surgery...

That was a great fight.

It is usually the white belt battles where a rock with a lack of skill/technique meets and immovable object, also with a lack of skill/technique that make me sore. I love rolling with higher belts. Yeah they pound me, but I still feel more in control to actually try certain techniques. I am...

It was a stupid injury really. He was doing some Muay Thai sparring as he had been offered and MMA fight. Really light technical sparring with the coaches son. Other kid caught Haakons left leg after a round kick. Haakon tried to twist out of the catch by turning to his right and you try and...

Speaking of Martial Arts. I don’t think I mentioned it here, but Haakon fubar’d his knee again on the 20th March. It required surgery again. He went in 3 weeks ago and had successful surgery to his right knee. Seems to be recovering well but still got another 3 weeks on crutches before the...

Haha. I have known Jompoo (the guy who posted the clip) for around 20 years. He runs a gym in Leeds and my mate is married to his sister and runs Kiatphontip Bangkok. We trained there in 2018. Jompop first came to the UK and for 13 month he worked at Keddles Gym in Orpington. We used to...

Some great fights. I didn’t get to watch it live but looked pretty good from the highlights I watched this morning.

Nice one Rich. Keep at it mate. Today was a good day. Haakon and a few team mates competed at the Ippon Cup BJJ comp. The Ippon cup is o e of the oldest Judo competition in Norway and few years ago they introduced BJJ. Great tournament and setup. Haakon had 5 in his group so they did a...

Did you see the state of his leg afterwards. Takeru is a tough Mo-Fo, I think he thought he could just punch his way to victory and didn’t take the leg kicks seriously. Complete warrior but more fool him. Fractured knee cap and an extremely tenderised quad.

Also, proud as I am, best not to get carried away as he is still only a white belt. But as you can see from the graphic above, there are time period at a belt rank that should be fulfilled before promotion to the next rank. As they say, you can only beat the competition that is put in front of...

Because the categories are made up from participants in Age, Rank (belt) and weight. So Haakon was bumped up a category from 65kg to -69kg for Juvenile boys (16 year old). Juniors have a belt ranking system with stripes and then colours. Juveniles and adults don’t/shouldn’t need the...

Interesting day at the BJJ tournament yesterday. Haakon had 8 in his group as he was bumped up a weight class. First fight he choked the kid out with a cross collar choke from guard. Just under a minute. Onto the semi’s. Up against the kid he tapped a couple of weeks ago who developed a...

Thanks. I wish I could upload the first fight here as it was pretty impressive from a technical standpoint.

That is exactly the result he and I wanted. He went into the matches with the mindset that it was a hard spar, if he won he won, if he lost he lost. He has tried to tailor his game to avoid certain pressures on his knee. To get the win(s) in such a dominating fashion was a bonus. In fact an...

Haakon stepped up to the mark today in his first competition since recovering from knee surgery. He beat a very confident Chechnyan wrestler in the first match. Tapped him out via straight foot lock after just over a minute. He went in to the final and beat another kid with shoulder pressure...