You stop, you die!

As our main Bjj instructor says in training, YOU STOP, YOU DIE!

I have had the privilege of having Fernando Maccachero as my instructor in Brazilian jiu jitsu here in Tiger Muay thai. The guy is like a huge bank of Bjj information. He knows literally thousands of different technics from different positions. When he talks, people listen. Sometimes he might start talking from a small point and goes to talk about it for 30minutes. He's very humble, calm and loves to teach. Still he's training can be really though mentally and physically as well. Fernando usually runs the morning class. 

( I am the 3rd from the right, with the white rashguard)

   Evening Bjj class is being run by Wiktor Svensson, professional MMA fighter from Sweden. For th first month I did a lot of Wiktors night classes and do them still. Wiktor is a fun guy to talk to and good teacher as well. Wiktor doesnt talk too much in classes, so it's all business in night sessions! Lots of free rolling and sparring in the end. 

  For the past week Brian Ebersole has taken over the morning classes, because Fernando has been away. Ebersole is the main instructor for MMA here in TMT and currently fights at UFC. Ebersole is famous for his cartwheel kicks and sick guillotine choke defence! Actually I just came from the morning bjj session run by Ebersole. He likes to mix a lot of wrestling in the bjj, which makes the sessions totally different from Fernandos and Wiktors. Wrestling is a lot more explosive than bjj and the training is really though but I like it, since I dont have that much experience in wrestling.

Last saturday we had the monthly TMT bbq beatdown party. There was lots of Muay Thai fights, boxing fights and one mma fight as well. Free beer, food, good company and fights! What more can you ask for? Swedish dude Jens had a fight versus Alex in mma. The swede went in to the match as a huge underdog but managed to take the win in 2nd round by nice ground and pound. 

I have only two weeks left! Damn time goes fast. Have to get some sun and work on my tan for the last weeks! The thing is though, that when you train hard, lying in the hot sun doesnt feel too tempting afterwards. Much more tempting is to go to your room, switch the air conditioning on and fall to the bed! I am doing that now! Bah after writing this I am heading to the pool and try to work on that tan! 

Thanks for reading, see you soon Finland!