Okay so this video really has nothing to do with anything related to training whatsoever, but it makes me laugh every time I watch it so I wanted to post it anyway. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve worked with Sakurai on and off since his fight with Milton Vieira back in 2005. When we first started training him, he went on a tear and won 4 straight fights before losing to Gomi in the Pride LW Grand Prix Finals (he was fighting on a torn ACL suffered only a couple weeks before the fight).
Anyway, he spoke ZERO english when we first started training him but over the years he’s picked it up pretty well. Not perfect by any means, but good enough to carry on conversations with him. I worked with him a lot in the early days on english and now he can even sing…..well sort of….