This past Saturday I was down in sunny (and way too hot) Las Vegas for UFC 116 and wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the show. Most would agree the main card had a lot of great fights on it and it was one of the better UFC cards in recent past, but beyond that,...
UFC 111 Camp Beginning Soon
As you may or may not know, Matt Brown will be arriving in Seattle sometime next week to begin his training camp for his upcoming fight in UFC 111. He will be facing the well respected and veteran fighter Ricardo Almeida at 170lbs. This will be Almeida’s first...
What goes up must come down
Today in training I had our two Japanese fighters from Dream, Tatsuya Mizuno and Wicky finish their training by racing to 500 feet on the Jacob’s Ladder If you’ve never had the pleasure, or displeasure perhaps I should say, of using the Jacob’s...
UFC 111 Camp Gets Underway
Matt Brown arrived in town late last week in preparation for his upcoming fight in UFC 111 and officially started his training camp this week. The first order of business was evaluating where his strength and conditioning currently are so that an effective fight prep...
Coming to America
Monday night at about 1:00am I got a call on my cell phone from a strange number with too many digits. Not being sure who would be calling so late, I didn’t answer. The caller left a voicemail, “Hello, this assistant to Mr. Sakurai, he board airplane now...
Training Camp Updates
It’s been busy around the gym lately so I thought I’d give a quick update on what’s been going around around here. We’ve got several fighters in town now training hard and getting ready for fights and a couple more that will be here shortly....