TenDreams

hi,

any confirmation on the dates?

I would like to check it out, but can probably only make about 3 days...or maybe 3 days and a couple of half days...

cheers

what a joke! they couldn't even raise their hands to defend themselves nevermind throw a decent punch, that was only a few minutes into the first round!

very entertaining 1st round, but i reckon my left nad deserves a UFC contract over those 2!

4 fight nights in close succession, don't know how we'll pull that off!.

I am not sure you are right as it might be 5 events as I think that the season final fight off thing for the TUF show is in Nov as well.

unless they beef up the card with some decent fights, there's no way i'm taking my ass down to Nana for that!

There are some cracking MMA events coming up in November

...dates listed are air dates, not the dates we will put them on in the bar. we'll work that out nearer the time...

STRIKEFORCE , NOV 7

FEDOR "THE LAST EMPEROR" EMELIANENKO (30-1) VS BRETT "THE GRIM" ROGERS (10-0)

JASON "MAYHEM" MILLER (29-6) VS JAKE SHIELDS (28-4) - MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

GEGARD "THE DREAMCATCHER" MOUSASI (29-2) VS RAMEAU THIERRY "THE AFRICAN ASSASIN" SOKODJOU

FABRICIO "VAI CAVALO" WERDUM (12-4-1) VS ANTONIO "BIGFOOT" SILVA (13-1)

UFC 105, NOV 14

Randy Couture v Brandon Vera

Mike Swick V Dan Hardy

Michael Bisping V Denis Kang

James Wilks V Matt Brown

Ross Pearson V Aaron Riley

Terry Etim V Shannon Gugerty

Paul Taylor V John Hathaway

Nick Osipczak Vs. Matthew Riddle

Paul Kelly Vs. Dennis Siver

Alexander Gustafsson Vs. Jared Hamman

Andre Winner Vs. Rolando Delgado

WEC, NOV 18

Mike Brown Vs. Jose Aldo

Manny Gamburyan Vs. Leonard Garcia

Rob McCullough Vs. Karen Darabedyan

Danny Castillo Vs. Shane Roller

Alex Karalexis Vs. Kamal Shalorus

Diego Nunes Vs. LC Davis

Cub Swanson Vs. John Franchi

Antonio Banuelos Vs. Kenji Osawa

Ricardo Lamas Vs. James Krause

UFC 106, NOV 21

Tito Ortiz Vs. Forrest Griffin

Karo Parisyan Vs. Dustin Hazelett

Amir Sadollah Vs. Phil Baroni

Ben Saunders Vs. Marcus Davis

Kendall Grove Vs. Jake Rosholt

Brock Larson Vs. Brian Foster

George Sotiropoulos Vs. Jason Dent

4 fight nights in close succession, don't know how we'll pull that off! The missus will be well chuffed!

Just in case anyone can't make this event, Boxer Rebellion are hosting a viewing on Tuesday at the new 'Irish' bar on soi 11. Looks about as Irish as Tom Yam Gung to me, but there ya go. Forgot the name, it's quite far down on the right as you walk down 11. Doesn't look Irish at all (from the outside, I haven't been in), and the name begins with a T...

...anyway, I will still be coming to the Monday show...maybe both if the fellas on Tuesday wanna make some action, heh heh heh

U should check out the racquet club gym on sukhumvit soi 49. ok, its not so near Ari, but it claims to be the biggest and best (semi-) indoor rock climbing in Thailand (of course it does!). i use the gym daily, but have never used the wall, so cant tell u much more about it. oh, and its also the only one i have ever heard of in bkk.

what time does the skytrain close of a nite time great to get around bangkok i heard it is midnite

thanks

yeah, believe you're right, 12

Just saw the card for 105!! It's almost half Brits by the look of it!!

ABOUT TIME!!!

Should be awesome!!

looking for some rattan practice sticks as used in Indonesian and Filipino martial arts, anyone ever seen these?

I've long been on the look out for martial arts gear in BKK, and judging by some of the older posts on here, so have a lot of other people...

The FBT store on Ramkhamhaeng seems good for gloves, pads, etc, but don't remember ever seeing any sticks there.

Likewise with the stall at the top of MBK somewhere.

I havent been to any of the stores that I hear are around national stadium and lumpinee.

Failing a decent MA supplier, I figure some kind of timber yard/merchant could make some up no problems, but never seen one of these here either...any ideas on that?

DEF coming this time!

Missed the last few....

TUF 10...what a let down this season has been so far, don't u think?

Those giants are all flash and no smash, go back to yer football/hay fields!

Rampage - great guy, terrible coach!

saw at least 2 market stalls covered in sex toys at the bottom of silom soi 4 last weekend. as to whether or not that's legal, who can say?

thanks 10D, can you tell me a little bit more

I really am an open minded journey man and I love the comardie of reality based and "workers" gyms

whats the background of the teacher(s) there?

seems like you have a nice bunch of guys at your place, the website is cool

I think the best bet would be to come and see for yourself!

By the sounds of it, u might like the saturday afternoon sessions (2.30-4.00) which is based on weapons training and defense (other days cover these too, but sat. is more in depth). I am just a student there, and haven't been going for so long, so if u r already trained up, best u talk to some of the instructors.

Aside from what is written on the website under the instructor profiles, I can only tell u that the Krav teacher teaches much more than 'traditional' Krav (Kapap, and some other Israeli systems I can't remember the names of!) under the umbrella term 'combatives'.

From what I have seen, the guys are all cool and seem up for meeting like-minded ppl.

P.S.

If u find the thread in the general forum about the farang that disarmed and immobilized a Thai guy that was waving a gun around in Bangkok a few weeks ago, you might find some interesting reading!

Yep, there's a class several times a week at Boxer Rebellion, soi 13, Sukhumvit.

You should come and check it out when you are here...although the teacher is fricking awesome, there are relatively few members in this class (does vary).

This is fine with me, as I get the odd private class every now and then!

In your list, I have only heard of C, but I'm just a beginner practitioner, the guys at the gym probably know the rest...they have a website

Yes!

They don't check much more than your blood pressure, you give them 80 baht or so, then it's done. 5 minute job!

OOPS, misread your post sorry, as far as I know ANY clinic will provide this service, but I don't know any specific ones in that street.

Sighting of Bob at aforementioned store confirmed yesterday.

those things sure ain't cheap!

Yes, unfortunately cos of conflicting working hours, we don't get that much time to learn from each other.

Thanks for the link, will check it out!

Cheers.

First of all, sorry, I know I have seen topics on this before, but couldn't find the threads on searching.

If anyone else happens across them, then a link would be well appreciated. (As always in a hurry today)

My Thai GF wants to improve her English at a language school, pref. between Asoke-On Nut.

She also wants to learn some Japanese.

The one school she has found is Stamford Education Centre in Ekkamai, who do not appear to have a website, and want a lot of money up front, with no trial course or anything.

Anybody know if this place is actually any good?

Any recommendations would be most welcome.

I could teach her myself of course, but we decided that's probably not the best option!

<P.S. Mods, if this is in the wrong forum, sorry, please move>

TIA

I got an SMS from a friend fairly early last night who said that a van had somehow managed to crash up on the pavement outside Thermae cafe last night on Sukhumvit.

He said there were bodies (was unsure if they were wounded or worse) and food stalls and glass scattered around, but he wasn't really sure how much damage had been done.

Sounded very nasty, but haven't heard from him since about the extent of the carnage.

Fingers crossed that nobody was too seriously hurt, does anybody know more about this?

Hi

I does any one know where in Thailand I can find a bit of martial arts kit called a

BOB Dummy Body Opponent Bag?

its like a free standing punch pag, but with a mans figure, so you can practice targeted shots...

also very good for training self defence stuff.

See here

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Opponent-Bag-Ba...=sporting-goods

Now amazon will not ship this to thailand.

I seem to only find muay thai or tae kwon do supplies.... but anything outside of this, I am having trouble sourcing.

Anyone seen these available in Thailand?

Thanks

G

I am fairly (but not 100%) sure i saw one in the big FBT shop on Ramkhamhaeng Road opposite the stadium.

Def. worth a try

1 more try!

in 2 parts this time...

1 -

2 -

youtube is limited to 10 minutes per clip now, and had 12 mins. of footage for this one, hence the split.

hope they work, let me know if u have trouble viewing them.

for f**ks sake!!

they deleted it cos its too long!!

ok, will keep at it...

Had a bunch of technical problems, but finally got the third fight up...processing right now, should be good in an hour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVOEnCXSVKE

Here is the link for the final of the masters jiu jitsu - it hasn't finished processing at this precise minute, so might have to give it an hour or so (not sure, 1st upload)

will do the 3 MMA events tomorrow...it's taking ages

the first video looks great.

I fought in the 3rd MMA match (Xavier) and i'm def looking forward to seeing the video of it, so thanks in advance for putting it up!

and by the way, my opponent's name was Ngoo Ditty from Tiger Muay Thai and not Min Yoo from Shangai BJJ (Min got injured 2 weeks ago and had to pull out.. but they didn't update the blog)

cheers!

Thanks for the info, was an entertaining fight, nice one!

The video is about 50% uploaded, it's taking a while cos its 380MB.

Should be up 2 hours from now, and i'll post the link..

The first MMA fight on the card is here

Will stick up the 2nd fight later today or tomorrow after Xavier's has finished uploading.

Here is the link for the final of the masters jiu jitsu - it hasn't finished processing at this precise minute, so might have to give it an hour or so (not sure, 1st upload)

will do the 3 MMA events tomorrow...it's taking ages

I got all 3 MMA fights, but only got the final BJJ fight. Will upload tomorrow and post a link.

Was a good event, hope there will be more in the future!