nothing to do this saturday?.. what about Killing your legs?

I usually spend my saturday at staying in bed late, watching stupid video on youtube, having a good breakfast, training at gym lighter than during the week, then relaxing with friends.

But not today!

 As i had planned to order (again) a new mouthpiece in yokohama, it went just on the right timing for a special training sesion around yokohama with my team mates Itakura, Wentz, Koji, and Takuro.

Because we are all badass fans of dragon ball and jacky-chan movie, doing a training who consist of running trought +100 steps of  the stairs of a temple didnt sound strange to any of us.

Here are the stairs :

So once you arrive half way, hard to look up when all you have in front of you is...more steps :

Here is the charming temple where you can try to recover your breath once you finally reached the exactly 174 steps :

Then each time you reach the top, you now have to get back to the bottom of all these steps.

Yepp still pretty long even view from the top, you cant even see the departure from there :

Ok, we spoted the place, now lets change in the bottom of the stairs, next to the highway.

(doesnt that sound strange?)

 gladely it wasnt so cold this afternoon.

See that? your legs worst nightmare

Also when we heard that the WBC champion Naito had said that doing the full stairs 10 times is already a lot, we also decided that we would make it 12!!! 

yeah this is how we roll :)

Notice how we look so happy at the begining.

And after the 6th set, i seriously wanted to give up...

...but give up didnt sound right in the ears of my team mates.

Its not very clear on the video, but my leg couldnt even stand without squeezing from spasm.

GO! GO! GO!  LAST 300steps!

"Can you walk without gripping the ramp?

 neither do i."

BIG NEWS : Bruce Lee isnt dead, he is just chilling around yokohama:

"WATCHAAA!!"

After that, we took the best decision to go to onsen for well deserved relax time.

 Sorry no pictures for that one.

Then we relax a lil bit in our way before to get back home, 

Haaa one more good hard training done, but im now afraid of waiking up tomorow with my legs full of aches and pain..

POSTER IS OUT

Even if that poster is better than the title match (thx god), im still kind of disapointed by the pic they choose for me.

On this one looks like they tried to exposed more the belt than me.

But enought about me, let have a look at the others.

On this pic, my opponent kind of look like Many Pacquiao dont you think? 

Aha and also dont miss the guy on the Top right, this is Naoto Itakura my gym mate. 

The pic come from a imitation of his "mentor" Antonio Inoki.

 Yeah legend never dies.

Long week end - part 3

Because Fame never last long....

...you have to enjoy every second of it :P

So the scramble gym put up a party in ebisu, at the Ambassadeur Hotel, s'il vous plait!

I should have know better that going to a celebration without preparing a speach would have been a bad idea. But even much more a bad idea when you are supposed to do the speach in japanese....

Thanks to my Bro T.Pain (the real one, not the MTV rapper) help me to translate some stuff and all went well.

YOROSHIKU!!!

ok time to go for the missed-pics now : 

Wentz and his belt "up and down"

Damned, the belt caught again my attention,

 lets do it again!

Alright one more,....BIN WAKE UP!

ok ok lets do one more.

Ohh sh....ok nice one lets give up :P

Later the party continued in another place, even Akeomi Nitta came to say hello.

Tokyo is great :)

long week end...part 2

Because life isnt just about training, i get also some relax time.

That last saturday i went to a party at the french institute of tokyo, the theme was about anything related to french language.

There were good food from french speaking country, but FIRST OF ALL :

there was a tahitian dance exhibition!!

I know i sucks at taking pics, there is always somebody's head on it.

And the best is the dancer are actually some of my friends.

I know, im a lucky guy :)

that was one long fullfilled week end

first of all, 

on this national day off of friday my friend Max had a match in shin karate event, K2.

If you never heard about it, quickly its exacly like kickboxing (k1 form) but on a tatami, + you have to throw at least 8kick in the round.  dont ask me why about this last rule.

Also its a competition strictly for amateur fighters. its like a transition for the fighters from karate who wants to go on the professional kickboxing firection.

Fighters wears a gi (kimono if you prefer) and shin protection.

Fights are 1round of 2min only, as you can imagine there is no time to work on your opponent weakness. you just give it all from the begining until the final gong.

Here is a video of the k3 final (its like K2 except they wear a headgear)

So we arrived at 11am for the sart of the event, unfortunatly Max fighting in 85kg we had to wait until 6pm for his fight categorie to start.

 His fight was the number 103 on the schedule...So we spend most time of the day waiting, waiting, and also waiting.

But the wait didnt get on his "apetite for destruction", Max won easily his fight unanimously.

He is now selected to participate in the "K2 grand prix". thats gonna be a tournament with the other 85kg winners of the day.

good luck to him!!

NTT comunications cut my internet line...

damned, and that just for a 22 yens invoice. 

This guys dont joke.

hmm as john abitbol said once : "monde de merde"

Its official!!!

next fight is on!!

http://www.boutreview.com/2/news/aj-kick/item_2316.html

a brand new challenge in view, im gonna face Kuntap weerasakrek M-1 champion.

First time im gonna fight a thai guy, + the fight is gonna be at 70kg.

lots of hours of training in view for that even, yes by the way im gonna be the MAIN EVENT!! 

i want to give all my best, i have nothing to loose.

まけるきがしない

 

This month in fight and life magazine

Scramble gym's champions are honored :)

And since masuda is now a world champion, we will also be in kakutogi magasine next month.

kind of worry about the pictures of that next one, i may have laugh too much when the photographe asked for a "bigu sumilu". 

hope there wont gonna be any vengeance on the pics aha

get a break..

I have a feeling like this year is gonna be busy and on high level, so i accorded myself a lil bit of vacations in advance.

For that, i decided to go to the place surnamed "the closest island from paradise"...and it really is!!

after nine little hours of fly, on debarcation the "tarmac"already smelt like holidays :)

THIS IS IT, HOLIDAYS CAN START!!!

So briefly,

 i went sight seing:

climbing:

of course sun bathing and swimimg :

also i burned quite weel from the very first day. 

Lucky me there is plenty of "aloe vera" to calm the skin:

sometimes you just can totaly quit a passion,even for just few days,

 Here "le bombardier des iles" showed me he can kick too:

if you wonder why the gym look like a balcony, well its because its a balcony. 

 Right, boyz in new-cali are pretty hardcore!! ahaha

I really had an awesome stay, im gonna miss all these views and the people there

See you all soon!!